Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-15

stead and continued to run the farm.
Two OF their four children survive,
John Richards Of Somerville. Mass,
and Mrs. N. H. Sawtelle Of Strickland.
An Augustan recently wrote to friend
in st. Petersburg, Fla. Dragging q little
on the week in March which gave US such
beautiful weather, the thermometer for
three days going above 30 in the sun in
sheltered places. The friend got back
with a letter stating: "You have US
beaten on highland on snow drifts too
but we've had but one rain storm from
Dec. Is TO April and no snow. How's
that?" For temperature he reported:
March %. high 50, low Ga; March q. high
70, low g.: March q, high "A, low 81;
March q. high 10. low IS; March 80. high
Is, low 81.
A story comes from Oklahoma City.
Montana. to the effect that J. T. Muir
ply of Portland, Me-, who recently ar
rived there to engage in business. met
r. s. Murphy of Pittsburgh county, Mon
tana, who, inquiry proved to be q son OF
the late LOUIS Murphy, brother of J. +.
who had disappeared on the day Of the
great fire in July, 1866 in Portland. Louis
was then living in Lewiston and went
with the firemen. to assist at the Portland
fire and was never heard from afterward
The story tells Of Louis going west
fighting with Custer, being captured by
the Indians and recaptured by the sol
diers and going back to the tribe and
marrying an Indian maiden who had
saved his life. The Montana r. s. Muir.
ply was a son by this marriage.
The day book of grocery store was
found in the dump recently. says the
Bath Times, the charges being made OF
date 1865. Some Of the prices made
present high cost Of living appear like
80 cents. Two pounds Of beef steak
were charged at "a cents; one pound OF
salt pork was charged at 81 cents
showing that the 1865 grocer was as
wise as the grocer Of today in the
matter of fractions; kerosene oil was
so cents gallon and sugar II cents
the pound. Eggs, however, were cheap
they being only II cents a dozen. Some
of the charges were against the King
House, now the King Tavern. Most OF
the charges seemed to be for corn meal
and molasses, for hasty buildings, john
ny cakes and mush. Very few charges
for flour were there in comparison ia
official remarked, anent the meal
charges that he lived when a boy in
those war times almost wholly for three
years on corn meal and molasses. Flour
was from $12 to s18.
In little cemetery, long neglected
and ,overgrown with weeds and wild
roses, 1 found an ancient stone lying
face down, says &c. NJ" in the Rock
land Opinion. 1 turned it over and
found this inscription, John Hubert,
an honest man." This proves to us no
matter how high we mortals place men
on the pedestals of fame, men are in
fact no higher than their characters
when it can be said Of any Of us that
we are honest men. It will not matter
if the weeds and wild roses cover UP
all future trace of us we have at least
achieved the great object of life and
the world has been blessed by our
birth. Money is all right to have, sc
is fame, if they are backed by charac-
ter. There is no danger In dealing
with men Of the old fashioned stamp
whose word was preferred to some
mems bond. It seems odd to write the
obituary Of honest John Hubert, who
has slept under the weeds and wild
roses 1O2 years but. thus found the
record Of an honest man. Has the
world a higher tribute to bestow.
All that a Bath musician carried
with him when he gave a talk or
musical instruments and their use be.
fore the classes in music in the Bath
schools was: Snare drums. bass drum
cymbals, orchestra bells. castinets
triangle, Chinese tom tom, wood block
sand paper blocks, whistles, rattle ani
squawker. That would seem to &C.
count-if the same ha bit is followed in
other musical cities-for some Of the
music we have heard.
DR.. Carl M. Robinson Of Portland has
decided to join the Harvard hospita
unit which will leave about the middle
Of May for the 'front.'" probably ir
France. DR.. Robinson graduated from
Bowdoin in 1907 and Harvard Medical
School in 1911, and after hospital
training in Providence and Boston has
been practicing in Portland. his home
city.
An interesting comparison Of thu
present high prices is found in an ad-
dress to the public printed in the bach
part Of book published in 1856, In
which the publisher explains to the
purchasers Of the work the reason OF
the price being 81. Among other
things he says:
I'VE suppose people will complain OF
the price Of this work as Of everything
else. Four years ago $1.25 would have
been q fair price. We have added only
40 per cent. Paper has advanced l2C
per cent, binders cloth 400 per cent.
binders board 100 per cent. gliding
100 per cent. The stock Is IS per cent
Of the cost Of making book. On tor
Of al! this we have to pay q heavy gov
eminent tax. Tho book should sell 1t
$3.50. We have lost $4,000 in the book
business the past four or five years,
besides our time, ana the use Of $f0. 900
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