Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-07-20
INyD GOSSIP
Off to the Maine Woods.

OFF to the Maine Woods.
Aren't you weary of touching the elbows
of men?
Do you shrink from the sight of your
kind?
20 you yearn to escape from your desk
And leave all the city behind?
Then it's off with the broadcloth, the
collar and tile,
And It's on with the flannel and knicks;
Their. away to the depths of the woods
for a while,
Away from the frown of the bricks:
rhe clank of the wheels of the hurryins
train,
Beats time as you clatter along:
There's a thrill in your heart and hit |
in your brain,
At first tbs the clang of the closing till |
You left the city there; |
-linkle of dollars following still |
On the pinions loaned by Care. |
But as on you ride and as on you dream,
The voice of the town is mute
And the song of the woods, the fields
the stream
Thrills high DER the lyric of loot.
There's the song of the surge of the light
On the yeast of the heaving lake;
There's the gentler song as you're Slip
By the fringe of the sedge and brake.
There's the song of the chase in the
tense-strung wood,
Wnere the CRACK Oh q tWlS Is uiu,
The song of the kettle and camp cooked
food.
When the hunters come trooping in.
So you long for the sough of the spruce
And the flare of.tfe woods camp blaze
For the shelter and SAVIOR Of good green
trees,
+ In the. weird, dim forests maze;
For the spring of the moss meath your
tired form 81.
And the night and it's soft release;
Away off somewhere the worlds fierce
storm,
But with you, the woods-and peace.
Holman F. Day, in the Boston Journal.
The correspondents are putting in a
mig batch of guesses on what will be
done and what won't be done at
September's special session Of the
Legislature.
Between murders, robheries, cow
slashings, and police shake-ups.
Lewiston is furnishing pretty large
share of the July news.
Portland" notes with much gratifca--
ton that the people at Names Capitol
are again planning on an excursion this
summer. OF course, if the Capitol was
in the Forest City there would be no
desire to go on excursions outside its
borders.
We don't blame Rockland for being
anxious to capture that firebug, and in
view of the large rewards offered it
will not be surprising of the firebug is
getting a little nervous himself.
Fayson Smith the superintendent of
schools at Rurnford Falls where he has
shown himself a hustler, has been
elected the principal of the new Normal
School at Pressure Isle. At the three
old schools the present principals have
| been given deserved reflections.
| 1t is expected that the Kearsarge,
now speeding from the English shore
to Bar I!arhor, will prove the fleetest of
the fleet.
| The Waterville Seminal males an
appeal to some local capitalist to erect
a lot of tenement houses in that grow
ing city 1t is almost impossible to get
good rents there now and the demand
is constantly increasing.
on the Penobscot closed, last week, ii
does not follow that "Penobscot sal
mon in all its appetizing suggestive
ness viii! cease to figure on the menus
of the ,oatrODOlitan hotels.
Lewiston Journal: There are indi-
cations that the observance of Old
Home Week in it's official sense, is
getting a bit frayed round the edges.
In the first place the State issued
engraved invitations: the year following
an electrotype block served to tell the
story and this year we are set down to
plain, everybody type, set up and
printed with the rest of the job work
/ Thus has it come to press,
and the invited guests will spare
our feelings by refraining from
rubbing their fingers over the in
vitations to see if they came from the
engraver or the printer. But the
sooner we drop the official fol-de-rol
and get down to simple Come early
and bring-all-the children the better.
The latter comes right from the farm
, and the heart!
| When q Bath man is elevated to a
| high public office he isn't left in doubt
as to the magnitude and Importance of
the honor conferred by his admiring
fellow-citizens. In proof we submit
the following for the Bath Times:
/ 1.-The Times congratulates D. Howard
! Spear in his election as fence viewer
and the City Council on it's wise Sc
lection. Mr.. Spear, as the head Of his
we'll known shipbuilding firm and his
connection with the several different
banking institutions in the city, is well
qualified for this position and no doubt
will try to the best of his ability to
carry out the duties of his
arduous Office with great care and i'm
Partially"
Biddeford Journal: Hes one of the
easiest men to get along with we ever
got up here. We have yet to hear q