Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-28
lNalQNVB Gossip
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| VioIets.
Frail-petalled groups of artless gems,
| Poised Gaintily on tenuOuS stems.
4 magic spread Of azure sails.
| AS though the angel fitting by
| Had brought slight fragments of the sky
| Ard scattered them in woodland dales.
| Amid your lcafy tenderness
| There is a tiny. trim recess,
Where sylvan fairies sup and dine,
| Then playfully ling out rare sweets
| To Natures realm. which gladly grcetS
| The atoms deicately fine.
! In what a guileless, gentle way.
| The zepnyrs with your petals play.
| Laden with damls from yonder stream
:ut when days fire sinks in the west
| y our tender aZureS tranquil rest
| Their peaceful sleep, flowers dream.
| Now lovingly a mellow hue
OF misty purple blends with blue.
| Caught from the fervent deepening
At last you've won earths regal dyes
Shimmercd with silver when nights skies
| Give to the scene a-staF4it-iome
a. 7. Schuman.
| AT last and at length ard finally the
porcupine bounty law goes into eff
feet. E~-
| Maine seems to be having sprinE
| fire epidemic with some lucky escapes.
| 1t is little late for smallpox scares,
but they are just as likely to be the
real thing.
Bowdoinham is happy in the opening
of the shad season.
The fishermen are off by every train
for Moosehead and the Rangeleys.
| The maybasket makers are busy and
the youngsters can hardly wait for
Fridays twilight.
Auburns regard and affection for
Judge Mitchell were we'll shown at
that reception and banquet on the eve
of his departure for Washington.
One Richmond couple has moved t.
times in 20 years of married life, and
still they are said to be reasonably
happy.
Two Aroostook young men who have
been wandering through the West are
back home again convinced that no
section has the attractions or oppor-
| tunities of their own county.
| Milford complains of chicken thieves
One thief took an even dozen, the other
night, and added insult to injury by
chopping off their heads in the own
erss yard.
| We are told that 1.-THE society young
men" of Bangor are taking to horse
back riding, this spring. This doubt
less means that the streets of that city
on any pleasant afternoon will present
the appearance Of cavalry brigade in
! full charge.
According to the Virginia papers
Superintendent w. w. Stetson made q
great hit in his address before the
Southern educational conference, and
he has received invitations to lecture
in several states of the South.
There may be some economy in hay
ing tArbor day come on May day.
Any May-day exercises that people
want to have can be combined with
those of Arbor day. We hope to see
Arbor day well observed especially by
our schools. In no other way can so
much be done for the amount of work
expended. in identifying our streets,
school grounds and homes.
The sight of man So years old
shingling his house, putting up the
Istagings. etc. without aid is some
thing unusual, but such was seen last
week at Bath. Richard Gibbs who is
four score and three years is shingling
his double house alone. Mr. Gibbs, al
though well advanced in years, is
blessed with wonderful vitality and
has been doing the work of much
younger man for the past five years
He is well known among the shipping
men of the city, he having been a mas
ter builder in the old Houghton yard
He built the last ship built by the
Houghtons. Three years ago, at the
age of eighty, ne built a sailboat which
did not lack in workmanship and
strength.
!, The Society for the Protection of
Animals has been called upon to prose-
cute in cases of alleged cruel treat
lnent of many animals but it is seldom
that it is to secure proper treatment OF
hogs that actions are brought. The
agents of the society, however, have
recently brought such a case to the at
tention of a trial justice in Bethel and
the offender was fined SO and costs.