Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-03-21

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A Song of Hope.
Back of the gloom
The bloom
Back of the strife
Sweet life.
And Towering meadows that glow anC
Where the winds sing joy and the daisies
dream,
And the sunbeams color the quickenine
clod,
And faith in the future and trust in God
Back of the gloom
yygs5s The bloom!
Fronting the night
The light!
Under the SHOWS
The rose!
Md the wales sing joy to the misty hills
md the wild winds ripple it down the
rils;
And the far stars answer the song thai
With all the music of all the bells!
Fronting the night
The light.
Frank L. Stanton.
The oldest inhabitant can Nscarcely
'emember a milder or more pleasant
March.
There has been rather less speaking,
his winter. than goes with the aver
lge legislative session.
Some ambitious city gardeners are
tut, and one Lewiston man boasts that
lis lettuce is we'll above ground.
Turner will have special town
Meeting, next Thursday. to see if it
will vote $4,000 for the electric road
rom Auburn.
The Ballard murder trial was model
or shortness, and the sentence of Bal
ard and Lambert to life Imprisonment
shows that murder in the Maine wilder
ness isn't such very safe business.
The college baseballists are happy in
;etting out of doors to practice. Their
irst games will come in about two
weeks.
Asher c. Kinds, who is one of the
)roprietors of the Portland Press, has
eturned from Washington and has as
sunled for the present the editorial
management of the Press, made va
ant by the untimely death Of Lemuel
4. Cobb.
+ They know it is spring along the east
rn Maine shore because the steamer
Frank Jones has resumed service this
week, leaving Portland Tuesdays and
fridays, for Rockland and all Han
,ock and Washington ports.
The Senate calendar for March 20,
1903, was the longest one in the his
DRY of Maine legislation. 1t had 60
bills in the second reading; &c bills
tabled for printing; 10 bills and reports
.abled and unassigned; bills tabled
and assigned--in all 104 bills and re-
ports, a record breaking days work
for one session.
Another Maine-born writer comes to
the front in Sewall Ford, author of the
novel, Horses Nine" He was born
n South Levant, but has spent only a
small part of his life in this State. He
is 80 years of age, and for 16 years has
been in newspaper work in Boston,
Baltimore and New York. He has writ
ten much snort fiction for the maya
zines.
1t is said that on an average, 16 tons
of Holsters. about half from Rockland
and half from Portland, are shipped
daily by express to Boston. Think of
the gastronomic delight, not to mention
the subsequent Nightmares, in such
shipments.
Phillips has voted to continue its
liquor agency. At the town meeting
all the clergymen appeared and made
a pleato have it discontinued but they
were voted down, two to one.
D. c. Hall at Salisbury Cove plowed
half an acre of land March IA, feat
he thinks was seldom attempted before
in the State of Maine so early in the
season. His burrows were eight inches
deep and he only struck frost in two or
three places. The ground was in ex-
cellent condition and March 16, it was
planted with peas.
The agitation for suitable High |
school building for Ellsworth has be-
gun, and the public spirited citizens |
hope that it will not cease until the
object for which It is started is ac-
complished. 1t is pointed out that it |
would not take the whole of the uncol- |
lected taxes. which amount to some |
$32, 900, to build suitable building and |
equip it. The present administration |