Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-04-22
Maine Gossip
How Can You Know?

How Can You Know?
How you know what's a-comin
along?
Sigh you are sighn' may emf in Il song:
The world will roll right, though the
world may roll wrong
Look to the bright side forever.
How can you know but a sweet star Will
rise q,
In the storm that seems BLOWN EN- alt
from the skies? -
| A sweet rose is born for each dear rose
Look at the bright side forever!
How can you know? DAISIES uoNP
under snow ~, .o,,tb
Eays dreams of the time when the sou'i'-
wind shall blow. =, Gov C.J
They know the Spring cohih
Wills it So ,
Look to the bright side forever!
,,,. ,,,, ,.ou know? Let US trust
| IN Iirbtrn the burdens of crosses an
| An, CON in the dcsolatc rain Of our tears
Ho"N ~ ~ Frank l.. Stanton.
| 7, viii be a great pity and will cause
MANY hcartachcs if there are not piue
skies on Easter Sunday.
All the college ball teams have prac-
,i,, cannes. this afternoon, to try out
the new material and shake the teams
into shape.
Bangor is now hoping to get fright
! ing joe Wheeler for its Memorial Day
orator. He will not be the first eX-
Confederate to speak III Maine Oh Suc'i
an occasion, however.
With logic of characteristic ambiSu-
ity and with a lavish use OF unheccs-
sarv cauital lett rs the Lewiston Jour
nal loudly lamcntS the refusal of the
Augusta city government TO establish Il
liquor agency.
The Orr's island library building
not given by Carnegie, by the way-ls
nearly completed. and the furniture
and decorations will be in place before
the summer people arrive.
Charles X. Harris, the wcll-known
| actor whose i'll health compclS il vaca-
ton from the stage, has bought Il farm
| in Bristol and will try life i'll the open
| air for Il while.
| Nearly .OU0 Italians are now work
ing on the Northern Maine Seaport
| Railroad. and their picturesque camps
are great objects Of curiosity in that
section.
Occasionally Il good thing comes the
| way of the rural delivery man. Down
in Bruoksville. this week, q friendly
| hen buardcd his team us he paused in
| u dooryar,. and took ride OF about
am eighth Of II mile. She got busy dur
| ing the rifle aud when the driver I'M
| loaded his mail sacks he found IN egg
which his fcathcrcd passenger had laid.
| Never in any year since it was IN
corporated III 1716 has Georgetown had
80 many transfers of real estate us it
had in 1894. There were ~ recorded
during the year. The old town also
| made "A record in deaths, l residents
over 50 wears of age dying i'll 1901
| "A kctIl-tNtu lnluol CoIiot''biI ~
| Eocklind. who watches for contrab;ld
';oods at the Maine Central depot spicd
a box marked with the name of well
known patent medicine. the other day.
"Ah, Hd." says he "ho. no." says he.
and he bounced upon the box. This
| package did not contain spring mc'li-
cine. however. nut it contained some
| ! x,-it II cent nf active
| sririt-a full grown shaggy cat. armed
with sharp claws and Drilnful OF IidiS-
nation at being shut up i'll Il box.
Teaching between the Stats she dug he:'
claws into the detectives hand. The
| detective dropped the box like a red
hot coal. while the spectators rOared
with laughter.
records is that of Harry Parent. the
young brakeman, who was injured at
| Bath. April 9Th. by being caught be-
Tween two baggage ears. lie is now Ill
| the Maine General Hospital in Port
land and his condition is improving.
| His head was crushed between the two
| cars and it raised the external table of
| the skull to an inverted Y shape. When
he arrived at the hospital he WAS
bright but soon lapsed to an uncon-
scious state. remaining thus but a
short time before he revived. The head
| swelled greatly and the surgeons de-
hated whether TO perform an operation
OF not. 1t was decided that if the case
grew worse an operation would b" per-
formed but Parent grew better in
| stead Of worse and the surgeons have
been gradually pressing the bones into
their original position. 1t is expected
| that Parent will suffer no bad after
| effects from the accident.
Last week Captain Robert Goodman
Of Bath received Il letter written Jan
uary IS. 1894. in Punta Gorla. Fla. by
Captain W. f. Reed. Captain Good
man was then in the barkcntine James
| w. Elwell and wrote to Captain Reed
IeNpreSSing SVmpathy over the loss Of