Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-05
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Music.

MUSIC.
In the wide-moving sea
Is hid a mystery
That the eVer-SOundlnS swell
Whispers of, but may not tell
With it's deathless melody
Guarding the secret well.
And the wind, in its sweep
Above the mighty deep,
Breathes a meaning few may know;
Sings it in cadence low;
Thunders it from steep to steep
Farther than thought can go.
The Spirit hath no way
Its master-word to say,
But that chanting of the sea-
And the winds high harmony?
With immortal phrases they
invest the mystery!
-H:ldegrade Hawthorne in Harper'S.
The Highland Cadets are the most
picturesque feature of Names Old
Home. week.
Who will solve the mystery of that
mysterious death beside the railroad
track in Clinton?
Augusta through to Winthrop and
Brunswick through to Portland are two
new trolley lines that will be open to
the public on permanent schedules, this
week.
1.-The God of Things is in its second
edition. 1t is said that Mrs. White
house, who is passing the summer at
Squirrel Island, is at work on a second
novel.
The August number of the Atlantic
Monthly is graced by contributions
from two Maine women: Mrs. Martha
Baker Dunn of Waterville, a daughter
of the late Henry Knox Baker of HALO
well, contributes 1.-THE Browning
Tonic" and Mrs. Annie Hamilton Dom
nell of Kent's Hill writes a pretty
fairy story for children, '"The Princess
of Make Believe" which is much out Oh
the general line of it's articles. 1t is
certainly a great credit to Maine au-
thors when two of them appear in a
single issue of this classic magazine of
America.
Probably there were never such busy
scenes in the Maine hay fields on the
last Nech III d Qly lliCIC WClC, ioHt
week. At the beginning of the week
there was more grass standing than
has been seen at the same season since
the moving machine and kindred in
ventions began to make the getting of
hay a quicker and easier job than it
was years ago. 1t had really begun to
look very dubious for the farmer of this
section, but the week changed the situ-
atiGn. Thousands of tons of hay went
into the barn in good condition, and not
so over-ripe as it might be expected to
be from the lateness of the season.
In many Maine home preparations
are being made to kill the fatted calf
and welcome in a fitting manner the
Notwithstanding Express.
This is all right as far Maine
hospitality is concerned, but it is a
who have gone outside the State to
seek their fortune.
Boston Herald: An electric railroad
ninety miles long is to be built "up in
Maine" These roads are getting so
it won't be any trick at all to go up
there after awhile and stalk moose to
standstill without having to leave the
comfortable trolley
The Republican Journal has a COM
prehensive article on Belfast's live
stock. 1t gives statistics covering the
number and value of horses, mules
horned cattle, sheep and swine for the
year 1902 as compared with 1897, but
says not a word of the Belgian hare.
The omission at once attracts the at
tention of Brother NORWOOD of the
Biddeford Journal and he thus COM
ments: Belfast. as we understand it,
is the veritable hotbed Of the belgian
hare industry in Maine, and a word of
explanation as to the reason of this
omission is called for. BY all rules of
natural increase and appreciation of
stock in trade, the belgian hare in
dustry of Belfast in this year of grace,
1902. should be more valuable than all
the horses, mules, cows, oxen. sheep,
swine and donlSeys that have set their
feet upon the soil of Belfast since Noah
turned his collection loose to get their
own living. In the living woods of the
Great Maine 'Umorist. why is this thus
and what is the reason of this thus
nesS?"
The most bulky document ever filed
at the Cumberland registry of deeds
was the mortgage deed of trust from
the White Mountain PAPER Co. to the
North American Trust Co., of New
York which came in last week. The
consideration is the modest sum Of
S10.00o,0O0 and the mortgage is given
to cover an issue of bonds of the COM
pany for which the Trust Company is
the trustee. The pamphlet consists of
149 closely printed pages, containing
an enumeration and description of
some thousands of lots of land, water
privileges and other appurtenances
which the White Mountain Paper Co.
has recently purchased all through the
Ossipee and Saco valleys and elsewhere
in Maine and New Hampshire. Every
word of this document relating to
Cumberland county must be written
out in the record books of Cumberland
county and then sent to the various