Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-03-22

recorded for some time
Read the addresses Of the new
mayors They have words to say "i
interest to very citizen and taxpayer
The Maine G.. A. r. has some big
guns in its ranks and it proposes To or
ganize a regime mt of heavy artillery in
case of war.
Alas for the rarity Of Christian
charity among those Nassalboro PEG
pie who refused shelter to the sick and
suffering Arabian woman No small
share of the blame for the murder Of
her child rests upon them.
The Saco strikers enjoy living on
charity To such an extent that they
have voted to stay out Year rather
than so back at their reduced wages.
In Brunswick. however. the operatives
will so to work, this week.
The strike made Rrunswck's bust
ness men feel too poor to entertain the
State Board of Trade as they had
planned to DO. 50 they withdraw their
invitation, and the hoard viii meet in
Portland, March 50.
An East Sumner correspondent tells
of hen in that town which produced
an egg measuring S'sx67s, and naively
adds that if she had been a male bird
she would have done some tail Growing
Canton has been setting an example
in spring house cleaning which many
other towns might follow With profit.
Two of the most noted rumscllers have
been arrested and bound over. another
man has been arrested and fined for
borrowing from neighbours wood pile.
and a young woman of unSavory repu-
tation has been given three days in
which to get ont Of town, and tine
affairs of a merchant are undergoing
inVestigat all this in one week.
"a Prospect lady" says a cores
pendent from that town, is going to
swap a pension of 81 per month for a
husband" Well. iuxurios come high
but perhaps this woman can afford it,
The PASSPORT Sontiners Whiting cor
respondent seems to think there is
something homogeneous in a lecture on
patriotism in a Schoolhousc ON which a
rope has danSlod for year awaiting
A ilaG
These war discussions ar" likely t.
break out At any moment. whatever
may lie the case concerning hostilt.ts
between America and Spain. \ Port
land paper tells how a prayer meeting
at a church in one Of the suburbs. a few
evenings ago. developed into q red hot
Joint debate on the war question. It
started innotcntlN enough 10y one of
The brothers incidentally mentioning
the trouble which he believed was i'm
pending. This brought another to his
feet who didn't think there was the
slightest danger of war and in very
few minutes the discussion was any
thing but prayerful. 1t would be an
just, perhaps. to say that any of the
hi7t'utdlitS lbSi tItli ltIliItiS, put lu''N
were decidedly in earnest.
Sculptor Simmons. Maine boy OF
world wide fame has Just been sisnally
honored in Rome. The King of Italy
has just conferred upon him the Cross
of CaVilere of the crown of Italy as a
recognition of what he has done for
art during his long residence in Rome.
No other living American has been
given this decoration.
Rumford Falls Times: A word to
our friends POLITICALLY inclined: Don't
send us any more poetry. We are
nearly overwhelmed with your kind
ness. We positively must decline more
for the present 1t is piled up SO deep
here and there about the office that it
interferes with regular work. And we
VIII not have time to read the whole OF
the accumulations now on hand before
the middle of next summer. about Va
cation time. One Of two things must
be done-you must stop sending poetry
or we must hire a, sub editor to read it |
for us. And we don't know of anybody
with a head hard enough to stand the
strain for any length Of time. Already
our associate editor is disab by ner-
vous prostration and the managing
editor shows signs of weakening that t
way. We hate to thrust the illusions |
into the waste paper, with |
out reading. lest there might be among
the several thousands upon which SO
many minds have relieved their pen |
up energies, one gem lost to the world |
of literature. We believe he who saves !
a kernel of wheat from a ton of cham
is a public benefactor. and it is for this
distinction we are laborng
Dear friends. We are not kicking.
We only ask for more time When We
get through with what poetry we have !