Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-06-28
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God Will Sprinkle Sunshine.
If you should see fellow-man with
troubles flag unfurlcd,
An looking like he didn't have friend
in all the world
Go up and slap him ON the back, and hol-
Ter, How d you do?'
And grasp his hand so warm he'll know
he has a friend in you.
Then AK him what's a-hurtin' him, an
laugh his cares away,
And tell him that the darkest night IS
just before the day.
Don't talk in graveyard palaver, but say
it right out loud,
That God will sprinkle sunshine in the
trail of every cloud.
This world at best is but hash OF pleas
Some days are bright and sunny, ana
some all sloshed with rain.
when the clouds roll by
We IL know just how to preciate the
bright and smiling sky.
So learn to take 1t as 1t comes, and don't
sweat at he, pores
Because the Lords opinion doesn't coin
eide with yours;
cares your pain enSnTOhu,
That God has lots Of sunshine to spin be-
hind the cloud.
james Whltcomb Riley in Kansas City
Star.
This is ideal commencement weather.
Portland boasts Of a Dewey house,
but doesn't expect the admiral to stop
there when he visits the city.
\ party of six Holy Ghosters from
Shiloh have gone abroad to spread their
peculiar faith.
The steamer Horato Hall Of the
Maine Spermship Company has made
the trip from Portland to New York in
1914 hours. breaking the record.
They say that the middle Of July
will see the opening OF the new West
brook. Windham and Naples line. and
that section is preparing to celebrate.
The hills Of oxford county invited
the lightning. last week, TO the extent
that damages have been reported from
a large proportion of the towns in the
county.
The summer has Yet some time to
run, but BanEor's summer theatre dies
an early death. The stock company
has departed, and the few worshippers
of the drama in the Queen City are left
in gloom.
Madison IS not a large village but it
now has nine grocery stores-or about
one to every 80 taxpayers in the whole
town. And not one of the nine puts
sand in its sugar.
Bluehll seems destined to experience
an early revival Of the copper mining
industry which 90 years ago made
business boom in the little town. sent
mining spectators down to Maine in
hordes, put Bluchill copper among the
quotations in the markets of the cOun-
try, and sold Bluehill copper mining
stock on the Boston. New York and
Chicago stock markets. often at fancy
figures.
Lewiston Journal: Some people have
a way Of referring to the new college
graduate as someone who is expecting
to conquer the world or turn it upside
down. which is very stale wit and very
far from truth. The fact is most of
the graduates are wondering what
they shall do next and how the dickens
they are going to get a chance to do 1t.
1t is reported that no less than 200
actors and other professional people
connected with the stage are sum
mering a or near the Portland islands
Peak island especially is becoming a
veritable Rialto in the respect that it
is great hiding place for theatrical
people. The Fieldings We're the pio-
neers there but now their name IS
| legion.
There are disadvantages to living in
boom town, after all Beggars in
business on their own account and
begSars who represent various charit-
able institutions were never so numer-
Gus in Bath, say the merchants as at
present. One storekeeper with a bent
for statistics relates that last week he
was solicited by no less than AZ people
who wanted aid for crying needs, the
greatest number on one day being Is.
Here is the kind of stuff the New
York Sun Is printing about Maine
and its correspondent was 50 venture
some as to take such a common name
as Smith for the hero of the yarn:
George Smith of Blaine. while draw
ing water for his cows. lost a tin pail
in the well. He had let his eldest
daughter, girl Of II, into the well by
line to recover the pail, when he saw
that his cattle had entered a field Of
potatoes that had been newly poisoned
il his desire to save his cows from
death he forgot all about his daughter.
When he came back half an hour later
she had wept herself into commissions