Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-30

nationality, who have become American
citizens and hope to prosper here.
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While have light shall not waste
The moments that 80 swiftly haste.
The feeting hours, twixt bell and belt
Shall be improved By learning well
/ Some lasting truth that sage has traced.
What though the world counts me disgraced,
It's frowns won't sting IL boldly faced;
Sneers shall not drag me down TO hell
While have light.
This narrow cage that have paced.
BY seowling imps OF fancy chased,
Shall cease to be an empty shell.
I'll weave around its walls spell,
And bolts and bars shall be efiaced
hlle have light.
The above verses were written by Ed
ward HAYES of Lewiston, five-ycar con.
Wet for breaking and entering. The pris-
on lights are exting,Ishod at F. M but
he devotes every moment he can get until
then in study.
Saeo is clamoring for the location OF
the York county hospital in that city and
Biddeford retaliatcs with the assertion
that three high grade books are read in
Biddeford to one in Saco When will this
cruel war end.
Tho Border Ministries, - Of Calais are
burning the cork for spring opening In
minstrelsy.
The old adagc about setting rogue to
catch a rogue does not seem to have been
verified in the case Of Uncle jock
Darling as game warden.
We can scarcely credit this report from
Portland: Dry goods men and jewellers
complain of the practice OF well known
people who borrow their goods to wear at
| various functions. This practice is by no
| means a novelty in Portland, and it is
surprising to find that representative pco-
pie are among the violators of 6ecency
Send these to the house and I'll look
| them over" says the customer, and the
merchant often has the pleasure of seeing
his customers parading in borrowed
plumery, which he knows will he returned
next day. =
Waterville Mail; We were shown the
other day by Prof f. W. Hall of Colby
| what Is believed to be the Oldest false
order in the list of the many that have
been issued by one class Mt Colby at the
expense of another. 1t was on the class
of 1888, and the programme given was a
very decent affair, following closely in
general arrangement the order of exercises
at commencement time in the early DAYS
of the college. One of the names down
on the list of speakers was that of Ben
Butler. who was to discourse on the gen
eral subject of getting ''duckcd" by the
squirt guns OF upper class men. The only
survivor of the men whose names were
given on the programme is Moses j.
Kelley.
There is man in this town." writes
our Smyrna correspondent, who has a
greater fund of humor than 1t is safe for
hlm tc carry around. 10 amuse himself
he has been working on the fears of an
old lady who lives alone, by telling her
there Is to 20 war with England, that
there Will be Il blue nose raid and that
the field in front Of her house will surely
be "a battle ground The old lady Ia in n
state OF great anxiety over the matter In
inc event of war that man should be sent
to the front We don't believe the
dogs OF war are needed to scare that
fellow; little seven by nine cur could
probably do. Why don't her neighbor
advise the old lady to set the dog on him.
There is one Maine industry which this
kind of winter has favored. We refer
to the clam digging industry which has
thrived SO well this winter that the next
Legislature will probably be asked for
legislation protecting and defining rights
to clam flats.
Piscataquis county gentleman, aged
81, believes in doing what his hands find
to do and puts bis belief in practise by
knitting socks.
blddeford never saw 50 many people
hanging around the mill gates in the
nope OF getting something to do
There's room in Maine for the old folks
as well rs the young Mrs Orrin Dag
gett of Sprague's Mills, had IA birthday
party few years ago and the company
present averaged over 81 years of age.
ms has been an unusually convenient
winter to agitate for "good roads," and