Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-07

I deuce with I'll" request that they be
cooked after his faVoritc method. The
good wife called the domestic and told
her 10 have them for dinner. and the
ma'd took them to her domain and
with scissors scaloped them in a very
artistic manner.
Lewiston is enforcing the curfew
law. and young people on the street
after the forbidden hour are promptly
sent homo or looked after.
Quite u drowning scare was created
AT North Buckfeld a few days since
y young man taking ice from the
pond. became tired and left the team
when a man looking out of his shop
windows. and not seeing the youth
started an alarm and a rush ensued.
The supposed victim was found later
resting at the village store
Biddeford Record: Whatever evils
veioped and is developing the spirit Of
charity as nothing else could 1t is n
hustle Of each one for himself with
mill workers just as it is with a bout
everybody else, hut this strike has put
seltishness in the background and y.
bringing charity to the front. The re-
! lief committee members are working
like beavers TO relieve the needy, work
| ing as hard as though they We're in the
min. with as much sympathy and dis
elimination as ever accompanied any
/ charitable work. They are hunting up
people of whose existence they had
never known,in whom they have no in
tereSt except that they are needy. help
| ing them. not to keep them in line with
the strikers. for they know that almost
every one that has been helped would
go into the mills if the gates were
opened a any rate of wages A strike
that develops such good Sanaritans is
not altogether an evil.
There wasn't room out of doors for
all the snow that fell in Dexter. last
week. If we can trust the story of one
Woman's experience as told by an eX-
change. During the night the wind
! had torn her storm door from its fast
eninSs and burst open the door of the
house. Shortly after midnight the lady
, of the house was aroused by a draft
of air and a noise that caused her 10
get up and investigate. Her surprise
can he better imagined than described
when she entered, or attempted TO en-
ter the room into which the door above
mentioned opened The wind bad
drfted the snow and piled it into tn
room. till il nearly reached the ceiling
Several hours We're required to shovel
| the snow out of the house
How often it is that our tongues get
US into trouble. Generally, however,
the trouble is of a different kind than
that which befel little Belfast boy
A gentleman noticed him standing il
/ front OF a store on one of the coldeS,
mornings, last week. crying in most
pitlful way. Upon examination he
found the boy had been looking in the
window, at some toys. and child like
had unconsciously put his tongue upon
the brass railing. where it froze and all
efforts to break away caused terrible
pain. The man at once warmed the
railing setting the boy free with but
little INJURY.
Biddeford is wondering if the stril>-
ing mill operatives who call upon the
city for help are to thereby lose their
votes AZ the spring election
At the recent banquet of the hotel
men at the Elmwood hotel in Water
Vile, Judge Philbrook, the POSTMASTER,
who is a candidate for speaker of the
next Maine House of Representatives
in Introducing Col. l. X Stetson of
Bangor, who is also a candidate for
the same position. tried to get the gen
tleman from Bangor to commit himself
as to how he would vote when the Legis-
lature meets if both of them should be
returned to the House Col. Stetson
was wary and the laugh went the
rounds.
How the spirit of the patriot mani
tested itself. Friday, at the banquet
of the hotel men. The true patriotic
heart swelled with pride as the elo-
quence of the speakers rolled out rich
sentences of the word picture of the
good old State of Maine. There was
Mr. Commissioner Carleton who has
the best interests of the State al hears.
He plunged into the. lakes and rivers
of Maine with a readiness. that indica-
ted his pride in his home and his work