Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-12-07
MAINE EDITORIAL COMMENT.
Hunting in Waldo.
belfast Journal.)

belfast Journal)
We heard a story last week of loca,
sportsman who went out for deer and
| shot calf. An amicable settlement:
with ST as a consideration, was made
with the owner, and the hunter had
veal in place of venison for dinner.
Now instead of making an expensive
| trip to Northern Maine, perhaps to re-
| turn empty handed, why not go out and
| kill a COW? 1t would be cheaper, and
| beef is better than nine-tenths of the
venison that finds it's way to table. A
poor deer is very poor eating. If oul
suggestion should be generally adopted
it might pay farmers to raise cows ex-
| preSsly for this purpose, and there need
| be no close time. A beginning might
be made on the wild heifers that roam
the pastures in the fall.
Cider More Plenty than Water.
Bangor Commercially
The winter drought in Maine still
continues and it is not only the mills
| along our rivers and the operations OF
our Woodsmen that are at a StandStill.
Rural communities are quite as much
| Inconvenience by this severe drought
as are mills and manufacturing plants.
| Hauling water for two miles for their
herds of cattle, as scores of farmers in
| Maine ara doing, with the supply of
water in the streams shrinking in flow
age every day, is a hardship which
millmen know nothing about.
An Evening on the Ice.
ellsworth American)
The skating season is now on, and
many a boy-and some men-may be
| seen strolling along in the moonlight
| with his best girl, going to some pond
| OF river to while away an hour or so in
! this popular sport. The height of many
a boys sporting ambition is to get on
his knees on the cold, cold ice and strap
| on the skates of the best-looking girl in
| the bunch: but when said girl gets up
! and skates off with one of the young
| men who has stood by looking on, the
boy on his knees wishes the ice might
break under him and let him into the
chilly water. The ice will not break,
| however and the boy gets up, grabs a
polo club and starts off to get into a
game. TIe watches for a chance as a
cat watches mouse, and when the lit
| tie sphere rolls up in front of his rival,
| the boy makes ali attempt to hit the
ball, but, misjudging the distance, takes
| his rival in the shins and lays him up
for repairs. The boy then takes his
girl and away they go as happy as you
please.
A Gardiner Grievance.
Gardner Reporter-Journal)
They say there is party in Augusta
| who deals in stolen dogs. That the
dogs are taken to him, who pays for
| them. If the dogs are good ones they
are sent away and sold, and if not they
are killed and their pelts sold. Also
that there are agents for the capture OF
dogs in neighboring cities, and it is sus-
pected that there are two or three of
them in this city. Several dogs have
| disappeared in the past two or three
months, and it is supposed they went
in that way. If any more Of them dis
appear there will probably be an in
vestigation.
| An Editors Beautiful Dream.
portland Advertiser).
| Just off the road" On Sunday
read a verse about the Roman Roads
| leading inexorably on to the Eternal
City, straight, clear and cruel,-nevel
pausing that the waterbrooks might
pass, or turning off to let the hills adore
the skies alone. Success, / think does
not much flourish there,-not on the
cold grey Of the beaten stones; but just
off the granite read, aside little, in
the cool of the winding wales and the
dear, half-silent distance from the
noisy track, l think a flower grows
which some may pluck and hold.
| Hard to Catch the Rumor.
| (Biddeford ,IournaD.
If there is any one always barring
the fool-killer, who deserves we'll OF the
public, it is the disinterested, con-
scientious rumor-killer 1t is a line OF
activity in which virtue is too often its
own and only reward, however.
Pass Along the Happiness.
| Oath independently.
| How much pleansanter life would be
if each one of us, each day, would try
to do something, even though it may be
small, to make life happier for those
less fortunate than ourselves. DID you
ever start out in the morning with that
intention? If you did and carried 1t
out how much happier you were all day
for it. If you haven't try it once and
you'll find it a mighty pleasant sur
prise.