Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-07
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With the Silence.
Ear from the riot and rush of the throng-
Out where the Silence Is singing song
Singing a song where the storm thunderS
cease,
Far from the plains where the red cities
CLEAN
Out where the Silence is weaving a
dream,-
Dream of glad earth-and true heaven
above,
Great with Gods love!
Far from the cares and the hopes and the
Out where the Silence is deeper than
tears
;lad of the solitude deep as the Night,
Frank L. Stanton.
This will be the greatest Labor day
Maine ever knew.
And now for the merry avalanche of
county and town fairs.
Bates opens today, U. of Maine, next
week, and Colby and Bowdoin, the
week later.
That hearing before the appraisers of
the Gardiner water plant interests
many Maine municipalities.
The more they attack Mr.. Sanford
of Shiloh the more he prospers His
navy, which now consists of launch
for work along the coast, is to be rein
forced by ship to carry on his work
in foreign lands.
The Bath Independent, long a weekly
now becomes a semi-weekly and may
later swing into the daily field. 1t is a
good paper and deserves success.
A story of lively work with the oars
comes from Isle au Haut. Two men,
Seth Lurvey and Merle Tracy, rowed
from Isle au Haut to Stonington in one
hour. The distance between these two
towns is about six miles and to do the
job in an hour one cannot have many
maps.
The Dexter WaterWOrkS proposition
is getting to be somewhat mOnotonous
to the people who are living on the
streets where the pipes are to be laid.
Several of the streets have been eX-
cavated in sections for the past month
and practically abandoned, the side
IAI, l,-tt
ways are shut off, and the streets are
really dangerous. The present indica-
tions are that winter will find the
streets in the same tOrn-up condition.
Irving Sinclair of Columbia Falls,
would like to know what is killing his
sheep, as he has lost 13 of them this
summer. They are found with their
threats cut or eaten out by some ami
NAL.
The champion herring-stringer of
Lubec, if not in the world, is Fred
Miller. One day recently he was at the
stringing tables of one of the smoked
herring plants of the village from $50
A. NJ. to noon, 5ia hours. and he strung
800 sticks of herring-say 10000 fish.
Fast stringers usually string from 300
to 400 sticks. 1t was the most rapid
stringing ever seen in PaSSamaquoddy.
Some of the farmers are digging their
potatoes. The custom of digging them
early is growing to avoid the rot, it is
claimed. In the old days the farmers
left them in the ground much later.
Many man now living can remember
of digging the tubers when the ground
was frozen and mittens were necessary.
Summer visitors to the island of
Grand Manan have not failed to call at
the shop of John II. Moses, the veteran
taxidermist who has been in the bust
ness for the past 25 years and has one
of the largest and most interesting col
lections of birds, fish, shells, eggs, etc,
to be seen in this section. Mr.. Moses
has several stuffed seals from the
baby to the old and large variety,
one which attracts more than the usual
attention is his specimen of harbor
seal 81. feet long and weighing when
numbers of birds many of which are
rarely seen on the island or in fact
in this section and many nests with
eggs are also in his collection. Shell
fish, blue Holsters, spotted Holsters,
porpoise and in fact many strange
| wonders of the deep are there for in
spection and it is an interesting sight
to look over the shelves and note the
lot. One of the largest Holsters he has
weighed when caught % pounds, 1
ounce, the large claw weighing five
pounds. The crustacean is AZ inches
long, the body "a inches, large claw
IA inches andsthe feelers % inches. He
has many curios and relics about the
island in past years and which he
| points out with pleasure to the
visitors and as a collector of birds and
strange fish he is certainly a success.
A North Newry girl, according to a