Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-07-06


she never greets me with a frown
When from my work returning;
Nor squanders on a Paris gown
The wages that I'm earning
She's never cross, she's never sick,
Sse never Is complaining;
And / have yet to hear her kick
Because il keeps on raining.
So she is Just the Kind of wife
That meets my appreciation
She lives. this treasure of my life,
In my imagination
New York Times.
The Cumberland county search for
convict farm" continues. The coun-
ty commissioners have been giving up
several afternoons of each week to the
hunt. Legislative permission to make
an investment of this nature within a
limit of $4,000 was secured in the 1911
session. but the commissioners have
not found farm yet that suits them
in all particulars. The commissioners
are agreed as to what sort of farm
they will buy if they can find it, a
large one to start with, few miles
from the city, but not go far as to
make transportation expensive, one
on which there will be ample oppor
tunity to make improvements, there
by keeping the prisoners busy and,
what is more. where the price is rea-
sonable They are not concerned as
TO buildings, rather preferring to build
such structures as will best suit their
purposes. They incline to favor prop
erty well stocked with bushes and
with ledge that can be removed and
quantity of crushed stone produced.
The prisoners are employed in a chair
bottoming factory, connected with the
Jail now. This follows two unfortu-
nate experiments with shoe heel
factory. These plants have been a big
loss to the county and it is agreed that
housing physically weak men and of
fering them no opportunity to reeu
perate from protracted sprees hinders
the reformatory design.
The Aroostook Pioneer says of po
tato conditions in that county: The
continued rains which have visited
Aroostook county during the past
three weeks will curtail to certain
degree the potato crop in this section.
Up to a few weeks ago practically 80
per cent. of the seasons planting had
been completed, and this was done
when seed was selling at from So to
81 a barrel. All the seed that was
put in on we'll drained land is coming
along in fine shape, in fact. the wet
weather for what seed has started,
eventually will bring the plants along
in good shape; bubt where seed was
planted on low ground and did not get
started previous to the wet weather. 1t
will be a total loss and must be plant
ed over or used for other purposes
When we were a youngster and big
sis had a beau we used to hide behind
the sofa or in the curtains to hear soft
secrets. At such times we were usu-
ally discovered and We remember dis
tinetly the admonitory Naughty
Naughty's," we used to hear. The
Portland Express & Advertiser says:
One wonders what appraisal Democratic
politicians in Maine put upon the intel
ligence of the people of this State that
they should attempt to exploit them
selves by showing what they are accom-
phshing in the financing of the States
affairs There would be some merit i'm
saving money of the taxpayers, but as a
matter OF iact, state taxes for l9ll We're
twice as high as they were under the
Republican administration. The revenue
received therefore, is so much greater
than it was then 1t would be pretty
poor man or set of men who could not
pay bills when all there is to do is to
draw checks on a treasury filled with the
peoples money.
Naughty! Naughty,
A letter signed "Obbserver" in the
oxford Democrat sets Joe Chapple
right as follows: Joe Chapple's News
Letter" in a recent issue of the Bos-
ton Herald, had a picture entitled
The Simple Headstone of Artemus
Ward in a Cemetery at His Birth
place. Waterford. Maine" According
to the transcript as there shown of
the inscription on the humorist's
maidstone, his name is given on the
headstone as Charles r. Brown" and
the place of his death as South
Hampton, Eng" His name, however,
was Charles F. mot R) Browne mot
Brown and he died at Southampton
mot South Hampton. England. Is it
a fact that these three blunders in the
inscription as given in the picture of
the headstone are in the inscription
on the headstone itself? If SO, the in
scription is a singular one-singular
in the sense of the word in which Ar
temus used it when he said of the
Mormans that their religion is singu-
| lar in the sense of the word in which
Artemus used 1t when he said of the
Normans that their religion is singu
| lar, but their wives are plural With
an inscription containing so many
blunders, perhaps it would be we'll to
have it supplemented with list of