Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-11-20

i maine Gossip
A Rules Exception.
/ There's no use of complainant
Bout the weather or its ways,
| \ on got to take the riinin'
| Same as bright an sunny days.
| BE patient an fOrbearin
| Though the winter blast may whiz-
| Yet YOU do feel some like SWearin
When you've got the rheumatiz.
| l try to love my neighbOr,
| To be gentle. kind and true,
An be cheerful at my labor,
An nearly always do.
| Bat there amt nobody Twin
| Whose disposition is
| COntcnte6 an fOfgiVin
| When he's got the rheumatic
-Wacshington Star.
| One of the good things promised for
1907 is a general reduction of rates on
the Maine Central.
| The story comes from New Bruns-
| wick that the caribou are SO thick
| there that herds of them are stopping
the trains.
| The decision in that famous Chandler
will case seems to be a great personal
victory for Ex-Governor Cleaves.
| A Winnegance woman last week shot
hawk whose wings measured 3h feet
| from tip to tip. as it was carrying off
one of her hens.
The Portland BARRIERS are talking up
| a proposition to advance the price of
shave to Is cents. Nobody objects ex-
cept the helpless customers.
| Farlnington has been somewhat
afraid of it's water supply. but care
| full analysis shows that the water is
free from any pollution and simply Il
| little diScolOred as n result of decay
| ing vegeta BILE matter.
A great deal of interest is being
organize and increase the efficiency of
! the artillery arm of the United States
army This bill was favorably report
| ed by the Senate committee on military
| affairs last winter and will come be-
| fore Congress for action the coming
session. Portland has great interest
| in this bill for the artillery defenses
| of Portland rank very high with those
Of the country and in Il report issued
L h 4 II
war they were placed third in the list.
| following those of New York and San
Francisco. Since then no comparative
| figures have been made in any OF the
reports issued. but Portland is ranked
very high in them as a commercial and
| strategical point. Some idea of the
Importance in which the defences OF
Portland harbor are held by the war
| department may be obtained from the
| report of the Taft board. which has
| recommended the expenditure, of $1,"95.-
900 for additional equipment for the
posts in this artillery district. The
soldiers at the Portland forts would be
increased from 600 to 1000.
| eff I had my way" says South
Paris lawyer 81 would abolish all holt
days, Thanksgiving, Christmas. the
| whole of them. Take Thanksgiving.
It's the saddcst day of the year after
one is grown up. and | would much
| rather come her to the office as usual,
| go home to dinner and back again 10
work in the afternoon, but of course II
| can't be done. People always want To
make q festival of it. Thanksgiving Is
/
| bad enough, but Christmas is ten Times
worse There are so many people who
haven't any Christmas, in the real
sense of the word. They don't go hum
| crv. but they haven't a real Christmas.
| We can't help everyone, though L do
| what little | can in my own way. Have
MT YOU seen a crowd of people before
| the shop windows on Christmas eve?
Some Of the children will be well
| dressed. with everything to make them
happy and others will he so thnly clad
/ they are shivering with the cold as they
| look hungrily in at the toys in the shop
| window. That is why l don't like
| Christmas" concluded the lawyer. ut
| is because things are so unequal and
| while all of us help some. l suppose, II
| is impossible to make everybody hap
py at this time. So as l said before II
had my way there wouldn't be a
| single holiday" Most people will re-
| gard il as very fortunate, however,
that the South Paris man does not have
his way in this matter.
1t is understood that the long idea OF
contemplated additions to the Union
Sation at Portland may be abandoned
and a fine new building built at Forest
avenue. 1t is a known fact that at the
present time there are in the offices of
the architect of the Maine Central
Railroad complete plans for the build
ing of a Union Station at Forest av-
lenue If it is built it will serve not only
the Maine Central and Eastern and
Western divisions of the Boston x
Maine, but the Portland and Worcester
| Division of the Boston & Maine viii