Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-02-17
Maine Gossip

|lMaine QosslP
The Old Hymns.
There's lots o. music In 'em, the hymns
An. whem some gray-haired brother sings
the ones l used to know .n,,. :,
sOrter want 10 take sisa'iu =
"on Jordars's stormy banks stand and
| cast a wistful eye
There,s lots O. music in em-those dear,
| b sweet hymns of Old, u,,, .a
With visions bright of lands OF light. and
| shining streets Of gold:
! And i hear 'em ringing-siIsihs' where
Mem'ry, dreaming. STANDS,
From Greenland,s icy mou''a'"s ~ IN
| dia's coral strands.
rbev seem to sing forever of holier
sweeter days. - ,a,o 80 cn5
When The lilies of the love or God
| bloomed white In all the ways.
| And / want to hear their music from ane
| old-time meetin's rise
Till II can read my title clear to man.
| sions in the skies. .
We never needed singn' books in them
Tbc ,w"r,isSthc ~" tunes of every one the
dear old hymn book through!
! We didn't nave Iio uhtN'' ''S'' -" -
| cans built for show; ,,
Wa annlv sang 40 praise he Lord IRON
| whom all blessings flow.
| An. g., lave the Old hymns, and when
! my time shall come
po,orns ns the light has left me, and my
| singing iips are dumb ,,,
II | can only near EN- i"eh' P"'S
."ro Canaan's fair and happy land where
| nv possessions lie.
| IF only the sleighing had been good.
| what an ideal winter day yesterday
would have been.
The amateur photographers have
been devoting their attention, this
! week, to snow scenes, and many hne
ones have been snapped
The stockholders of the Jefferson
theater, Portland. are feeling well
pleased with the result of their invest
ment. a dividend of four per cent. hav-
! ing been declared.
A Belfast citizen reports himself as
the champion absent-minded man. He
got the fire in the kitchen stove run
ming nicely the other morning: then
went to the well. drew pail of water.
brought the water i'm and poured it into
the stove.
A Bath man Is convinced there's
something in luck. He had to shovel
out big drift in front of his house
without assistance. while his next
neighbor, who has several big boys,
awoke to find the walks in his jurisdic
ton all swept clean by the winds.
Weather permitting" appears on
the notices of club meetings and social
gatherings now, there being general
feeling that the weather for the next
six weeks is mighty uncertain
''The popular belief that we make
lots of money out of our business" said
a shaggy cat dealer in Rockland. re-
Gently. "is largely a dream. l had 81
cats die on my hands at one time,
while waiting for market. Then
again we 10 IOI UcSlH u IcCelNc SuCu
prices as most people think. A cat
which brings $40 has to be remark
ably good one and by the time it Is de-
livered to our customer does not repre-
sent a very wide margin for profit
At certain place in Portland. where
the value of such wood is known. there
is quite lot of mahogany which came
from a Spanish vessel that was
wrecked off the Cape Elizabeth coast
IS years ago. There is also at this
place lot of other kind of wood. taken
from Portland building known to be
over 100 years old. These woods are of
great value in the arts.
A resident of what was formerly
Deering, who has had a record OF liv-
ing in the coolest house (by his ther-
mometer readings). in that section,
was not undeceived until one day the
past week. when Il visitor made the
discovery that the scale of the Their
mometerl, had dropped down some 10 de-
grees. thus making the phenomenal
records possible.
A Portland lady on a shopping tour
one Of the cold sinornings of last week
took her, four yearAeold boy with her
AS they entered store the child COM
planned of being cold and his mother
placed him on top of a radiator. and
then apparently forgot all about him in
the delight of looking for bargains. 1t
didn't take long for the heat of the
radiator to penetrate the child's cloth
ing, and as he was too bashful to make
an outcry. it was only by one of the
clerks noticing the squirming little
bunch of humanity that he was re-
leased from his disagreeable predica-
ment.
The Bucksport Herald cautions the
citizens Of that town not to be alarmed
if they hear ''all sorts of blood-curd-
ling, hair-lifting. maniacal and un-
earthly howls these days. 1t is only
the f. NJ. c. S. sophomores cultivating
the new class YELL"
Bath seems to be a profitable field
for laundries. At present there are
five there, and two Chinese laundries
are to be added soon.