Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-11-10
INy0kQNyB GOSSIP
Which?

it straight"
Do you pray by the book, do you pay b!
| the rate?
Do you tie your cravat by the calendar:
| date?
Do you follow a cue?
Are you writer or that which is worded'
Are you a shepherd, or one of the herded;
Which are you-a What or a Who?
1t sounds well to call yourself zone of the
| fiock,'
But sheep is a sheep after all. At the
| block
You're nothing but mutton. or possibly
stock
Would you flavor a stew?
Are you a being and boss of your SOUL
| Or are you mummy to carry scroll?
Are you Somebody Else. or You?
When you finally pass to the heavenly
Where Peter the scrutinous stands at his
| picket,
Are yo1 going to give him blank for
[ Do you think it will do?
/ Edmund Vance Cooke.
A nice time for the next snowstorm
| will be a few days before Thanksgiv-
| ing.
They are getting quite enthusiastic
up in Madrid over the latest investi-
cations into it's mineral resources.
| They have found coal that will burn,
and traces of asbestos, mica and gold.
A Franklin county pastor tells his
flock that he has prayed for them 100
times, but the results are not given.
Why not football on snowshoes?
There was a grand chance to try the
experiment over at Bangor Saturday.
Two DiXfield young people who went
over to New Hampshire to get married
discovered to their dismay that under
a new law it is necessary to get a Ii
cense there five days before the cere
mony. They stayed, but their friends
will not soon let them hear of the last
of the joke.
A Prospect correspondent complains
that the health officers in the fear of
smallpox are making themselves a
would be. But there are probably two
sides to the story.
On one of those nice moonlight
nights, last week, a man up in Strong
emptied his shotgun four times into a
counterfeit skunk with u string at
tached which the boys had fixed up for
his special benefit.
The Biddeford junk dealers have
been showing such questionable enter
prise in their rounds of collection and
have been found with so much stolen
property in their possession that the
local authorities are after them with q
sharp stick.
The question of rubber heels for high
school pupils is agitating Pennington.
The principal has ruled that all must
wear them and the school board up
holds him, while many of the pupils
and their parents feel that the order is
infringement upon their personal priv
ileges. Last week a score of pupils
were expelled for refusing to wear the
prescribed heels, and the war is now
on in earnest.
The Sheepscot Echo complains that
while money may talk in some in
stances there are some people who are
never on speaking terms when it comes
to paying their subscriptions.
A Fort Fairfield store cellar was
flooded through a unique accident, the
other day. The plumber found that
muskrat had crawled into the drain
pipe from the river and become so
tightly wedged that he could not go
either way. 1t looked like clear case
of suicide.
A Rangeley man went deer hunting
On old Saddleback. the other day. At
noon he sat down and ate his lunch
warm and comfortable. laid down and
was soon fast asleep. He awoke shiv
ering with cold. and found it dark as
pitch. Consulting his watch he learned
that it had been dark an hour. There
was nothing to do but make an effort
to get home, which he did, but the
town was long since sleeping before he
| reached it and there was nobody up to
ask bothersome questions about the
game he failed to bring back.
In spite of the prediction made earlier
in the season that the Staying of por-
cupnes as a business would drop off
after a few weeks, there still seems to
be quite an amount of business of that
kind being done in some of the Wash
ington County towns. Town Treas
urer E. ]. Miller of Whitneyville,
paid one hunter of that place
S1O.25 one day recently for Al sets of toes
and noses which he captured on a three
days hunt up the Machias river and
some of it's tributaries. When the por-
| cupine law was first enacted an order
was sent to Augusta by Mr.. Miller,
which was taken as joke at the Capt.
toll on account of the unusual number
of blanks called for in the order The
fact that something like twelve gross
of blanks had been ordered by the
treasurer of one small town, went Sc
far beyond what was expected, that
the incident was taken up by the press