Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-09-23


less passion to which all men are sub
ject in degree. but for a sane and
sober man to call another to assist
him, and to travel with him nearly
quarter of a mile in the darkness Of the
night in supposed friendly conversa-
ton and With intent to render assist.
ance on the part Of the victim, and to
be deliberately shot down for no more
money than the average farmer is apt
to carry with him; such a crime as this
must give the moral and social philoso-
pher just moments pause, as he re-
wolves in his mind elaborate schemes
for the civilization of the Philippines
or the christianization of the Congo
country.
Later reports from the back woods
show that deer are very abundant.
The cold nights of a week ago killed
off the flies and allowed the deer to go
back to the hills. where they are get
ting fat and well spiced ON tender birch
sprouts. Though not so many are seen
around the waterways as there We're
month ago the woods are full Of tracks,
and in the clearings the ground is often
trampled down where great herds have
passed along. Signs of moose continue
fairly abundant, and on the hard wood
ridges where birch trees grow the
tourist finds where the dead leaves
have been rooted over by hungry bears
that were looking for early beechnuts.
Reports about caribou are meagre and
very unsatisfactory. ~,
The State Board Of Trade met at
Brunswick, yesterday. and the scholars
of the high school We're asked by the
business men. earlier in the week, to
decorate the Town hail for them, but
only about half dozen responded.
Perhaps sometime when the high
school athletic team tries to get up 4
subscription among the. business men,
or wants some other favor. they will be
sorry that they did not respond more
readily when asked to do a little for
the merchants. -
Natures attempt to make up for lost
time is seen in some of the Maine ap-
pie trees from which leaves and bios
SONS were stripped by caterpillars last
spring. All of them promptly sent out
new foliage and every now and then
somebody reports seeing one in full
blossom. one having been noticed last
week. Apple growers look for a big
crop next year, it being unusual. If not
unheard of. for trees to yield poor
crops more than two years in success
sion.
New York Press: Senator Frye
as neighbor, friend and public
official has been faithful to ev-
cry trust. He is jealous churchman
and Sunday school worker, legislator
and alliance man. His amusements
are solitaire and Senator German. His
love of the Maryland Jesuit Is the most
remarkable thing about him. He is a
baby at politics, caring absolutely
nothing about the machinery of par
ties and the manipulation Of votes.
German is a past master. Frye has al
ways been a leader, but others have
pulled the wires. German has always
pulled the wires. and sometimes has
led. Frye is a total abstainer from a
prohibition state. German is a teeto-
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drunk as water. Frye Is never seen in
places where fellow men congregate-
clubs, hotel Hobbies. etc. He is not a
diner-out. AS social success he is,
to make a bull, an unqualified failure.
Congr essional poker parties in commit
tee-rooms or elsewhere have no att
fractions for him. have never heard
of his playing. If you want to see him
at night go to the Hamilton, at Four
teenth and X streets, where you will
catch him in his plainly furnished
room playing exciting games of soli-
taire with himself.
The Portland Courier has picked up
a remarkable story concerning the sur
prises that met a New. York couple
who have been summering at Che
beague, on their return to their Ffrth
Avenue residences, the other day. The
young people had anpouncci Their
! engagement before coming to Maine.
| so their friends were not SO much SUI
prised on receiving cards announcing
the private wedding OF the young
couple and their departure for Europe
on a wedding trip; and wedding pres
ents at once began to pour in. Now
the New York home Of the young lady
had been left in the care of sup
posed faithful maid servant
| and this maid servant had a lover in
the alostler. This young couple want
ed to marry ait once. hut lack Of
means prevented. 1t was in this emer-
gency that the maid .serYant invented
! the plan Of announcing her mistress