Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-05-19
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When Virtue Triumphed.

When Virtue Triumphed.
There was a man who tried to do
The very best ne could;
He held that being rich was not
AS fair as being good
Sly tempters tried to pull him down,
Their schemes were all in vain
He would not turn from righteous ways
For power or for gain.
Full many snare was laid for him
BY men of evil minds;
He passed unsmirched through troubled
scenes
OF many various kinds:
Where others would have faltered he
Still held to honor's course,
Unhndercd by Chicanery,
Unterrited by force.
He was a good man through and through,
a better never was:
He always scorned unlawful means,
No matter what the cause:
With honor as his watChword he
Pursued his righteous way.
And won out at the end. but, but ah.
This man was in play.
Chicago News.
The vindication OF Captain Blan-
chard seems to be complete
1t is burning shame to have so
much Maine timberland swept by fire.
The water in the Kennebec at Bath
rose % feet the other afternoon. A
waterspout did it,
Saco is having its usual spring aglta-
ton for a soldiers monument in East
man park.
Caterpillar hunts now engage the
attention of many who have never be-
fore claimed to be Sportsmen.
Eastport discovers that it is without
a woman's club. and doesn't know
whether to be proud or ashamed of the
distinction.
The eyes of the small boy waxeth
| large as he CLUES them to the circus
poster, and he saveth the pennies
with exceeding care.
| The Biddeford Record laboriouslv ex-
plains to the York county Republicans
| that Hon. Amos J. Allen should never
be sent to Congress because he helped
to prevent the changing of the county
seat from Alfred to Saco.
As resort for fishermen the Bel
grade ponds are getting a greater
reputation, this year, than ever before
Not only bass but handsome trout are
now being captured there in large
| quantities.
A story is being told just now of a
! Bath young man who had occasion to
be out late the other night On reach
ing his home sometime in the wee sma'
hours he decided that it would be
showing only due consideration for his
parents repose to get into the
house with as little noise as possible
and incidentally to conceal from the
anxious parental mind the exact hour
of his arrival. To that end he re-
moved his Shoes laid them on the
piazza and then proceeded to quietly
unlock the door. Next morning his
thoughtful mother brought in the
shoes that the young man had thought
iessly left exposed TO the night dews.
An Auburn lady tells of a curious
incident that came to her notice re-
Gently. setting" hen stole away her
nest, but after day or two the nest
was discovered and the eggs We're
taken away. Soon after cat that had
three little kittens found the nest and
took it as home for her young ones
The old hen had remained on the nest
I part of the time and near it all the
time. and when she saw the kittens
there she seemed to regard them as her
progeny. At any rate she adopted
them straightway and didn't propose
TO let the cat have anything more to
do with them. She would hover them
IN the nest and cluck to them with the
greatest complacency. The cat didn't
want to give up her children and the
hen and the cat had a pitched battle
Inc result was division of the spoils
The cat ran away with one of the kit
tens, While the hen remained in posses
sion of the two others. A member of
the family discovered the hens theft.
however. and restored the kittens to
their real mother. The old hen made
such time about it that she had to be
fastened up in a coop.
! Al latest accounts, % Republicans.