Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-07
Maine Gossip

| j Wldlne 0OSSlp
| From Nature.
Though gifted with speech, still, we
| frankly confess,
We should be at loss for the means to
| express
The thoughts which we wish to convey
| Were it not for the help of the beasts
and the birds.
Il is always so easy to make people know
What we mean when we say things
"black as a crow!
| ''As proud as peacock" "as blind as
a bat;'
LAS big as an elephant las spry as
LAS crazy as a LOOM" or "as cross as
bear"
"As ,9,e brave AS as g: lion" "as mad's a
"As deaf as an adder" "as wild as a
l. DEER
And many more sayings that make it
We should find it task to translate
into words
All our meanings if ,'twern't for the
beasts and the birds.
Youths Companion
This is the day when they vote
again in Portland.
Good sleighing for the next two
weeks would give business a big lift.
The disbanding of Co f will give
something to talk about for some
time in National Guard circles.
A total of I47,OOO Of the Red Cross
Christmas stamps have been placed on
sale in Maine, and let us hope they
will all be sold Every cent paid for
them goes to aid the fight against con-
sumption in this State.
A 40 foot whale appeared up the
Sheepscot and frightened some people
last week. He was evidently seeking
u mild winter climate.
Aroostook county has seven flour
mills, two being located at Caribou
and one each at HOulton, Mars Hill,
Presoue Isle, Fort Fairfield and Wash
burn.
B. f. Spinncy & Co. of Norway ship
ped, Thursday, 200 dozen Radcliffe
shoes to Sidney, New South Wales. 1t
will take from four to six months for
the shoes to get there. By the route
billed they will travel almost 10000
miles.
Log rafting on the Penobscot is over
for the season. Carlin Bros, who have
been in charge at Bangor boom this
o,< <1,of
eating in all 4O,S97. .460 feet have been
aftel at the Bangor boom during the
season of 1908.
John Hubbard of East Bucksport,
who is a noted hunter and trapper,
having a little leisure time on his
hands, thought he would see what
game there was in his vicinity, so he
got out his traps and placed them in
favorable locations, with the result,
that his success was so good he put in
his time for a few days more than a
month. On Wednesday of last week
he brought his furs to town, and sold
them to Alvah G. Dorr for $166. In the
lot were 80 red fox skins, a pretty
profitable months work. Why is not
Bucksport a good hunting ground?
Three we'll known lawyers have an
nounced themselves as candidates for
| the position of assistant attorney gen.
eral when the Legislature has elected
| successor to Attorney General Ham,
lin. They are Frank L. Dutton, a
leading lawyer of Augusta, Charles D.
| Newell of Richmond, a member of the
present executive council, and Charles
P Barnes of Norway who is now
completing his second term as county
attorney for Oxford county.
1t is deserving of notice, as has been
stated by DR.. Young of the State
Board of Health, that Maine began
the crusade against tuberculosis earlier
than any other state. three years, in
fact, before 1892 when it authorized a
systematic registration of deaths
From that time on, there was a more
rapid diminution in the death rate
/ from tuberculosis than in any other
New England state and undoubtedly
more rapid than in any other state.
A box of winter caps were received
at the Lewiston police station the
other day and were given out to the
officers. When Officer McGillicuddy
went to put the one which fitted him