Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-09-03
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In September.

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Two and by two ny the doves through
the timber.
Past the red sunsets far lines;
b Past the tall. sentinel pines
Dip the long willow-tips. yellow and lin
Down where the dark water shines.
Glowing in hollows, where floats the hen,
sickle,
Scimitar-lke of the moon
Where the round sand-o oddics Groom.
Down where the sinuous brook-currents
trickle,
Dripping through rock-niches hewn.
Two and by two 80 the reapcrs together,
Figures in dusky relief;
Bearing the scythe and the sheaf;
Where the keen tang of the autumny wel-
ther
Perfumes each blossom and leaf
Two and by two stoop the doves to the
Where the winds whisperings pass
Through the wet reeds ana the grass.
Down wher, the river its still bosom pill
lows.
Gray ana transparent as glass
Two and by two drift the bronze upland
plover.
Bird shapes thro mist spaces blown,
over the meadows new mown,
And and the night like lass and her
Meet in the twilight alone.
Earnest McGan-y. In Woman's Home
Companion.
Two stews. please.
The clatter of the thrashing ma
chimes is heard.
OF course. you are going over to
Lew is ton for a day or two.
About every Maine pond has a
campmeeting on its shores.
The great series is over but Water
vile and Fairfield will keep right on
talking base ball
Now perhaps well See if the repeal
Of the September law lessons the num-
Der of forest fires.
Maine will send some large and nota-
Bile parties to the Pan American expo
sition. this month.
If a sign-swiper has a pull he is evil
IDENTIFY all right with the Bar Harbor
guardians Of the place.
OF the Maine colleges Bates will OPP
en- September 9, Colby the 18th. and
Bowdoin the 26.
By direction of the grand master.
Grand Lodge of Maine, F. and A. NJ.
Grand Lecturer Frank +. Sleeper has
called conventions for instruction in
Masonic work as follows: At Fort
Fairfield Friday Sept. q. at $50 a. m;
Skowhegan. Tuesday, Oct. s. at $50 a.
m. Norway, Friday. Oct. -, at $50 a. m
Kennebunk, Tuesday, oct. %. at go a.
IN. Every district deputy grand mas
ter is expected toattend at least one of
these conventions and all master Mas
ons are invited to be present.
A poem by the Maine poet J. Otis
Swift was copied in the New York
Suns column of Poems Worth Read
Light" a bit of verse inspired by
iiiSHl WI. t'N III pdSStu tilts SulllIIltl
with the light keeper at Seguin, of
Popham beach. 1t was first published
in the Kennebec Journal. His verse is
being copied widely in New England
and the western states, which is the
highest compliment a writer can gain.
His story, The Sheriffs Daughter a
story of the old time liquor smuggler
in oxford and Androscoggin counties,
now being published in the Saturday
supplement of the Journal, is attract
ing much attention. 1t is said Mr.
Swift was recently offered the place of
city editor ola large paper in Balti-
more. Nd. but declined as he wished to
remain in New York and thoroughly
master the art of metropolitan news
paper making.
brunswick is making arrangements
for firemen's muster that promises
to be a record breaker. The entries
are growing larger each day. and all
the old heroes in the ranks of the
hand tubs will surely be there.
whenever you see an able bodied
man." says an exchange. refusing an
offer of $l.25 day for work, saying he
, would starve before he would work for
such wages. you can risk your last dol
lar that some other person is paying
for the grub that he eats. The young
man who is willing towork forthe best
wages he can get be ii high or low
is the one who gets there in the end"
The peace and quiet Of the woods
will now be broken by the bang of
firearms, and the game birds in this.
vicinity won't have moments rest.
The law went off of woodcOck the first
of September. but partridges will be al
lowed to live until the 18th.
Here is a story of city young man
who has been spending his vacation
days in the country, not many miles