Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-28

Troubles an expensive thing.
Though the man may be buffer,
With his hands an awful duffer,
Though you think that you may suffer
From the mud he likes to fling,
Say the fellows to be pitied.
| Anyhow ii is admitted
Troubles an expensive thing.
Wait while before you say il,
Think it over closely weigh it,
If it is the right card, play ii
Rut an ace will beat a king,
What you think that YOU can stand III
All depend what cards you handle
II the game is worth the candle
| Troubles an expensive thing.
Chicago News
The consolidation of the two Maine
conferences will be a leading topic
when the Methodists meet at Augusta
in April.
| The "16 islands in Casco bay,
which Command Peary was re-
ported to have bought, have dwindled
| to five and there is doubt about one or
| two of these. Peary's dogs also prove
| an alibi in that wolf case in Gray.
The natural history editor of the
! Biddeford Journal ventures the opinion
| that the woodchuck seen in tree
near the B. & A. track in Fort Fair
| field, was really porcupine
They are fast being mustered out
On one day this week three veterans
of the Civil War lay dead in their
| respective homes in the town of Wind
ham.
The Terry Bosnian trial in Portland
is attracting wide interest, but it can
not compete with the Woodbury. hear
ing at Dover with the general public
Between North and South Harps-
well, a distance of six miles, there are
"a widows and 20 widowers also 81
bachelors and 81 spinsters.
That must have been a record when
a G. A. r. veteran, a member of the
first Maine cavalry, and hero of 81
| SAoooCiiOHlo, with HIS olN StdlNdit
sons, joined the F. H. Dolloff Camp
Sons of Veterans, recently organized
at Boothbay Harbor. -.
In passing sentences upon number
of liquor indictments in the Penobscot
S. ]. court, this week, Chief Justice
Emery intimated that he considered
| the nollcV nf heavy fina 70 1a
effective than Jail sentences. Fines
| thus far in nuisance cases have been
heavy, ranging from $500 to $3.50, with
alternate Jail sentences. Judge Emery
also intimated that if the respondents
came before him again the fines would
be largely increased.
c. 0. Morton of Portland is build
ing in his cellar rowboat for Archil
Roosevelt, the Presidents son. The
designer of the boat is Mr.. Morton's
brother-in-law, Capt. William L. Nor
man of the government yacht Sylph
| The Sylph was stationed last summer
at Oyster Bay, where it was used by
the Presidents family, and a great
| friendship sprang up between Capt
Norman and the Presidents son, sc
| that Capt. Norman decided to build g
| rOwboat for the boy
| A Camden shoe man sold pair OF
shoes recently to a lady, and after she
had left the store discovered that he
had made the mistake of giving the
| customer two rights instead of a right
and a left as is customary. Rushing
after the lady he offered to make the
wrong right, but was CURLY informed
that the customer was satisfied, as she
had wooden leg on the left side any.
how, and needed only rights. Now
the dealer considers himself "flim.
| famed" because for the price of one
pair of shoes he has really supplied
| the customer with two pairs.
The Maine Womens Club of New Yori
held their February meeting on the
18th at the home of Mrs. F. w. Her
sey, Is Cranberry street, Brooklyn. TIL
program was arranged by Miss Har
riet M. Bird and consisted Of q debat
on the question, "Resolved, That tn
literature on the subject of Main
does its people an injustice" The de
bate was led by Mrs. GoOdnough, presi
dent of the Contemporary Club, AM
Miss Mary Snow of Pratt Jnstitut
both of whom presented very able ant
witty arguments in support of their re
Spective sides of the question. Mis-
Soule and Miss Carolyn SWEET rea
} papers also, ably supporting the affir
native. In an interesting paper Mis-
Louise Benson reviewed the most re
cent novels and gave excerpts sup
porting the negative. Mrs. +. c. Ca
| brought convincing arguments ais
from Governor Cobb, Senator Eugen
Hale, Laura E. Richards, Martha f
Dunn. Mrs. L. NJ. N. Stevens, DR.. I
A. Robinson and other Maine peopl
of local and national eminence. TIL
negative won, both on the merits @
the question and of the debate.
Dennis Horigan, who is connecte
with tire United States Naval Observa
: tory, Washington, is perhaps the oldes
t weather man in the United States. H
Y has been keeping tab on the weathe