Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-12-31

En- Qe ldIllD WhoSe hSSNC "e~ "NA'N 80
Is coli fer de want er fleece!
En- de Chiny tea set. scattered roun,
Look lonesome ez kin be
Wen de silver bells fer supper SCUM, !
En- de dolls don't come ter tea!
But-blcss dc hearts err de chillun, all!
Eff it's gone-de Chris mas day.
Dey still ma kes music in dc hall,
In de same ole winnin' way.
En- de toys kin go-though dey loved EN-
SO,
Whar de snow fall white ez foam;
But de sweetes toys is de gals en- boys
In de sunshine sweet Of Home!
Frank L. Stanton.
The last grain is falling through the
hour glass. =
There seems to be something of a
shortage in the calendar crop.
It has been terrible December for
the men on the coasters and fishing
smacks.
It is estimated that Belgrade
orchards yielded between $4,000 and
40, 900 barrels of fruit, this year.
No men have kept their good reso-
lutions fer 1903 better than Sheriff
Ham and County Attorney Leigh.
The custom Of New Years gifts is
convenient for those who received
Christmas remembrance from uneX-
pected sources.
Virginia also has been watching the
mercury daily around the % below zero
| mark,-but it was Virginia up in Rum
ford.
The men who keep track of the snow
storms are having a hard job, this
winter, and no two are likely to agree
upon the same number.
1t Is q smooth freeze on the ice fields,
and the harvest will soon begin on both
the Kennebec and the Penobscot.
The Maine sanatorium movement is
moving all right. The object aimed at
is one of the greatest Importance to our
people, and those who are giving time
and energy to the cause deserve cordial
and general support.
Master Donald Parsons Of Millinocket
has had his Share Of the ills of life at
least, it would seem that he needs no
more for some time yet. He is only
four years old, but has had the small
pox, appendicitis and typhoid fever
East Sumner within four years, has
seen the erection of several new
buildings including postoffice, depot,
that it is prospecting.
The editor of the Norway Advertiser
extends thanks to young lady who
has contributed to his sanctum hand
painted calendar for 1904 bearing two
fishing scenes and the following strik-
ing verse:
like to sit and think and fish,
And fish and sit and think.
And think and fish and sit and wish
had another drink.
From Fort Fairfield comes the fol-
lowing big potato story, or story of
big potato. c. f. Holt. buyer of
potatoes at the Aroostook Valley
starch factory, was presented with a
fairly good sized potato few days ago.
1t took one hour and thirty minutes tc
bake it. The family of three used less
than three-quarterS of it for their dim
ner, the remainder making sufficient
hash for another meal for the family.
There is a great deal of lugubrious
talk about green Christmas making a
full churchyard." says Maine
philosopher, but green Christmas is
far more common than a white one,
and always has been since l can re-
member. OF the ChriStmaSes in tn,
past twenty years about four-hfths
of them have been of the type we art
getting tOday-Warm and with hardly q
sign Of ice or snow on the ground. In
the old times things may have been tn,
reverse Of this, but as that saying
comes down to us from antiquity ]
guess our forbears must have known
what green Christmases were ever
then. AS to full churchyards l doubt
if moderate weather is more fatal tc
humanity than the rigorous kind, for
winter is a terror to feebly constituted
people anyway. So churchyards are
bound 10 get full at this season. for, to
transpose the popular song. It's all
coming in and nothing going out"
Lewiston Journal: Efforts of enemies
of prohibition to make light of all at
tempts to prohibit are like the fellow in
Jail looking out through the bars and
saying This doesn't hurt. If you only
had been smart you had case enough to
send me to states prison" In the
county of Androscoggin year has
passed and every promise of the friends
of enforcement has been fulfilled.
There is not an open saloon in Lewis
ton or Auburn, plying trade under pro-
lection. There is no farce to the law.
The traffic if carried on is by stealth,
at the most imminent peril to the party
so engaging. No law on earth can
obliterate crime. This is said over and
over and yet has to be said anew. The
criminal deties law. That is his look
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