Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-23
Maine Gossip
A Boyhood Recollection.

A Boyhood Recollection.
High up on a shelf in the pantry it stood
In fancy | see it again
remedy certain to do you much good,
Though fraught with incredible pain.
There is nothing i'll all of the various ills
That mortals are called to endure
From a sly of stone-bruise to fever and
chills
That it wasn't expected to cure.
Its flavor was that of some lake down
That the imps keep cternally hot.
If outwardly used. in two minutes 'twould
A blister, more likely than not.
And when. like a martyr who yields to de-
Spair.
You weakened and uttered yell.
The folks would approVingly nod and de-
"Thats sign it is making his well"
Though l long for the moments of inno-
That only child can enjoy.
/ always think twice before ycarnins to
A careless and frolicsomc boy
Though lifr's SERIOUS cares cause full
DlaEy an ache,
And hope Only leads to diSmay.
I'd rather face all such diStreSseS than
on dose from that bottle today.
washington Star.
one of the good things about this
spring is that there are more birds with
us than there have been for several
years.
The remodclrl city of Augusta
seems to have shaken off the hoodoo
and everybody hopes it will not ac-
quire another.
Todays college championship game
is that at Orono between the Bowdon
and University of Maine mines.
Auburn people heard Gilbert Hubbard
last evening, and tonight the crratic
Roycroft genius will lecture in Bangor.
The biggest fish is always lost in ono
way or another. A fisherman at Bel
grade Lakes caught Il whoppcr the
other day and left it on the shore while
he went out to catch another. While
he WAS gone bald headed eagle came
along and carried it off.
China'S murder mystery" proves to
have been Il case of heart trouble, but
it was a different kind of heart trouble
than that which caused the Windsor
tragedy.
The Portland Public library has
1897 card holdrcs and 106.11S books
were taken out last year. The library
has 5S74O volumes and the cost of
maintaining it last year was about
81. 500 of which $1,000 was appropriate
cd by the city.
The pOstoffice department has issued
orders that mail carriers are not re-
quired to deliver mail upon premises
where vicious dogs are kept Safely
pcrchcd III his team the r. +. ID. man
| does not worry about dogs, however.
1t was noted q short time ago that
Parkhurst claimed the tallest boy in
| Maine. Now Frecport brss to differ.
| 1t has Il boy. Everett Pratt aged 10
years last February. weighs 215 pounds
| and is 6 feet, 6 "a inches tall in his
| stocking feet
Augusta contributes eight Memorial
| day orators and may have more to
| come Those already announced arc
Hon. II. NJ. Heath at brunswick, Rev G.
G. Moshcr 1T Hal!owcll. Rev. II. f..
| DunnaclI at Belgrade, John Clair Minot
| lat Houlton. Frank J.. Dufton, ESQ. at
| Winthrop, Rev. Il. +. Hope at Read
| field. Hon. l.. r. Carleton at Gardiner
and Hon. Edward WiGEin at Gorham.
Twins. two odd ones. a small six
year-old, and a cat, struggled into the
passenger coach of the Montreal train,
| followed by much worried father.
| who seemed at loss just what to do
| with his little family Just as the train
| left Lewiston Junction, the mother
| appeared on the scene, running briskly
up the steps Of the car. clutchng the
| very smallest baby in one hand, and a
| bird cage in the other. From the cage
peered much excited parrot. and as
| the woman sank pantingly into a scat
near the rest of the family group tn"
| parrot eyed the man knowingly as he
shriekcd. Were all here. old man.
don't worry"
| A book soon to be published which
will he of much interest to all Grand
| Army veterans. and others as well. is
the Sword of Honor" a story of the
| Civil War. by Lieut. III. A. Johnson Of
| Worcester Mass, and q native Of
| HallGwell, Maine, who enlisted at Au-
gusta. in Go. B. Sd. Maine infantry.
The book is an untold history that
| reads like n romance inaSmuch as the
Iauthor has written his personal
| "reminiscences. his daring adventures,
| his captivity in confederate prisons.
| The heroic dash for liberty the p,,ril Is