Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-30

All Nature incense rise.
Alexander Pope.
''Uncle" Eben Leighton of Mount Yer
non, had another birthday Tuesday, this
time his s7th. He is still active in mind
and body.
Few men can extract blood from tur-
nip, but Mrs. John Monteith knows now
to make hens lay, even when the mer-
curry is down around 40 below, records
the Mars Hill View. She has 30 WHITE
Leghorns and few registered ofeeos'
that lay in the neighborhood of AZ dozen
a. month John, her husband, says the
high-bred ones feel themselves above
laying eggs and sit and watch the others
She feeds them hot stuff, has warm
pen and keeps plenty of oyster shells and
ashes for them to roll in. which kills lice.
Mrs. Monteith takes great pride with
these hens and knows every week just
what they cost for feed and how many
eggs they lay.
"They talk lot these days about the
wireless" remarked Sheriff o'Connell
last night well, it works both ways,
same as most things do. I've learned
thing or two about it myself" The
sheriff returned Tuesday nighs from
Portland, says the Bangor News, where
he was witness in the Berry trial-or
would have been ii the Waterville clergy
men S, defense. hadn't been virtually ELM
mated on legal grounds, by the ruling Of
the presiding Judge. Anyway, the sherlft
returned Tuesday night, and on Wednes-
day morning he got busy with VEN
geance. To begin with, the wireless told
him that liquor was being brought into
the county by wagon-the recent freight
shipments having turned out disastrously
for the consignees. So he surrounded the
county with deputies, picketing them on
the principal roads, and at noon the wis
dom of the move became manifest. The
value of the days seizures, conservative
ly estimated, is $1,000 at wholesale-and at
retail anything the dealers would have
cared to charge Yes" said the sherlH,
with his enigmatic smile, 'the wireless
seems to be working very well"
The problem of the unemployed and
homeless men who throng Portland is a
serious one there and, after discussing
the matter at length the other after
noon the Associated Charities felt unable
to cope with the situation. To quote the
Portland Press; No system of relief
seems to Be adequate or in any way
suitable to meet the proposition. And
nothing was suggested that could do
much to alleviate the situation. Sugges-
lions are invited from all and it is prob
able that mass meeting or some other
suitable form of public gathering will be
held to further consider the proposition
in the hope of arriving at something
that will enable the authorities to diff
ferentiate between the worthy and the
unworthy cass. The police have no way
to offer the work test to people who APP
ply for lodging and there is no other
place or form of test that can be applied.
The fire of Wednesday morning is not
the first in which the Bangor News has
suffered disaster, says that courageous
paper in its issue of Thursday. 1t has
been attacked by both fire and water. In
April, 1899 it had the first experience
with fire. At noontime on one day that
month, box Is. which is just across Ex-
change street, at the Penobscot Ex-
change, was pulled for a fire in the
building occupied by the News. The fire
was in that portion occupied by a small
clothing concern. For the most part the
FIVE was held in that section, though a
small part did get into the News section.
| The smoke and water, however, near
ruined the office of the paper. Next time
| the News suffered a disaster was in the
spring of 1902. when the great flood came.
| 1t was water which did the trick that
| time. In common with ither buildings
! along the water front, the basement of
| the papers office was flooded, the water
more than covering the Office floor At
the time of the great fire of April 80, 1911,
| it was thought the office of this paper
| was doomed, but was saved. That night,
under as trying circumstances as any
newspaper crew ever worked the News
got out remarkable newspaper. 1t car
ried condensed, yet remarkably graphic
story of the fire. Even when 1t seemed
almost positive that the papers plant
was doomed, the men of the shop did not
| quit work. Compositors, pressmen ana
| all stuck to their posts and worked as
best they could without gas or electric
lights.