Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-09-12
|W8lh0g8 Gossip.
The Vineyard.

| The Vineyard.
Upon the hill beyond the grove of pine
| All through the vineyard the tiny ten
| drills run,
| Where, marked with fleeting shadow
| and with the sun,
The shimmering leaves and fragrant
| creepers twine:
! September here has made her sparkling
] wine,
| And in the silence of night begun
The fairy splnners mystic lace have
Around the clustered purple Of the vine.
So through the worlds vast vineyard
| thou and |
Are pledged to walk together side by
! And travel on the way that He has
willed.
Though saddest failure in our cups may
When We have trod the grapes. He will
| not chide
Because with love our wine has been
| distilled
| Myrtle Reed in Smart Set
The football warriors are donning
their armor.
The tremendous gains of the
Socialists are much like those made by
| the Democrats in the Legislature.
| The Republicans of Maine never felt
| better satisfied with a victory than
| with the 2G.S00 plurality rolled up,
Monday. for Governor Hill.
| OF the members of the present Sem
ate. IA will be in the next Senate. and
% members of the House have been re-
turned. All the other members of the
next Senate and many others elected
to the House have had legislative ex-
perience.
In six counties, Franklin, Hancock,
Plscataquis, Sagadahoc, Waldo and
York the Republicans elected the full
county ticket and every representative.
In Androscoggin, Aroostook. Kennebec
Oxford. Penobscot and Washington
counties the Republicans elected all
county officers. and the Democrats
picked up representative or two here
and there. In Cumberland, Lincoln
and Somerset the Democrats elected a
sheriff and in Cumberland several
representative In Knox the Demo-
Gratis elected the full county ticket and
five of seven representatives. .
| York county claim to being the BAN
ner Republican county of the State
cannot he successfully disputed
! Biddeford Journal.
There is glory enough to go around
barring Knox county. and that prom
iSpS fo win ire chara Of tho rIorx nav,
time--out all will admit that the 1855
plurality rolled up for the head of the
ticket in York was days work to be
proud of. However, both Aroostook
and Penobscot rolled up larger plural
tiles. and Kennebec's was almost as
| large. Aroostook is the banner Re
| publican county.
| Knox county Democrats did not want
to run any risk of being premature in
| their celebration and will wait until
Saturday evening when they will at
| tempt to do justice to the feelings in
| spired by their victory. And won. G.
| Langley Crockett wake the echoes
along the shore,
The next great event in Bath will be
the meeting of the State Board of
Trade on Sept. Is. The Board has
| board proposes to make the delegates
| sorry that they have waited so long to
discover the city.
The many friends all over the State
of Senator-elect Harris of Androscog-
gin will be very sorry to learn of his
| severe illness. The reports from his
bedside are not at all encouraging.
| After drifting aimlessly about the
ocean for nearly seven months. n
menace to navigation and a constant
dread to mariners. the derelict Bath
! schooner b. r. Woodside was towed
| into Abaco. Tuesday. In February
| last the Woodside while on a passage
from Fernandina to San Juan with a
! cargo of lumber. encountered severe
weather in which she became water
! logged and was abandoned by her
| crew. all of whom We're saved by an
other vessel. The wreck was then
about 200 miles east of Savannah and
| since that time it has drifte1 hun
dreds of miles up and down the coast
| carried hither and thither ny the
| ocean currents. She has been sighted
| many times by passing steamers and
| attempts have been made to destroy
| the wreck by setting fire to it. hui
| without avail. The vessel was owned
by John G. Hall & Co. of Boston
| She was a three-master. built in this
| city in 1888 by Adams K Hitchcock
| She was a craft of 1856 tons.
| Westbrook's Gazette reporter, sign