Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-10-17

The song of Nature Is forever,
h her IA 3Hy Gus voices voices falter never:
Attendant her musicians are.
From water brook or forest tree,
For aye comes gentle melody;
The very air is music blent,
A universal instrument.
When hushed are bird and brook and
wind,
Then silence will some measure find,
Still SWeeter: as memory
us sweeter than the things that be.
John Vance Cheney.
Saturday, Of late, seems to be
Jupiter Pluvius' favorite day for MAX
ing his welcome visitations.
The merchant and the small boy,
however, are unanimous in the wish
that he select another.
Rockland rejoices because tramps,
who are noted in larger numbers than
ever in many Maine cities, seem to
have passed by her gates.
The busiest organizations at present
are the various church aid societies
which are preparing for their annual
fairs and Christmas sales.
One of the straws which indicate
which way business is tending in Old
Town, is the fact that the demand for
houses for renting purposes exceeds the
supply. AS a result carpenters have
been kept busy the past season, and
Old Town now has a large number of
new houses to add to her taxable prop
erty.
Baths first cake walk, which CAME
off last week, was neither an artistic
nor a financial success.
Two of the IS candidates who took
the examination before the Maine
Board of Pharmacy, last week, were
young ladies. Names new woman
is made of the right stuff.
There are sold in Rockland stores
canned mackerel that We're put up on
the Pacific coast/ This is indeed bring
ing Goals to Newcastle.
A member of Co. H, Rockland, has
had unique experience. While the
1st Maine Regiment was at Chicka
manga and Augusta, he enjoyed excel
lent health. but since going to his home
for the 30-days' furlough, he has had
jaundice and malaria, and is now top
There are now in Houlton Jail 4S pris-
oners. The Aroostook Pioneer, in COM
menting upon this large number, says:
Had the rock yard been open this
summer and fall there would doubtless
be a smaller number now boarding at
the county's expense
A ripple of excitement was caused in
Rumford Falls recently, by the report
one of the principal streets. Much to
| the sorrow of the would-be hunters, it
| was soon learned that a flock of sheep
| had been driven over the road early
| that morning.
Bar Harbor has added an evening
school to it's already excellent school
system.
There are young ladies in Monsoon.
right in this present day and genera
ton who are possessed of the same
kind of nerve that grandmother used
to have. 1t is getting to be quite the
| fashion for them to be lowered into
the quarry pit, two making a success
full descent in the box recently. while
not long ago two others more daring,
stepped into the links of the big chain
and were swung down the dizzy
height.
AT a recent Portland wedding the
bride is said to have worn $4,000 worth
of diamonds, a gift of the groom, who
also is reported to have settled upon
her 100000 for pin money!
The musical young men of Dexter
are forming a band. There is said to
| be some excellent talent there, and
| there does not appear to be any rea
son why the new organization should
not be success.
Southwest Harbor with a water sup
ply coming through 175 feet of solid
rock claims it is the best in the State.
| The water supplies of Maine are gener-
ally good. One has to go South and
| West to see what a really bad water
supply may look like.
Nobleboro is the latest Maine town
to report death caused by impure
water. This seasons drouth has been,
in many respects, the worst Maine has
| experienced for years.
| The Machias Board of Trade is work