Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-02-01
Maine Gossip
Keep Yer Horn a Tootin'.

If you failed in '9S profit by the lesson.
Point your feet in 80 to Il smoother
trail,
Look on every reverse as Il hidden
bleSsin'.
Grab the oars if breezes don't come to
fill your sail.
Keep your courage up at par when your
troubles thicken,
Roar like lordly lion stead o blattin'
like Il lamb.
Let the people round you know tina,
Keep your horn a tootin If you never
Sell Il clam!
Nerve an pluck are bound to win. nothln
kin prevent EN-.
Cheek ii of'n gain Il point argument d
lose;
You kin brave your troubles down.
though the dcvll sent 'em
IL you think there is Il man standin' in
your shoes.
If at first you fail to find what you are
Never fold dcspondent arms cross your
diaphragm;
When you fall. git up agin don't You
never weaken
Keep your horn II tootin' if you never
sell clam.
denver Post.
A whole month of the New Year
gone.
Just year since the father of biz
yards visited Maine.
The Bangor hospitals friends will
breathe more freely after today's scs-
sion.
The proposed license fee for sports
men will fill the Capitol with eloquencc
and logic, this afternoon
The first month of 1899 brought Maine
more than it's quota of murders.
A Waldoboro man. who drove nine
full-grown deer out of his young or
chard one, noon lately. is fully con-
WINGED that the law protects the deer
in Lincoln county.
Beifasts city clerk is wearing his
first pair of rubbers although having,
reached three score years of age. The
this winter.
Salem's population. like that of many
rural towns. has been steadily declin-
ing for half century and it's vital sta
tistics for the year just closed show
three births. one marriage and six
deaths Salem should import a few
such families as one reported. this
week, in SeDec, where a worthy mother
in Maine has just given birth to her
18th child.
A woman walked into Hallowell. Sat
urday last. who had come chiefly on
foot a distance of % miles to visit her
daughter at the industrial school. A
hand sled helped her along over the
| hills She wanted to see her daughter.
| A woman with that degree of devotion
| ought not to have a daughter in the in
| dustrial school.
We have often listened with painful
| attention to the wonderful things per-
| formed by our fathers. grandfathers
and grandmothers when they were
young They always laid special stress
upon the fact of their early rising. A
Thomaston correspondent is pleased to
| be able TO chronicle an incident which
shows that there is some get-up-at-i-
o'clock lin the -morning in the young
people of today. A ThomaSton young
lady was observed. last Monday morn
ing, hanging her washing on tho line
by the light of a lantern. That young
lady will not have to advertise for II
husband.
One of the hits at the hearing given
the Maine club women. Thursday eve
ming in the Senate chamber on the SUD-
ject of travelling libraries. was made
by Mrs. Atwood Of Auburn. her re-
marks being punctualed by the story
Of a girl the speaker once knew. who
married farmer and led the not UNI
usual life of women of her class.
| Finally, she was stricken with insanity
and died. whereupon her husband re-
marked that he did not see why Mary
Ann should have took crazy. for to his
knowledge she had not been out of that
kitchen for 80 years.
Mrs. George D. B. Pepper of Water
vile. tioored one man whom she had
heard ybjecting to the travelling