Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-11-01

It's roses hide the thorn-spears-.t storms
with rainhows fan;
There is light and love unendinS and love
is over ali.
Frank l.. Stanton.
November. and still not very fallish.
The rain put the fields in shape for
the fall ploughing.
The coast has been warned that
there is a big storm ct hand.
Frank Parks has discovered that
rum isn't q good excuse for murder.
Let us hope that the November gales
won't bring such sorrow to Maine as
they did. last year.
At Wiscasset, last week. Judge
Peters dismissed a case that has been
before the court since 1871.
The Commercials grouped illustra-
tons Of Bangor's representative cit-
zens are an attractive feature worthy
Of preservation.
The Il divorces at the Machias term
of court. last week, beats all Washing
ton county records in this unhallowed
work.
They say that Dewey's nephew, who
is a Portland life insurance man,
struck his distinguished relative for Il
policy when they met at the New York
celebration.
The Bath Times has an idea that
religion exercises too many restraints
for it to be popular with young men.
and that concessions should be made
in order to bring them within its in
nucnce. 1t makes a suggestion that
social smoke talks by the pastors might
help them get hold on the young
men; but oddly enough. the use Of
tobacco for evangelical purposes meets
with opposition from some sources.
Here is a choice and important bit Of
social news from the latest issue of the
Bath Independent: 1.-TWO young Bath
society people who have been inter
ested in each other for some time, had
this week, in which broken dishes were
much in evidence"
That WAS a notable funeral at Bath.
Monday when 10 priests from all over
New England assisted in the tributes
paid to the memory Of the loved priest
Father OBricn. who had faithfully
served his parish for Il years.
The little town of Perkins. which it
may be remarked is an island in the
Kennebec opposite Richmond. is much
disturbed by the shooting of three deer
which have made their home on the
island ana become the pets Of every
body. Not only were the deer protect
ed by the law against killing them in
Sagadahoc county, but the Perkins
people feel that they have been per
sonally insulted and robbed by some
so-called sportsman.
Bucksport is convinced that all plate
matter news is not of a reliable ma
ture. The following item has been go
ing the rounds in plate matter: THE
brush factory of c. Wilmington &
Sons, at Bucksport. Ne, was destroy
ed by fire. Loss. $4,000. Twenty-Five
persons are thrown out of work" The
Bucksport Herald thus comments upon
the item: But for one circumstance.
the destruction of the Withington's
brush factory would have been a mat
% tn No
The throwing out of employment of %
people in the face Of a coming lonG,
cold winter is serious matter and
iSucksport would have felt it severely
but for this one fact, and that is that
no such thing ever happened here"
The use of seaWeed as food. and for
filling mattresses and cushions. has
been occupying the attention of one Of
the branches of the department of
agriculture. Hitherto seaweed has
been used almost exclusively for fer
tilizi1g purposes. but in the f0rthcom-
ing bulletin on the subject some light
will be thrown on other ways in which
| it can be turned to account And here
new Maine industry crops out, and
| the annual crop would be a large one.
a Fairfield mathematician figures it
| out that all the people of the United
/ States, figured on a basis of 10000, 600
/ or therea bouts, could lie down in the
| town and rest without being crowded.
Fairfield, he reckons, is six miles wide
! by nine miles long, which gives "A
square miles. Each person in the
United States is allowed in the COM