Daily Kennebec journal., 1904-12-14

Till dey get it. some day.
Dey talks mos polite
An ley takes off deir hat
Cause dey hopes foh promotion
In dis way or dat.
Some Of EN- would be
Jes' as bad as dey can,
If dcy wasn't afraid
Washington Star.
Races between ice boats and auto
mobiles are furnishing excitement for
the Lewiston and Auburn sports.
In his sixth inaugural address.
Mayor Baxter lays special stress upon
the development of Portlands park
and boulevard system.
The old play Among the Breakers
was presented at Belgrade by a local
dramatic club. % years ago. The play
will be given at this years Grange
fair. Dec. q, and some of those in the
original cast will be in the cast this
year.
a Limerick woman claims to have a
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Benjamin Franklin, in Queen street,
Boston. Feb. II, 1923. The latter con-
tanned two advertisements. some gem
eral news and rha speech Of his
majesty. king of F'rgland. to both
houses Of parliament. The paper is l3
inches in length and eight in width.
Usually the hens go on strike when
eggs get high. but James Leadbetter.
OF Skowhegan has Ole which is a
shining exception to this rule. She
Matched brood Of chickens in June
and raised them, and since then has
found time to lay IS eggs. If all
biddies were as Industrious as that it
! would not be such a problem to make
poultry pay.
Edgar F. Gentleman. arrested this
week for forgeries Of town notes, has
recently been in the insurance busi-
ness in Boston but formerly resided in
Porter. which he represented In the
Maine Legislature in 1929.
John Gilley: Maine Farmer and
Fisherman" is story written by
President Eliot of Harvard university
and printed several years ago in the
Century Magazine, and is now an
nounced in book form as the first vol
iime of series in which ii is intended
to set forth 18th. sterling American
manhood which travels along the bv-
ways of life rather than the highways
or fame. In this connection nothing
is assumed in saying that the number
OF examples required to complete the
series can he found without going out
side the borders of the Pine Tre.
State.
CAPTAIN Sumner T. kimball. an old
Maine resident and Rowdoin Collng,,
graduate, who. for years, has been
chief Of the Life Saving Service Of the
United states. has just given out his
report on disasters. along the coast of
Maine and New Hampshire. This
constitutes the first life saving dis
tflct The number of disasters in that
uiStT1ct during the fiscal year were 43.
III only hve of which was there a total
loss "r vessels. The value of the i3
vessels was s130.725. the value of their
cargoes s32.425. making the total value
or property involved s163,15O The
value Of the property saved from those
SnlpWrecks was $14l, ,Gl5 which made
.he totai property loss Only s2l.535. No
iiVes We're lost in these shipwrecks on
the Maine and New Hampshire coasts
during the fiscal year. although there
We're ls6 persons on board the wrecked
vessels. OF these % .rere cared for at
the life saving stations
Some Boston liquor dealers 90
through the directories CT Maire cities
and towns and send letters with
religious thoroughness to every man in
'he place. and. as total abstainers are
not labelled. the replies that come
oack are often from ''teetotalers." and
are Just about the opposite of what is
expected. One dealer Of Boston sent a
'etter recently to man in Rumfore1
| ralis. and the reply vas such a well
written temperance sermon that he
hah a typewritten copy made. which is
now in frame hanging in mis- office
IN the letter that was sent was an ad
dressed STAMPED envelope. The letter
reads as follows:
-, Rumford Falls. Me. -.
MeosrS -: Your commInica ton
received this evening and. as Won kindly
lurnish envelope and stamp. am minded
10 reply. I have several things that 1
am m need of. but they are not in YOUR
line. l am possessed of good health and
lair reput"tion: these ! am at consider
able pains to retain, SO have no use for
the class of goods you advertise, In nv
trade am hourly in need OF hands and
eyes as trie and steady as is possible %
have. or ] would be in constant danger.
Therefore your lire of groceries is q thing
l must avoid. That may seem very Gueer
and YOU may think that am taking con-
siderable liberty to write you this way
especially at your expense. but ] consider
YOU were taking liberties hardly less thar
an insult, in sending such literature. and
put every probable tempta tion to any one
whose habits and circumstances you know
nothing Of.
! would not have spent two cents to
renly. but. as I said before. l think
ought to since YOU seemed to wish it, And
now l will send a few words OF informa-
ton concerning myself
am neither Frenchman dago. Polander
bartender nor socket-picker: there are too
MANY oi al th"s, classes in "hjs town I
wun't nj, ntisal the effect that comes on