Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-04-05
Maine Gossip
This My Life.

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/ strive to keep me in the sun;
| pick no quarrel with the years.
Nor with the FateS-nOt cen the one
That holds the shears
| take occasion by the hand:
I'm not too nice tWiNt weed and flower;
| do not stay to understand;
l take mine hour.
The time is all too short at best.
l Push right onward while ] may;
I open to the winds my breast.
And walk the way.
A kind heart greets me here and there;
| hide from it my doubts and fears,
I :rudse and say the path is fair
Along the years.
John Vance Cheney. in Independent.
The Penobscot is open to navigation
this year before the kennebec.
The brown-tail moth excitement
seems to be somewhat on the ebb.
Bangor does not seem to be wholly
satisfied with the side hill site selected
for it's new public library.
There is an uncomfortable shortage
of the maple syrup crop this spring.
Calais has been heard from. and it is
a consolation to know that there are
no mere Maine cities 10 go Democratic
this year.
The joker Of the York Transcript re-
marks: CLAM business continues pref
to
shell cut very WE'LL
Jonesport does not propose to let such
a victory as the Rogue Bluffs affair go
by without fitting celebration. She
will therefore celebrate.
Get the coal ashes away from the
furnace in the cellar and open up the
windows to the spring air. Dig up
dahlia bulbs from their nests Of sand
and place them in a sunny chamber
window where the sun may shine upon
them for a few hours every day. By
giving the bulbs an early start dahlias
may be made to bloom in July, thus
atfOrding a long season of beauty.
Bangor News A dog that is worth
keeping is worth feeding and licencing
and protecting. The last dog law
passed by the Legislature makes prop
erty of dogs. They are removed from
the wild animal class and put into the
domestic section. 1t is worth the cost
of the license fee to know that a mans
dog is really his own and not some
thing which is staying about the prem
Uses.
Very few high school classes take a
deep interest in the old school % years
after graduation. We find an excep-
ton in the class which graduated from
Biddeford High School in 1880. and
which is planning to celebrate the 25th
anniversary Of that event by present
ing a beautiful picture to the school.
Aroostock county has a million BUSH
els of potatoes which cannot be used
at home, so Hon. T. H. Phair is going
to buy the surplus and convert the stu-
bers into starch. 1t is hard to bea.
Aroostook when it starts out to accom-
plish anything. The Bangor News re-
marks that a very passable kind of
whisky can be made from potato
sprouts. though Aroostooi would not
think of doing such rash act. particu-
larry SO since New Brunswick is so
near.
Bath is said to have more secret and
fraternal orders than any other city of
its size in New England. An interest
ing and gratifying feature is the fact
that all are said to be in prosperous
financial condition.
Two full-blooded Indians are men,
bers of the Maine Legislature" an
nources the Washington Star. In the
same way the representatives of vari-
Gus aboriginal tribes who turn I'D in
Washington may he said to he members
of congress. No noble redman holds a