Daily Kennebec journal., 1904-04-23

The Boston Advertiser calls Hol-
man Day the unflinching poet Of
the plain people of Maine" ana an ex-
! change remarks that this is much bet
ter than to be called the plain poet Of
the unilnching people of Maine.
A subscriber to the New Portland
| Sun has just sent in Il check i'll pay
mcnt for Il subscription to the paper
that will expire in the year 1876. 1t ar:y
other paper in the State has Il sui'-
scribcr that has paid 50 far in advance
as that we should like to have them
speak up. But please don't all speak It
once.
"Chatterer," in the Boston Herald,
| referring to the report that Uncle
Solon Chase had put the sign "Thcn
| steers on his new barn ut ChaseS
Mills suggests that if Uncle Solon
wishes to be classic he might change
| the sign to 'IIinc lilac lacrhnar.
which. being interpreted. would read:
| Hence these (s)teers." "Chattercr"
is thoughtful and should have fun
credit for the suggestion. bu. he evil
IDENTIFY forgets or does not know that
| Uncle Scion is classic without neces-
| sary dependence on dead language.
Most people dread the dentists
chair as they would the surgeons
knife but there is one little lad in
| Waterville who rather seems 20 enjoy
| it. His first set of teeth began to decay
and as it was thought best to preserve
them as long as possible he was taken
| to the dentist to have som" filings
put in. The little fellow was tired
ard sleepy and before he had Deen in
| the chair long he was in the land of
| Nod. This did not stop the work,
| however. An assistant he'll his mouth
open while the dentist went ahead
and filled four teeth and the kid slept
| peacefully through the whole opera
| ton.
1t is hardly the season for the opera
| tion of cider mills. but there is one
| 1t is being used for grinding up peat
| which is then pressed in forms and
| used for fuel. Much interest is felt in
| that locality in this new method of rro-
| curing fuel and many stories OF the
peat bog are being recalled by the older
| citizens. One gentleman remembers
| the time the peat bog gave away and
| the cars and engine of gravel train
| fell down twenty-seven feet at the time
| of the building of the NJ. G. II. X. He
visited the wreck and says .hlt amo1S
| the masses Cf the peat he sIw leaves
perfect in form
Is Frank w. Sandford to change
I front. in regard to the world" In other
wc.ds is the modern Elijah going iE1o
business? 1t will be remembered that
Dowie went into trade and out again;
but Mr.. Ss,i,dford has always kept the
| saints of Shiloh out of CommerCialism
| and held them strictly to the business
| of praying for sinners and fasting for
the good of it. So far as the teaching
of Sandfordism and the practice of the
! actual colony at Durham GO no man or
woman seemed to be anxious to set up
| in opposition. They took no heed for
| the morrow and they tOiled not and
spun but little. Most of their actual
manual labor was about the grounds
| of the temple and in tillinS the little
gardens for the few vegetables that
| they grew. When the Shilohites want
ed money they prayed for it, They
didn't go into business to get it. Mr..
Sandford is said to have hustled just a
| bit on the quiet for the needtul-culti-
waiting here and there a profitable con-
| vert who seemed anxious to cast his
| lot scripturally with the Lord. but he
| has never gone into lace-mills or es-
tab'ished banks or stores. Now, how
ever. since Mr. Sandford has bought
some 15c acres of additional ti.lage
ground here in Durham adjoining the
| Shiloh possessions it is evident. from
I cas- sual hearsay, that something else is
under discussion. In other words it IS
Very likely tina, farming will be pur-
sued at Durham for profit to the Lord.
| There is whole colony of people pro-