Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-11-28
MAINE GOSSIP.
Thanksgiving.

Tbankglvlngs for the rounded year,
While natures jubilate rings.
And every breeze blessing brings.
To-day the burden of our praise.
AND An. not our plants. our prayers upraise;
Walls that our eager askings heard
Hear now gladder. filter word;
All, help us tell our gratitude,
For ali Thy gifts, God, are good!
Hear, while to all Thy Providence
The world, Thou rulest, in assents;
Thy ServitorS do ease its woe,
Its burdens daily lighter grow,
For not upon the hills alone,
But in the valleys dim, are shown
Thy footsteps beautiful and sure;
Thy ancient promises endure;
Thy Kingdom cometh, now and here;
We praise Thee, Lord-bow down Thine ear!
Draw near. Our Father. while we own
The blessings that our homes have known;
The wonted shelter, safe and sweet,
The bounties all the days repeat;
The gusrded sleep, the strength renewed
The tranquil and the mirthful mood
The warmth the fellowship, the hope
The task, the purpose, and their scope;
And, more than ALL for loves that are
The hearts own heart-fires, near and far,
Bow down to me, dear Lord. thine ear,
My praises, low and glad, to hear;
For gifts of guidance snd of grace
That errors right and ills efface;
For thv bestowals, hid and sweet,
For hidden speech no words repeat;
presence real Inade,-a sense
VI strength beside my impotence:
Lord, let NE thank Thee most that Thou
Givest me Thyself,-I know not how.
Olive e. Dana in lions Advocate.
Many happy returns of such a Thanks.
giving day.
In most parts of the State today, it
won't be safe for the smallest boy to 90
on the ice after eating his dinner.
The rain beat down the bubbles so that
had the ground frozen hard, Tuesday
night, the roads would have been In excel
lent condition.
Seventy six men turned out of work by
the burning of the Auburn Jail work
shop. Some of them-poor fellows
broke down and laughed right out loud.
Corinna is just getting accustomed to
her new electric light, but it would cleo
trify the people to discover light eater
In town today. Aheml Ten thousand
pardons
Some one has said that "the con.
sciousness of being perfectly well dressed
gives to a woman's mind peace that
even religion fails to bestow, This
quotation is sent out from Fort Kent
where they cry aloud for dressmaker
and have not word to say about need
ing missionary.
bangor Commercial: So long as The
Is. Il A. conductors have such pleasant
things said about them as the following.
taken from a Maine paper the general
manager need not fear that his con
ductors are not doing their duty: Gen
eral Manager Cram of the Bangor &,
Aroostook has been most fortunate in his
selection OF conductors They carry out
the bundles, look after the babies and
make each passenger feel that they have
been waiting for them to come that wav
so as to have the privilege of doing this
kindness.
The Journal has Mr.. c. c. Harvey the
genial and able editor of the Fort Fair.
field Beacon, to thank for copy of the
new directory of the towns of Caribou
Presque Isle and Fort Fairfield. A. b
Sparrow of Shirley, Mass, is the pub
Usher. The directory is well gotten I'D
and will not only be an Indispensable
convenience for the residents of that tier
OF thriving towns in northern Aroostook
but fer those who have dealings with
them.
Bangor News: Whosoever by himself
or agent, sells or offers for sale eggs that
have been preserved in any manner and
are not what are usually denominated
fresh eggs, without notice to the pur-
chaser or purchasers, knowingly and with
intent to deceive, shall be punished by
imprisonment not exceeding thirty days,
or by line not exceeding one hundred
dollars.-Revised Statutes of Maine.
Were it not for that clause, knowingly
and with intent to deceive, y there might
be good many men in Jail now, for the
market is full of stale eggs. In fact
there are very few eggs except stale ones
sold in Bangor just now. OF course
when man is selling lined, picked or
cold storage eggs he knows it. but the
question is, how can it be proved that
they know 1t? As Koko says In the
Mikado, Its the fool of a law We'u
have it changed-next session.
Boston journal: New Hampshire has
begun to compete with Maine In the New
York evergreen market. This will pro5a-
bly, be used as pretext to remind the