Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-12-01
Maine Gossip
A Confession.

A Confession.
I've been down to the city and I've seen
The 'leCtric lights
The twentV-story buildin's and the other
Stunnin' sights ,,;
I've seen the trolley cars a-rusnlh Hiauis
An ali the place a-iookin' like fairy
But I'd rather see the big trees that's
An. watch I~T the ' stars a-twinklin' in the
An ia rather hear the wind that goes
a-singin' past the door
Than the traffic of the city with its
hustle an its roar.
reckon I'm peculiar. an my tastes Is
But what's the use denyin' things that
certainly is so! hon., ,ho
l went up to a concert an heaid the
1t sounded ike angelic harps a-hoatin
through the ar
Yet spite of all its glory an the eiaohess
If / stopped to think minute I was
homesick jes' the same: ;.
An / couldn't help confessin'. though it
seems curious .hins' robin suee,,,.
p'p'i III '"e washington Star.
II ;s oil off With the moose hunters
until another fall.
There is probably no connection be-
tween the unusual number of weddings
and the approaching end of leap year.
How pleasant it is to behold even the
Biddeford Record lauding President
Slyinc fhaf ho
election is over.
OF course. the President admired
the Maine building at st. Louis and
enjoyed his visit there. That has been
the experience of all who have attended
the big exposition.
Only a month to the New Year, the
assembling of the Legislature, the adj
vent of a Democratic sheriff in An
droscoggin. and various other things.
good and bad, that are scheduled for
1905.
The wise Christmas shOpper-but
then who ever heard of such an indi-
she would get busy at once instead of
waiting until December % and "a.
Two Belfast people were talking over
the wire when the tones came indis-
tinctly and one said to the other.
somebody is listening" Eyes. it is
Mrs. Blank, l hear the clock ticking
He was suddenly interrupted by sar-
castle tone. No you don't; that clock
has been stopped two days"
AT recent funeral in this town one
of the bearers fell asleep and snored so
loud that the remarks of the parson
could not be heard" says Brunswick
chronicler Of the odd and humorous.
In a Norridgewock marble shop was
recently seen the remarkable sight of
IL headstones all alike, set into long
granite bases. each base accommodate
ing several of the headstones which are
all to mark the resting places of the
different members of one family.
Waterville Mail: The Bath Times
wonders if there is city of it's size in
Maine which supports so many amuse-
ments as Bath. We can not answer
positively but we know that Waterville
could prove Il close second to any city
In that respect and that the complaint
of the Bath Times Is general all over
the country in these days. 1t is as true
of hundreds OF cities as it is of our ship
building neighbOr that so much money
goes for amusements that the people
have little to spend for other things"
Bangor Commercial: A fine speci-
men of the old-time country doctor
has lately died in Bethel, DR.. Robert
q. Wiley, at the age of 81. He had
been in perfect health up to last
spring. when he fell and hurt his hin
and received other injuries that has
tened his end. Until then his pro-
fessional work had suffered no inter-
ruption. and during the winter
previous he had sawed wood daily for
exercise. A native Of Fryeburg, he
graduated at the Dartmouth Medical
College in 1886, and then settled on
Bethel hill. He "doctored" in II
towns. and in the regular practice of
81 years he never took a days vaca-
ton. DR.. Wiley compounded his own
medicines, and used to say that he
had spent one-quarter of his life riding
nights. He retained all his faculties
until the last. Go thou and do like
wise-if you can! Now the world
would like to know if DR.. Wiley
patronized tobacco in any form, used
liquor, or took his own medicines?
A new book by a Maine author, this
fall. is Ideal and Real, the Students
Calendar" by Loring Farr. Esq, of
Manchester. In a neatly printed little
volume of 200 pages the author, who
styles himself 1.-The Student" tells how
he became able to travel the Kings
highway and points out the way for
others. In series Of 'prologues" for
the days and years is gathered a
harvest of the rarest gems of the
philosophy and literature of all ages.
These he explains and comments upon
as he holds them up for inspection. In
its conception and execution the book
bears ample evidence of the scholarly
instincts of it's author. He has delved
deep into the treasures of knowledge
and given ZIG tho fruifS of tho ovnar;