Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-16

Dear heart the light is dying:-Let us go
And dream OF rest there. meath the
Life for a little space was sweet to know.
But now the light Is dying:-Let us goi
We have known Loves morning-and the
afterglOw
Falls now where We shall neither reap
We have loved each other-for God willca
Dear heart. the light Is dying: Let us go!
Frank l.. Stanton.
February is mixing in the storms and
cold waves as though this were a real
winter.
The Portland and Bath whist cham
piOps will meet at New Meadows to-
night to discuss Holsters and leads,
clans and trumps.
The water supply at Bath is so I'M
satisfactory this winter that the local
papers speak Of the plant as a "chow-
der factory"
EX-Minister William Widgery
Thomas and family are coming back
from Sweden to live in Portland, ac-
cording to a rumor in that city.
Turner is in the midst of a measles
epidemic which is taking in everybody
regardless of age.
Bangor is another Maine city which
hears rumors of another theatre, a
vaudeville house to be run on a circuit
in connection with Portland.
First there was so. little snow that
the Lewiston sleigning carnival had to
be postponed. and yesterday there was
too much SNOW for its success.
"The First Crusade" took Biddeford
by storm. The Opera house was
packed both nights and the Eiddeford
Journal, which devotes four columns
to it, declares that it was by far the
most elaborate and successful amateur
production ever staged there.
"Tar Bucket" night is less than "a
week away and the Portland boys are
gathering in all the available boxes,
barrels and other rubbish that can be
burned. while the dealers are display
ing their stocks OF bells and horns.
a West Franklin laI called at the
Doctors the other evening and asked
him If he pulled teeth by lamp-light.
The doctor facetiously replied that he
did not, but that he pulled them -,
hand. The lesson went home. After
the tooth had been pulled and the lad
was about to leave the doctor ad-
monished him mot to catch cold in
that TOOTH" The lad quickly replied:
You're the one to look out for that
tooth; you've got it now"
Bangor News: But "I;arbarism in
Maine" as exploited i'm the New Eng
land Magazine. is a different PROPOSE
ton. Here the writer charges piracy.
theft and petty crime to the residents
along the Maine shore front. The
basis of tho charge is found in A work
of fiction written by one Wasson. Who
this WATSON Is we do not know. 1t
does not matter, as he specifics no
place and his narrowing tale of Maine
dcpraVity is no worse than a clergy
mans arraignment of Sin-somewherc
outside of his own parish. AS fiction
the WATSON book may be all right.
The remarkable part of the perform
anCc lies in the fact that the naga-
zine editor should have taken the as
:crtions of the story seriously and
should have attempted to bring proofs.
The Ellsworth American, in August,
1900. printed the following item: zone
young man showed wisdom which
should entitle him some day to be
president of the United States, by Sc
lecting Ellsworth as his birthplace.
even against the wishes of his parents.
His mother. who is Mrs. Luther Z.
Cotton. was en- her way from Ports
mouth. n. H., to her old home in
Columbia. At Ellsworth she left the
train and went to the Hancock. house.
where an hour later DR.. N. c. King
announced the arrival Of a boy. That
young man should be named Ellsworth
Cotton. and he ought some Cay to be
great man." The suggestion Of the
American was adopted. and on Monday
of this week. Master Ellsworth Ed
ward Cotton, now of kittery Point.
visited Ellsworth with his mother for
the first time since that cvcntful day
in his life in August. 1860. Mrs. Cot
ton called at the American office and
introduced Ellsworth. The editor
says: ''IIe is bright. handsome boy,
and bids fair to verify the Americans
prediction and do credit to the name
he bears
Bath Anvil: Years ago in the days of