Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-19
NI8lQdgB Gossip
In Winter.

VI VtutCTs
The valley stream is frozen,
The hills are cold and bare,
And the wild white bees of winter
Swan in the darkened air.
/ look on the naked forest;
Was 1t ever green in June?
Did it burn with gold and crimson
In the dim autumnal noon?
look on the barren meadow;
Was it ever heaped with hay?
Did it hide the grassy cottage
Where the skylark's children lay?
look on the desolate garden;
Is it true the rose was there?
And the wOodbine's musky blossoms
And the hyacinth's purple hair?
I look in my heart and marvel
If love were ever it's OWN
IT the spring of promise frightened
And the summer of passion shone.
Is the stem of bliss but withered,
And the root survives the blast?
Are the seeds of the future sleeping
Under the leaves of the past?
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Camden seems to have an ambition
to be the next city on the frightening
| Maine list. -
Who can blame that Caratunk fam
| lily for being broken up. at the receipt
of human finger by mail?
Bangor caught a glimpse of the great
| Marconi as he dashed into the station
restaurant and ate piece of pie.
New libraries are all the fashion in
Brunswick. The magnificent structure
on the campus, erected by General
| Hubbard at an expense of over $4,000
will not make the town less apprecia-
tive of it's own little library which
Carnegie offers to build.
What are the authorities going to do
with that Bath man who, while still
serving sentence at the work Jail has
been caught stealing the Jail stock.
Bar Harbor's recently-o organized loan
and building association starts off with
a BOOM Over 800 shares of the first
series were taken out for a starter.
A Pressure Isle man is persona non
grata through Aroostook at present.
Ashland and Caribou have issued
printed notices refusing any one from
that town admittance to theirs without
q written certificate from a physician
as a guarantee of safety from small
pox. n@ t.as
Down in Sagadahoc county they have
already had more seighing this winter
than the whole of last winter gave
them. Last winter sleighing was pos
sible for only so days in all and that
number has already been exceeded,
this winter by a good margin.
There was an assembly in Bath, the
other night, which will long be talked
of among the buds of that city. It's
remarkable feature was that there
we're six more than enough men to go
around, and this, too without the pres
cnce of a delegation of college boys.
One day last week four section hands
were leisurely propelling hand car
along the tracks of the b. & M. rail-
road in the vicinity of Woodfords cross
ing. They were observed by a con-
ductor on the Westbrook electrics who
is something of ventriloquist and still
more of a practical joker. AS soon as
the conductor saw the section men he
gave an imitation of an engine whistle
that deceived not only the men on the
hand car hut number of bystanders
as well. The mseemly hustle with
which the four men left the hand car
and dug for tall timber is still a sub
ject of gleeful comment by the large
number who witnessed the incident.
A young man was coming along Con-
gress street Portland the other day
when he picked up a lady's pocketbook,
which, on examining, he found con-
tanned over a hundred dollars. COntin-
uing his way he shortly met man and
young woman who were evidently en-
gagged in an earnest discussion. AS they
WHY STAY PALE.