Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-07

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An income of $1,000 annually from an
investment of 500, That is what one
Bangor woman is getting now. Some
her friends and financial advisers by
dropping 800 into the stock of a cop
per mine. Now she gets every month
| check for as much. One hundred a
| month.-$12O0 year.-that is the tune
she is dancing to now. Had l fol-
lowed my own inclinations." she says,
Il should have put in $1,000 instead of
500. Had l done so my income would
now be $4,000 year. Think of the
amount of good I could have done with
all that money at my command -'
A Kennebunkport farmer tells a
strange story of the effect of the
drouth. He says that he went out on
piece of clayey land and found it so
parched that there were cracks wide
enough to put his hand into extending
down foot or two. He poured pail
of water upon the baked clay and he
says it boiled and spluttered like
Stacking lime.
Now that Mr.. Henderson of Iowa, is
to succeed Reed as speaker of the
House, it may do no harm to re-fell a
story of how he once thought he wasn't
to talk about Thomas Il. Reed, in his
own congressional district. The town
of Cape Elizabeth was divided some
years ago. and the town and now city
of South Portland was carved from it.
1t can be safely said that in its day
and generation the old town was
curiosity. There was fight on or
talked Of constantly. Brother was
divided against brother, and ministers
wondered how long they could con-
tinuc to preach the gospel of peace to
such congregations. II the people in
the village wanted anything that was
just what the farmers said they
shouldn't have. At the time of the
visit of Congressman Henderson, the
tight was over the proposed introduce
ton of Sebago water. The people of
the villages had got to have it they
said, while the farmers said, f"Dig a
few more wells" 1t was water and
antiwater. The town was split I'D into
two contending, fighting, arguing, per-
sistent and not to be united factions.
The night came for the meeting and
the big town hall was packed For a
moment there was bit of unity. A
water man called the meeting to order,
and an anti-water man was chosen
chairman. And then the chairman in
PRODUCED the soldier and statesman.
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national issues, and not local matters.
He Will not refer to local issues at
ALL" said the anti-water chairman.
Poor Henderson was amazed. What
local issue could there be except
Thomas B. Reed, and apparently right
in Reeds own district he was not to
discuss Tom" Reed. That took his
speech from him. He wandered about
doing his best to find some neutral
ground on which he could set his
crutch. but all in vain. He told about
the religion of his father and of his
mother. he spoke elOquently of Abra-
ham Lincoln, he paid a touching trib-
ute to General Grant. and urged all
present to vote the whole ticket, and
sat down after having talked for an
hour or more without once referring
to Thomas Bracket Reed. A few
hours later he found his mistake and
that the local issues he was not to dis
cuss related largely to water. What
a state" he said half in admiration
and half in disgust.
Considerable cold water has been
thrown on the plans of those who are
interested in the project of having an
army post in Bangor. during the past
year. When the movement was started
the possibility Of the United States be-
ing plunged into foreign war could
not have been foreseen, and the condi-
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