Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-02-17

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"They Say!"
ruo simple words. yet, day by day,
,,aarts are broken, by what they say"
anguish bitter most lives have known,
ans AZ the seeds of evil, they say" hav
,;re venom hid in the serpents' sting,
ni.1'hey say" with merciless, cruel fling
uiasts, and ruins friends fair name
o., its unerring, deadly aim.
PIE a. mirage, Elusive they say in ii
vades elusive in air, when traced to IT
simple phrase echoed by thousands eael
put, oh the lives ruined, by the slurrin,
they say
Il. Hortense, Island Falls.
Walter E. Perkins, the star in "Jer.
orne," the dramatization of Miss vii.
rims popular novel, is a Maine boy and
no merits every bit of the splendid wei.
come he is getting in the Maine cities
The seventh week of the list Legis-
,ature opens. this morning, and the
members feel that the half way mark
has been passed, but there is a noun
tain of work piled up ahead of them.
The Bowdoin Musical Clubs will
make their annual Massachusetts trip
this week, giving concerts in Portland
and Sanford on the way, and then in
BOSTON at Steinart hall, and in other
Massachusetts cities.
The University of Maine Law School
claims to have the fastest basketball
team in the State. 1t is winning most
If its games but there is no league to
settle finally the supremacy.
Camden hears with much compla-
cency that Thomas w. Lawson, the
BOSTON millionaire of yacht and trot-
ting horse fame, is to erect magnifi-
cent summer home there. He also
owns a bunch of islands off Stonington.
Uncle Sam has announced that Port
land is a safe place to ship cattle from
hut the cattle cannot be shipped until
the British government raises it's en-
barge which it seems in no hurry to do.
The famous old coasting schooner
Polly, which was built in Amesbury,
Mass. in 1905, and which has been
written up every little while in recent
wears has just been sold to a Maine
man. How many boats built in this
country this year will be afloat in 2OO3.
Only a week left before Lent and
the festivities will be packed into it in
a way to make the lenten abstinence
and rest a grateful relief.
The Portland Benevolent Society cell
ebrated, Sunday, the close of a full
century of existence. Who can meas
ure the good to the city which has been
accomplished by such an organization
during these hundred years? The first
secretary of the society was Stephen
Longfellow, the father of the poet.
Bath mayors are certainly not in the
business for the salary. 1t developed
at a recent meeting of the city coun-
ell that Charles E. Hyde and Samuel
R. Percy, the predecessors of the pres
ent mayor in the Office, each drew $500
hot tho salary
of the office, when in reality it was $4OO
fact that would scarcely have es-
capped the vigilance of boOdler. AS
these gentlemen filled the office three
years, they left in the city treasurer a
sum equal to what each drew for
Years pay. The present mayor went
them better, and has not drawn a cent,
turning his full salary over to the city
in trust to establish a fund for the
construction of new schoolhouses.
These are the sort of mayors for town
to have, Under such administrations
special officer is not needed to guard
the municipal strong box!
The editor of the Bangor News, in a
prose poem which should be set to mu-
sic with an accompaniment OF SielsH-
BELLS mourns over the good old days
of seigh-riding, when young chaps
hired single rigs and took their girls,
or their sisters, out for sleigh rides,
when the roads were alive with sleighs
and pungs and jumpers. The craze
now is for sleighing parties, and whiie
the News man, having had his day,
does not presume to dictate. as ne
looks out over the wide snowy fields
and sees the moon come up and turn
the pearl gray surface to burnlshed
silver he is sorry that things are not
as they used to be. And he conciudes'
we do not know what the pleasures
of barge riding are. We do not wish
to find out We believe. however, that
when the good Lord made this worio
He put most of the comforts and joys
of life into sleigh ride with pretty
girl on a moonlight night in mdwih-
ter. We shall continue to hold TINS De-
lief until we are convinced that there
is something better" ~
The fact that snakes are seen by per-
sons suffering from delirium tremens
is accounted for by French sc1entlst'
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