Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-19


will be plenty to engage his attention
when he arrives.
The Willard beach sea serpent turns
out to be a dead seal that has beea
drifting around with TIE tide.
ArOostOOk Is ALREADY beginning the
shipment of us 1905 potato crop, but 1t
is not expected to prove Il record
breaker.
1t will be another Grca. Sunday at
travel will begin to turn the other way.
An Old Town girl returns from st.
Anne de Beaupre WITH a story of
clutches thrown away and health re
stored.
The beautiful custom OF taking the
departing regiments to the Capitol TO
salute the tattered ana stained old bat
tleflags is firmly established. and will
be feature Of all succeeding encamp-
mentS in this city.
Two weeks more Of the Trolley league
season. and with the teams so closely
punched some great sport Is assured rs
they come down the home stretch. Let
them be given the support they de-
serve.
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NEVILLE this week, and fairly aston
ished the natives. 1t is reported that
he took breakfast at nine different
houses, one day. and ate heartily at
each one, inquiring at the last one at
what hour the people Of the place were
accustomed to take dirEer
Mrs. Nalerious Black, of Cape Roster,
is studying the home life of hornets at
close range. but without danger from
their stings. A swarm Of hornets has
built nest on the outside Of a pane in
one of the windows Of her house.
Standing inside one can watch the
hornets at work. Mrs. Black who has
watched the home building since it's
start. can tail droll things about the
doings of the little creatures.
The rapidly increasing number of
those sent from Calais to the Insane
Hospital is the subject Of FREQUENT
comment. In 1885 the number of in
mates in the hospital from Calais was
only five: in 1895. II; and at the present
date there are 16 Thus i'm 20 years the |
number Of patients has trebed. while |
the increase in population has not been
ever 20 per cent. Perhaps the explana-
ton is that the insane are better cared |
for and more generally confined than
they used to be-
Congress street Belfast. has long been
proud Of its educated squirrel that will |
walk into houses and discover the
whereabouts Of the peanut bag but |
now Don Caesar has capped the climax |
of accomplishments by removing the |
cover Of tin box in which squash |
seeds, one of his favorite dainties were
kept. The first time the cover was |
found off it was Thought to be acct |
dental. but the cover vas carefully re-
placed and watchers were rewarded by |
seeing the squirrel open the tightly |
closed box with the greatest apparen. |
case.
In the Lee and Shepard list Of Sep |
TENDER books for 1905, is found Cor |
delia's Pathway Out" by Edna H. Fos-
ter. Miss Foster was Sullivan girl |
and has recently spent few days re-
visiting the scenes Of her childhood. |
Miss Foster edits the ch;Idren's page
in the Youths Companion and is TIL. |
author Of "Hortense" The publishers |
review of the work reads: "In Cor |
delia's Pathway Out the writer has |
carried along the brilliant little Hor- |
tense and many Of the characters of |
that story, but has brough. into prom- |
nence the quiet Cordelia whose admir- |
alton and love for Hortense act as an
incentive to study and cultivate a de- !
sire for growth. Early in the story
she is transplanted from the village in |
which we first find her. aud comes into |
larger living and the oestowal of mod
est advantages She is shy country
bred child, but she observes, initiates,
and APPLIES the best to her own life and
the exercise Of loving and homely |
qualities brings her to desirable |
plane. The writer convincingly shows |
that earnestness, wiil-power and
tenacity Of purpose may be as potent |
as brilliancy with it's manifold tempta-
tons"
Despite the increasing use of auto
mobiles and electrics there is still
demand for whips. To ore who is not
ACQUAINTED with the ext, nj of the bust |