Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-10-29
Maine G0ssa1D.
The Successful Suitor.

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The Successful Suitor.
The South wind sighed
To the bright green leaf:
For love of you, dear, I'm dying!''
But the leaf cared not
For the South winds grief,
And paid no heed to it's signing.
The North wind woed
. When Summer was dead:
For love of you. dear. I'm dyins.''
The green leaf shivered,
Blushed rosy red,
And away the two went flying.
Baltimore American.
It's all aboard for sunny Savannah.
Once more. good by, boys; take care
of yourselves.
or the numerous gridiron battles, to-
day, Lewistons is the greatest.
This is the kind of autumn weather
that makes US realize autumn is here.
Somehow, it isn't so exciting to have
our soldier boys go away in time of
peace as it is in time of war.
The peace commissioners in Paris are
drinking Poland water, and we trust
they are taking it straight.
Just for guess. now. how badly will
| old Bowdoin ram it into Bates this
afternoon?
For points on managing the most
successful fair on record, consult the
A. Q. U. w. of Augusta.
You can laugh at them if you want
to, but the battery boys are mighty
glad they didn't have to start on Fri
day. They remember thing or two.
The good old times are, being re-
vived in an Auburn grammar, school
where the principal fogged 16 naughty
boys inside of two days.
Who started that ridiculous yarn
that the. next Legislature would be
asked for 100000 for the support of the
National Guard? A reading of the in
terview with Adjutant General Rich
ards, in another column, will show how
| utterly unfounded is such a statement.
Yet a number of papers have treated
it seriously and discussed it on their
| editorial pages.
| I'M
There is political campaign now on
in Maine of which the general public
knows little. The election of governor
lieutenant governor and representative
OF the Penobscot Indians will be held
| tuesday, November /. While the cleo
| tlon VIII not be preceded by long
speeches and demonstrations accom-
panying the white mems election, there
will be considerable talk and button
holing at the favorite resorts of the
| Indians.
An interesting feature of this weeks
issue of the Republican Journal is q
series of brief sketches of Belfast's old
people. In the list are Sc men over 20
years OF age, most of them well and
| sNA'~s INV several cilSdSou IN work
that would tax much younger. men.
1t speaks well for the Belfast climate
and the habits of the Belfast people.
For obvious reasons the gallant editor
did not include the gentle sex in his
| list.
When the American army under Cen
eral Shafter entered Santiago to take
possession of the city, they found there
the relics of an old merry go-round.
which had been left there by its Amer
lean owners or sold to Spaniards at the
beginning of the war. Captain John E,
Mitchell. commander of the good
schooner Cora NJ, and a citizen of Mil
bridge. claims that it was the same one
that he carried out to Barbados in
his schooner with two gentlemen from
Bath in the fall of 1886. In September
of that year; the merry go-round being
stranded in Milbridge, it's owners ap-
piled to Captain Mitchell for passage
on his schooner then about to sail for
Barbados. Captain Mitchell took the
merry go-round on board and was to
have a third interest in the business
| while it was being run in the West In
dies. 1t was their idea to run it at Bar
BADGES and other places. While at Bar