Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-04-04
Maine GOSSIP
The Happy Singer.

The Happy Singer.
He just kept on a-singin' when the
shadows hid the sky:
bright lamps a-shinin' in the windows
ur on high:
Love will kiss the lilies in the gardens
by-an-by,
An wen rest in the beauty of the
mornin'!'
Had his share of sorrow; but with faith
forever strong
He saw. amid the red thOrns, all the
sweetest roses thrOng:
Evermore the music of that loved world
reaching song;
ing"
o, it charmed away their sorrows in the
valleys CT despair-
The crosses that were bitter up Life's
Calvary to bear;
And the sweetest benedictions touched
the singin' spirit there.
Resting in the beauty of the mornln!
Atlanta Constitution.
The first few days of April were
Hon-like enough to offset the lamb-like
departure of March.
The drouth has also reached Bath
and Rockland.
Maine baseball cranks are following
particularly closely the work of Josce-
| lyn, the Pittsfield boy, on the Boston
Americans.
There are now only 80 prisoners in
the Portland Jail, the smallest number
for several years.
Peary will be in Portland most Of the
time until he starts for the far North,
sometime in July.
With about a score of devil wagons
owned in ROckland, Thomaston and
Camden. the Knox county enthusiasts
are talking of forming club.
The ice in the Kennebec County
| lakes is still very solid and shows but
little sign of going out as yet. The
strong warm sun of these April days
will wear it away fast, however, and
it's pretty good plan to be getting the
ing.
Bangor appears to be booked for 4
wear of municipal teeter with the city
council equally divided in membership
between the two political parties.
Fast Day in Maine April q and in
New Hampshire April 20. We used to
have Fast Day in Massachusetts
| once.-BostOn Globe.
1t will have to be admitted that
| Massachusetts has as much of Fast
day as Maine has, though the name
survives here and has been discarded
there.
They say at Old Orchard that the
town by the sea is waking up and that
| the residents are beginning to make
extensive plans for the coming summer
season. Those who are to make i'm
| provements on their property have
| completed their plans for such and the
| work will be commenced at once. The
| big pier is already being cleaned up.
having weathered the rough winter in
good shape. 1t is said that several of
| the large hotels may not be opened
this season.
There has been rumOr ailOat in
Westbrook to the effect that the Grov-
er Shoe Company of Brockton. Mass.
would seek business there. Since they
| lost their quarters in Brockton the
agents of the company have been look
IL 00ly
| offers every possible advantage for
| such an enterprise and with the
tremendous water power from the
Presumpscot any of the shoe MAX
| ing machinery could be readily driven
| There are number of favorable sites
along the river bank and also a num-
Der of vacant buildings that could be
| readily remodelled for such purposes.
Another Maine man comes to the
front in the selection of Rev. DR.. Fred
erick W. Hamilton, pastor of Rox-
bury church. to be temporary president
of Tufts college. DR.. Hamilton is A
| native of Portland and member of
| an old Portland family. He was edu-
Gated in our schools. is chairman of the
executive board of Tufts and has been
for Il long time prominent in the affairs
of the institution. more so perhaps
than any other individual after Presi-
dent Capen. of whom he was an inti-
| mate friend. He is recognized as
possessed of educational and executive
ability in marked degree. and it is be-
leved by many that he is the man for
the place as permanent head of the
college.
Active preparations are going on in
Gardiner for the sessions of the Maine
General conference which will convene
there April Ills. Gardiner has the
honor not only of holding the confer
ence this year but of holding the first
conference in the history of Maine
Methodism. way back in 1926. 1t has
been held eight times in Gardiner. in
1926. 1929. 1884. 1912. 1856, 1872, 1877 and
1000, but this is the first time that
Gardiner has ever had Bishop Charles
Fl. Fowler to preside. in fact, few