Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-21
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The Bridge of the Unresurning.

the haunting midnight hour?
There they neither drudge nor labor, but
are happy all the night
And they Joy and sing, and rest Them
every day new delight,
No poverty. no misery, as in years of life
below
Every independent being has share of
joy to show.
But a bridge DER ways dark, grewsomc
leads across unto the shore.
SO that those who pass, though willing.
can return no moreno more.
The bridge is death; and human dreams
have pcoplcd all the land
With fantasies of happiness each soul has
at command.
Boston Transcript
The Maine soldier boys are off for
the war, today.
It is rather a different game than
they started for in 1898.
Augusta, and particularly the Au-
gusta girls, will miss the two weeks
encampment
Pressure Isle wins the championship
honors in the Aroostook baseball
league.
1t is fortunate there We're no worse
results when the Frank Jones and the
City of Bangor tried the Monitor and
Merrimac game
Pittsfeld is hoping that its soldiers
monument will be a reality of the near
future.
Catholic families in Bath have, this
week, giYen homes to II little waits
brought there from a Boston institu-
ton.
1t is recalled that when the special
legislative session was held, 90 years
ago. and the statutes We're revised UNI
der the supervision of the late Judge
Charles W. Goddard of Portland, an
adjournment was made on the same
night that the lawmakers We're called
together and the next day a party of
them held an excursion down the Ken
nebec to Boothbay and the islands.
Samuel Grant of West Bangor, has
the proud distinction of having worked
in a. hay field for so consecutive sum-
mers. He commenced when he was
seven years old and has kept at it
every year since. Mr. Grant is as
strong and nimble as a man half his
years, and enjoys the best of health at
all times.
The Armenia is on her annual cruise
along the Maine coast furnishing
lighthouse keepers with tools and per-
ronal supplies. She cruises along the
entire Atlantic coast in this work of
supplying lighthouse keepers and in
Guides Porto Rico in her route.
Discussing the lobster law, the Bid
deford Record says: THE fact is that
it is local consumption which suffers
most from this lobster law. People liv-
ing within a mile of the lobster traps
have more difficulty in getting them
than people who live u hundred miles
away. The supplying Of people who
summer along the coast is but small
item. There is undoubtedly a barrel
of holsters shipped away from the
Maine coast for every dozen lObsters
that are furnished people along the
coast. If the wholesale shipment of
Holsters could be stopped, it would not
matter much about the few which are
supplied in the local consumption
An Auburn young gentleman took his
best girl to ride in an automobile the
other day Like the lovers that they
are, they logged slowly on until near
ing the villageo of South Paris. Up to this
point everything had gone well, but ut
this place the young gentleman wished
to show the young lady the speed of his
machine. Now, the only way that this
could be done WIS by putting on more
steam, and this he at once proceeded
to do. In fact, he put on so much
pressure that the tank exploded end
the fat was in the fire. The girl
jumped out and saved herself, but mat
ters We're looking hard for the machine
until the people of house near where
the accident happened came to their
rescue with a hose and eXtinguished
the FIRE. After this, when that young
man takes his girl out to ride he will
go on foot!
The resignation of Paul Dana, son of
the great Charles A. Dana, results in
the promotion of Edward p. Mitchell
to the editor-in-chiefship of the New
York Sun. Mr.. Mitchell is a Maine
man. a native of Bath and graduated
from BOwdoin College in 1871. He won
fame in the college world by writing
Phi Chr which has been a soul
stirring battle-song of the BoWdoin
boys for 80 years and which other
colleges have borrowed. Mr.. Mitchell
has been on the staff of the Sun since
1875, and is said to be the highest
salaried editorial writer in the coun-
try Those who read the Sun know
that he is one of the brightest men in
the business.
August is the month when the small
mouthed black bass is fastidous and
sometimes about the only thing that
may be relied on to whet his appetite
| is a struggling grasehopper. This will
generally tempt him to rise from force