Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-01-05

Kelly of Lewiston, an old player him
self and for many years the umpire of
the Maine college league. "Ker' is
now lawyer and just as popular as of
old.
Portland Advertiser: If complete jus
tice could be done Charles +. Stain
would take his fathers place. The
gates of ThomastOn yawn for this self
confessed perjurer and Swearer away
of the liberty of two men. Under Il
capital punishment law he would have
sent them to the gallows. Such a
worthless wretch deserves no cOnsid-
Grafton. His unnatural crime is alb
horred of all men.
There is a strong probability that the
report of Surveyor General Crossman
of Penobscot county, for the year 1900,
will show decrease in the amount of
lumber surveyed, of about 40.000,00o
feet. The dull market which was the
rule all summer is the cause of the
falling off. since none of the mills on
the river. with the exception of one or
two. cared to saw the usual amount
hC HihSihS3 up VI tIic piS dllNt cIl tht
West Branch at Seboomook may have
had something to do with the decrease
in manufactured lumber, but since no
effort was made even at the first to
free and bring them in. il is probable
that the effect was slight, if felt at all.
Captain Smith of the Salvation
Army Corps in Portland. who prob
ably knows as much about the causes
of poverty, and the condition of the
poor as any resident of that city.
comes out with a statement which is
calculated to furnish food for thought.
Referring to the extreme restitution of
the resident poor of Portland. the cap
tain says: 1T is not rum which causes
all this suffering. 1t is the insidious
custom of spending five and ten cents
for car rides and steamboat sails
which causes much of the trouble
among the improvident people and
brings them 10 want. 1t is easy
for these people who have large
families to spend dollar on an outing
in the summer time. and then when
the cold weather comes they have
nothing to care for themselves with"
There is doubtless much truth in what
Captain Smith says. The temptation
to spend a little money in innocent
and, to some extent healthful recre-
alton is one that is difficult to resist.
Many a family man who would not
dream of spending money for liquor.
willingly parts with his hard-earned
dimes for the sake of giving his wife
and little ones a days outing.
Very few New Englanders know that
we had in our section any German
colonists; they forget. if they ever
knew. that the Swiss Germans who
founded Fryeburg Originally Frey
burg. Me, gave two distinguished
senators to America-William Pitt
Fessenden. grandson Of Wilhelm Fes-
sender, an early pastor of the Frye
burg church. and William p. Frye,
descendant of the towns founder.
Joseph Frey. 1t is said that another
descendant of the same man is Mr.
Alexis Frye. the superintendent of
educa ton of Cuba.
Sir Hiram Maxim. our Maine in
ventor, has received many congratula-
tons in London upon the honor Of
conferred on him by the
Queen. In his long residence in Lon
den he has taken an active part in the
work of the American Society. He has
been a familiar figure at it's annual |
banquets, has boosted of his Puritan |
ancestry and has shown pride in his |
American citizenship. He became a
naturalized British subject year ago, |
and knighthood has been the reward |
for important services rendered to the |
War Office. Two other Americans |
have been honored in the same way by |
the Queen: one was Sir Curtis Lamp |
son, who was made a baronet in 1866, |
and enabled to transmit the title to his |
son, and the other is Sir Ellis Ash |
mead Bartlett, who was born under |
the shadow of Plymouth Rock.
The Rockland Opinion insists that |
the Journal is all wrong in criticising |
the pictures it used in it's announce |
ment of the great Democratic banquet
to be held in Thomaston. next week |
1t holds that the picture of man |
mailing the flag to the mast is Just the |
picture to represent the principles of |
Organism, and that President McKin- |
ley is really the great flag-furler of the /
day. This. of course, is too apparent !
to need argument to support it. The
opinion also insists that the roaring
lion is not an emblem of the hated
British. but the representation of mod
ern Democracy aroused by the cleo
ton of lgvJ." This also is very plain.
for everybody knows that the election
of 1900 aroused the Democracy lust as
the explosion Of a ton of dynamite
would arouse cemetery. The Opin-
ION feels that the Democratic victory
IN Knox county more than offsets
whatever little skirmishes the Re-
publ.cans won through the country
during the past fall. 1t even ventures
to present in its latest issue another
picture undoubtedly original. repre-
aenting an etfigy with three fingers do
ing a cake walk with an Individual in
prison garb. Unfortunately there is