Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-07-19

adjoining the Clapp mansion on Elm
and Congress streets. The brick is
partly covered by the wood of the tree
and seems to be there for keeps.
The Island Press vOuches for this
tale of Il midsummer tragedy; A Deer
Isle editor lost cow in very queer
manner last week. The animal got out
of the barn into the kitchen, where she
devoured an old umbrella and a cake
of yeast. The yeast fermented in the
poor beasts stomach, raised the UNI
brella. and she died in terrible agony
from expansion
Philadelphia Record: Although the
builders of the new battIeship Maine
profess to be unable to see why any
public fuss should be made over the
launch of the big war ships next week
their matter of fact treatment of tie
occasion will scarcely lessen the flood
wave of popular interest in the affair.
The first battleship Maine has passed
into history. and her steel skeleton lies
grinding and rusting in the mud of
Havana harbor. To her successor will
attach, not only the interest and i'm
portance accredited naturally to one of
the worlds greatest fighting ships, but
also the significance and inspiration OF
a profound patriotic sentiment born OF
"a memorable national tragedy. Battle
ships we shall have in profusion, yet
never but one Maine.
"A man from Maine" writes to the
New York Tribune as follows: Sec
rotary Long, in commenting at Nan
tasket Beach the other day on the
now famous Dewey Manila dispatch.
said that, had he been its author. the
word commence would not have
been used. When reading the report
scene of long ago came wildly be-
fore me. 1t was examination day in
old Hebron Academy in the woods of
Maine. The principal was Mark II.
Dunnell afterward for many terms
member of Congress from Minnesota:
Johnny Long. a lad of fourteen or fif-
teen. was in the chair, translating from
Latin author-Tacitus, | think \
venerable member of the visiting com
mittee checked him at one point for
using the word commence and asked
him To give a reason for the objection
Young Long replied that H. supposed
it was too nearly like the Latin word
The examiner replied that he would
have raised the same objection if the
translation had been from the Greek:
no word from Latin or French should
be used when one from the Anglo Sax
on would serve the same purpose.
Secretary Long is a finished scholar
and has doubtless worked out the rules
governing his language and his life in
more mature years: but il is safe to
assume that his dislike OF commence
as a substitute for begin dates from
that time-nearly half a century ago"
Somebody in st. Louis, who is prob
! ably conducting matrimonial bureau.
is getting Il good deal of advertising
without expense. The scheme seems to
be to send out a letter, presumably
from Il young lady in st. Louis. stating
that she would like To get married and
that she desires correspondence with
eligible young men. These letters go to
country newspapers ana the editors i'm
agine that it is some one who mas for
merly lived in their county. The edit
or bites readily and makes a news item
out Of it and reprints the letter. The
supposedly unsophisticated maiden in
st. Louis is doubtless receiving tons of
letters, all of which will be duly worked
by one or more of the matrimonial
agencies. Letters such as this are
worth considerable on the market, ana
the party may be found to be a specu-
lator who has taken this method to
turn penny.-The Advertising World.
This dodge has worked on our Maine
papers before now and probably will
/ again. We wonder if these communi-
cations upon the bottom of peach
boxes. grape baskets. etc. in which
supposed maiden asks the masculine
/ finder to write. are not often part Of
the same scheme to secure the names
of suckers.
When in the air or the water the
{ loon is not easily captured. but on the