Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-01-11
Maine Gossip
Iakin' Comfort.

Idkln C0mION.
wouldn't be an emp'ror after supper
cleared away;
| wouldn't be king, sub. If | could.
SO long as I've got health and strength
home where | can stay.
And woodshed full of dry and httee
wood. i,
For Jimmy brings the bootjack, and
mother trims the light,
And pulls the roller curtains, shettih
out the stormy night
And me and Jim and mother and the cat
set down. .
o. who in thunder'd banker for a crown?
Who wants to spend their ev'nins settin
starched and prim and straight,
Awarmin royal velvet on thIohe
II $ mighty tedious business settih up -
thund' rim late
With not a minit's time to call your
own. -,
I'd rather take my comfort after workin
through the days
With my old blue wooden stockin's nigh
the fires social blaze.
+ or me and jim and mother ana the oid
Come mighty near to KNOWN where
Holman Day in Lewiston Journal.
Judging from the beginning the 1900
fire record for Maine will be a bad one
A few mid-winter bicycle riders are
loing a mixture of freezing and scorch-
ing on the city streets.
Lewiston, too, is starting in the new
year very soberly. For the first seven
days only one arrest for drunkenness
was made in the CITY.
What church has a younger organist
than Master Lawrence Whitcomb. age
10. of Bangor, who played to the salts
faction of the First Baptist congrega-
ton. last Sunday?
Portland coffee drinkers had quite a
scare. the other day. over the prospect
Of "bubonic coffee" from the plague
ships which We're turned away from
New York. But ii was only a founda
tionleSs yarn.
Maine stands 10th on the list of
states in its membership Of the Ameri-
can Flag House and Betsy Ross
Memorial Association. This State has
1tN ihtIllbtlS. 10 states blcNAlN III Ati'
extreme South and West. having n
smaller number.
One Of Names latest and most popu-
lar musical compositions is the Bow
doin Two Step. for the piano, by Miss
+. r. MacGregor Of Portland. 1t Is
dedicated to Bowdoin's 80 football
eleven. and is fully up to the previous
efforts Of this talented composer.
Cressey. Jones and Allen Of Portland
are the publishers.
The Strenuous Life" is phrase
quite often heard and generally credit
ed to Governor Roosevelt of New York,
who made use Of il last year. But it is
older than that. Ii is recalled that
when the Won. Josiah II. Drummord of
Portland. delivered his address upon
the career IF the late Justice Clifford
Of the supreme court il was printed in
a Portland paper under the title of "A
Strenuous Life"
The death Of Levi r. Boothby Of
Waterville removes Names oldest in
surance man and the last of those
sturdy pioneer Republicans who did
their work So we'll among the oxford
hills in the early fiftes. Mr. Boothby
was full of interesting "reminiscences Of
those early days of Maine Republican,
ism. and no man in Maine was more
loyal To the great party which he help
ed to organize.
having an hereditary government.
The Bee says the grandfathers Of Sc
lectmen Fulton and Browne We're as
ISOLATED on the board of selectmen in
their time, and IS years later their
grandsons are associated in the same
capacity. And then as now one was a
Democrat and the other a Republican.
The Watervillc Mail has faith that
the old Kcnncbec will never shirk the
responsibility that rests upon ii as
manufacturing stream. going back on
the capital invested on its banks. 1t
also chcerfully prophcsies that the
backbone Of the extreme cold weather
is due to snap inside Of a month and
then there will be water to throw
away.
1t is pretty quick business to go from
one end of Moosehead lake to