Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-01-25
maine Gossip

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On the Road Of Life.
There's much we're a-wantin'.
Dear heart. here below; :.
ca ionx are Life's winters
- lonesome the snow. '/
We're waitin' the. wales -.
.,Where the 1violets grow, o.. .....,s
I There's much welfe aowantln':- :
! But. life flies SO FAST -'
/ we are but. aS leaves
Whirled around in the blast;
An it's rest that we need
An we'll have, 1t at last. -..
Atlanta Constitution.
The January dog days appear to
have come to an end.
Those who have been predicting
cold wave should keep patiently at it.
How much this winter reminds
everybody of last winter-it is so very
different.
The Lewiston carnival got lost in the
fog. but is found again with clearing
weather.
Watervilie is entertaining the club
women and no city knows better how
to do it.
The Maine herd of Elks is growing.
The Lewiston lodge took in 81 men,
bers this week and that at Bath re-
ceived 25.
The Mail urges the Waterville
churches to unite in a series of revival
meetings such as are being SO success
fully conducted in Augusta.
Somebody has dug into the records
far enough to find that at the end of
January ,1751 there was no snow in
New England and no frost in the
ground.
The Bangor News feels justified in
doing a little boasting because
Bucksport man who advertised in it's
columns for housekeeper thereby
secured a wife, and the two are happy
ever after.
If Fern Park at Old Orchard must
be destroyed there is something very
appropriate in using its pines for the
manufacture of matches. Many
matches have been made there in
happy summers that are gone.
Milo and Brownville are talking up
the plan of joining forces and engag-
ing a superintendent of schools for the
two towns. The plan works well in
Dover. Foxcroft and Sangerville.
OF the 3O,926 books taken from the
Lithgow Library. Augusta, in 1905.
26,0O7 were classed as fiction, but no
doubt there was also more or less
fiction in most of the others.
Less than three months to the OPEN
ing of the college baseball season and
each of the four colleges is full of con-
fidence that it will put pennant-
winning nine into the field.
1t is one of the traditions of the
Maine Press association that a blizzard
always gets along at the time of the
annual meeting The meeting opens
in City hail. Portland, this afternoon.
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THE people of Maine resemble the
Scotch in their love of their native
hills and fields. Their loyalty to their
own birthplace is shown wherever they
go, so plainly that it is easy to discOv-
er Maine-b born men and women when
they happen to be wandering in far
countries The little touch of heimweh
clings to them. Down at the bottom of
their hearts they are dreaming of
home scenes as they move amid for
eign splendors. The old
Maine home-what is there like it?-
the sunny Old-fashioned kitchen with
back door opening straight into the
blOssOming orchard, beyond which are
the river, the fields. and the blue hills.
Perhaps there is an old fashioned
garden with cinnamon roses struggling
over the stone wall and rows
of vegetables flirting with the
bachelors buttons just beyond. And
always i'm our memory there is
the golden summer peace. the
stiffness. the sense of rest. No wonder
we pine for it when We are hurrying
through different scenes on the wings
of steam or electricity. This feeling
has been beautiful embodied in 4
poem by well known Maine writer.
The Hills of Strong by Miss Julia II.
May. 1t was widely quoted and copied
when it appeared and is still a
favOrite. 1t is found i'm her book
Songs from The Woods of Maine
Pointed Paragraphs.