Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-01-20
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The Lady Of Sleep.

The Lady Of Sleep.
The lullaby Lady she's sometimes called
When W.. lisp with 4 childish tongue.
When manhood's stature's a WISH io'e
stalled,
! And life is a song unsung;
Our trundle-bed wee she bends abo'e'
And grants US 4 rest from play
The Lullaby Lady with touch OF love
/ VINO cares our cares away.
| To the Poppy Princess We change hef
! When older we've grown. and sign .,,,,
Midst the mad'ning chase AFTER "ch'o
fame
And the span Of each day heart-res' NC
TIL we lie in her loving keep,
And the Princess into our tired eyes
The HouSekceper.
January is indulging in more than Its
share of cold waves.
One editor gets comfort by rejecting
that next summer will probably be I'M
usually hot.
Bethel is talking up electric hsnts
for its streets. The beautiful old village
deserves the best.
There are now five policemen guard
ing Brunswick o'nights, and those bold
burglars will get caught sometime if
they don't watch out
Charles W. Morse is not doing things
by halves for Bath. Having built the
city q fine High School building he now
buys two houses near it in order that
their sites may be included Ill the
school grounds.
Seventeen young ladies at the Maine
Central Institute. Pittsfield. getting
tired OF waiting for the boys to shovel
out the paths, attended to the matter
themselves. one morning this week.
This is all right for once in a while.
but the girls better let it be understood
that this action is not to be regarded
as a precedent.
rumnaage sale in that city n metal
easel frame with a painting of pansies
on it. The next day the hired girl at
the home of the donor. stepped into the
rumniage sale and bought the two
articles, to put up in her room.
Harvey D. Eaton deserves every cent
OF the $4,000 which he gets for his
services and expenses during seven
years OF hard and continuous work for
the Waterville Water district. The
lump now looks big to most OF us, but
ne has earned it and the district can
we'll afford to pay it. AS q matter OF
moral justice several other Maine COM
munities should pay Mr.. Eaton liber-
al fea, for he blazed the way for the
water district system and the expert
ence Of Waterville showed others how
it should be done.
Old Town people are complaining
that the basketball contestsare smash
ing the City hall, cracking the plaster
ing below and battering things up gen
orally. But what of that?
County Attorney Albert T. White
house is again the president of thu
Lincoln Club, the famous working Re
publican organization Of Portland. ant
Col. John D. Printable is the Chairman
of the banquet committee and that il
the same thing as saying that the clu'
will be great factor in local politics
again this year and that under tn
skilful direction of Col. Printable tn
annual banquet will be a great success
The leading speaker this year will b
CONGRESSMAN Watson OF Indiana.
4 Bath man whose mother Is an in
defatigable housewife. having remon
etrated with her in vain for WORKING
unnecessarily hard about the house
has prepared this epitaph. for futur
use, which fits the tombstoneS of man,
good Maine women deceased. as well
She did what she could and a littl
more and that killed her."
1t surely is to be hoped his trouble
have not gone to his brain. but this
how the Parkhurst correspondent Q
HOW TO GAIN FLESH