Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-19

everything good and great in the legis-
lation of the past As years is the work
of the Republican party.
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Except His Mother.
Folks all called him no account;
Stamped him as a worthless loafer'
Said he never would amount
TO a common striped gopher;
And ybate'er he might commit
So they vowed to one another
They'd not be surprised bit
(That is, all except his mother)
Till a sudden crisis came
Sacrifice and courage testing,
Leaned to lips a hero's name,
Laud from cen the coolest wrestling
And the chap thus signalized
Was that loafer,' and no other.
Then the folks all We're surprised!
CThac is all except his mother)
Edwin l. Sabin.
The weather man is plainly friend
of the soldier boys.
The grain is showing its gold and
there is an occasional leaf with autumn
color.
Booker r. Washington visited Poland
Spring, last week. and the passing of
the hat netted $3.50 for Tuskeegee.
Old Town is to have nov school
building, and it will be one Of the
handsomest and most modern in
Maine.
1t is a pity all the boys cannot
march to camp as the companies from
Bath and Pennington did.
There are likely to be higher prices
at the Maine hotels, it is said, par
ticularly for the hitherto favored
drummers.
Lewiston will be glad to welcome
President Roosevelt, very glad; but
how much happier if he came a week
later.
The town of Phillips feels interested
in a proposed plant for turning their
hard wood into skewers and lasts. They
say that Fitz Brothers of Auburn talk
of putting in a plant there. There Are
millions in Names hard wood growths.
Rev. E. s. Stackpole of the Congrega-
tional church Of Bradford, Mass, for
| merly of Augusta, is putting the fin
ishing touches on history of the town
of Kittery. This is Names Oldest town
and the publication of the volume will
be awaited with much interest.
The Lewiston Journal declares that
the story that Senator Frye caught q
Gunner weighing twelve pounds and a
sculpin weighing nine pounds On one
| cast of a brown-hackle fly out of the
back door of his Squirrel Island cottage
on Squirrel fete day may be set down
as campaign lie. These Democrats
viii say all that they can to ruin a
mans reputation these rays.
| Saturday was the Goth birthday of
Hon. Albert w. Paine of Bangor, the
| Nestor of the Maine bar, and Andouht-
eddy the Oldest practicing lawyer in
allowed to go uncelebrate1 and this
year big reception was held.
Lewiston Journal: Every student OF
Maine politics willingly says that or
the strength of pure ability and up
rightness, Governor Hill ought to be
reelected by $4,000 majority Come to
think it over-now everyone for him.
self and Ill together-di1 Maine cveI
have a cleaner. nicer, more faithful
man in the gubernatorial chair thar
John F. Hill. And we have had some
of the best that soil ever grew, too.
Sweet potatoes are weaker.-Lewis.
ton Sun.
Send for corn doctor. Portland
Advertiser.
While YOU are about it, why not ge
somebody who knows beans.-Bidde
ford Journal.
Oh, let us have peas.-LewiStOn Sun
1t beets all how some of these cit,
editors harrow the feelings of thei1
readers in their attempts to show tina
they are some pumpkins in the agri
cultural line.
An ancient cannon which is though
to be between $50 and 300 years old
was recently found buried in the sand
on the Partridge farm, below the ruin:
of the old English Fort William
Henry, on the east bank of the Pema
quid river. The find was made by {
summer visitor who was searching fol
Indian arrow-heads. The cannon
which is not a very large one, came
out of its long sleep in the sand of over
two centuries in a rather rusty condi.
ton. 1t took a long time to clean the
old relic out, the rust from the cannon
causing the gravel and sand to form
an almost solid mass in the interior Of
| it. AS one of it's trunnions or pivot'
is broken off. it could no longer bt
mounted on a gun carriage, which per.
haps accounts for its having been dis
carded. OF all the smaller relics OF
colonial days, which have so far beer
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