Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-02

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| Easter.
Light bursts on all the world
| d Rising Christ. from thee.
J JOY thrills all hearts.
| ~ Victor Christ. triumphantly.
As. when the first flower of the lingering
spring
| Breaks through the frosty crust OF WIN
ter's snow
And heralds omnipresent life in Mother
Earth.
Suffusing her wan face with snowdrops
glow.
So. nr,t-born Son of God,
And rarest flower of humanity
! Thou doSt presage race newborn
In thee To immortality.
~ r. II. Gesner
April's arrival was hardly the kind 10
warrant straw hats.
Portland is using its street Sphinx
l.rs and they are needed in other cities.
The baseballists are out at last. and
~ this stage Oh the season every player
is Il star.
Incidentally. congratulations are in
order to Governor Hill who has at
tanned the proud dignity Of "A grand
father.
Tomorrow is Easter Sunday, day
rich in historical associations. religious
significance ana sacred symbolism.
Are you inoculated against the
automobile fever? 1t is very catching
m Maine, this spring.
During the spring vacation many 2
boy is making the discovery that saw
ing wood is less fun than work in
school.
In most Of the Maine cities they re-
port that there are fewer bodies in the
receiving tombs Than is usual at this
season.
Here is what Il mean editor over in
Lewiston says about the Easter hats:
They look like flower gardens. All
that some of them need is Il fish pond
in the middle and a drive way around
the edge to be real Italian Villas
In connection with the Congregation
al church at New Gloucester there is Il
class in the Sunday school made up of
= few very aged men and women. ia
Tiers and mothers in Israel There
must be something pathetic about tina:
class OF aged scholars, Il rapidly lessen
ing band.
\ somewhat unique operation was re-
Elizabeth. the pet hen Of Il pretty Bow
dcinham girl, became Frustrated with
an acute attack Of appendicitis. Med
teal aid WAS at once summoned. and the
unfortunate Mary Elizabeth WAS
obliged In undergo Il very delicate oper-
alton. which resulted in her complete
recovery. much TO the JOY of her mis-
traSS.
PASSPORT reports that there is hardly
4 honse in the city which the measles
have not invaded. this spring.
Here is 4 recent bit of good advice
which State Master Gardner gives the
Maine Patrons of IIusbandry: Again
| say. as a farmers organization, care
fully keep the Grange under the control
of the farmers. We wage no aggressive
warfare upon any other organization.
nor attack any legitimate industry: but
the Grange was organized for the BEN
eft of agriculture. ana to elevate and
educate the American farmer. and
must ever be kept within its legitimate
line of work if the order is to endure.
Keep out the howlers and screamers
whose object is TO breed trouble
Watcrviile Mail: Governor Hill is
to be congratulated upon the reap
of Winthrop to the responsible position
Of State fish and game commissioner.
Mr.. Carleton has been more or less
criticized in connection with his work,
the Mail having now and then felt i'm
PEELED to comment unfavorably upon
some position he has assumed relative
to the matters entrusted to his care,
hut on the whole he has proved an in
telligcnt and able officer, under whose
care the fish and game interests of the
State have constantly increased i'm i'm
pOrtance. Today those interests con-
Stitutc one of the great industries of
Maine. in 4 sense. and to Mr.. Carleton
in his new term of office it will be given
to continue the good work that he has
been doing of late in going about pre-
Sentfng in its proper light the true re-
laliOn in which these fish and game in
terests stand 10 the general welfare of
the State.
The town of Sanford is to have Il fac
tory for the manufacture of automO-
biles. and this fact leads to the inter-
eStinS query as to why Maine has not
done more of such work. The eXpc-
rience of the Bath Iron Works has
shown TO the world that the artisans of
Maine can successfully compete with
those to he found anywhere i'm America.