Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-02-15

All the chambers fair and strong:
AS the mighty poets take
Grief and pain to build their SONG:
Even so far every soul.
Whatsoe'er its lot may be
Building, as the heavens roll.
Something large and strong and great
Things that hurt and things that mar
Shape the man for perfect praise;
Shock and strain and ruin are
Fricndlicr than the smiling days.
John White Chadwick.
Two weeks to March and then we
can begin to speak of "last winter
The municipal political pots are SIM
nering and soou they will bubble and
boil over.
The Portland Board of Trade has
raised the $4,000 needed for its new
building.
South Portland is pleased at the
prospect of Il good sized building boom
for the coming season.
Tie first baseball game scheduled is
that Of l.. of NJ. at Harvard April H.
and the last on the ScHcuuic Il o"io!
at Harvard June IS.
That sidney shooting affair had Il
good many complicated features III the
way of family relationships.
Did you get ii comic valentine? You
were lucky if no friend improved the
OF portunty to get in Il dig at your pet
weakness.
The skeptical Portland Press remarks
that those potatoes dug in Linneus on
the first day of February were doubt
less dug with the aid of dynamite.
A Bath editor rises t. remark that
the Bath girl is like a hinge because
she is something to adore.
There is plenty of work while II
lasts on the Kennebec ice fields ana
thousands Of dollars will go to labor
ers who have been waiting for some
thing to turn up to help them through
the winter.
Portland has formed Il power boat
club and secured quarters for a club
house. The members expect to have
a long distance race next summer from
Boston to some point on the Name
coast and will probably make it at the
same time that the Boston yacht cluD
has its annual cruise to Five Islands.
The combination Of a cargo Of SaSo-
lcne ana Il lighted Kerosene lamp re-
suited in an explosion on board d
schooner off Thomaston. One would
think it about time folks learned that
while properly handled gas"ienc IS Il
safe fuel, there are certain fahliidrl-
ties it is sure to resent.
There is one Bowdoinham young Wo-
man WHO is still cxultinG over IA
Christmas present as historical aS 1t Is
uniuuc. This is an old-faShioned halr
trunk. considerably over 100 years Old,
and in the course of its long and ad-
vcnturous life. it has travelled across
the continent, to China. as treasure
box for d famous sea captain. ana
finally back to the old Ncnenbcr val
Icy homestead. the land of its youth,
From the little town on the NenncDcc'
il has now wandered to the home "i
tie younger gecnr:ttion. who are loyal
subjects of this little old trunk. lest
Of al memories to the present owner
i. the history Of the first journey "i
the hair trunk. 1t was a wedding Eilt
to her grcat-grandmothe and WAS
ueeI py that youthful bride and groom
ON their wedding journey to their new
home in the West; then wilderness
travc. Scd by the prairie S"ho"l.crS al
the long ago. Although s"neWht;
battered and worn in the course of its
many adventures the little trunk IS
still Staunch defender of ITS treas
urcs. and bids fair to see good service
for many years to come.
The annual catalogue of Dartmouth
College. which has just been issued.
shows that there are A young men
from Maine in the college and its va
r;ous allied schools.
Occasionally one reads Of a lady 80
years of age or more who has made a
quilt without the aid Of gEtsses, but
Mrs. a. l.. Tupper of South Portland
has IL silk cushion cover which Was
made by her aunt. Sabrina Hall of
JonesborO. after she WAS 100 years old.
The seams are cat stitched and the
stitches are so even that the work
would do credit to one much younger.
in fact any expert needle woman
would have reason to be proud of the
sewing.
VOICES OF THE PRESS.
Where Is the Boy?