Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-08-17
El8gk0yS Gossip
An Invitation.

oh We who thronG citys countless
To toll and sweat beneath an August sun
Come where the cooling breeze from
woodlands dim
Steals on the weary spirit unawarcs.
And bears away your sorrows and your
Come where the prook "escchds MS WIND
ing stairs
To lave his rocky walls with fierce de-
Come where the squirrels weave their
tiny lairs
And crickets chirp throughout the sum
mer night;
press
A land of rest a woodland wilderness.
The bees are boarding up their clover
sweets,
The frugal ant tolls up her mountain
And from his station on a messy log
The tree toad halls his mcssmates of
the bog.
With many a chirp and jest,
And many Il chuckie ntijh MS Spccklcu
vest.
The world is glad ana nature tuncS her
lay
To celebrate this summer holiday.
Then come and leave your dusty city
squares
And heated paVcmcnts Smouidcrint; III the
sun,
Come where the cooling breeze from
WpDuldnuS ulIIl
Steals on the weary spirit unawares,
And bears away your sorrows and your
cares.
Visions of dusty streets. OF toll and din
.xre gone. and softly ushcred in
Come woodland voices and the babblinS
OF laughing streamlcts TO the mill below.
Frank II. Coiley in Old Orchard Mirror.
The Sir Knights unquestionably
have pull with the weather man.
The 1st regiment can't really expect
quite the welcome it received in May,
1895
Old Home Week has brought out
some good verses. but the second
year has passed without the appeal
ance of an Old Home Week poem.
1t isn't a bit too early for half IL
dozen Maine towns to be making
plans to celebrate their centennials in
1902.
1t isn't very often that q horse race
gets lost in the fog. but that seems to
have been the case at Old orchard.
Thursday.
Portland's Old Home Week celebra-
ton was rot as elaborate as that of
last year-it was not intended to be
but il was elaborate enough. an ade-
uuate public expression of Portland's
hearty participation in the Old Home
sentiment which the week has seen
sweeping over the State.
The Bucksport Of the rural play is
outdone by the Sagadahoc town that
wanted to discontinue an important
road because of the enormous annual
expenditure of eight dollars required
for its continuance.
\ committee Of investigation in Eos
ton recently addressed a circular to
several state secretaries of agriculture
asking whether. in their opinion, the
purely legitimate or "wideopen agri
cultural fair pay best in the long run.
financially. cducationally and socially.
and a number of other questions of
similar import. The replies were unan-
imnuS in favor Of the clean fair. and
that is the kind We have in Maine.
that the apparent generosity of some
of the pledges secured by DR.. Simpson
at Old Orchard may perhaps be ex-
planned by the fact that every pledge
has printed upon il at the bottom the
statement that the one making the
pledge will never Ire dunncd for it,.
He can pay or not pay as he secs fit
That makes pledCinG very easy and
comfortable matter and one at which
almost anybody could make Il pre-
stntaplt figure.
\ Hartford correspondent declares
that ono Of the custard pies ut the re
This was the pic that Uncle Scion
Chase wanted all for himself.
Ot the nine torpedo boats authorized
by Congress about four years ago.
three were awarded to the Bath Iron
Works These, the Barney. the BAG
Icy and the Biddle are now all COM
rlctcd and accepted by the govern
mcnt. Of the other seven only two
have been completed by the builders.
The Bath Iron Works have not been
making records on torpedo boats alone.
OF the six armored cruisers which
were also contracted for at one time.
the Cleveland, the only one awarded
to the Iron Works, headed the list in
progress of the work. on July 1, 1901.
the Cleveland was 50 per cent. COM
pleted while her nearest competitor
was A. per cent. completed, the others
being 80. So, 81 and 20 per cent. COM
Eicted. The same is true Of tn four
| II onitors contracted for at one tine Of
which one, the Nevada, is being built