Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-12-12
MAINE EDITORIAL COMMENT
Turning the Light on Shiloh.
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ton of things at Shiloh. the wretched
scene of Rev. F. W. Sandford's miserable
reign, and it is suggested that the State
would suggest that Shiloh would be a
most appropriate matter for Legislative
investigation. The Main LEGISLATURE will
sovereign authority 10 equip committee
or commission with all the power need
ed to ef make most po thorough intes,gation
idea subsequent action will scarcely be
required. The Shiloh regime cannot stand
The Light Of day Judging, from revela-
| recent Sanford trial and those of Il letter
written by Mr.. .Sandfords secretary and
published the other day by Rev, Mr.. Har-
| resolved to do all that he can to break
up this secrecy and put a stop to the suf-
disclosures are likely to be maddening.
Mild Winter Coming.
| Bangor Commercially
From all the old-time. rules Of hunters.
| trappers, woodsmen and folklore author
tiles. winter is expected to present him
self ain IN a m mil aspect this season than
! mails in this latitude and further north
are found to have put on lighter jackets
than usual and the wild ducks are thin
ner in feather than is common with them
at this time cf the year. The squirrels
have built their winter houses in a slight
and frail manner. with the muskrats to
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Of birds and fishes as they are interpreted
ny in those mat, eG point to the
Considering what the last one was. We are
| entitled to it.
A Million in 1910.
| Bangor News)
One is not going beyond the limit of
may hold million of busy people by the
time 1910 arrives. The quickening of so
many industries calls new hands to do
the work. How much the good times Of
the PAST two years have effected the
eastern Mine can a SHOW '" 60 to Mic and
compare the price charged for rents. now
t" Aroostook and make lax note Of OF the price ice
| charged for farms in 1891 as compared
with the asking price in 1884. Look in thu.
suburbs I, Of any thrifty Maine village and
Look at Millinocket; at Rumford Falls
and at Madison and then ask how these
| other signs point in one direction. Maine
IS very. very prosperous. She is getting
with the revival Of industry.
| The Maine Hired Man.
| (Aroostook Republican,
The editor of the Boston Journal
possesses. very limited idea of the
duties of hired man on an Aroos-
took farm. In recent edition the paper
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| resigned from the force and located in
| Aroostook where h. had hired on farm
The Journal, in describing the difference
| in the work. cited how the hired man
now had to get up and milk about three
or four clock in the morning with the
mercury hoyering ten or fifteen degrees
| below zero. And then, as III the frozen
condition Of the ground made no differ
ence the man went out and commenced
ploughing. It might pay the writer OF
that little article to spend a few, months
| on an AroOStOOk farm: certainly he could
write more intelligently.
Air Out the Churches.
fort Fairfield ReviewD
Open the doors ard windows of the
| churches once in a while and let in a
ss fresh tSsR air The Dc mot think that be
going to step in and perform the special
and unnecessary miracle of making the
| the fresh could easily he obtained We
| have often been taught that God does not
generally do for people what they can
| directly do for themselves. Most of us
nave frequently sat in churches in which
the air was as ancient. apparently as il
il had Just come from the original Noah's
al sc,,.o we wohder frat clersymen them
sist on the very hest ventilation possible
for their respective churches considering
rnS taGf mat Il the PrbSaching was a.
Charles Hadjon Sturgeon. it would fall
comparatively fat on brains starved by
lack of Oxygen and poisoned by noxious
| gases
| Vaccination Of the Soil.
| portland PressJ
| 1t is the view of the Lewiston Journal
that our Maine lands fortified with
| leguminous crops and by other means OF
drawing nitrogen from the air. can he
made as fertile as the best prairie lands
of the West " That is an alluring pros
pect. BY all means let us go to planting
PEAS and beans and drawing on the de,
rarrment of agriculture for the means
wherewith to vaccinate the soil of Maine
could he made to rival Iowa in corn and
Minnesota in wheat the young man would
| cease to so West.
The government in India has offered
| a prize Of sl65 to all officers who will