Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-04


OF Joy that seemed but happy Dream
life as common and brown and bare
AS the box of earth in the window tnere.
Yet it bore at last the precious bloom
OF a perfect soul in a narrow room.
pure as the snowy leaves that 1olo
over the flowers heart of gold.
DIR. Henry Van Dyke.
Now comes the award in the Augusta
water case.
The "R" months are gone and the
oyster breathes 4 sigh of relief.
Camden will enjoy, this evening
drama by it's talented local author,
Gilbert Patten.
The Biddeford Journal suggests that
if the sardine packers are unable to get
q supply of herring, the packers should
substitute alewives OF course TINS
would be deception, but Maine sard1nes
are SO far in the deception business
that another step wouldn't count for
much.
Regarding the push cart idea for
keeping pavements clean the Gardiner
Reporter Journal says: The Bath IN
dependent suggests man and push
cart to keep the paving clean in that
city, but says it does not know II the
idea is practicable. 1t is, as Gardiner
can testify. A man and push cart
kept our street cleaner last summer
than it ever was before, and at less eX-
pense than sweeping it once a week
with the street sweeper" The same
plan is in operation in Augusta and
works well.
A Twenty-ninth of February club,
eligible to all persons-regardless OF
sex or age-whO We're born on February
20, has been organized in New York
city. There are 80 charter members,
which is doing pretty well when one
considers the limitations which are
placed around wouldbe members. We
wonder how many there would be to
belong to similar club if it We're
organized in Maine. Among all our ac-
Quaintance we know of but two persons
who claim to have been born on this
rare day. One will hunt a long time in
the biographical dictionaries and
cyclopedias before he discovers per-
son who claimed February 80 as his
natal day.-BangOr News.
That may be true. but it seemed as
though the land was full of them, two
months ago.
1t is curious fact that out of a lone
list of merchants who were doing bust
ness in Brunswick so years ago, none
are alive now except A. V. Metcalf and
Ira p. Booker, who at that time We're in
partnership. The latter is now the
treasurer of Bowdoin College.
Either the price of chewing gum will
be advanced or the size of the pieces in
the slot machines will be reduced is the
latest announcement on the market
and gum chewerS are beginning to Won
der if there will be enough left for a
cent to supply respectable mOuthful.
Chicle, the raw material which forms
the foundation of all chewing gum has
become scarce. The crop produced on
the eastern coast of Mexico has been
shorter than usual and the demand
greater Reduced sizes must be the
order as matter of self preservation
to the manufacturers of chewing gum.
Portland Advertiser.
That may be of interest in Portland,
but in the rest Of Maine the gum chew
ers will continue to yank spruce gum
from our own forests and will not be
worried by the scarcity of "chicle" OH
the eastern coast of Mexico.
The Bowdoin and U. of M. mines meet
at OronO. today, for their first game of
the season and it promises to be live
ly game, though neither nine is yet in
condition to do it's best work. Both
seem to have strong batteries and both
seem to have n few weak spots. The
Bowdoin nine has played three games.
beating Bates to in 10 innings; WIN
ming from Exeter by forfeit, though the
latter vas ahead when the game ended
in the fifth inning, and losing to Dart
mouth. to o. The OrOnO boys have
played no games at home but took n
Massachusetts trip, last week. OF the
seven games scheduled, four were lost,
and three We're prevented by the rain.
Both the Colby and Bates mines are
taking their annual Massachusetts trip,
this week.
Three hundred lighthouse children
who live along the coast of Maine will
have the chance to go to school If Mrs.
Estelle B. Stanley Of Duck Island can
induce the next Maine Legislature to
pass her bill 70 that effect. Mrs. Stanley
is president of Work Among Light
Stations" department, which was es-
tablished about two years ago, and has
since done good work in bringing COM
fort and cheer to the lonely jewellers IN
lighthouses. Mrs. Stanley says there
are nearly 5000 American-born children
in the United States who are shut out
from the privileges Of the public
schools simply because they live on the
mainland.
An Educated Echo.
An ordinary echo is a curious thing; but
according to the statements OF rrencn-
man at watering place in the Pyrenees.
one echo on the FrancO-Spanish frontier
is so far from ordinary that 1t must nave
started in America.
"As soon as Won have spoken said the