Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-21
On the Road.

Charles NJ. S. Mcclellan. the author
of Leah Kleshna. is now in London I'M
der the writing name of Hugh Morton.
Mr. McIellan wrote the liberettos OF
..The Relic of New York" THE Whri
Of the Town,'' american Beauty ana
other operas. His royalties In one sea-
son from the Belle of New York
Amounted to $4,000. He wrote "Klesh-
ma over his own signature and has
since signed all his work with his own
name Mr.. Mcclellan was formerly the
editor of Town Topics New York
CITY. He was native OF Bath,
Maine. Mr.. Mcclellan now heads the
list of dramatic writer's.
GRAY squirrels are becoming so nu-
merous and tame that they have even
lost their fear of trOlleys and rail-
road trains. The Journal Traveller
noticed one recently, as his train
passed by, perched on a tree about
foot away from the track, seemingly
interested in scanning the faces of the
passengers on board, going down the
Kennebec.
The Worcester capitalist expressed
himself most enthusiastically on the flu
ture of our country. saying that, OWING
to our system of education and the
American notion of fair play 1t Will
always be possible to rely on obtain
ing Justice from American iuries and
in the long run upon the American
voters who always mean TO do the
best for the community and the ma
ton. LAS a rule, for honesty, intelli-
gence and sagacity. the plain farmers
and the ordinary laborers know more
than city millionaires.' concluded the
worcester man.
The present is another generation of
beautiful young girls i'm Bath.
The Shipping City's public park was
an interesting sight on Sunday last.
Gathering to enjoy its beauties and
fresh air and the scenery of the broad
blue Kennebec, examining the beds Of
flowers and watching the sparkling
fountain FLASHING in the pond: read
ing, extended at length upon the close
cut Velvety grass in all attitudes OF
restful enjoyment, were hundreds OF
citizens, children, youth and old age.
A passing glimpse of the park thus
given up to the enjoyment and health
of the people suggested the idea to the
writer that money spent in beaut1fy-
ing public breathing places is public
money we'll invested.
The man in the next seat of the car
was coqueuting with a pretty girl IN
a window of the HallOwell shoe fac
tory. The girls bench mate, an older
lady, shook her forefinger warningly ar
the gay young man in the car. Inc
episode caused the writer to glance
over the factory as the train moved
along and to him the four stories
crowded with WOrkmen and work Wom-
en-, all apparently happy. intelligent
and Industrious suggested that shoe
factory was great industrial boom
to any town or city and that if the
peaceful labor conditions of the cities
of Maine We're more fully understood
together with the better climate OF
Maine for successful work in the greaf
shoe centers of Massachusetts. Lynn
and RrOckton for example. that there
would be an exodus of the factories
Of those places into the towns OF
Maine, and that were Maine to nave
more commercial clubs and enterpris-
ing commercial secretaries, more Maine
cities would be shoe making towns
than there are.
In lumber camp near BOWdoln-
ham the lumbermen are so fond of the
birds and animals that they have
staked off the nests of the yellow ham,
mers and other birds and of animals
to prevent their being destroyed by the
passage of the teams during logging
operations.
The man across the aisle of the car
said, Roosevelt can do anything in
America. obtain any office to which he
aspires because the people believe in
him"
EVERY city in Maine" said my seat
mate" ought to have municipal fund
for legitimate expenses in sending
representatives to various cities to
seek new industries for the home
town" Worcester with 1900 large fac
tories has one of the most successful
boards of trade in New England and
this board is ever unsatisfied with the
great accomplishments of the city in
the past, and is ever reaching out after
new industries.
A charming young matron of Maine
is a most enthusiastic Christian Scien-
fist in her faith and at an experience
meeting of her church not long ago she
testified to some successful work of
her own on curing by faith. She said
that she discovered in a haymow in the |
stable attached to her home a fam
lily of four very young kittens and that |
they We're all blind. but that, after a |
week. by the exercise of faith and by |
her own manipulation upon the eyes |
of the kittens they We're able to see.
The writer ran across a tree doctor |
the other day, This gentleman stated |
that the gypsy moths and the brown |
tail moths originally were imported in |
nursery stock and that the reason why, |
abroad, in the native haunts of the |