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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17
Railroads and Steamboats,
MAINE CENTRAL R. R.
In Eject yune 10, 1890.
Trains leave Augusta as follows:
THROUGH TRAINS.

THROUGH TRAINS.
GOING WEST-s35 A. NJ, for deviation
Pennington. RangeIey, Rockland PORT
land. Boston. Quebec and Montreal; ga
A. NJ. and 1i.40 600 Sundays only for
main line points,, express for Brunswick
ley, Rocklaad, Portland and Boston.
connecting for White Mountain points
and Lancaster; -3.0s and 3.52 T.. NJ, for
brunswick. Bath. Rocklsnd, Lewiston.
cage; 'IG.55 +. NJ. might Pullman), ey-
cry night for Lewiston, Bath, Portland
aud Boston; rs A. NJ, Portland and
Boston.
GOING EAsT-.I35 A NJ might ex
press, for skcwhegan,. Belfast, Bangor.
stephen. St. Andrews, st. John, via ca
madam Pacific and Aroostook and Wash
ington counties; '2.50 A. NJ. Bangor and
Belfast and skowhegan: '2.35 p. NJ, er.
press daily for Bangor, Bucksport and
Bar TIarbor. 3.35 T.. NJ, for WatervilIe.
Oakland, North Arson, Bingham, Show
hogan. Belfast, -Bango., Cid Town and
Mattawamkeag; ~. p. NJ, for Water
VILE Bar Harbor and Bangor.
Train leaving Augusta at 800 p. NJ. GO
ing West runs daily, Sundays included,
h Lewiston. Portland and Boston.
The night Pullman train gong East at
| IS A. NJ, going West at 1885 Z. NJ, runs
every night, Sundays included, connect
ing for and from Lewiston, but Dot 20
Skowhegan on Monday mornings, or to
Belfast, Dexter or beyond Bangor, (ex-
cepting to Bar Harbor), Sunday morn
.Dally for main line points.
ACCOMMODATION TRAINS. ).
South Gardiner to Augusta.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17

The Democratic party is talking of
changing the rules of its next national
convention. This may be advisable,
but there are other more important
ately It's welfare demands that it
should change it's leaders, its followers
and it's principles. Moreover, change
of Venue would be appropriate. since it
is altogether out of place in this coun-
try in these prosperous times.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17

they could not fly away. Henry Dale
of Newburg has tame horned owl
that has made a reputation for itself
by robbing nests and catching the old
crows upon their roosts. Though the
owl is only a year and a half old it has
destroyed IL crows this season and Is
still busy. Mr.. Dale is pleased to see
the crows go, but he is Disguised with
his owl, because the bird insists upon
eating every crow which he brings
home. preferring crow meat to beef or
good PenObscot river salmon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17

ter and have more style about him.
Jest look at it. IF you want To dress
up a man you take him to tailor and
nave him measured and fitted to a suit
With Il scarecrow ii is right the other
way. You take any old suit or parts
of two or three suits. and then hope 10
make EN- into man byjamming and
twisting old straw out Of shape to tit
the old clothes. | don't wonder the
scarecrows get discouraged and Loaf
when the farmers are away. Id do It
myself"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17

The New York papers announce that
American-grown tea was placed on the
market in New York for the first time
in the history of the country, last week.
This is very important and interest
ing event, and may mark the substan-
tial beginning of a great industry in
the South. For years the agricultural
department has believed the conditions
were favorable in certain Southern 10
caities for the profitable growth of tea,
and urged that practical experiments
be made. The product put on the mar
ket last week was grown at Pinehurst,
about 90 miles from Charleston, S. c..
and in quality is of such a high grade
that it is said to have brought a better
price than the rarest variety of Chin
csc or japanese tea. This experience
of the planter is certain to give an i'm
petus to tea growing in the South, and
its success would be great triumph
for the department of agriculture.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17
Every Tuesday and Friday

during July and August and through
Sept LIST. via Maine Central T. r. ami
Eastern Steamboat co.
Excursionists take trains leaving Au-
clista at SIS \ NJ. connecting at Bath
win Eastern Steamboat Co.'S steamer
FOR Roothbay and Islands or Popham
Beach E.Ncursionists will have from four
to five hours at the different landings
and returning will arrive at Augusta at
% i. NJ.
Fares for round trip from Augusta,
Hallowell. Gardiner Richmond and iiar-
wards $iW Bowdoinham. soc; Bruins
wick. 75c: Watcrville. SlG.
rnon& thurs. tillsep1
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17

Mr.. Richardson, who has fifty acres
Of sweet corn growing for the canncry,
says the Santiago style Of sCarecrow.
with Rough Riders suit and wooden
Winchester rifle, which was So popular
last year. is no longer in fashion. the
crows seeming toHdcmand something
more gaudy than brown hcmlock gar
ments decorated with brass buttons.
Among the sixteen temperate and in
in his field at present, he thinks a nat
ty little college student. with high col
lar and orange and black blazer. the
most useful. The crows seem to re-
spect the field in that neighborhood
and will not pull corn anywhere near
the student unless" sorely pressed by
hunger The second best man in his
scareCroW company Is a fat and pomp-
Gus citizen with a blue cutaway coat
and tall white hat. This image has a
broken glass tumbler fastened to his
shirt front to serve for diamond pin
and. when the sun is out and the wind
blows, the prismatic rays from the
shattered glass flash halfway across
the field, conveying terror to all the
crows in the neighborhood. A figure
Of Uncle sam dressed in regulation
style and mounted aloft on a bicycle
has proved a complete failure. a fact
which leads Mr.. Richardson to infer
that crows are of the dark skinned
Latin race. which has little love for
liberty or anything else except corn
and corn juices.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17

The reason for limiting the challenge
for the international contest to the
athletes of Harvard and Yale is given
by leading English authority as being
because they are above the suspicion of
professionalism. 1t is true that Har-
ward and Yale athletics are above the
suspicion of professionalism, but does
the English authority assume that
crookedness is the rule among the other
American colleges and universities?
What have Columbia. Cornell. Penn
sylvania. Princeton and the rest to say
to this? The lordly Englishman in his
eagerness for exclusiveness is entirely
wrong. Very rarely is there a case of
professionalism in our college athletics.
The faint that was plainly discernible
few years ago is almost entirely OBJ
liberated, and the war for pure anna
teurism has been successful There
is now much more fault to be found
with some of our smaller colleges in
this respect than with the large uni
versities. Harvard and Yale should re-
sent the insult given by their English
hosts to their competitors on this side
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17
Maine G0ssalp|
Self-Reproach.

De sunshine come aroun' an try to shoe
me off de slant
OF dis bank VIVA Is a doZin' an Il
dreamn' But it can't.
De water in de stream is slowin up clah
down its length;
De cranes a standin on one foot SOS not
10 vase his strength;
De weeds de stops dab wavin' case dey 5
done shook of de dew;
Dey's all a gettin' lazy-an' Is a gettin'
lazy, too.
Tse been suspicionin' myself an lookin'
fob relief,
An finally jes' laid down an clean give
up to grief;
An when Is got laif Town, its hard to
get rZ up one
Use pinned hyah bout my laziness sencc
days an days ago.
AS | watched dat no-'count sun a loafin'
cross de sky SO blue
Dey.s All a gettin' lazy-an' is gettin'
lazy, TOO.
Washington Star.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17

Maine has lot more men of long
experience and high qualifications
who would be pleased to receive COM
missions in those new volunteer regi-
menfS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17

That couple which is attempting the
Journey from New York to San Fran
cisco in an automobile will probably
devote the rest of their lives, if they
survive the trip, to work for the good
roads cause.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17

1t is now up to the bicycle rider who
wants to go mile paced by cyclone.
The locomotive and motorcycle as pace
makers are already old fashioned.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17

Portsmouth is beginning to wonder
why it didn't do something when it
had the North Atlantic squadron in
its harbor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17

Just as a Connecticut wedding was
about to take place the other day the
bride-elect refused to be married be-
cause she and the groom had quarreled
over her costume. The guests were dis
missed and the wedding presents were
returned. That young lady was Sensi-
BILE and has had lucky escape. Any
young man who can find flaw in his
sweetheart's wedding gown, or think
for moment that she is anything but
perfectly lovely at such time,
would be a sad failure as a husband.
He deserved the violent turning down
which he received, and perhaps his
fate will serve as a warning to others.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17
Daily kennebec 3ournal.
TERMS. 800 PER YEAR.

No notice whatever will be taken of
uneigned communications.
The Journal cannot be held respOn-
sible for the preservation or return Of
rejected communications.
address all mmunicatiOns relating
to subscriptions and advertisements to
BURLEIGH & FLYNT. Publishers.
Augusta. Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17

Detroit has entered upon its era of
three cent fares on the street cars.
Perhaps this will result in call for
the re-issuing of the old three cent
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17

Every time that Governor Roosevelt
takes off his hat somebody standing
near looks sharp to see if presiden-
tial bee is buzzing in it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17
TO THE NATIONAL HOME
Eastern Branch. u. V. s, al Togus.
KennebeC Central R. R.

Connects at Gardiner with the Maine
Central Railroad. and 4. II. & g. Flee
tric Railroad to Augusta, ana kennebcc
Steamboats, for Boston.
summer arrangement. in effect Monday.
June - 1893.
Leave Randolph: Ar. ut Nat. Home:
- and lo22 A. VI. 1i2 x 10.i2 a NJ
u. pa x 81 r. NJ. li0. 2.J0 4 Az +. "
I.v Nat. Home: Ar. al Randolph.
SIS ana lIl5 A. NJ. SIS q l1.35 A. NJ.
-. $50 & ) +. NJ 20 30 x so r. ~
SUNDAY TRAINS will run as follows:
Leave Randolph. 40 and SO +. NJ Ar
rive at National Home. 40 and 80 +.
NJ. Leave National Home 30 and Z.
NJ. Arrive at Randolph, 800 and SO p.
VI.
BAND CONCERT every day except
Monday and Saturday at =. NJ. by the
Home band. Inspection and parade Of
the veterans Saturdays at =. VI. Spe
cial rates given to excursion parties
+. a. LAYTON Supt.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17

In the whole Democratic menagerie
there is not such good rooter for
Bryan as Hogg of Texas.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17

1t isn't strange that Spain would like
to gain possession of the Reina Mer-
cedes But the cruiser isn't for sale.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.

Under the auspices of the w. c. r. IT,
Conducted by Mrs. b. NJ. Friend,
Press Supt.
STATE HEADQUARTERS,
100 Free street, Portland.
MOTTOs For God and Home and
Every Land"
OBJECTs To unity the methods OF
woman's temperance work the world
over.
BADGER A knot Of white ribbon.
HOUR OF PRAYER, Noon.
METHODS, Agitate, educate, organize.
DEPARTMENTS, Preventive, educa-
tional. evangellstic, social and legal.
CITY OFFICERS.
PREsIDENT-Mrs. Oscar Holway.
SEcRErARYAN TREAsURER-MIss Susan
Waldron.
Regular Meetings-Tucsday afternoon
Of each week.
Gospel Temperance meeting at w. C. T.
U. rooms every Sunday afternoon at 3
o'clock.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17

The superstitious man now gloats
over the fact that 10 counties were de-
Xastated by the Texas floods.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17

1t took the Argus to discover that
a whole cargo of kissing bugs had ar
rived at Portland from New Jersey.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17

Some of the city streets are begin
ming to take on a half-deserted look.
The summer vacation season is here.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17

The fleet has gone. but it will visit
the Maine coast later.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17

Either Houlton is the dryest town in
Maine or else it has a local ordinance
forbidding arrests on the Fourth. The
AroostoOk Pioneer says: Twelve
thousand people in town July ith and
not an arrest for drunkenness"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17

Who wouldn't like to spend one Of
these afternoons with Maud Muller in
the meadow?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17
Eastern Steamboat
GO.

u Low rate excursions y Boothbay and
Islands and Popham Beach. commenc-
Ing July ilth and continuing
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17
= Arrangement
4 Of Trains in Effect
June IS, 1899

LEAVE Portland. 1255 A. NJ; Augusta.
ESQ a. NJ; Waterville, 32S A. NJ: Ban
iron Works, s,65 4. NJ: Norcross. s43 A.
NJ; sherman. 80 4, NJ; Pat.en. IooS A.
Mills, 1888 A. NJ; Masardis, l1:G A. NJ.
Ashland. 1900 NJ; HouIton. 100 A. NJ:
Bridgewater u.4s A. NJ. Pressure Isle. IL g
p. NJ: Fort Fairfield, LIS P: NJ: Dover
and Foxcroft. SOS A. NJ: Guilford. .22 A.
NJ: Monson, S.51 A. NJ; Greenviiie. $50 A.
NJ. IA
LEAvE Portland. lilo A. NJ; Waters
rive Brownville. 45i P. NJ; Newport
Junction. 330 r. Nj; Dover. $40 P. NJ:
Gulford, 400 p. NJ; Monson, Sos P. NJ.
Nercross, SO Z. NJ; Sherman. 6-S1 P; M:
NJ; Houlton, as P. NJ; Fort Fairfield.
9-S5 p, NJ; Pressure Isle. sl5 p. NJ; Carl
LEAVE Portland, 1910 P. NJ; Augusta.
IS 2. NJ; Waterville. 3l5 z. NJ; Bangor.
Vile. SIS p n: Kaiandin iron Works.
72O r. NJ: Dover and Foxcroft. $50 P. NJ;
Guilford. 7.15 p. NJ: Monson Junction. I'D
P. NJ: Greenville, so + NJ.
LEAVE Greenville, SIS A. NJ: Monson
Junction, 6.25 A. NJ; Guilford, $40 A. NJ.
Dover and Foxcroft; 6;56 4. NJ: Katah-
din Iron Works, go 4; NJ; Brownville.
ARRIVE Bangor, S.e7 A. NJ
LEAVE Fort Fairfield, 6.45 A. NJ: Lime
stone. $50 y. NJ: Caribou. $40 A. NJ:
Pressure Isle, FOG A. NJ; Houiton. SIS A.
H.. Ashland, 80 A. NJ: Masardis. Isl A.
NJ; Smyrna Mills. SIS A. M: Island
Falls, 9.25 A NJ; Patten. go A. NJ; Sher-
man. 9.iS A. NJ: Norcross, l0.n A. NJ:
Brownvile, 11.32 A. M; Arrive Bangor.
Los p. NJ; Waterville, BIS P. NJ: Au-
gusta. 3.52 p. NJ; Portland, SIS p. M;
Limestone. 1925 A. NJ.
LEAVE Caribou. 1205 p. NJ: Presque
Isle, 1888 p NJ; Fort Fairfield, 11-50 A.
NJ; Bridgewater, 10 r. NJ: Houlton. 2lo
P: NJ: Island Falls, $Io P. M: Patten.
3.O5 T. NJ; Sherman, 5.3S p. NJ; Norcross.
40 +. NJ: Katahdin Iron Works, SO F.
NJ. Brownville, $40 p. M: Lagrange.
617 p. NJ: Kineo, l.55 p. NJ: Greenville,
355 Z. NJ: Monson, 3.45 P. NJ; Guiford.
) o5 =. NJ: Dover and Foxcroft. SCI p. NJ:
Arrive Bangor, us 2. NJ; Waterviile.
9.5S p. NJ; Augusta, 10.43 Z. NJ; Portland.
L3O A. NJ.
Leave Kineo, 90 A. NJ: Greenville.
Il.i0 a. NJ; Guilford. l2A z. NJ; Dover.
LEO p. M; Newport Junction. 2.27 p. M;
Watervile, SIS p. NJ: Augusta, S52 p.
NJ; Portland, 5.35 p. NJ.
GEO. NJ. HOUGHTON,
Gen'r Pass. and Ticket Agent.
F. W. CRAM,
V. p. and General Manager.
Bangor, June 81 1899.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17

Rockland is happy over the prospect
Of brief visit when the squadron goes
to Bar HarbOr.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17

Portland will now date everything
from when the feet was here
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17
AUGUSTA TO SOUTH GARDINER.

ID Daily. Sundays included.
Through tickets 10 California and all
points South and West may be had Of Z.
H Walker, ticket agent, Augusta, the
only office in Augusta selling via AL
routes and checking baggage free Of ex-
pense.
GEO. +. EVANS, F. E. BOOTHBY,
V. Pres & Gen. Mag'r. g. p. & 7. A.
Portland, June 2, 1899.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17

Judson Hart of Holden put barrel
of meat offal in his corniield at plant
ing time. When the corn was ready to
come up the mass was full of creeping
things and gave forth a smell which is
perfume to the noStrils of all crows.
Then he placed a small steel trap in
the barrel and hitched it by a long line
to a stake in the centre of his cornfeld
For the next week a sad crow with a
trap attaC he'd to one foot circlcd above
his growing crop, uttering pitiful cries
When the crow died from exhaustion.
another one was caught and guarded
the fields from invasion until the corn
was too big to be pulled. After Mr.
Hart had caught one crow for senti-
mel duty he moved the barrel away and
set another trap. which caught other
crows that We're let out to the neigh
bors for ten cents a day. BY eXercis-
ing little Yankee cunning and q good
deal of cruelty Mr.. Hart made one bar
rel of Offal protect his own fields and
rented crows enough to other farmers
to yield an income of $500. The idea
being too good to keep, he told all about
ii one day in Bangor. 1t was a great
success. Before the people of Bangor
would allow Mr.. Hart to go home they
took him before the courts and com
PEELED him to pay $50 and costs for
cruelty to animals.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17

"a Penobscot county crow knows nigh
onto as much as Maine Frenchman,"
said Joel Richardson. "A crow can
count as fur as seven, but he doesn't
know eight from eighteen. AS for the
Frenchman. he can count up to the end
of his fingers and thumbs. after which
he is as much lost as a crow But
howsomever, I'd a burned sight ruther
try to skeer a Frenchman than a crow.
Eff you creep behind Frenchman and
yell 'Mojee,' at him he'll jump outen
his boots. Try the same thing on a
crow and he will laugh at you from a
tree when you are in the field. and then
come and hist all your corn as soon as
you go away. My idee is that as a
scarecrOw is intended to take the Plate
Of man he should be made to look
like man. He should be dressed bet
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17

James Heagan of Frankfort, has
sought safety for his crops and death
to crows by utilizing the copper teeth
of wornout cattle cards. The tooth of
a cattle card is like a wire hairpin that
is bent to one side in the middle until
it forms a right angle. After boiling
corn in sweetened water until it was
soft, Heagan inserted one of these
crooked wires in every kernel and then
sowed the grain along the rows in the
cultivated fields. The greedy crows.
finding the corn soft and palatable
made dash for the grain. swallowing
il until the sharp wires stuck in their
outlets. AS one kernel of corn was
enough to satisfy one crow, and, as
Heagan had sowed nearly a peck, it
took but a few days to satiate all the
crows in town. The deceived and suf-
ferng birds flew about the fields for
two or three weeks before they died
In cases where the wire had penetrated
the vocal organs the crows uttered
strange whistles and reed organ sounds
that led bird students to believe a new
species of the genus corvus had come
to Maine. Meantime the birds grew
weary of life and finally died from
starvation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17

First the Bangor auditorium is saved
and, then it isn't. The chain letter was
a fizZle, only bringing in 5000 of the
$4,000 desired. Rockland made great
promise Of help and then contributed
IS cents One Portland man sent in So
without solicitation, and this adds to
Bangor's chagrin. Eastern Maine
needs an injection of ginger.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17
BANGOR & AROOSTOOk RAILROAD

Caribou and Bangor on trains leaving
caribou at SO A. VI. and Bangor at 325
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17

The Eastern Maine correspondent of
the New York Sun is greater dis
coverer than Columbus, a more versi-
tile inventor than Edison. THE Maine
Crow is his latest text and he does it
Justice OF course, his tales are always
true, the abundance of detail proves
that and certainly they are of absorb
ing interest. Just look over the follow
ing extracts from his article and see
how the Eastern Maine farmers are
outwitting the genus corvus.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17

In Somerset county the farmers have
been soaking hard corn in wood alcohol
until it was soft and feeding it to the
crows,making them 50 intoxicated that
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17

Isn't the Kennebec Journal a trile
hard on the young men when 1t re-
marks: AN exchange says that the
girls are going barehcaded at the re
sorts, this summer. Probably the
young men are going empty headed. as
usual" The X. j. man should remem-
Der that he was once young man
himSclf.-Lcwiston Journal.
1t was the memory of his own sum
mer vacations at the SeaShOre which
caused the X. J. man to make the
above remark.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17

The message in bottle purporting to
have been set adrift by somebody on
the steamer Portland, comes to shore
once in about so often, one having been
picked up on Singing Beach. Manches-
ter, the other day bearing the message
ship is sinking. All will be drowned.
Good bye" But few people believe in
the genuineness of these messages and
nope Of ever getting any more light on
the terrible tragedy of last fall has
about died out.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-17

BY Margaret T. W. Merrill.
20. little feet, that such long years
Must wander on, through hopes an,
fears:
Must ache ana bleed along the road:
j. nearer to the waySide inn.
Where toll shall cease and rest begin.
4 m MONTY thinking of NOIIr load -
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1899-08-31
REPORTING THE WEDDING.
Reporter Fit for the Waste
Basket.

A reporter on newspaper was given the
task of writing up very swell wedding.
He composed fine account of the we'd
ding ceremonies, but, like many young
WRITER'S, he tried to use too fowery lam
guage, and, becoming excited, he forgot to
Be accurate in the use of words. The de-
ecription Of the beauties of nature read
something like this:
NThe silvery moon lowered over the
scene, and the stars twinkled merrily; the
soft signing Of the wind in the trees near by
came ike benediction of love to the happy
couple entering upon the voyage of life to-
gether."
The reporter sent in his copy, but just
- the paper was about to be sent to press
he rushed into the editors room, all excite
ment, saying he wished to make a correc-
tion in the account of the wedding, as, ac-
cording to the almanac, there was no sill
very or any other moon on that night.
And the reporter also said that he had
blundered in writing Of the "contesting'
parties instead Of Contracting parties.
After q few more corrections the account
Of the wedding was found available for the
editors basket. Tit Bits.