Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-12
Maine Gossip
Bobby to Grandma.

Bobby to Grandma.
Nancy Byrd Turner, in Youths Com
panion.)
have valentine for you:
heart it Is. all sugared through
With love and kisses, and a rim
~ golden wishes, bright and trim;
It's pinky-white and warm and light,
And you must keep it day and night.
but, granny dear. you mustn't touch
or fondle 1t, or show it much;
It's yours forever-but, you see,
1t II the heart inside Of me!
An interesting relic of some IS
years ago is on show in the window
Of Hardy's Pharmacy at Pennington.
1t is piece of the Atlantic cable laid
in 1883, and is accompanied by an
autograph letter from the late Cyrus.
w. Field, under whose direction and
plans the first cables were laid The
letter was written from New York and
was dated Aug. 81, 1858, and reads as
follows: This is to certify that | have
sold the balance Of the Atlantic cable
now on board the U. S. S. Niagara to
Messrs. Tiffany & Co.. jewelers., No.
800 Broadway, this city, and that the
piece which accompanies this is a
genuine section thereof The letter
and specimen came into Herman
Whittier's possession through his
aunt, the late Mrs. Henrietta B. w.
Brown, an aunt of whom married a
distant relative of Cyrus Field, one
James Field, Of Mercer
The large and valuable collection of
mounted and stuffed birds which was
owned by the late Manly Hardy of
Brewer, has been purchased by the
Audubon Society of Providence and
presented to the Roger Williams Mu-
scum in that city. A new wing is be-
Ing built upon the museum for the
collection Of birds. A daughter, Mrs
Fanny Hardy Eckstorm is engaged a
part Of each week in directing the ar
rangement Of cases and suitable back
of birds will always be kept at this
museum and be known as the Manly
Hardy collection. 1t is hoped that
everything will be in readiness for the
public opening of the new wing in the
Roger Williams Museum sometime in
April.
1 have forgotten to whom I lent a
volume Of Drummond's French
Canadian Dialect Poems about year
ago. If said person will kindly return
said volume to me, there will be no
questions asked or arrests made. w.
G. Chamberlain, Tel. 1-2.-Ad. in
Fort Fairfield Review
An officer Of this county went
home after working as usual Tues
day night, and ate breakfast with his
family and then turned in for his
sleep, relates the Bath Times. He was
sunering from az bad cold and cough
He had not been long asleep when he
woke up nearly suffocated; jumping
out Of bed, he found not only his room
but the entire house filled with dense
smoke through which it was difficult
to see. Making quick time down
stairs. he found that his wife had gone
out to answer a telephone call for a
neighbor who was sick and while she
was absent all the water was evap-
Grated from a pot in which was some
beef boiling and this had caused the
trouble. Since that experience the
officer has found himself cured of his
cold and cough and attributes his re-
covery from inhaling the dense greasy
smoke.
He picked up a paper as he sank into
his accustomed seat in the editorial sane
tum on one of his daily visits and soon
ran across the item telling Of the re-
mark OF a man who had sunk the blade
OF an axe in his leg and all 1.-The COM
plant he made was And that spoils
pair Of perfectly good trousers"
"Hm-m. little different, but 1t re-
minds me Of years ago when was boy
In Dexter and cousin went fishing on
the old dam. Another man, a French
man. was also fishing there and in his
In casting threw his line
around SO that the hook caught in cou-
sins face and staid there. Nothing to
do but cut the line and hasten to a doc
tor, who cut out the hook and dressed
the wound. A day or so later cousin was
ut the same dam and there also was the
same other chap, who without thinking
or caring about the extent of the injury.
opened up by demanding the fshhook
cousin had carried away in his flesh.
All right said cousin, you give me
quarter to pay the doctor for cutting 1t
out Of my face where you put it, and
will get you that or another fishhook"
1T simply illustrates the Indifference
with which many people can endure or
witness the most severe accidents or suf-
Ierine with apparent Indifference, where
others would shrek and faint
And" said listener at would al
most be worth while nowadays to let
lomeone set a hook in ones face for the
sake Of having a doctor cut it out for a
quarter. What? Nit"
Eastport has an assortment of uncol-
ected taxes on hand which may be pur-
chased at reasonable. very reasonable,
hgure. 1t is the accumulation of the
years 1908 to 1913, inclusive with the ex-
:eptton Of 1872, and the total is s1o,S74.So
30 discouraged have the city fathers be-
come as to any hope of ever collecting
enough Of II to pay for the trouble that