Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-04

Lots Of people are beginning to get
interested in baseball, but Il greater
number in the mothhall.
Biddeford Journal: Our Senator
Frye is = great-Srandfather, but we
are assured that he does not look it.
Put hinl On Il good trout brook and We
doubt if he would feel it. either.
a Belfast barber has 4 razor which
has been in use no Years. With it he
has sha!ed no fewer than five Maine
governors ana many other distinguish
ed men.
The Old toll bridge that was formerly
the connecting way between Machias-
port and East Machias. and saved sew
eral miles travel for people from
MachiaSpOrt. Bucks Harbor and
Larrabee districts has passed it's use
fuiness. For a year past it has not
boon safe for crossing, and has been
unused. 1t is not likely that the bridge
will ever be repaired as the building of
the railroad and other conditions have
contributed to lessen the amount of
travel, and the tolls would not pay the
cost. In its present condition it is only
. hindrance to the navigation of the
river.
One of the Lewiston saving banks
which is working admirably. This is in
loaning small steel banks, finished in
neat style and bearing upon the face
q perpetual calendar. The banking
house Keeps the key and requires the
holder to bring them i'll once Il month.
when the contents are counted in the
presence of the owner and placed to
his or her credit in bank book. There
are Il great many parents who are
adopting the idea with their children.
believing il to be good one. Thus the
lirst lessons in economy may be taught.
Ten cents Il day, save 313 working days
means $l56.j0 in five years; and with
three per cent interest $167.64.
Twenty-Five cents q day means $319.25
and with interest Sil9lo.
We have an exceedingly smart ana
DcS Ill our ltlSlDOIIOoi,
Henry Spaulding. and he is only 20
years old. His father works away and
comes horne only once 4 week so in his
absence. Henry is the man Of the hOusa
and barn, too. We have often read in
some young peoples column, I'm
little boy Cor GRID so many years old
ana do SO and So but have never read
anything that quite comes up to
Henry's standard. and I'm afraid when
some of the little folks read his history
they will have to take back seat. lie
has done all the chores ut the barn.
taking care of seven head of cattle and
a horse, and also worked in the woods
cutting down trees. hauling them up
with the horse and working them up
into fire wood to supply three fires for
the cold winter that has just paSse1.
Lately he has been cutting lumber ana
has sticks in his door yard over 20 feet
long and six inches through where he
cut off the top. When he cut one of
these trees it lodged. but otter a few
minutes thought he went up and got
the horse. htched onto it and pulled il
down. Is there any other little boy
who can beat this?-West Dover CORE
spOndent Of the Piscataquis Observer.
Poor little fellow. He is being
cheated out Of the happy boyhood that
is mis- due and bowed down under the
burdens Of manhood while h& should be
at his games and in school. There is
no end of pathoG in such q narrative of
"smartnees" and our Maine papers have
too many of them. 1t is q sad con-
1itioH Of things when any 10-year-Oll
boy has such work and responsibility
forced upon him.
Up in AroostoOk county is n scientist
who declares that the New England
earthquake of March 81 had its origin
in northern Maine. A guide came up
from TibOque and affirmed that where
old Bald Mountain had reared its
rounded head for centuries. only q new
born lake exists to mark the spot. Bald
Mountain lS-Or WaS-Situated in the
Tiboque Valley. only few miles from
the New Brunswick line: not an i'm
posing mountain. to be sure, but rather
Il somewhat conical-shaped hill. ceIe-
brated for its inaccessible steep sides.
The natives who live where Bald Noun
tain was. say they always thought it a
little queer because at the base were
boiling springs. 50 warm that one could
not put his hand in them in winter.
Near by is a hill called Plaster Rock.
which furnishes plaster SO good it is
used for building purposes. This was
recently analysed and found to con-
sist of merely melted rock and earth.
and all this leads to the belief now that
Bald Mountain was the cone of a vol
cano. which when it sank March 21sr.
caused what all New England called an
earthquake. A party of woodsmen
came in to say that the guides story IS
true. that where the mountain former
ly stool there is now only a muddy
looking lake. Whether the story i