Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-12-31

| 10 make the tlIllc go mcTrlIcc.
| Theodore Roberts in Outing
| Farewell to the old year and CEN
fury.
| The lawmakers are packing their
grips.
| Everybody is coming to Augusta for
| the Inauguration.
the opening sessions.
| Speaking of bills, it is a good plan to
have all bills receipted at the begin
ming of the year.
! Only few tramps, this winter, are
seeking the warmth and food of the
Maine jails.
What kind of a message will now
| be sent to Messrs. Stain and Cromwell
at Thomaston?
IF Brother Sanford starts a daily
| paper at Shiloh he ought to be able to
| make it a breezy sheet.
The Maine Pedagogues honored one
| of the most popular and progressive
| teachers in Maine when they made
| Principal Cook of Augusta, their presi-
dent.
Some will dance out the old century.
some will be in prayer in churches,
some will sit in serious reflection by
| their firesides. but more will be asleep
when the midnight falls.
The dispatch sent out from Tufts
| College to the effect that that institu-
ton had decided not to meet Bow
| doin in athletics. next year. and would
sever" athletic relations with the
Maine college. is very amusing in view
| of the fact that BowdOin took the first
steps in the deciding" and "severng'
business. several weeks ago. The pro-
fesSionalism which prevails at Tufts
and the unsportsmanlike tactics en-
ployed in its games have caused sew
eral colleges to drop it, and Bowdoin
| having won it's annual baseball and
| football games with Tufts. decided sew
eral weeks ago, as was then an
| nounced in the papers. not to meet the
| Medford College. next year. Now
| Tufts tries to avoid the double igno-
nimy caused by defeat and disgrace
| by seeking to spread the impression
| that it is dropping Bowdoin,
Biddeford Journal The annual re-
port of the Maine insane asylum
shows that one person in every one
thousand in the State is insane. This
percentage includes only those cared
| for at Bangor and Augusta and takes
| no account of those individuals who
are of the opinion that Jan. /, 1901. is
| the first day of the second year of the
| twentieth century.
Not all the wonderful quilts are
made by smart women. Here is
Elijah Rowe Of Springvale who has
made a quilt of silk that has about
5000 pieces in it. each piece the size of
q silver ten cent piece.
Bar Harbor wants a representative
to the Maine Legislature all her own.
and will petition this winters Legis-
lature to put Eden in a class by her
self. Figuratively speaking. Bar Har-
Dor always was in a class by itself
| there's only one Bar Harbor in the
woodland why shouldn't she have a
representative Of her own?
certain York farmer went into the
woods the other day to get dry fuel,
and he got a better load than he ex-
pected. He saw n giant pine stub on
| the edge of an icy marsh, cut it down.
and began to chop it into lengths
Soon ne felt his axe strike something
soft as it broke through the shell of
the stub. Thinking that there might
| be bear inside, he proceeded
cautiously, using wooden wedges to
split the stub apart. When the hol-
low. dry log fell in halves. there in
| the cavity lay eight fat coons. snugly
| housed away for the winter. Further
| up in the trunk were two more coons,
while in the stump was a fifty pound
Ier-the biggest and latest of the lot.
This lucky farmer thus got. besides a
cord of dry wood. over 200 pounds of
coon meat and eleven coon skins, and
ever since that day he has quit all
other work and goes about in the
woods looking for more hollow logs
with coOns in them.
| The Bangor News discusses the
question of Names greatest public
man of the 18th century, and reaches
the conclusion that the late Hannibal
| Hamln deserves first place on the long
roll of honor. The News may be some
what influenced by local pride, but it
must be admitted that it makes out a
strong case for it's favorite. Many.
however, will name Blaine, Fessenden.
Evans, the MOrrills. the Washburns,
or others as ranking with or above
| Mr.. Hamlin
| The great question of the season has
| been settled in RobbinSton. The eve
ming visitors at the store and post
office have noticed of late through a
| small hole in the floor. under the meat
table the paw of an animal occasion