Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-03-28
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The Liohts Behind the Hills.

The Lights Behind the Hills.
Somewhere the bells are ringing and
sweetly sings the rills;
The Lights behind the hills, dear-the
Lights behind the hills;
The Darkness was but dreaming, the
earth with glory fills
The Lights behind the rosy hills of
Morning.
Somewhere a sweeter chorus from May
time meadow thrills;
The Lights behind the hills, dear-the
Lights behind the hills;
No darkness e'er shall daunt it: The
Light is as God wills
The Lights behind the hills that make
the Morning!
Frank l.. Stanton.
1t is not good-by to the lawmakers
quite yet.
There will also be a brief extra SEES
sion later in the year.
Next week the boat for Boston, and
then it will really be spring.
Bi6deford is talking up Merchants
day as a spring feature.
The freak lambs are coming along,
and Ellsworth Falls claims first prize
with one which has eight legs and
three ears.
The latest Bar Harbor edict is that
no pigs shall be allowed within the viii
lage limits after April Is. This pro-
hibition applies only to the legged
variety.
Eventually the electric wires in Port
land will all be underground, and a
start seems about to be made to this
end
Biddeford hopes she has about seen
the last of the smallpox microbe. Next
Monday, if present plans do not mis-
carry, and no more cases appear, Bid
deford will be without single case of
smallpox and will not have a single
building under quarantine.
Last week Rev. w. H. Foster of
Livermore Falls, reached the good old
age of 81 years, and Sunday morning
ct Tic hISluOuISl CiluICII lie DIedCutu
interesting and instructive sermon. A
large congregation greeted Father
Foster as he is called, who is active
in his advanced age. He read from the
Scriptures without the aid of glasses.
Andrew Carnegie has offered the
town of Wiscasset $4,000 to erect a free
public library building. There is more
continent connected with this offer
than in many similar gifts. The ship
which brought Andrew Carnegie and
.S49 was named Wiscasset and was
built in Wiscasset for the whale fish
ing company organized there in 1884.
A Portland dealer in clans and lob
sters has just shipped to New York
$50 barrels of clam bait. When landed
in New York they will be shipped to
Portugal, which is about 5000 miles
away: then they will be taken by
fishermen for the Banks, which is
some 200 miles this way from Portugal.
A larger portion of this bait is dug in
Casco bay. and it is quite a journey
for bait to take.
Portland isn't taking bit of stock in
the stories going the rounds of the
Canadian papers that the Grand Trunk
is to make ST. John. N. B., it's Atlantic
terminal. The Grand Trunk has in
vested too much money in the city of
Portland, to abandon that port. Brit
ish Vice-Consul j. b. Heating, in an in
terview with an Express reporter,
says: MY idea. is that the Grand
Trunk will not abandon Portland by
any means. If the road should feel
Obliged to establish an Atlantic termi-
nal in Canadian territory, it would be
used only for it's trans-Pacific line, and
Portland would still continue to do the
business it is now doing. In order to
get subsidy from the Canadian gov
eminent for its Pacific line, it could
run into st. John, and all business over
that line could be shipped across
through ST. John. The subsidy, how
ever, has nothing whatever to do with
it's present Chicago-Portland line. and