Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-12-18
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December.
The beech is bare. and pare the ash,
The thCksts white below;
| The fir-tree SCOWiS with boar mouStacnc,
He cannot sing for snow.
The body-guard Of veteran pines,
A grim battalion, stands.
| They ground their arms. in ordered lines,
For Winter 50 commands.
The waves are dumb along the shore.
| The rivers pulse is still;
The north wind : bugle blows no more
Reveille from the hill.
The rustling sift Of falling snow.
The mutiied crush of leaves,
These are the sounds suppressed, that
How much the forest grIeves.
But. as the blind and vacant Day
| Crawls TO his ashy bed,
/ | hear duh echoes TAR away,
Like drums above the dead.
Sigh with me Pine that never changed:
Thou wear,st the summers hue;
/ Her other loves are all estranged,
-Bayard Taylor.
There is ice enough in the Kenne-
bee for New York and Boston too.
! This weeks session of the Governor
and Council promises to be of unusual
length and interest.
| The Changers DO not need any pass
word TO get into the Lewiston stores,
this week.
Fighting fires is not always warm
work as the Waterville firemen are
prepared to testify.
Bath is holding her breath and hop
ping for one of those battleship con-
tracts to come her way, and all Maine
| hopes with her.
| The last day of open time saw
another man shot "by mistake for n
deer" Another excuse will now have
| to be given.
| Sanford now furnishes a knock out
drop sensation. AS usual the men in
the case are ''well-known citizens
and interesting developments are ex-
pected."
| The fact that the st. Stephen girls
have organized a military company is
causing all kinds of apprehension and
anticipation down on the border.
Some of those Boston tenderfeet who
engaged for the Maine logging sea-
son and brought their trunks along
with them, are coming out of the
woods with pitiful tales of hardships.
And up in the camps is heard the
merry ha ha of the old Woodsmen.
The old problem of high school
dances is troubling Bangor. 1t is fl
nally decreed that the young people
can dance if they do not use the
school name in connection with their
dances.
Parson Strout of Saco declares that
ne meant all he said about the loca
ton of those famous gates and that the
half has not yet been told.
Here is an inspired joke from the
Bath Independent which can be figured
out by the aid of a chart which Broth
ton: Now that long evenings and
longer callers are here the belle Of
Bath has hung on the parlor wall the
motto of our State"
Z ddeford Journal: When the bird
Of night flew shrieking through the
streets of ancient Rome, in broad day
light, the people who left their Lam
guage as a legacy to modern school
children TO worry over. took it as an
omen of impending evil to the state
but when an owl appears in the streets
! of Portland, as several have done this
, winter, it is an omen Of evil to the
harmless bird, for the citizens turn out
en- masse and bring it to bag after
mole or less trouble. If the Portland
ers want to get rid of their English
sparrow nuisance they should foster
and protect every owl found within
the city limits, for one able bodied owl
with appetite and digestive organs in
good condition. will destroy more
sparrows in a single night than would
die natural death in a month
The Fort Fairfield man who left his
. null lanketed horses standing out in the
: op1n yard all night with the mercury at
20 below zero and high wind blowing.
might with profit be given q dose Of
the same treatment
V aldo5oro is another town to have n