Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-11-24
.jWy0gn1yB Gossip
Hands Round in the QuadriIIe.

upon the shed, r
put within-the freight dancin' round
the hollyberrieS red, ,
An rosy 10 the nnstletee the slris II ~
be led
Hands roun' with your sweetheart IN
the quadrille.
O. sweet the summer season. when the
wind is in the pines,
An vou listen for your lover in the sway
in of the vines;
But Loves in winter weather, an lie
cuttln' up his shines
Hands roun' with your sweetheart in
the quadrille,
So pile the oak logs higher, an make
the chimney roar,
Room Il gittin' crowded-but there's place
for plenty more!
Don't YOU see, the latchstrinGS $ on me
outside Of the door,
Hands roUn' with your sweetheart III
Frank l.. Stanton.
ONLY few days in which TO acquire
that thankful feeling.
\ few school football games are
scheduled for Thanksgiving day.
The turkeys and chickens now "p-
preciata what all that kindness meant.
Wells and OGurquit hear the vel
come nows that there IS q good pros
peet Of electric lights.
The cost Of the new Grand Trunk
station in Portland will be about
100000.
The party of hopeless idiots who
yelled Fire" in the Bath theatre, the
other night, were promptly fired and
should never be allowed in the theatre
again.
John Morrison Of East Corinth,-let
his name be written high and in bright
iettc. s-went over 10 -Sebec, the other
| day. ana distributed 20 Barrels Of flour
among the poor PEOPLE Of that town.
The Maine Eye and Ear infrmary
evidently manages to get along with
out State aid. The year just closed
| has been one of great activity. The
whole number OF patients treated was
f179. The institution has nearly met
its running expenses during the year,
the deficit being $44.07.
Editor james Z. Dunning Of the
Portland Advertiser who has recently
| been contributing short fiction to nu-
merous magazines, is now furnishing
stories regularly to the Mcclure Syndi-
cate which supplies the leading papers
of Boston. Philadelphia and Baltimore
with special features. Mr.. Dunning's
| host of friends in all parts of Maine
wish him every success.
This is the way in which the Rock
| land Courier-G&zette introduces its ac-
credited representative, who has just
started on the warpath; Mr.. Morse is
| a middle sized gentleman, rather good
| looking, q farmer by instinct, of Il
sunny, genial temperament, halter
| broke, good at repartee and able to
| talk the hands off an eight-day clock
| The natural conclusion is that it isn't
| much use for anybody to decline to
subscribe for newspaper that can put
| such an agent on the road.
Waterville Mail The story of the
| Brunswick farmer who compared the
Bates Bovdoin game TO the struggles
Of drove Of hogs for d peek Of corn
| thrown upon muddy field. reminds
| some of the spectators at the Colby-U.
| Of NJ. game at OToro, of the indiffeT-
| ence displayed Dy a farmer who was
spreading fertilizer upon a piece of
ploughed ground closely adjoining the
| s., i
| bapd-pla ying and general excitement
that preceded the opening OF the game.
ne paid nor the slightest attention, and
| when the game was on he apparently
| paid no more attention to il than as
if it were being played a thousand
| miles away. He may nave been Geaf
| and sighted. but upon no other
supposition is il easy to explain how
any man could work so close to such
scene and yet evinCc not :hc least de-
gree of interest in it,
| The last log house in the town of
Norway is being razed to the ground
land the last vestige of sign of pioneer
times in this section is passing with it.
For years the house. situated on the
Witt farm has attracted the attention
of visitors to Norway. 1t was struct-
ure about 20X30, made Of logs hewn
with an adj, the erds being closely
dove-tailed together. OF late years it
las been used as storehouse, but it
was built for dwelling purposes. no.
body knows how many years ago.
Bangor News: Eastern Maine has
rot witnessed so much business
activity for more than dozen years as
|, it enjoys today. There is positively no
excuse for an active. healthy man to be
IDLE for q single day. In a walk up
Exchange streat, Bangor. one win find
signs every few rods which tell of men
wanted for the woods. A talk with the
employment agent reveals the fact that
wages are higher now than at any time
since the Civil War and that a man
who can do any kind of work can find
paying employment from the day he