Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-13
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Shameless Nature.
Dame Nature has let down her hair
And put her splendid robes away:
She that was gorgeous yesterday,
In green and crimson. braves the ar
With naked breast and limbs all bare:
The garb that was so rich and gay
Shs,i serve no more; she waits for May
To bring new robes for her to wear.
q Nature, posing in the nude,
Thom art bold and brazen shrew!
Make haste to drape myself. thou rude
And shameless thing! How wrong OF
thee.
Chicago Record-Herald.
A year ago. today, the first snow
storm came, and 1t was a big one. the
snow remaining on the ground until the
great sfreshet, a month later.
Bowdoin and U. Of NJ. will meet on
the gridiron in Bangor, Saturday, In
the last game of the Maine football
season.
Rather an unsatisfactory football
season, as no college has clear and
undisputed title to the State champion
ship. All four have very strong elevens
this year.
Bad fences make bad neighbOrs, as
two Fort Fairfield farmers have dis
covered who are all tangled up in law
suit over damages done to the crops of
one by the cattle Of the other.
The York Harbor improvement So
ciety is busy grading lawns. cleaning
roadsides and otherwise identifying
the locality. To the leaders of such
society any community owes a great
debt of gratitude.
1ucIc 10 d SoOutH al Is WI
might perhaps be induced to buy
good bird dog. as he is short Of one just
at present He went into the woods for
his first hunting trip. with a dog
bought this season. over which he ex-
pected to do some good shooting. The
first time he fired the dog put his tail
between his legs and disappeared. and
hasn't been seen since.
Two weeks to Thanksgiving day, and
1t will be a real pity if there isn't a
little sleighing and skating then to
make the great Old Home day Of the
year seem like old times.
York Courant: While the summer
business in Maine has assumed gigan-
tic proportions at present. 1t is not a
bagatelle to what it will be ten years
hence. Maine is fast coming to the
front as the vacation ground, and there
Is field of unlimited resource for those
who use the proper means to exploit
1t, The farmers especially ought to be
alive to the situation and grasp that
which lies within their reach and
awaits only the plucking. There are
Of farms which might easily
take care Of a half dozen boarders. and
for every farm thus situated there are
scores of people who would gladly
pay a reasonable price for the privi-
leges and advantages of free, unre-
get together and advertise their attrac-
lions.
Mrs. Will H. Hatch Of North Frye
burg is one of the most successful
hunters Of the season and has
returned from a week in the woods
with two fine bucks and a big bear
which she shot. ',
Ex-Governor Joshua L. Chamberlain
Is put forward by his home Post at
as a candidate for next de- |
partment commander of the Maine G.
A. r. Few living soldiers had a more
brilliant war record than Gen. Cham |
berlain. and in peace as well as in war
he has won many laurels and worn
hem well.
The price OF coal is dropping In the |
Maine cities. not because much hard |
coal has yet arrived. but lot Is on
the way and the famine scare is over. |
It was pretty serious scare while it |
asted. but It again illustrated that our
worst troubles in this world are things
hat never happen to us after all.
Millionaire Carnegie doesn't devote
all his spare wealth to libraries. He
has just contributed $15 toward the
purchase of a new organ for the
Baptist church at Caribou.
Waterville Mail: That Augusta
clergyman who has one thousandl
pumpkins slowed away in his cellar