Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-11-09

| the victims of an alleged crime. NICE
influences for an eight years OLD cnllo
| to fall in with, nice situation Tor an III
nocent woman. Justice is stern when
those fall into misfortune are poor peo-
pie. This mother and child are guhts
Of the worst crime recognized III Inc
state Of Maine-pOverty. Ihey go u
Jail because they cannot give oai'. "a"
innOo ent witness who is poor has more
reason to fear punishment IMAM the
guilty criminal Of means enough u
secure bondsmen.
There is a woman in Gardiner VINO
can foretell the weather almost ike the
salaried Projectors in washington
!! Her name is Mrs. William r. hiahch-
ard and her husband runs 'he LUZ
charles Lawrence. Her people nave ID
been sea -faring ami she has nad Hiucii
experience. In fact. she was Drought
up to observe the weather as for nall
century Or more il has been an i'm
, portant factor in her faniy. ror
years as a girl shc sailed Inc seas
practically lived af1oat up 10 the tlHie
she was married at the early age oi IL
and for some years thereaftN' she
makes no particular boasts or ner
ability III this direction but through
long experience it has become win ne:
almost second nature. She taxes INTO
consideration all the signs ana signals
that most people use but she dlvlnes
more in detail their significance. In
predicting very FAY ahead Mrs. Blan-
4, ,ly.e
unfailing sign. as she calls ii. the II
days Immediately following Christmas.
She figures that each one of these days
| in its characteristics portends some
thing for the following year. and based
on the II days of last Christmas she
predicted the weather for the whole
Year and copies of her forecast are held
by number Of Gardiner people. For
daily use she keeps at the house 4
| thermometer a barometer. a machine
| for telling the rainfall. velocity of the
wind and the humidity of the at
| mOsphere. About the time OF the State
! fair she foretOld the weather so accu-
! ratelv that many Gardiner and Hal
| lowell people she knew refrained from
| going IN the only dav IF the fair when
| it rained. Her husband. in planning
| the movements of the tug. often con-
! suits her before starting out. One day
| she predicted a bad storm just as the
tug was leaving Gardiner but the con-
ditions in Gardiner We're such that the
| prediction was almost impossible to be-
lieve But when the tug got outside
| near Scguin light fierc" wind came up
and the waves grew mountain high TIL
lie was forced to puc back. Oftentimes
| when the members II the church o.
| some secret society plan to give an en-
| tort ainment the committee starts out
| first 10 consult Mrs. blanchard to see
| what kind of weather will prevail. OF
| course she does not always hit it
accurately but it is sail her forecasts.
as rule are tOlerablv correct. Among
other things Mrs. blanchard is a great
| student of the clouds and watches the
| various formations from day to day
and further than that she scrutinizes
, the hravens. keeps track of the shoot
| ing stars To note which way the wind
| Is blowing and also observes the form
a;ion of many Of the figures made by
| change. She has been so long engaged
| in this work that she can almost tell
| from the feeling Of the atmosphere just
what the weather is going to be all Of
| any one day. She predicts much
mllder winter than last.