Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-11-25

Thanksgiving, 1896.

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Thanksgiving, 1896.
+. when the chilly wind is blowing and the
snow Is softly falling
(, In the street and Ger the meadow sere
and brown.
! And the dry and leafless branches droop
beneath the touch of winter
! And take on their f1eecy coat OF elder
down;
| When the harvest. ne'er SO plenteous. Is
at last all safely garnered-
Fruit Of field and bending orchard ana
the vine:
When the hearth-fre roars and crackles
and the farmers eye is dancing.
And the faces OF his loved ones gleam
and shine; SOS
When from ocean unto ocean, from the
northland to the southland.
In the mart, the mill, the shop the busy
hum
OF the toilers set to work again now
swells like glorious music
Sigh and prophecy Of better times to
come;
Then with feasting and with joy a
mighty host shall keep Thanksgiving
Ger a nation reawakened, strong and
Ger a scene of smiling plenty. Ger our
rescue from dire perils,
Der the promise of the golden years to
Sleighriding won't distract the cook
tomorrow.
The long, hard winter prophet sub
sided yesterday.
Variety may be the spice of life but
there's something deadly about so
much variety of weather
The older folks will be thankful
there's no skating.
A Bath philanthropist gave away ap-
pies till some of the recipients thought
he ought to deliver them.
When the initiate to a high school So
ciety in Bath presented himself at
school the next morning the principal
concluded that the society could not
longer have the use of the hall in that
building. The initiates appearance
was so woebegone it earned him day
off.
a slight improvement is reported in
GARDENERS matrimonial market.
Lunch parties have become a fad in
Portland. No need of longer wonder
ing how all the physicians in town are
to get IA living.
\ good East Winthrop deacon got
into a discussion the other day with a
newspaper man relative to tha size of a
hole horse could go through. The
solution came quicker than he antici-
pated. Going to his stable he found
that his horse, weighing over 1000
pounds. had fallen through a scutte
into the cellar ten feet below without
receiving a scratch. although the d
mansions of the scuttfe were "a inches
one way by lSia the other.
Lewiston Journal: Bibles" said ].
NJ. Fernald of Lisbon street, Lewiston,
Saturday, why, we can sell Bibles
when We can't sell any other books at
any price. 1t is the best seller of all
that ever were out. 1t never fails.
sold. once. when / was canvassing for
them, an oxford Bible to a woman who
actually had 16 Bibles already in the
house. We counted them"
The Pemaquid Messenger sorrowfully
accounts for the IA cents apiece pos
al Nv, NJ "a ''hrICf ODD
Fortunes Founding Combination.
He says it came from the 81 worth of
printing they cheated him out of.
BY the frequent number of somewhat
startling as well as unique episodes re-
ported from the Shipping City it
would seem that tranquility does not
become monotonous down that way.
Only the other day one householder in
response to the constant importuningS
of his wife sought the cat to end it's
nine existences with chloroform. He
caught a cat and committed the deed
but when the corpse was exposed and
found to be that of his next door neigh
boris pet feline frost settled on that
neighborhood and the thaw is not yet.
By the way. this is the city where
staunch- souled woman refused to long
er take milk from her milkman when
she learned that he did not have enter
prise enough to vote.
Biddeford'S solicitor has decided that
four aldermen in that city constitute
quorum and may choose a presiding
before