Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-09-14
Maine Gossip

}Malt1e Gossip
s'smIih's ali Right"
Feller-his name wuz Smith-no more:
Worked down thar. in the village store,
Sellin' a little Of everything,
From jeans. TO a ten-cent diamont ring.
But the folks that knowed him, they'd
say to you:
"Ef any tradin' you have to do.
jest call on Smith, in the day or night
Fer Smiths all right!'
An he wux, tell you! I seen one day
A whole starved family come his way,
With never cent to buy their bread.
An Smith says: well. I'm jest one,"
says he.
AN never soul depends on me.
SO. here's my wages.s.... They said
THAT Smiths all right!''
An he wuz, / tell you! An when he'd
give
His ATTEST helpin' his brothers live
DOM his duty from day to day
In jest his humble an simple way,
With cheerful heart an lovin, mind
This wuz the word. as he passed from
sight:
THAT Smiths all right"
Atlanta Constitution.
The full returns show that it is all
one way.
Twenty-Five thousand is only half OF
$4,000, but 1t accomplished the same
purpose very nicely.
The Democrats are very welcome to
the few scattering members they will
have in the next House.
Down in Washington county they are
still waving their hats and shouting
over the completion of the great rail-
road
The gallant Portland crew Of the
Montauk is still in the service at
League Island, ready to fight the whole
Spanish navy.
Boston Transcript: Llvermore Falls,
Me-. has suffered the fate that sooner
or later overtakes every manufacture
ing town that has only one engine. and
that not in very good condition.
The vital statistics of 1896, just made
public, have many things Of great in
terest to the people OF the State and
some features not wholly fattering.
1t is very satisfactory TO know that
Names death rate for 1896 was the
lowest of the six NeW England states.
but not pleasing to know that its birth
rate was also lower than any other
New England state, except Vermont.
The divorce rate was greater in Maine
than in any other New England state,
being twice that of several OF them.
Two brides of II years had been
previously married and divorced.
Milbridge has had many summer
visitors but none whose arrival caused
greaterexcitemento or rejoicing than that
of Ellington Leighton Of the battleshp
Oregon, who was welcomed home. last
week, by his aged'emother after an
absence of 2S years. When a young
boy he ran away to sea and has
roamed all over the world many times.
For many years he has been in the
navy. and as a boatswain's mate of the |
Oregon he made the famous $4,000 mile |
voyage from San Francisco to Cuba. |
and helped sink Cervera's fleet, July 3. |
The summer season on the Maine |
coast is at an end. A few cottagers
are remaining at the seashore for a
week or two longer, but the bulk of
them moved back to the city before |
last Monday for the children must be
in school. The summer has been un-
usually pleasant There was some wet |
weather at the first of. the season, but |
the past two months have been dry
and warm, just what seaside dweller
longs for. When the summer began
the Spanish war was just on, and
many were foolishly fearful of an at
tack along the Maine coast. The dan
ger Of that was soon forgotten after
Admiral Dewey's victory at Manila, |
and the very hoS weather in the Middle
and Western States drove people East
in large numbers. Hotel keepers who
despaired Of profitable business soon
found their houses well filled. The
season has been somewhat shorter
than usual but on the whole 1t has
been a good one.
Think of the sad journey that Nj.
and Mrs. J. B. Guillemain of Biddeford,
are taking. Their son in Canada has
been tried and condemned for murder.
and is to be executed, September 80. |
The heart-broken parents are en- route |
for st. Hyacinthe to bid their boy s. |
last farewell.
The papers up in Aroostook county, |
as well as in other places, have a habit |
of coming out at regular intervals |
whether the editor is around or not. |
Here is the way the parties left in |
charge of the Pressure Isle Star Herald. |
explain an omission in what in other
respects is a good issue: Page two,
commonly referred to as the editorial
page. has a lonesome appearance, this |
week, without it's accustomed editorial. |
But our readers will have to put up