Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-09-18

| Duke: Even the players here some
times persist in pronouncing the | in
golf. 1t is goff."
The coon is abroad in the land and
! likewise the coon hunter and his dogs.
| The coon is after the corn and the
hunter is after the coon, and some
merry old times they are having, these
moonlight nights.
1t was poor old King Lear in his grief
/ who exclaimed:
How sharper than a serpent's tooth It is
| To have a thankless child"
and the Piscataquis Observer tells us
i about an old gentleman who is We'll
situated to echo this cry. His wife and
| only daughter are dead, and his only
son. who is in California has not writ
ten TO him for over 10 years. He has
heard from him indirectly and knows
| that he is living and prospecting. II
| similar cases of neglect are not eX
| trcmely uncommon, they surely ought
| to be. The worst punishment we could
| ask for such a son is that he may live
| to suffer the same treatment from a
| child. 1t may be negligence rather
| than Indifference that causes a child to
so treat the parent who cared for him
when he could not care for himself,
| but in either event the sin is great.
| Editor Mayo, in the Turf Farm and
Home, has some deserved words of
praise for the management which made
the State Fair such a success, and fol-
lows them with few good suggestions
as to the future, touching especially
on the matter of judging exhibits. He
says: The first change would be to
| have experts in each class that judge
| that class, and no beef men would be
employed to scale Jerseys. or Hackney
BREEDERS be put to score trotting bred
says: THE first change would be to
stock. Second, there should be d
change of judges each year. Third.
when an animal or an article wins
blue ribbon it shall be barred from
competing in that same class again.
| They may compete for sweepstakes
but not with animals that have not
won first prizes"
1t seems very probable that a clam
trust of some kind will be formed in
| Portland before a great while. 1t is q
peculiar phase of the clam business
| that while the dealers cannot get
enough of them to supply the demand,
| the prices, nevertheless, remain low.
This is the way in which Stylus
in the Ellsworth American. gets into
a type familiar at all summer resorts:
| 'The days are shortening and the
nights grow cool, and We lordly swell
! who hath all the airs of blooded arts
| tocracy and some besides. who hath
| gazed haughtily at the hotel girls and
disdainfully at the honest laborer and
who hath wondered how these ma
tives'' in this place keep from freezing
in the winter poor creatures. don't
chaw-know," betaketh himself back to
the mighty town. returneth his paste
diamond to the pawn broker, and re-
sumeth his old place at the necktie
counter of Jordan and Swamps at
seven-fifty week
| The narroWeSt escape from sudden
death reported in Maine last week.
was when James Mcleod of Saltwater
strayed too near a place where men
We're blasting lodges at MiIlinocket.
| one of the large pieces of rock weigh
| ing several tons came down so near
| Mr.. Mcleod that the back of his coat
was split down the back from the col
| lar to the bottom.
| 1t pays to patronize home merchants.
| Those who accept the bargains" Of
fered by strange peddlars and agents
| are pretty sure to discover when it is
too late that they have been badly
| taken in. Sometimes they get cheated
one way and sometimes another, but
the small end of the trade is invari-
ably theirs.
| Company | of Lewiston would like
very much to have the State send i to
/ New York to assist in the w.!come tn