Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-08-29

observed in Maine, this year, then ever
before. Among the largest celebrations
announced are those at Augusta and
/ Rumford Falls, but nearly all the cities
and larger towns will recognize the
| day in some manner.
| Tonight Ellsworth citizens will have
an opportunity of hearing Mrs. Carrie
Nation on why 1 Smashed" and OF
seeing the now famous hatchet.
| Raftia work, or fancy basket making
is the latest fad at the Maine summer
resorts, and in several places expert
erced teachers have large classes re-
| ceiving instruction.
| Although September is just step
around the corner, the foliage on the
trees is of as vivid a green as though 1t
were only mid-June.
This summer, which has had so many
unpleasant features, will, notwith-
standing all, be remembered long by
lovers of the beautiful as one in which
Nature appeared at her loveliest.
| On the first page of Thursdays Bos-
ton Globe is a fine four column half
tone from photograph made by r. L.
Dunn who accompanied President
Rcosevelt's party, showing the Presi-
dent as he was leaving Governor Hills
home in the old Blaine mansion.
aim, ic n pnnl nicturp
of Congressman Burleigh, while Gov
ernor Hill, hat in hand, is just coming
through the doorway. For a snapshot
it is an excellent specimen of photo
graphic skill, and the clearness with
which it is printed in the Globe shows
how great have been the advances in
recent times in the use of half-tones
for newspaper illustrations.
A Belfast citizen who claims to keep
an accurate record of the weather has
figured out nine rainy days thus far
this month. and but 13 clear days.
A careful perusal of our contem-
poraries shows that few editors have
lost the opportunity of reminding York
county that it has a Sarah Ware case
on its hands in the Olive Broad murder
Brooklin goes Sunset, few years
better in the matter of aged societies.
Sunset it will be remembered, boasted
recently of having a society, the Martha
Washington. that was organized in
1884, thus being 6S years old. Brooklin
now comes forward with a ladies' mis-
eionary society which was organized
in 1918, S4 years ago, and which is still
doing good work despite its age.
The following from the New YORK
Tribune is a fair sample of the Maine
stories with which the metropolitan
papers endeavor to beguile their read
erS:
A recent visitor to Maine tells Of an
amusing experience in the prohibition
State" Anticipating the difficulty OF
getting things to drink there ne look
with him an ample supply OF
''makings'' for gin rickeys, all except
the lines. which he supposed he could
procure anywhere.
The day after arriving at his destina-
ton. a small town near the Range'ey
lakes, he went to the only store ana
asked the clerk if he kept any lines.
The clerk thought moment, and re-
piled, tentatively:
We've got chloride of lime and
quicklime, if thosell do YOU
Rockland mother has adopted Il
novel method of curing her little son of
the habit of smoking which he was
rapidly acquiring. Catching the
youngster the other day pulling at a
cigarette. she persuaded him to try a
cigar and the boy was so sick as re-
suit that his mother thinks lie Will
| never care to try the fragrant weed
again.
A Somerville (Mass) man who is
visiting his former home in Bath. made
| the trip from the Bay State to Maine
all the way by trolley excepting the
small stretch of country between Ports
mouth and Biddeford where he took
| the train. The trip occupied sixteen
| hours running time, the longest waits
| being twenty minutes each at Ipswich
and Newburyport. Long distance