Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-13
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The Way to the Lioht.

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The Way to the Light.
It's sigh and song-but we're driftin'
along
To wales where the daisies and violets
thrOng;
With courage that fails not-with faith
tEat is strong,
We drift to the light of the morning!
Though bitter the crosses-the sorrows
We look to the future-the beautiful
years;
And light glimmers bright through the
rain of our tears
We drift to the light of the morning.
And life takes on beauty, and splendidly
beams
The light on the hillsde-the valleys and
streams;
And Sorrow is only an echo of dreams
AS We drift to the light of the morning!
Atlanta Constitution
The fall rains are falling all right
enough
There isn't any great joy down
around Topsham, this morning.
The moose hunters are now headed
up INTO the wilderness.
If there is anything Suzanne Adams
wants in Kennebec county, she can
have it for the asking.
The Bemis boy who shot a blue heron
in the wing 1000 feet away, is modest
enough to admit that perhaps he could
not do it every time.
There were 5000 barrels of apples
shipped from Bowdoinham, last fall,
but that record will be beaten, this
year.
Harvard, Bowdoin and Colby have at
least one common bond of sympathy,
this fall. Their football teams have
been beaten by Amherst.
The country fair season in New
England has ended and the biggest
pumpkin championship is still an
open Observation-Disclosures Journal
Not since the full returns from Ken
nebec county came in.
They tell of a man in the Yarmouth
waiting room who wanted to learn his
weight, SO he removed his heavy coat,
hung it over his arm and stepping upon
the scales, coat and ALL he put a cent in
the slot and solemnly watched the
hand on the dial fly around to the fig
ures. I'm gaining lately" he re-
marked to the bystanders as he
stepped off the scales and drew on his
coat.
The Cumberland county country
towns say that if Portland wants a
new county building it must bear the
expense. TO back up this determine
ton they have dug out the old con-
tract and bond that Portland entered
into and gave away back in 1868 by
which the city bound itself to furnish
all the public structures needed for
Cumberland county for the next 99J
years. This contract runs for some 945
years more, and the country towns
say that at the expiration of that time
they will be willing to be taxed for
building new structure if it is need
ed.
Postmaster ]. c. Ralph of Southwest
HarbOr, has on exhibition an odd
curiosity which he has photographed
an axe blade dug up in the Stoddard
grounds at Manset with a large tree
root through the eye, protruding with
large roOtletS two feet or more on each
side of the opening, showing a big
growth of the material after it had
strung the axe on as a trophy.
discussion of the resubmission
question is one of the features of all
the various religious conferences and
conventions being held this fall, and it
is to be noted that they all reach one
conclusion with significant emphasis.
The Bangor, News proposes Il very
simple way of making more room for
the insane in our two insane asylums.
1t would nave all the idiots and feeble
minded cared for at their homes or at
almshouses and all the criminals at
the prisons. The removal of these two
classes, it thinks, would give con-
siderably more room for those really
insane.
The demand for cottages at York
Harbor for next season is greater than
ever before at this time of the year,
and it is remarked that in most in
stances leases are actually being
signed, while it was the former I'M
satisfactory custom for cottagers to
| merely obtain an option on house
| they might desire to occupy another
season, waiting till spring to either
conclude or abandon their purpose.
AT meeting held recently by the
Dexter Grange the subject of a farm
i ers' telephone service was under con-
| sideration 1t is expected that a move
will be made to form a farmers tele-