Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-11

The pledge OF life again. 81
Rain on the sterile sea
That hath no need ct thee.
Nor keeps they memory,
lis thou that tc.,che$t me
The range Of charity.
-Harpcr's Magazine.
Deer Isle offers Maine its first MUIR
der mystery of 1905 ana ii seems TO be
I, deep and dark one.
Carikou's New Year resolution is to
have an Opera house before the year
comes to an end.
TIL" second week ii the I'D Lcsisla-
turc will be 4 short and easy one for
the members, but wait until the com
mittccs settle down to BUSINESS!
The tales of havoc along the coast
durir. the recent big storms will con-
ti..uc 10 come in for some time. Not
only shipping bu, the coast line itself
suffered in n4.tny places.
l. is not always :he bad penny which
returns. About ten years ago Il little
girl Il; plrkhU.St scratched her initials
on a cent and spent it tor candy. A
Young man at Caribou who happened
to know the young lady's initials got
held uf the cent last week and returned
it 20 her by letter. The story of its
wandcrings would be an interesting
one.
\ or, ~ "
picked berries all summer to earn
enough money to visit the st. Louis
fair came down to the York Beach
railroad station the other day all
dressed up in killing style and ready to
start on her long journey. When told
tina. the big fair bad closed she did not
express any disappointment. She |
merely paused a moment in thought
then exclaimed. well. I don't knows !
it makes much difference. I'll take |
the trolley and go over to kittcry to see
my sister Jane. hain't seen her for |
three years" and she picked up her OK
tension case and meandcrcd off to take |
the car.
Among the most interesting of re- |
cent .iltS 10 Inc Via jan IuuStulii ~ |
Yo are two long letters neatly |
franco! which We're sent to his young |
wife 1T York by a lieutenant in the |
American army at TiconderoSa in III.
Tho writer was Josiah BraSdon who |
was born at York in Ia, and who died |
in his country'5 service i'll April. 1IIS.
His letters from Ticonleroga throw |
valuable historic light upon the CAM
raisn there. The letters are donated
t. tn. museum by his great grandson,
Frank A. Allen Of Boston.
This thing of wearing gloves to
keep your bands warm" says Il Port
land policeman. lis about the biggest
f;ucc ] know of. There is nothing to
it. have been 4 cop for 10 years. and
have never worn glove, winter or
summer, except when the rules of the
tiel,;trtno compelled me to do so. ana
then l DID it under protest. Gloves
hinder the free circulation OF the blood.
and that makes your hands cold. You
don't cover your face i'll winter. Inc
face gets used 10 the cold. and feels!
better in frosty weather than ut any
other time, ard so will the hands II
YOU let them alone. ! got Il pair "l
gloves for :: Christmas present, but
I've traded them off for a necktie that
would put your eye out
She was a Wisconsin girl, of more
than the usual share of this worlds
goods, who became engaged to the man
from Maine, a civil engineer. whose
business was in the far West. Com
ptIIpd to separate soon after the en-
eagemant two thousand miles soon di
vided the two lovers. business duties
called the MAN away. but frequent
letters helped to shorten the months of
separation. Turning her attention to
cooking. this girl Of almost unlimited
wealth. soon proved her devotion to her
absent lover by mastering the difficult
ties OF cooking. in anticipation of that
happy time VIXEN she should have
home of her own. Trumphantly. she
wrote her lover. II can make lemon
pie. cuStard pie and Washington pie.
all myself" Then did this man from
Maine ard the land of orchards assert
his loyalty to his home State, most
vigorously and back over the wires.
two thousand miles away. came this
telegram brief but emphatic. TRY
apple. '"
Speaking of smart old men. Thomas
G. Southland of Eath, who will be "a
next April, deserves honorable mem
ton. He thinks nothing of 4 walk
from Georgetown to Path and return;
and ono day last week walked from
Georgetown to Bath and up to the