Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-12-15
INy8lN0yB Gossip
December.

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December.
Snow is crnkfng meath our feet
With IL joyous crinklc.
Natures face now calm and sweet,
Doesn't show Il wrinkle.
Though her smile might warmer be
Natures face is good to see.
Merry Breeze assails our cheeks,
Pinches en- and t"eaks EN-;
Words of welcome now she speaks.
Mcrrily she speaks EN-;
Though her words are cold as steel
BrecZc'S breath is good to feel
All the birds have left us now
Save the noisy sparrow,
Wen some latitude allow,
For its life is narrow.
When no other birds arc near
Spalrow's chatter's good to hear.
JOYS of other seasons we
Gladly should remember,
But we should some beauty see
In the bleak December.
All the flowers of beauty start
When there's sunshine in the neart.
-PittSburg Dispatch.
The State Grange opens in due form,
this morning.
! The rain helped out, but good thaw
is needed.
Nordica evidently wishes her second
husband would also go up in a balloon.
1t is not the first time that Old Or
chard episodes have figured in the di-
vo.ce cases of the giddy Jack Mason.
lr.,tt ion
Democrats are for Hearst. No choice
could better suit the Republicans.
| After this year the Bowdoin Medics
will have to begin the years work, No
vember /. instead of late in December
as in the past.
1t is too bad that the young men of
the town have no cosy, well conducted
club room to spend these long even
| ings in.-Bucksport Times.
This rather reflects on the young
ladies of the village.
| Nearly 100 young men and women
| who are students at Bates College are
| teaching country schools for the win
| ter.
Up in Norridgewock they have been
talking of putting out a line of stakes
to tell future generations where the
river used to run.
| 1t is forcing the season Il bit to dis
cuss in the papers the relative chances
of the candidates for making next
springs college baseball teams.
And now the deer can draw u long
breath and proceed to browse in peace,
save where the poacher prowl3
through the bushes.
! a vely interesting circumstance was
the fact that While the Itebckah lodge
was being organized, in Round Pond,
last week. daughter was born to the
wife of T.. w. Murphy. Vice Grand of
Mariners Lodge. The child was named
Rcbecca and a monstrous cake with
the word "Rebecca" on it was donated
to the little one. Little Rebecca should:
| always feel a special tenderness to-
ward the three links.
Hon. r. II. Phair, of Pressure Isle.
has proof that all this Angora goat talk
is not moonshine for he has u pair of
gloves made of the wool of Angora
goats. raised in Maine. Levander
Welts. of Castle Hill, is trying the eX-
pertinent of breeding these animals and
the gloves were knit by his wife and
presented to Mr. Phair.
The hog is not usually given much
credit for knowledge but the Maine
woodsman tells this story to show that
there exceptions in the hog family. 1t
seems that the Berlin Mills Co. raise
and have on hand. nearly all the time,
pigs and hogs around their wood camps
Last season several families of pigs
first saw daylight at Redmond's camp
but before they were many weeks OLD
they We're moved with their mothers
some two miles down to the landing
camp. Here they We're kept until this
fall, the old ones having gone the way
that fat hogs generally go. A few
days since, these pigs of the past the
hogs of today. got out of their pens
and started off. A man might easily
miss the way to Redmond's, as there
are many roads, but this boar brigade
in solemn array went directly to theil
old home at Redmond's camp