Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-10-02


task cut out for it if it is to prove
worthy of its name.
Maine farmers, who have never visit
| ed Aroostook find it very difficult to
realize the immense scale on which
agricultural matters are carried on in
that prosperous county. Take the po-
tatO digger, for instance. In most
sections of the State the sight of a dig
ger is rarity. while one Caribou dealer
reports the sale of 250and much larger
demand. Indeed the farmers are
strictly up date in Aroostook
People along the Maine side of the
border are chuckling over the fact that
this year the Province folks will not
have the pick of the Thanksgiving tur-
keys as is usually the case. This year
the Ottawa government has assigned
Nov. 2sth as Thanksgiving Day so the
celebration will occur at the same time
on each side of the line. In the past
the Canadian Thanksgiving has usually
held in October and as a result our
friends across the way have had first
call upon tHe Oh the SODDteES.
The Independent says that the Gardi-
ner matrimonial market was the
lvliest last month of any September
within the memory of the aged in
habitants.
little boy near Bath had two kit
tens. They We're named Myrtle and
Anna Eliza. Myrtle died and was
buried by the boy in bed of posies.
OF course he wrote her epitaph:
Here Myrtle lies
To fertilize."
Not long afterwards the other died
and was inferred by the side Of her
sister. She also was honored by an
epitaph, thus:
Anna Eliza,
More fertilizer"
Editor Collins of the Star-Herald,
Presque Isle. tells the following NOV
etc: Our genial and popular towns
man. Mr.. Harry Wellington Of the firm
of J. l.. Wellington & Co, is
quite fond of maple syrup. and one
morning last week he purchased a bot
tie. which he carried into his store and
set on the shelf. intending to take it
home at noon. As it happened Harry
set his syrup on the shelf on which
We're other similar bottles fun of
Cow Ease" and when he came to
look for his syrup AZ noon he found
that it had been sold to a farmer who
wanted something to spread on the
back Of his COWS to keep the flies off.
Won't that be a sweet surprise all
round,-to the farmer, the cows, and
especially the flies?''
stranger from Boston made two
hits in Damariscotta last week. The
first was from the shoulder and knock
ed down and out a village loafer who
said he was glad Mckinley was shot
and hoped Roosevelt would share a
similar fate. The second was with the
townspeople. After he had paid a fine
of one cent in the police court. they
gave him a banquet and presented
him with a diamond ring
The semi-centennial jubilee number
of the New York Times brings to the
minds of many Maine people the fact
that the exchange editor of that great
paper for the past 35 years has been
Jacob II. Thompson a Maine boy. and
graduate of Bowdoin in the famous
class of 60.
Here is complaint from Gardiner,
published in the Independent. which,
unfortunately. is often heard in other
cities: Il am told by one of the di-
rectors of the Public Library that
some of the most valuable of the books
have been mutilated and practically
ruined. by the illustrations being cut
out and stolen from the pages. The
class of books that have suffered
from this multilation are of that
character as rule that would only
be of interest and read by literary
and the best educated people. and
therefore this class of people must be
the perpetrators. which makes the
outrage the more particularly execra-
bic. 1t is a great pity that these
selfish literary thieves could not be
apprehended and if there is no law
~ ACdCu THEIR IucdIHeSS De at
least shown up to their fellow citi- i
zens in it's true light and l think the
Independent would be more than
glad to do it. for people who have no
more regard for the rights of others |
and of that degree of sneaking
meanness as to perform such an
act as that. l care not who they
are. or in what station of life they |
socialize. they should be advertized |
to the world in their true cOlOrs''
. BiddefOrd Journal: One by one. |
slowly but none the less surely. mans
opportunities to acquire 4 competency
without eXertion are bcin. taken !