Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-04-29
Maine Gossip
"Wonjer Whar ri LIGHT"

Wonder Wnar III I9Ht:
| wants dc wings fer nyn'
Ter de glory Ian SO bright.
But dc question come. LAX trouble;
II wonder whar you'll eight?
Will YOU bump your head ~ in star
DE time you out cr sight,
wonder whar You'll Fight
Whar you'll Light
| wants de wings fer fFYin'
Wh,r de sun shine dft cn night
Put | fraid de blize'lNhlind me.
I'm wonder whar I'm light?
Will Satan ketcli DEM wings or mine
En- SINCE en- out -eU. sight =
oh. | wonder whar I'll light
Whar Ill light?
-Ahauta Constitution.
1t is II month nov to the next holt
day. Memorial day. since Arbor day is
hardly to be fgured AS Il day off.
Fly the way. what is to be the date Of
Names Arbor DAY? This is observed
us Arbor dayfh Massachusetts.
About everybody. except the ball
players. waits to see good soaking
rain for senegal days duration.
The college games. today. are L. Of
NJ. vs. Dexter locals at Ornno. Bow
don vs.. l.: of Vermont at Burlington,
and Bates VS.. Brown at Providence.
Even IL the cases are very mild ones.
Lewiston does not enjoy the prospect
Of a Wholesale smallpox epidemic.
If ttIs dry spell continues much
longer forest fires will soon be in or
der. Indeed. they have already begun
thcix costly work of devastation.
Tho alIdirons with wrought iron
ujoos,. and deer heads which attracted
SO, much attention in the Maine build
iDg at the st. Louis Exposition. have
been bought by the trustees Of Rock
E)and's Carnegie Library. where they
|nay now be scerr The andirons were
made by \. j. II. Turner of Isle au
Haul. who is considered one of the best
iron workers in the State.
MisfortuncS did not GENE Siugly to
George Young. the Hockland barber
whose shop was burned last Monday
night A few days before that, while
putting a stopper in Il witch hazel bot
tie. he cut his thumb. Next day
while putting on Il screen door he cut
one of his ;ingeIs. With both hands
injured, and his shop gone. he is not
in much of Il position to remove sur
Init hc.trIc n,.f ynl hair
Twenty years ago the salmon. king
of fishes, swarlned in the Pcnobscot
river. and a man could go up to the
pools below Treats falls dam. within
the city limits of Bangor, and hook ii
fine big fish before breakfast Hun
dreds of salmon were in those days
taken with the fly from these pools.
and thousands were taken in the weirs
along the river below Bangor. Now
the salmon is so rare in these waters
that the taking of IA single fish is an
event of such interest us TO call for
mention in the newspapers. The open
season for salmon begins on April l.
and in the first three weeks this year
just three fish were taken. One was
caught with the fly in Bangor pools
one was hooked and then shot. while
the other was caught in ii down-river
weir
Bangor News: Every year the real
lazy man finds new avenues for EN-
ployment closed to him. Until the
gasoline engine and the circular saw
started to make their rounds of the
neiShborhood. most lazy men could put
on semblance of work for short
time saving tirewOod. But that time
is nearly past. The life insurance
agent had what might be called
snap until rivalry among the COM
panies has become so keen that no one
knows when he may be compelled to do
some labor. Driving hacks or public
| carriages enabled very many lazy men
to follow their calIings in the past. but
the trolley car and the new fad for
physical culture nearly knocked the
props from under the refugees. The
grocery stores have removed their easy
chairs from reach, the bar rooms are