Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-02

to pay viii give them q desperation
and q ferocity that they wouldn't ac-
quire by meditating on the Cuban ques-
ton for five years. And if our first
fight should be disastrous to rs the
next battle would be total extermina-
ton ere our men would give in And
what is hottest patriotism in the coun-
try now would then seem only O luke
warm feeling"
Camden claims that it was the first
| town in Maine, outside Of those with
companies of the Guard, to raise volun-
| teers and offer them to the State in the
| present emergency. on February 9th
VIM. Howard Gardiner. Esq, wrote to
| the adjutant generals office, volun-
| teering his services in any capacity
| where he might be found useful and
| was instrumental in calling a public
meeting on March 28th, where recruits
! were called for to organize a volunteer
/ company. Twenty seven names were
| placed upon the roll that evening. The
roll was completed on the following day
and the company was organized with
| Mr. Gardiner as captain and Mr. Ed
ward l.. Stearns as 1st lieutenant. The
| first drill was held March 29th and
| drills have since been held sevcral
| times "A week. Mr.. Gardiner has held
| several commissions both in the line
and staff of the National Guard Of
| Pennsylvania and during residence
abroad of several years devoted much
attention to European military organi-
cation.
The way Speaker Reed attaches his
signature to important war measures
these days is interesting. When auto
graph hunters ask the speaker for his
signature he writes 1t rather hastily
and it ~ simply r. y. Reed If the
zen does not mark plainly the speaker
does not always take pains to dip il
anew. provided there is a sc.ravl and
ali the letters are visible. Not 50 when
the oblong forms of parchment are
handed to him from the committee on
enrolled bills. of which Represcntatiycl
Hagcr, Of Iowa, is chairman. Mr.
lilnds, the clerk to the speakers desk
hands up tn" pile Of parchment and the
speaker carefully looks over each.
Taking them down one BY one hei
writes his name slowly and carefully. /
II docs not appear as r. T.. Reed but
rs Thomas u. Reed The ink isl
dipped from a bottle that sits within al
silver tray. which has come down from
The time when Henry Clay was speaker
Of the House of Representatives Then /
the signature is carefully blotted. the
precious parchment is carried to thci
Senate and eventually finds its way toI
tn" state department. where il is stored |
away among the archives.
Three or four elders were in car
rage one day last week, riding along
the muddy road in Norway Ell route 10
the final session of the Methodist CON
ference, when one OF them remarked
that the appointments We're all fixed. /"
ana while the bishop had not told them
positively what he would do. vet every-I
thing was certain. Don't he too GER
tain ri that, remarked another broth
er, VINO had been With Bishop Cranston
before, Il was in a conference once
with him. and We fixed things all up.
after which the bishop asked 10 be al
lowed 70 commune With God for little !
while. We left him alone with God,
and when W. came back he had mixed
US up SO We didn't know a permanent
location from confession Of faith
Now if he gets off 10 talking with God
again he is likely 10 break that slate
Of ours into such small pieces that We :
can't find a piece Of it big enough to
write our names on