Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-12-01

face Of any man purely upon the
grounds of race or color, and that the
eolcred man who shows in a marked
degree the qualities of good citizenship
should be recognized and encouraged.
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| The Wood Fire.
Let all the mines of all the earth
Against my peace consplre.
| have of joy my moneys worth
Before d fine woodhre.
The ample oak-logs in a blaze
All coal-born ghosts retlre'
What care | for these striking days,
Before a fine Woodf1re.
How the blaze leaps. and burns the dark.
And higher still, and higher
| I'd the broad chimney, spark on spark
Fares joyous from the fire.
| q that the rich such joy would learn
'Gainst whom such cares consplre!
Thanks to the saints, I've wood to burn
A friendly. fine woodfire!
Atlanta Constitution.
The year is on the last lap.
The month of the holly and the mis-
| tletoe.
There is mere jolt than jingle to a
sleighride now.
Municipal election in Portland today.
All up FOR Mayor Boothby!
Few mothers even in Maine. have
had six sons more prominent in public
life than Mrs. Powers, who is dead in
the fullness of years in Pittsfield.
Here's a warm welcome for the new
| brunswick Record. The first number
promises we'll and has some fine half
tone work 1t is in good hands and de-
| serves success.
! A Topsham girl, Miss Lillian M
| Bickford, left last week for the long
journey to The Philippines. and upon
her arrival in Manila will be married
| to Thomas w. Bowler, who graduated
| from 1SOWuOIu Ill lJVl, anu 40 .
in the Philippines.
Few men have a better opportunity
to observe the ea-birds. than Capt.
Herbert L. Spinney, keeper of Seguin
light. who read a paper before the
Maine Ornithological society, last week.
on reading the item that John Web
ster of West Bath was attacked.
hooked down. trampled upon and bad
| ly hurt by a COW last week. members of
| the fair sex will be more strongly con-
WINGED than ever that the COW is dam
| gerous creature.
| Names oldest physician is ex-Gov-
| ernor GarceIOn of Lewiston who gradu-
ated from Bowdoin in 1886 and from
the medical school in 1889. The new
| Brunswick Record has an interesting
| sketch of DIR. Nathaniel T. Palmer of
| Brunswick whose term of practice is
probably not exceeded by any physi-
clan i'm Maine except Governor Gar
| celon. DIR. Palmer has been in the
harness for over SO years, graduating
from the Bowdoin Medical school in
1872. and since 1874 has been in
Brunswick. He was born in Gardiner.
He has been active in Brunswick af-
fairs outside of his profession and for
| 81 years has been president of the first
| National bank.
The prompt measures adopted by the
| Agricultural Department to stamp out
the dreaded cattle scourge. foot and
able. in spite of its severity and serious
effect on New England commerce.
The most drastic measures have been
resorted to and it is to be hoped that
the epidemic will be halted at once.
Thus far Maine is not effected but an
embargo has been placed on the port Of
Boston which prohibits all shipment of
live stock. Portland. also. is forbidden
to ship New England live stock. the
live stock market at Brighton has been
closed and every precaution has been
taken against the spread of the disease
Maine may escape it. but State veteri-
narians declare that it must come. II
is probably more to be dreaded thar
smallpox. 1t certainly behoOves
every farmer and drover to be or
the alert for the first symptoms
and to act promptly for the bene.
fit of neighbors, tOwnsmen and the
State. The present epidemic will be-
undoubtedly, the direct cause of the
loss of millions of dollars to New Eng
land. even if the measures already
taken prove effective and the plague i.
Immediately wiped out. Stock owners
and public officials should cooperate
and the work cannot be made too thor
ough or instituted too quickly.
A Maine paper in advertising a farm
for sale puts forth the claim that the
orchard. producing 1000 barrels of mer-
charitable apples is as good as a Klon-
dixie gold mine. Better than a Klon-
dixie gold mine, we should say. By the