Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-05-10
Maine Gossip
Old Folks at Home.

Old Folks at Home.
Way down upon the swanee ribber,
Dere's whar my heart is turning ebber,
| Dere's whar the old folks stay.
All up and down the old creation,
Still longing for the old plantation,
And for the old folks at home.
CHORUS.
| All de world am sad and dreary,
Everywhere l roam,
Oh-darkeys, how my heart grows weary,
| Far from de old folks at home.
| All round de little farm I wandered,
| When l was young,
! Den many happy days l Squandered,
| Many de songs | sung.
When l was playing with my brudder.
Happy was l.
oh, take me to my kind old mudder,
| Dere let me live and die.-CHORUS.
G. S. Cushman has sold a portion Of
the old lothian Perham house in Bry-
ant Pond to Clarence Smith, who will
build a camp where he is cutting wood
upon the mountain. This house was
one of three houses built in the Chase
District nearly at the same time,
about 100 years ago by lothian Per-
ham, jeremiah Felt, and John Felt,
the last two houses are still being
used.
The war declared by Judge Blanch-
ard at Bangor on the tramp nuisance
has worked so well that the judge
has announced that the slot machine
nuisance must also go. He on Thurs
day fined the owner of a seized ma
chine SO and costs and notified the
public that the next man before him
on a similar charge would have IS
added to his fine the next would get
SIS more and so on until he reached
the limit of the law. The judge re-
Gently tested seized machine, plac-
ing a coin in every slot and failed to
win even nickel. An observer re-
marked that it wasn't even gambling,
on that machine, it was "heads l win
and tails you lose"
The following paragraph from the
Rockland Opinion will doubtless apply
to other places and the subject is a
matter worthy of careful considera-
ton:
"A group of Rockland business men
We're discussing things in general
the other evening and the talk turned
on the number of young men who
have left the city lately. A list was
started and they were able to recall
the names of II young men, between
IS and 80 years of age, who have left
Rockland to work in other cities since
the first of the present year. A thor
ough canvass Of the city would show
an even larger number. What's wrong?
These young men are Rockland's most
valuable product and the city should
find a home market for their labor if
possible"
William J. Rouse of Bath is wearing
father VIM. Rouse, about 60 years ago
by the late Warren Hawthorne and
still in a remarkable state of preser-
walton. 1t is Of German broadcloth
and was originally designed for an
overcoat. The cloth is as fine as a
piece of deerskin and both it and the
fine velvet collar is without a blemish
The style is double breasted frock.
Mr. Rouse remembers that when a lad
of. years he was sent to the tailor
shop and hauled home the coat and a
suit of clothes on his sled. He was
looking over some Of his wardrobe the
other day and found the old coat,
which he decided was good enough
lyo
coat, so he is now wearing it.
The northwest Abbot correspondent
Of the Piscataquis Observer writes:
I'm looking over an old diary find the
following: May I'd, 1884, ten inches
of snow with high wind and the
snow is drifting badly In the winter
of 1882 and 1884 there was a snow
fall Of ~ feet and II inches"
After Miss Cassilena Perry, Eng
fish teacher in A. c. I. had retired
Wednesday night, a woodpecker, at
tracted by the ray Of the street lamp
which shone in her bedroom, flew in.o
her room and remained all night says
the Mars Hill View. After becoming
acquainted with his surroundings the
woodpecker roasted on a hanging pic
ture frame. In the morning he
caught and ate fly and wiped his bill
on the lace curtains. When Miss
Perry arose she assisted the bird 20
escape through the open window ami
he appeared much pleased to gain his
freedom. 1t is seldom a woodpecker
is out late nights, and as a rule they
give dwellings wide berth.
At least two Of the passengers on
the Inflated Cunarder, the Lusitania,
are known in Lewiston mad one OF
these, j. Ham Brooks, is native Of