Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-17


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! Hard Times.
I ain afraid o. panics cause down in my
! heart know
Dat de rose is gwinter blossom an dc corn
/ is gwinter grow; ~ ~
! 1t ain de mount O. currency you jinGles
| in yoh fist q
Dat puts you in society on de contentnient
| list; u S
But whcn, de song is silent an de smile
| has died away
An dar ain no one a-helpin out de chillun
| in DER play
An dar ain no welcome ready when you
strikes de cabin do,
, Den it's hakd times, honey, hahd times fob
| sho.
De touch o gold can nebber cure some
| dlSappointments smart
An silk an satin amt enough to bind an
| active heart;
De poverty that erowls today. tomorrow
| may be gone,
| An hope is always near enough to be de-
| pended on.
But when de chillun gifts dem kind o
| lonesome-lookin' eyes,
| An porlitenesS ism muffin but bad tenn
| per in disguise.
An one days 1es' like another, an de
| world is dun an slow,
Den it's hahd times, honey; hahd times
| fob Sho'.
Washington Star. 4
| The decline in liquor fines in Kenne-
bee indicates the efficacy of the en-
forcement program.
| The Bates and Trinity debators will
line up. tonight on the Lewiston City
hall stage.
The N. G.. S. NJ will proceed to stand
at present arms and allow Capt. Ault-
man to look it over.
If the closing part of the month would
favor us with weather a little less re-
miniscent of March, it would be much
appreciated.
The first game of the Maine College
series will be between Bowdoin and U.
| IF NJ. at Brunswick, Wednesday, April
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Rev. w. D. Center of Westbrook who
is attending the Methodist conference
at Bridgton this week. hasn't missed
but one or two of these annual Maine
conferences since 1854, a record which
it will be hard to equal.
Ambitious Limestone is looking ahead
system i'll the near future.
The Mail remarks that Waterville cit
liens are beginning to grow a trifie i'm
patient regarding the selection of a
site for Mr.. Carnegies gift His offer
Aame long while ago and, according
to all appearances, the city is not much
nearer having the building he offered
than it was when the offer was re-
ceived.
Monhegan rejoices in the possession
of it's first piano and it's arrival was
celebrated with much enthusiasm. But
it's melodies will be faint and futile in
comparison with the glorious diapasons
of the surf against the mighty cliffs,
and the grand arias of the ocean wind
through the sentinel spruces.
They have resurrected the story of a
minister at York in the good old times.
On one midsummer Sunday the
tythingman became somewhat lax in
the performance of his duties, so the
minister took the matter in his own
hands by ceasing his discourse and
shouting, Fire, fire, fret" and when
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the confused inquiry, "Where?" he
made answer, I'm He'll, for sleeping
sinners!"
A young man from Five Islands Wis
a railroad train for the first time in his
life. The way he took to cover made
a sensation among the spectators, but
he is a Maine boy and is likely to own
a railroad system or two, some of these
days.
Machias and Lubec and the region
between earnestly hope that the pro-
posed trolley line, for which a charter
has been secured, will be built. The
line would be about so miles long.
| Deer Island seems to be the seat of
a trust in expert yacht seamen, and
the Bath Times remarks that the Deer
Island boys have become dear islanders
in another sense.
| The records of the Waterville city
clerk show Il condition of things in that
city which is cheerful and encouraging
to those who like to see large families.
| The last half dozen births recorded
| showed that the new arrival was the
| fourth child in three instances, the
| sixth in two and the seventh in one.
| Tracing back for few pages numerous
| instances showed up of families of from
eight to sixteen children, and all these
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