Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-04-21
Maine G0ssalp>I
Fastening Home.

Fastening nome.
Where crumbs from shaken napkins fall
The sparrows come; hut, snort their
Pick lib their morsels. and away
To sheltering ivy by the wall.
Where cities spread their tables wide
In rush the morning tides Of men;
But evening sees them all again
Home waited at their country side.
And what is earth, dear heart Of love,
But one days exile from thy toll?
And wilt thou from thy task recOii,
SO near 10 heaven and home above?
Washington Post.
The new fish and game laws are in
force.
The Methodist parsons will now
know where they are at.
Gardiner is going right ahead with
plans for its semi-centennial carnival.
Quarrelsome factions in Lisbon make
it doubtful if the proposed centennial
anniversary Of its Incorporation is
held.
The many suits against the owners
Of the steamer Portland seem likely to
be dropped where they are.
Belfast claims to have Names lit
tlest man; Don Orman Robbins, aged
SO years, height A inches, weight Al
pounds. perfectly formed, and sound in
body and mind.
Commonly ii has been a May day
dance" with which the young people
have celebrated the arrival Of May. but
this year these occasions will be known
as Dewey dances"
The Bowdon Orient now makes its
appearance as a weekly instead of a
fortnghtly publication. as it has beer
since it's establishment. 30 years ago.
The change is made possible by the
success of the Quill, the college liter
airy monthly. The Orient as a weekly
will confine itself to the editorial and
news departments. and if the first
number is any criterion the change
will be much appreciated by all in
terested in the college. The new edi-
tor-in-chef Percy A. Babb, 1900, is to
be congratulated upon the successful
beginning Of his work.
The blowing up Of two railway loco
motives in Maine 50 near together,
with fatal results in both cases, is
pretty sure to cause agitation that will
result in State inspection of locomotive
boilers as well as those of steamboats,.
Congressman Samuel G. HilbOrn of
California. who died in Washington,
Wednesday, was native of MnOt,
Maine, where he was born. December
., 1884. Of a good old Puritan family.
He graduated at Tufts, was admitted
to the Cumberland bar, and went to
the Pacific coast where he won success
He served three terms in Congress.
His last visits to Maine We're as a
member of the congressional parties to
attend the funerals of Congressman
Milliken and Dingley.
The latest rumor that Biddeford and
Saco people have to discuss is that the
Boston & Maine is to make a union
passenger station for both divisions
and for both cities an Factory island.
The rumor has its origin in the conf
dent statement of a man who is be-
lieved to know what he is talking
about and also in the fact that some
rather mysterious surveys have recent
ly been made by the road in Saco.
The suburban clergymen around
Lewiston generally earn their Sunday
dinners. There is the Lisbon minister
Who breaches stoutly at Lisbon every
Sunday morning. holds the Sunday
school, and warns up the interest: and
then goes down to Lisbon Falls on the
electrics in the afternoon and breaches
another stirring sermon there. holds
the Sunday-school session and man.