Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-31
] lW2Ialh0QB GOSSIP
Beyond the Surf.

Beyond the Surf.
| Beyond this ceaseless striving there is
rest
| The smooth, broad pillows swing and
heave and sway,
| And DER them hosts of little ripples play
| Curled by the quick light breezes OF the
| west
A boat sails by in pleasures idle quest.
| Swift pressing from her Prov the crisp
white spray.
Her Misunderstanding wake level way
| OF dubbed foam a-dance in gleeful Zest.
| At the horizons edge, where distance
blends
The soft low dimnesses of sea and sky,
Monhegan lifts his dusky, sombre pile
Silence-save when the warning Iog-hora
Across the waters its far mournful cry,
Whose tone forbids the listening face 10
A. T. schuman, in The New England
| Magazine.
The haymakers are on the jump. this
week.
Fortunately the August bookings are
unusually large at the shore hotels.
DR.. Simpsons Christian Alliance
IiittttHSS at VIZ! oiNhstiC al ~" vi
and will continue until August 10.
Here goes July, cold and soggy
month, though Its closing days have
left nothing to be desired.
Lewiston is the place and October g,
. and 10 the dates for the Maine club
,ro1,an 70 I-.o-, in mind
Off South Harpswell, too, as well as
up on Hayden lake, they are desecrat-
ing the Sabbath by yacht races, this
summer.
Knox county is still chuckling over
the speech with which DR.. Crockett in
troduced Mr.. Bryan, last Friday morn
ing.
The State election will come on
Monday, Sept. S, less than six weeks
away. but the active campaigns will
not open for two or three weeks yet.
Waterville, Fairfield and Belfast,
having been playing games togetht)
Tor several weeks, have now organized
Il league and the battle for the cham
pionship of central Maine wakes warm.
Elijah Norton, the Dover fox farmer,
is doing a thriving business and his
place IS most interesting to visit. Last
season he sold enough to pay all his
q fnr fttinrr nm Il
enclosures. One pair of black foxes
sold for $500. He has now about 35
foxes on hand.
Portland is the greatest lobster port
i'll the world and from it the Holsters
are shipped alive even across the con-
tinent to California. Many thousand
Holsters are brought in by fishermen,
every day, but it IS impossible to sup
ply the increasing demand from all
over the country.
1--WE give trading stamps" was the
legend which some wag hung on the
door of the Bath city prison the other
day, but Judge Fogg, knowing the re-
suit if the sign were allowed to remain
Until ire ldtlcS get Mlllu Oh |,
took immediate steps to have it re-
moved.
Che of the recent reissues of tODO-
graphic maps of portions of the State
of Maine is that of the Gray quad
| rangle, which covers rectangular sec
ton about 1914 by II miles in extent in
Cumberland county, surrounding the
town of Gray, from which it takes its
name The map is unusually accurate
in all details relating to boundaries.
highways railroads, and drainage, and
is especially interesting. in Indicating
by the use of contour lines the eleva-
tons and character of the slopes of the
kills and mountains found in the re-
gion. 1t is one of 90 or more sheets of
similar size which have been issued by
the United States Geological survey,
covering more than half Of the south
ern portion of the State. The whole
State will eventually be surveyed, and
topographic maps issued to cover its
entire area.
Rockland Star: We trust that the
importation OF so many distinguished
Democratic orators into Maine will not
fill candidate Gould with a feeling that
he is going to poll a real large vote, or
| that there is any doubt of Gov. Hills
reelection. Some people are so easily
| enthused that they expect all sorts OF
| impossible things.
over at Shiloh they use for con-
tribution box the original wheelbarrow
which, with a shovel, was Mr.. Sand
! ford's sole possession when he began
| his lonely operations where his great
and populous temples now stand. Mr.,
| Sanford is now off again for another
| visit to the Holy Land.
| From the Dead River valley comes
| the usual complaint that the deer
/ are eating the crops and Fostering the
| farmers generally. Some farmers have
devised the method of StrinTinG the