Daily Kennebec journal., 1904-03-25
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The kiII.Joy.

The kiII.Joy.
Oh, de trouble mans fcller dat keeps
busy all day long,
When other folks is restin' he is work
in good an strong.
When anybOdy'S laughin' or a-fecln
kind o good
Hes allus sure to settle in de 'me;it
He drops de corners of his mouf an
talks so very sad
He kind O gifts you shamed because you
isn't feelin bad.
He shows you de mistakes OF nearly
everything you plan,
An life ain worth de livin' when you
meets de trouble man.
keeps turnin' loose;
Oar ism any answer to 'em. 'ceptin'
whats dc use?"
What's de use q laughin? WhatS de
What's de use of anythin' but sorrowin',
an tears?
If he'd work as hahd for happiness As
he has worked for grief,
I'll bet de mex convention dat is held
would 'lect him chief
But he goes a-scattcrin' sadness an ne
| does de beS he can
TO make us mighty sorry dat we met de
trouble man.
| Washington Star.
The Easter hat problem is nov
troubling the inside of many fair
head.
| Jordan was a hard road to travel. but
it was never in it with the Maine coun-
try roads i'm the spring.
Tho Aroostook farmers were inspired
by the high price of flour to plan on d
good wheat CROP this year.
A former Franklin county stage
| driver recalls that, So years ago he
made his first trip of the winter on
runners, Nov. II. and the last one,
May /. That was an old fashioned
winter.
No wonder the Lewiston High school
| boys wanted trip to Washington.
The announcement of the rank of the
class shows that the first eight in
| rank in the class are all girls.
Only the coal man mourns as winter
dies. and he is so busy counting his
profits that he cannot waste time in
shedding many tears.
! The vital statistics of MachiaS for
the year 1903 has been a subject of
considerable comment from the press
of the State, there having been G6
births and but q deaths. From the
present indications it would seem that
| the statistics of 1894 will be much less
| favorable, as the town clerks records
| show that Is deaths have occurred be-
tween Jan. 1st and March goth. For
the corresponding period last year bu:
| one death was recorded.
| Warden n. J. Hanna writes the fol-
lowing open letter to the fishermen
along the coast of Maine: DO you
want n bounty placed on dogfish? If
YOU do, get into the harness. Sign the
petition yourself and urge your fellow
fishermen to do the same. / have re-
ceived 20 applications for petition
heads during the past week and have
supplied them all. have new sup
Ply Just arrived ana can flr1:s', al -
application, free of charge. The calls
from the eastern part of our State We're
so numerous last week that I feared l
! should be unable to meet the demand
We must work hard if we wish to pre-
serve our fishing industry from this
| terrible scourge. The British prov
| inces have taken hold of this matter
and are pushing it to finish. Let us
not be laggards in the good work on
the coast of Maine"
Captain Charles Bucknam Of Faf-
mouth has invented unique arrange
mcnt for telling the way of the wind
without taking the trouble to so out of
doors. The weather vane on his stable
he has connected by means of hollow
tubes, wires, ball bearings. etc. etc.
| to a similar vanc near the ceiling of
the kitchen, thus causing both to turn
| the came. The captain can now tell
which way the wind blows by glancinG
| overhead in the cabin and not be
obliged to "go on deck
| Over at Stevens Mills there is a
vouns lady who has a beau. She lives
with her parents and the other mem
Dor of the family is a young brother.
the kind that is always in the way.
The other morning when the man of
the house started out on trip down
| to Auburn he went to get his umbrella
in the front hallway but it was not to
he found. I'D like to know who sto:
that" he sputtered. Then the young
brother who had been prying about as
young brothers will at times when they
arc not wanted forwarded this infor-
nation. II know who has got your
umbrella. dad. heard George say the
other night as he was saying good by
| 10 sister that he would steal only one"
| 1t is writer in the March number
Of Evcrybody's Magazine who thus