Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-22

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At Table Setting.
For the table setting
Fewer arc the places.
Fewer round the table
Grow the children's faces.
Changes. changes. changes
Life and Death are bringing;
Sore my soul missires me-
Fears my heart are wrinSlnS.
Otherwise l fancied
AS l hushcd their weeping;
Otherwise | fancicd
AS watched them sleeping.
Small. we kept them near us,
Thou and | together:
Hard the task without thee,
Lonely the endCaVor.
Round the board crowded
Wider grow the spaces,
For the tablc-settinG
Fewer are the places.
-t:vangcline Metheny. i'll the April Allan
tic.
The Maine college boys did well i'm
the New England field day at Wor-
cester.
Grace Darby is jumping around east
ern Maine in way that beats the
proverbial flea.
Hargravcs circus, a new one for
Maine, is coming into this State and it
is expected that it will be along early
in June. The show is not as large as
some but is said to be first class in
every particular.
This weeks college ball games will
be Bates VS.. Tufts at Lewiston, Tues
day: Bowdoin VS.. U. of M. at Orono.
and Colby VS.. Mass. AZ. Col. at
Watcrville. Wednesday: Bowdoin VS..
Bates at Brunswick, Friday; and Colby
VS.. Z. of NJ. at OrOno, Saturday.
Soon the railroad and steamboat
lines will adopt their summer time
tables and here's hoping that we get
warm weather early in June. That
is what Maine needs for prosperous
summer resort season.
Those who have not got their gardens
made yet are not losing anything, so
one says who ought to know, as the
ground is not warm enough to start
the seed quickly. There hasn't been
amy very warming weather yet.
The Express complains that the
pedtiler nuisance in Portland demands
attention. 1t is no uncommon thing
in any of our cities for women to be
frightened by the unccremoniOus en-
trance of foreign tradesmen who push
their way through every open door
without stopping to ring the bell or
waiting for an answer. Then, too. it
has come to be fine habit with rag
men to demand yes or no answer at
the door. a statement of the inherent
rights and obligations of these gentle
men of strange accent, and a proper
enforcement of the same, would be Il
welcome change in many places.
the Maine music festival discusses the
coming festival as follows: 81 think I
may say that we are to have one of the
greatest festivals, next autumn. that
Maine has ever known. In point of
general personnel of artists it is per-
haps the greatest one that we have
ever had-unless it be the great
NOrdica festival at the start. l can
rot give you the names of the artists
in their entirety until one week from
next Saturday when we shall announce
the complete program throughout the
State according to the usual custom.
But I can say that Nine. Eames has
formally signed her contract in my
presence and that she will positively
appear at the both the western and
eastern festivals. Besides Evans
Williams. who needs no introduction to
Maine festival audiences. l have also
engaged a renowned Italian tenor-a
man who. during the past season has
come into the very front rank of the
wOrld-famOuS tenOrS. There will also
be a great violin soloist. a celebrated
New York soprano and equally IA
nous COntraltO. great basso and
others, all of whose names l cannot
give you until the appointed hour of
the announcement. 1t is list that
Mrs. Eames herself is proud of and
that ought to be good enough for u.s."
Rev. Prof. c. F. Checlzzli, B. Sc,
NJ. A, Ethiopic African and president
Of Condor International University,
Condor, Abyssinia. lectured Thursday
morning at Westbrook Seminary. He
is Cambridge and Oxford graduate.
priest of the Coptic church and is
touring the country on an educational
mission. Here is a gem from his lee
ture. as reported in Portland ex-
change:
"Abyssnia is the uncomfortable land of
the Queen of Sheba; its Biblical name he
ing Ethiopia. The country is enshro,Ided
with historical records and has Indisputa-
bile apprehension Of historical greatness.
being the cradle of the human family, as
the Garden OF Eden. the aIleporic1l Para