Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-23

mainc Gossip /
After the Night.
Mornin singin' to the skies
Laughin' as the darkness dies,
Yet we dreamed the dreary night.
World would never roll in light
False as phant0ms were those dreams
On the world the morning streams!
Sorrow calls her gloomy train
Wants to greet the dark again;
Seeks the wilderness so dim.
There to chant Eer mOurnfu hymn.
We forget her frownin brow
In the world it's mornin now
Atlanta Constitution.
Hear the chorus of 81 told you So"
Now. if you had heen drawn on that
Jury what would you have done?
Maine responds promptly and
generously to the call from California.
The Maine letter carriers will hold
their annual meeting at Biddeford,
Fast day.
That $685. 900 fire, throwing 200 men
out of work. is mighty serious blow
for South Paris.
A Biddeford paper discovers a local
citizen who told all about the San
Francisco earthquake 25 years before
it happened.
Some of the Maine cities have their
ball teams pretty well signed though
they will not open the season till June
or July. Where is the Trolley league?
This week brings Fast day and the
usual plans are being made for clearing
up yards. taking off double windows,
clearing up cellars. etc.
Belfast has again taken to enforcing
the curfew ordinance which has long
been a head letter. as it is in most Of
our cities.
The town of BarnIey. Cal. which
was one of the smaller places affected
by the shock of the earthquake. was
established a few years ago by William
+. Dunn, d former resident of Portland.
being at one time connected with law
Office on Exchange street after
graduating from Bowdoin in 1890.
II has been a poor spring for maple
syrup. The conditions were not good
to begin with and then fewer farmers
tap their maple for the market than
used There is lot Of sO-called maple
syrup for sale. but the old-fashioned
pure article grows sCarcer each year.
Speaking of the attempted suicide of
prisoner in the State prison. the
Rockland opinion advances this cold
blooded proposition: But as for this
poor fellow. and others like hm-if
there are no grounds for setting him
free by a pardon. why not premit him
to die If he prefers it to prison life?
The community has by its acts
signified that it has no use for him:
why should it insist on him living"
A young man passing up Main street.
Lewiston, threw half smoked
cigarette onto the sidewalk. Almost
| instantly a little tot, still in dresses.
| and so small that one could not tell
| whether it were a boy or girl. ran out
| of q doorway, cast an apprehensive
glance around and then picked up the
burning stub and walked off smoking
| 1T. The incident needs no comment.
Somerset Reporter: We do not study
enough the interests of the boys and
girls on the farms Of Maine In max
ing UP the price lists for next falls
FAIRS. see that good premiums are
eHered for everything in their line and
that they are encouraged in every way
| TO make farming their life work.
Rockland Courier-Gazette: We think
Pleasant Point can boast of two smart
women, Mrs. Jonah Morse. aged Il
years and her daughter. Mrs. Albion
Morse, aged So years. who were seen
{ on a nEnd sled sliding down hill ApriI
p L. If any other town can heat this
we would like to hear from them.
e Josiah Edgerly of Atkinson tells this
II tox story. II had already caught I.
s foxes the past season and was anxiou,
|. 10 get the 20th and the dog and 7 ha,
4 tried several times and failed. On thi,
cay went away on other business ant
l suppose the dog thought he would
try dis luck alone and surprise me, Sc