Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-07-16

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Maid Among the Lilies.
| Where leafy branches interlace
Along the reedy shore.
Among the dark-sreen lily pads
| She drifts with idle oar:
Around her boat the blossoms lift
Their cups of fragrant snow,
| Still trimming DER with silver drops
From cooler depths below.
Like them. in dewy summer woods
She seeks a still retreat
| And only TO the buds and birds
viii tell her fancies sweet.
| She shares the liy's heritage
of rare and regal grace,
| And all its perfect purity
Is mirrored i'll her face.
| She wears It's wilderness in her heart,
Its sweetness in her soul,
And would that she could write her
dreams
J-pon its waXen SCROLL
! For, stealing to the waters edge.
Then | might read and see
| If on the page her dainty hand
Had traced a thought of me.
Truth.
The strawberry gives way to the
| raspberry.
Orchard, today.
That Rockland man who wants to
bet $500 on Bryan needs guardian.
N-hnr, N-atarx-i1Ia'c ('itv n a il. htlilf
but that story belongs to another gen.
Grafton.
What is this report that 10 of Dex-
ter's smart women are going to start
a newspaper?
Grant Rogers mass meetings contain
anywhere from seven to % people. But
they are well entertained.
This is the season of the eight hour
law on the farm. eight hours of work
in the forenoon and eight more in the
afternoon. The chores are extra.
Bangor will have floral parade, Old
Home week. Why isn't that a good
| idea for Bath, with all it's buds?
Lots of empty pews. these Sundays,
| for the shore the lake and the grove
have attractions that cannot be resist
| ed.
Bowdoin hopes that the Fayerweath
er will contest will stay settled. this
time 1t has been waiting for that
| 500, 900 long enough.
That new paper bag mill at Rumford
Falls will employ 600 persons of whom
500 will be girls. But the new paper
mill will employ 500 men, SO things will
be evened up.
One of. the great hardships incident
to these press excursions is the suffer-
ing of the poor chaps who plod along
in the office when they hear of the good
time the others had.
Portland enjoyed the sight of two
| whales in the harbor, one day last
week They We're after school of her
ring and gave the islanders and steam
boat people a good chance to see them.
But nothing has been seen of late of
| the sea serpent that appeared in the
harbor. several weeks ago.
A Bath man was seen wearing
| Mckinley button upside down, the
| other day His friends noticed it and
| kept calling his attention to it. Finally
he remarked confidentially to one of
| them, That's to attract attention, II
| wore it right side up no one would no.
| tice it. but as it is every one notes 1t
and tells me of it. What's the good of
| wearing campaign button if no one
notices it?"
Where is the Maine base ball enthu
siasm, this summer? Fairfield has
| local team and Knox county is talking
up league, but the old time spirit is
no more in most of the cities and vii
lagos.
| Maine Farmer: 1t is evident that
Augusta does not propose fantastic
parade, a Fourth of July or firemen's
celebration or any other form of bun
combe when thGtsans and daughters
| come home for Old Home Week. IT
| looks very much as though some towns
and cities We're laboring to make the