Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-04-04

The war microbe seems to have been
driven out of the Emperor William
system by the sight of American ana
English warships side by side in battle
line at Samoa.
The latest fight in the Philippines is
over the question of whether a Kansas
or Montana regiment first entered
MaloIos. Let us hope they arrived at
the same time.
sMaame Gossip
BY the Wayside.
Love fingered in the sunlight
And asked one rose OF May,
And All the world was sweet To Nun,
But Nou--you went your way.
Love tarried in the temple
Where sweet the sanity pray
Kind angels ministered to HIM;
Rut Nou-you went your WAY.
And now-no longer weeping
For dreams too bright % stay
Love keeps no weary ViSilS,
For you-you went your WAY
Atlanta Constitution.
1t is cutting down the drifts.
Very glad to see you home again,
boys.
They are storing away the sleds and
oiling up the bicycles.
Waterville is looking for the 10 citi-
zens who voted against the water dis
trict.
Candidate Tarbox had everything his
own way in Calais. yesterday.
1T is too good to be true-that story
that Rose Carson White will not return
to Kennebec county when she has
served her sentence at Thomaston.
1t was a pretty good fishing trip for
the man who caught the first salmon at
IbdHSoI. lIt liSli WIS pouhu'i
and brought sl.35 per pound.
Now Saco fondly imagines that it
has Il clue which will lead to the dis
covery of the murderer of Ivory Booth
by.
a leading event of the week in Ban
sor is that university dinner. tonight
over a score of colleges viii be repre-
sented.
The most snow ever seen the first
OF April is the comment heard in many
sections of the State.
The cranks would like to see a Maine
baseball league, but there is very little
likelihood of it. Portland is happy at
the prospect of getting into the New
England league.
While thousands of Maine mill opera
tives are happy over the advance in
wages, over 800 Maine Central en-
ployes in Waterville are likewise re-
joicing over an extension of working
hours equivalent TO a 20 per cent. adj
vance in wages.
The ice in the rivers is rapidly rot
ting away, which is much better than
to have it carried out by big freshet.
Bangor may have a new postofiice
building within a comparatively short
time rumor has it that Collector Simp-
son, of the custom house. will recon-
mend to the government that a new
structure be erected, and that il will
be a handsome building of the most
improved plan and one that will be
adequate to the constantly increasing
business Of Bangor, for years to come.
There are different methods of di-
costing newspapers A Biddeford man.
for instance, ate a copy of the Bidde
ford Journal on a wager the other day.
Ii was a poor use to make of good
paper.
Phillips Photograph: If Mayor
Quincy could induce all the Boston
men who come to Maine shooting, to
turn their guns upon the English spar
rows. he would promptly dispose of
veXed question.
A Parkhurst correspondent who has
measured the snowfall for the last IS
years, says this winter beats them all,
a little over Is feet having fallen dur
ing the season.
An ingenious Pressure Isle jeweler has
just completed n novelty in the clock
line by converting the bottom of n steel
frying pan into the face of n clock.
The works are secured in the open
space of the pan. The clock has a long
handle by means of which il can be
easily suspended to the wall.