Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-23

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Sowing and Reapins.
I'd like to be off yonder
Where the pleaSane pathways lead;
But you cannot hope for harvest
If you never SOW the seed.
The fields invite my labor
While the winds would sing to sleep;
The vineyards voice is calling:
It's the sower who shall reap!'
So leave the pleasant pathways
For the stern and rugged soil,
And find rich rewarding
In the blessedness of toll
Frank L. Stanton.
1t seems a sin to work indoors on
days like these
The list of Memorial day orators is
an unusually good one.
1t will be pretty strong temptation
to cut church, tomorrow, and take a
day off in the country among the lilacs
anu dppleUlOSSOI1S.
Bates and University of Maine meet
at Lewiston, today, for the seconu ball
game of their series.
The lack of an appropriation for the
purpose will prevent Scarboro's usual
Memorial day exercises, this year.
A North Deer Isle correspondent
boasts of a front yard in his town
which has 672 tulips in bloom.
East Franklin has one family of the
good old fashioned size. Mr.. and Mrs.
Willard l.. Hardison welcomed their
18th child, this week.
The feature of the Bluehill Academy
graduation, June 5, will be the pres
ence of Holman F. Day who will read
from his poems.
About the best job of tree plant
ing reported, this season, was at
Stockton Springs where 60 young ma
pies were set along the sides of one
street.
Preparations are being begun in AL
bany for the celebration of the Tooth
anniversary of the church and the in
corporation of the town.
Word comes this week from Grand
Manan, of marvellous catch of fish,
some 5000 pollock, which were recently
taken in a seine about six miles off Big
Duck island by Capt. G. Johnson, and
landed at Woodward's Cove. This is
one of the largest catches ever record
ed within the memory of the oldest
fisherman.
Canton is one of the towns which
will celebrate the Fourth. 1t has en-
gagged the Dixfeld band, an unusually
good organization for a country village
and which has been very prosperous
since it's organization, a dozen years
ago.
The largest trees in Brunswick are
yevera! willows on the property re-
Gently given Bowdoin College by the
Everett estate. They girt Is feet four
feet from the ground. They were
stuck in the ground as little twigs 70
years ago, by Samuel Owen who oc-
cupied the premises at that time.
A perusal of the records of the Ken
nebec Jail shows that during the first
Jour months of 1902 there were 22l
commitments for intoxication, divided
IS follows: January, AZ; February, "a;
March, "a; April, 81. For the same
period this year, or since the strict en-
forcement era, there were 20 commit
ments, divided as follows: January,
20; February, %; March, II; April d..
1t will thus be seen that there is a
.ery perceptible decrease since the era
of rigid enforcement began. And, as
some persons have claimed that liquor
s directly or indirectly responsible for
two-thirds of the crimes committed, it
is noted that from Jan. l, to May 20,
1902. the total number of commit
nents to the Jail was 253 as against
ISL for the corresponding period this
year.
Eastport complains of very much
crowded high school building. 1t was
designed for less than 100 pupils and
the school now numbers nearly 14O. In
adequate school facilities is something
that no city can afford.
Lewiston is pretty much ashamed of
the offensive and insulting exhibition
given by some of the supporters of it's
high school team when it was beaten
by the Edward Little boys from Au-
burn, the other day. 1t is hard to be-
leve the Lewiston high school boys
were themselves concerned in throwing
stones and stale eggs at their victorious
rivals. 1t was undoubtedly the work
of 'mucker' rooters who should be
promptly punished. Such PARTISAN
ship only Injuries the school and the
sport.