Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-28
Maine Gossip.

}Maime Gossip
Lazy days and daisy days,
An time to take your ease
Rollin in the clover
Or hummin' with the bees.
Merry days and berry days,
An time to slip away
L Where the rivers maxim music
Under MOSES cool and gray.
Singin' days and swinging days,
An amt you feelin fine
When you're tangled in the blossoms
OF Il honeysuckle vine!
Lazy DAYS an hazy days,
An life is mighty sweet.
With a green bank for your pillow
And lilies at your feet.
The baby of the Maine newspaper
e. Lewis editor and proprietor, which
reaches us from Cherryfield. 1t is an
eight page weekly neatly made up, and
filled with matter of interest to
western Washington. The first issue
has an extended account of the centen-
NAL celebration of Harrington, the
town which took the name this city
gave up when it become Augusta in
1917.
Speaking of deer-there is Piscata-
quis farmer who advertises to sell his
farm because he has no insurance on
his life and deer are so plenty that he
is afraid of being kicked to death by
them.
The porgies are forerunners of good
times for the Maine fishermen.
The Maine potato grower and lum-
herman are convinced the trainers of
the Dingley law weren't solictons sole
ly for Canada's welfare.
Waterville is alive to the railroad
opportunity.
Visitors to Winthrop are agreeably
impressed by the neatness, order and
good taste which mark its six Gene
teries. Nothing, perhaps. better re-
fleets the character of a people than its
place of loved ones.
Among the many beautiful bits of
scenery with which pretty, pondsur
rounded Belgrade abounds are several
that attract especial attention from
the tourist. In one place about one
and half miles from Belgrade Depot
on the road to that famous fishing re-
sort, Belgrade Mills, the road follows
the only path there was left for it 10
take. On one side, many feet below. is
a dainty little pond two-thirds of a
mile long and a third as wide. and on
the other is the swamp which leads
away to the shores of Great pond. Be
tween the two runs a narrow ridge OF
land, just wide enough on top for Il
roadway. and so even are its slopes
that it closely resembles a railroad fill
in many places The small pond which
! is known as Hamilton has several
pecularities. 1t has no outlet nor in
let, yet it must be connected by under
ground passages with Great pond, for
the water in the two always stands al
the same level. If the water dries up
in Great pond you will find Hamilton
at low ebb, and if the latter is flooded.
| a look on the other side of the road will
show the waters of Great pond slowly
creeping into the surrounding marshes.
| Beyond Hamilton pond is still small
CT pond, shut in by trees and hills,
known as Stuart or Lily pond, borderej
With lilies and alive with pickercl \
similar peculiar ridge separates Hamil-
ton and Stuart's ponds Hamilton
pond is noted for being fun of pickerel,
but none of them weigh over three
quarters of pound. Their heads are
fully developed. but their bodies are az
attenuated as a wasp in the last stages
of consumption. The reason given for
their strange appearance is lack of food.
| There are no feeding grounds in the
| pond and the fish are forced to depend
on the insects which they are lucky
enough to snatch from the surface.
| Not far from the pond of the starving
! pickerel is a little lagoon which to sink
/ into is sure and sudden death. There are
three exposed places where the black
sluggish water lies in the sunlight
casting a reflection like a Claude Lor-
raine mirror. Two of these lakes are
| SO situated tndt thcy suggest pair of
spectacles, and with this idea Kate
| Vannah, Gardeners talented poetess
wrote some very pretty verses about
Them Into the largest of these party
once dropped heavy piece of railroad
iron attached to stout rope. The iron
went down rapidly for so feet and then
paid out slowly but steadily till so
feet and the end of the cord were
reached. 1t then hung taut and
seemed as far from bottom as ever.
When the cord was drawn up the last
80 feet were found to be soaked in the
blacklist of muck and since then no ono
has ever attempted to fathom it's
depths.
The breezy little Hallowell News now
greets its readers in eight page form
and with its other improvements shows
unmistakable signs of deserved pros
perity.
Bar Harbor's chief excitement thus