Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-03-24


And pawned you for the cash for one at
last,
Eut, more than all, I love you for that
day
When Laura, leaning near my heart
that seemed
10 tremble as the leaves where wild
winds roam,
With all the lips could never sing or say,
In thy deep pocket placed her hand, that
dreamed
Sweet dream of Love in mine the bleak
way home.
Atlanta Constitution.
The members of the Bangor police
force have right to be little nervous
these days.
Waldoboro is the latest Maine town
to authorize the establishment of a
liquor agency.
Maynowers are a drug in the market,
but Thomaston feels a little inclined
to boast of the first dandelion.
That is quite a different and more
praiseworthy Bangor plan" when over
$4,000 is raised for the family of a
murdered policeman.
Bangor News: Let every man who
hopes for salvation remember his faith
full dog and see to it that the license
tax is paid early. The man who can
| not afford to pay the tax on his dog
ought not to keep one, and the man
hn will n no killed
sooner than settle the license fee is
| too mean to live.
At the dedication of the Hubbard
| hail. -Bowdoin's new library building,
during commencement week, the ora
ton will be by Rev. Edwin P. Parker,
SO of Hartford, Conn.,, and the build
ing will be received by Chief Justice
Fuller, '53, on behalf of the trustees of
the college.
If one is inclined to be pessimistic
over the early spring from the fact that
last year it preceded a cold May and a
rainy cherries summer. there is cheer
to be had by going back to the season
of 1901, where we can get brace in a
more hopeful direction. That year
Warm weather began a month or so
earlier than common and the clip was
kept up all through the season.
John White of Waldoboro, has vio-
lin with a history. Years ago when Mr..
White was in Virginia, cutting timber
the crew wanted a fiddle. A darby
had one without any strings and he was
willing to transfer the property for six
bits. The fiddle was fitted with strings
and put into commission. 1t was after
| wards learned that this fiddle had
without doubt furnished music for
General Washington and Mrs. Wash
ington and their guests as they danced
at Mt. Vernon.
The Independent feels that Gardiner
may we'll be considered a dry" town
when the combined efforts of twelve
lynx eyed officers of the law rakes the
town from center to circumference and
can only find six or seven empty whis-
key bottles with not enough liquor in
them to make a case.
In proportion to it's population Mer-
Ger is the banner town for telephone
subscribers. The population is about
500 and the telephone subscribers num-
Der 60.
That Dedham woman who had to
carry her husbands dinner every day
and leave her hen house unguarded,
so the neighbors came in and took
away her fresh-laid eggs, and also her
profits, can be pardoned for placing an
energetic swarm of bees at the en-
trance to the hen pen door. The pun
ishment was cruel, no doubt, but she
saved her eggs, which was the motive
she had in moving the bees.
Bangor News: The outlook for labor
for the coming summer on the Penob-
scot is very bright. Beyond doubt any
man who is willing to work can find
good employment at wages fully as
high as were paid last year. The early
opening of the river to navigation will
hasten the time when the saw mills
will start Meantime the trades will
be employed at once. Contracts for
new houses and new stores are being
let, painters are at work, vessels are
making charters for voyages, fisher
men are fitting out their craft,
farmers are preparing for their sum-
mers crop, and a general business
awakening is predicted by those who
ought to know. Meantime the cost of
living is not so much as it was year
ago. The price of all meats are
much lower. Clothing is no higher.
Flour and other cereal foods are some
what cheaper, and take the whole list
of human necessities. it is found that
a family can live more cheaply now
than it was possible to do year ago.
Knowing this to be a fact, it is. the
duty of all of us who work to live, to