Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-08-22

, the same time rolling her J
yes towards the eeilins--the effect was in
eseribabie. A person you'd have to .b~
hxs" - appreciate il. II WAS full OF
eli gh,fui. tender. soulful thoughts. | wish
could reproduce il for the benefit Of Jour
l.I readers. hat fear the task would be too :
n lch for my memory. The opening staHzt
an as follows:
"Ju-t Il ~ yrar ago today
Two happy hearts csai ded"
II seemed A. if thss tender thought forme-i
nttIhg benson IL the evenings festivities
L was .tili ringing in the ears of the oeauti
ully thoughtful company a. they meAndere'i
louiew arl-the older ones TO pleasant drea ms
and the younger ones to swing on the gar
len gates.
recently met young German musician
shose competitions are rapidly gaining for
lin = high place in his profession. ln the
course of . long conversation with him |
lske him if he found any difficulty in his
~ork in discriminating between an old and
new harmony.
Indeed | do he replied, very often
have come strain which seems TO me to be
new one /; but which turns out to be one
had heard At sometime.
l retain music very readily, and will
ofttimes reproduce portions of old pieces
years after hear them Very often can
not remember that Lever heard them and |
they seem to me to be original. do not
know whether others experience the same |
difficulty or not; but the thing has forced
me many times TO reconstruct q whole com
position, and radically change it after l had
come to consider il completed
That must make it hard work"
mo one knows how much work, unless
they have done it, | spend months and
sometimes years on q single composition,
changing it over and over again, and recon-
,uucting some portions of it many times.
And when it is done it suits GU"
by no means When it is completed
have done what consider my best on it
recognize many imperfections, but l have
found my own limitations, and feel that
cannot avoid them. | suppose perfection
can be found in nothing in this world. All
strive for it and our success is measured by
the nearness to which we approach it-or
what the world conceives it to be-"
There was An earnest, honest enthusiasm
about this young man that WAS charming
did not wonder as | converted with HIM
that be was fast winning his way into pop
ular favor. Such resolute hearts are sure to
win the highest success, for they will be sat
isie1 with nothing else.
A certain minister who presides over
large flock in one of our small Maine towns
is man of singuarly venerable app'a rance.
His tall form has not yet bent under the
weight of years; hair is snowy white and falls
in long full locks upon his shoulders; his
face is a kindly, and yet dignifed one. He
is a truly good man, and the children espec
ially haze come to look upon him with pro-
found generation, as living representative
of all that is best in frail humanity.
| Some time ago the elder visited neigh
boriuy town and while there called upon one
of his old par,shloners At tn" close of his
visit they kneit together in prayer. Fervent
and eloquent was the petition which the good
Elder poured forth, that peace and happiness
might follow the members of that family to
the end of their days In the midst of his
invocation a sm@il boy who had concealed
himself b. hind his mother. chair upon the
good elders arrival, stuck forth his head, and,
with a startled gaz., required in loud whs-
per, Ma is that God?'
The wet weather of the past few weeks
has been a sad put back to the summer
!
aims. Fires were necessary to the comfor.
of the guests everywhere in the While
Mountain section The most pleasant sight
10 sojourners has been the smiling face OF
old Sol. Beside this Pleasant visitor, mount
an and WOODLAND, meadow ami lake sink into
insgniticance. A few days of darkness
always serves to impress upor men the far
reaching importance OF that fist great edict
! Let TN re be light"
And when We are struggle between
smil sand tears unshine and rain drops, it
/ is intere ting to hear that way down in Nova
Scotia, the people are really suffering from
drought Everything considered our dog
days are certainly preferable to theirs.
! yonng man who lives in Penobscot
| County ha. recently been practically testing
the many advantages of travelling with
! a large hill
to Northport.
Among tie equipments for this trip was
| fifty dollar bill. This he presented in pay
ment for all the little expenses incurred on
the drive and when he tiaally arrived at the
end of the journey he found himself
still in possession of the bill. The
following day be went on an excursion
and sprung the bill upon the cap
tain of the tug with the same result. So
great was his success in avoiding the pay
ment of small debts that he mad come to look
upon the bill some " bat in the light of an ex-
tension paper which relieved him from all
| liability to such small cares. Emb. dened by
hi. success he hired an old skipper to take
him in his sailboat for cruise about the bay.
When they had returned again to the wharf
tn. fl fly d,llar bill was again called into use
and offered the old tar in payment for his
services. The young man supposed it would
prove a poser, AMI great was his surprise
when the old skipper coolly put it in hi,
pocket Then began the work OF making
change from various lockers came canvas
bags filed with silver of various denomina-
tions. This was laboriou,y counted out INTO
little heaps. and be gan to look very bulky
when the young man said hastily See here.
you needn't bother to count that out Give
me back the bill find have the exact
change here after all
Cam 10 it," was the lacouic response.
"why2"
wal. I've been waiting for chance to
get rid of this ere stuff and don't think I'll
ever We: better one. just run that over
ard see if it's correct"
The fficacy of the big bill was gone.
The Young man end, Favored to bear up under
the sffl cti1n, but even the present from the
skipper of a large CANVAS bag in which to
carry his change" did not altogether alev- |
ate his chagrin.
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