Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-07-27
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The Home Light.
| see the dear home light ahead.
There where ii used to glow
Before Ambition came and led
Me from it, long ago.
| see he light. the glorious light.
Upon the distant hill.
Thank heaven for the welcome sight.
Thank heaven the are there tonight,
To keep il burning still.
family see the Ids that lie
Upon the distant slopes.
And Oh, my heart is beating high
With freshly kindled hopes
| see the light which tells me they
Are waiting for me still
But here he filings his cares away
The light burns on the NIL
The light of home. oh: shall fare
Tn up alone, some night,
Upon a star-lit way and there
Behold another light?
On that last night, on shall there pc
A light upon the hill
Oh. shall there come thrill TO me,
AS. faring up the slope. l see
The home light burning still.
Chicago RecordH Herald.
Inst a trifc fallish but summer isn't
over.
II christen thee Maine. 7" says Miss
Anderson Of Portland.
The week has been made to order for
the busy haymakers.
There are a lot more of those Old
Home Week invitations to be sent
out.
Portlands new evening daily the
News. is due to make its appearance.
today.
Booming Belgrade. with the prospect
Of another big summer hotel on the
shores of Great Pond.
Great pond deserves a better name.
Massachusetts has not sheet Of
water so large. nor all of Maine lake
more beautiful.
Every business and professional man
in Maine has a cordial welcome for
the Maine Register for 1912. We
could not get along without il.
1t was a nervy advertising dodge by
which the proprietor of certain eff
fervcscent nerve tonic sought to start
a movement for its use in christening
TIE Maine. Some papers swallowed
the bait.
TIE Journal publishes. today. the
first installmcnt Of a continued story
by J. Otis Swift whose Mary Hudson 5
Son recently attracted so much at
tention. The new story. The Sheriff $
| Daughter is tale of Maine life and
is of live interest throughout. In both
prose and Verse Mr.. Swift is winning
many laurels. and rapidly easing
numbers of Maine friends watch with
I interest his New York successes.
| This "Fryeburg-On the SaCo' affecta
ton gets a dig on all sides. 1t is sug
sested that Skowhegan- the kenne
bee. Mariavlle-on the Union. and Sc
| boomook plantation on the West
| Branch of the Penobscot will next b.
in order
| Twelve whole barrels of beer, g
half barrels and eight quarter barrels
were used for flushing out the Bidde-
ford sewers one day. this week. Ar
unusual part of the proceeding was
that most of it was of local manufac-
ture.
Charles Barnes of Waldo claims that
he moved 20 acres of grass in 9 hours
one day last week. with a machine with
a J-foot cutter bar. without lifting
the bar from the ground. There are
not many 20-acre fields in Maine with.
out a stone large enough to bother 8
cutter bar.
The boxing exhibitions which Bal
Harbor has been countenancng for {
long time. approached a little too clost
to prize-fghting the other night TO sui
First Selectman Bunker. and the polio,
stopped the fight. There will be NJ
more boxing exhibitions in Bar Harbo
for some time to come. Selectmal
Bunker stirred up hornets nest. bu
he seems to have come out on top al
usual
druggist testified in the Portlan,
municipal court this week. tina
Jamaica ginger. or at least the kim
he sells. rs composed of alcohol an,
powdered ginger, about Is per cent. O
t the mixture being the latter. and h.
declared that his sales of this com
pound are about a dozen bottles ;