Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-02-02


should be no avoidable delay in doing
it.
5NIdlQlQ8 GOSSIP
CandIemas.
The hedcc-roWs cast a shallow shade
Upon the frozen grass,
But skies at cVcnSOnS are SOU,
And comes the Candlemas.
Each day a little later now
LinSers the wcstering sun;
Far cut of sight the miracles
OF April are begun.
@ barren bough. o frozen field.
Hopeless We wait no more,
ifr keeps her dearest promises
The Spring is at the door.
Arthur ketchum.
Fcbruary's; debut was marked by
very thawish symptoms.
Bangor expects such warm time
February Il and IS that the ice will 81
out.
The trial of Rev. Frank w. Sanford
which will begin today, will be followed
| with general interest.
Only a month to the spring elections
, but in most municipalities the pot i.
not smmcring much.
One paper speaks of it as a most i'll
tcresting and remarkable fact that las
weeks leap year ball was the frs
given in Augusta for eight years.
| Portland people and Maine music
/ lovers generally arc happy at the pros
pcct of hearing Nordica in Parsifa
February Is.
| The city of Calais which bears {
! French name and has within its limit:
the site of the first French settlement
! in the New World. will not be ignoref
| in the celebration of the three hun
drcdth anniversary of the French oc-
| cupation The Maine Historical sOci
| ETY. will hold its summer meeting "a
Calais. when Prof. GanOng will read
paper before the society on the histor.
, of the st. CroiX.
| Hon. John D. Long, Il former Main
man. and one we all delight to homo
will be the speaker at the annual ban
u,let Of th,. Sons of the American HevO
luton. Feb. 90. in Portland and vii
be certain 10 make q brilliant speech
He is ore Of the best occasional speak
ers in ihi.; country. and the occasion
and the name Of Washington, vii
! furnish inspiration for a great effort
Hon. Charles F.. Libby himself one o
the best speakers in Maine, will pre-
sid" and there will be an elaborate ano
of course patriotic program. 1t will b
II State event, AMI it is expected tina
the attendance will at least reach $50.
The 3tth annual meeting OF the Bow
Goin alumni of Portland and vcinit,
will be held on Saturday evening Feb
y 6. at the Lafayette hotel. Hon
, Charles F. Libby of the class of GA vii
:
! Libby of tho class of 90. the poem, ant
, Mr.. Joseph s. Reed of the class of s,
will act as POSTMASTER.
The Fort Fairfield Review: Blanke
your horse oh. don't leave him to stdnt
outdoors hare. even for Il few minutes
You don't have to be told that SUE
neglect is cruel: YOU know it WithOu
being reminded Of it. Then. there i
another thing in this connection, no
often mcntiOnod-a horse cannot STAN
outdoors comfortably for two or three
hours with the thermometer at 80 be
low and the wind blowing. even if h
has a blanket on. One blanket. enc
that perhaps a thin one. is Of course ;
help. but it does not render a hors,
enforceable.
1t is the Gardiner Rcportcr-Journa
which starts this reform: The draw
ing of indictments and other lega
documents must require Il vast amour
of study and practice to become eX
pert at it. for in no other way is :
conceivable that one could use $,
many words to say so little. What til;
necessity il, of using such a pigeCI
English We cannot Say. nor how on,
can tell what is meant if there is NJ
someone who knows what is intende,
to interpret it into common English
The newspaper that undertook to Civ,
its matter in such gibherish woulC
soon see its finish. A legal documen
has got to be correct and say what i
means. 50 that TO smart lawyer cal
clear his criminal because some where
OF or aforesaid is left out of the in
dictment, and probably for that reason
all the words that can he thought o
are put in. We should think thong.
that common English and con,rcoI
sense might do the business in law q.
well as all the other affairs OF life
The OnlCoher OF the Maine Wood