Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-22
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Hawthorne.
His boyhood breathed the silence of the
And of the woods a certain shyness
caught;
Under the lingering spell of these he
wrought
Through all his youth; clustered fancy
fills
With charm the tales told twice as
unseen rillS
Make music in meadow; WHen ne
sought
More openly the ways of men. he
brought
To them tale whose pathos stirs and
stills.
The tragedy that hides from human
ken.
The shame whose outward brand is
The spirits path with shadows over
Of these he wrote. as with prophets
He seemed stranger to the worlds
fierce din, ~.
Walking with shadowy figures OF the
past. ,, ,,,;u
Just a week to the great convention
South Portland is plainly Wiling to
be annexed.
Wcstbrook is talking up public park
on the shore of the Presumpscot.
Prospects of Fairfield
In scball war are not very bright just !
now.
As long as that disappointed lover at
Rumford Falls was bound to shoot, it
is a good thing he made himself tar
get.
The old boys are getting back to the
Row,loin Commencement. Chief JUS
tice Fuller. SO, was one of the first to
arrive, and Gen. o. Q. Howard, 80,
presided over Monday evenings prize
speaking. over 500 of their fellow
alumni will join them on the OLD
campus, today and tomorrow.
One man refuses to be reconcllcd 10
The change of GARDENERS famous clock
from local to standard time and wants
the church to pay him back the money
he gave toward the clock, many years
ago.
The NEWSPAPERS seem to agree that
the Gardiner High girls solved the
graduation gown problem in a very
satisfactory manner when they grad
mated in caps and gowns. And Incl
fentally this graceful garb is extreme
" becoming to the sweet girl graduate.
About the most cauStic bit OF edl-
torial writing we have seen for some
time is the merciless flashing which the
Colby Echo gives the boys of the col
lego for the depredations committed
during their annual might shirt pa
rade."
Waterville Mail: A SkOwhegan So
loon-keeper sold liquor to man wEo
got drunk and then went home to as
sault his Wife He nearly succeeded IN
killing her, and now she has Droush.
suit against the rumseller to recover
heavy damages for what she has SUI
fere,! as the direct result OF MS Nloia-
ton of the law. IL this process were
Oftcner made use of, 1T would nia-
terialJy diminish the profits of liquor
selling i'm Maine. 1t might tend, also'
10 diminish drinking, for it could hard
" be an enjoyable experience Tor
man to figure in the scene as the
Skowhegan wife-bcater must when the
case gets into court.
Miss Fern Park, u Pressure Isle young
lady. has Il name which entities ner 10 Il
place in the hall of fame for such
celebrities. She is in the same class
with Miss Daisy Peach OF Ear Ildrbor.
ard Miss June Delight Edwards "f
Portland. Among the Maine men who
win places there are a. BIRD CouSh'
Par Harbor merchant, and North
West, Biddcforl business man WHO
was married last week.
There is always interest IN the choice
of professions by the members OF Il
college graduating class. The %
Young men Of Bowdoin's senior class
who get their diplomas. Thursday, Is
divided as follows among the several
professions and occupations: Tcach-
ing II, with four more who will engage
i'm teaching for a year or two; business
eight medicine seven; law SIN,
ministry three, banking three; tele-
phone business two, manufacturing
two, oivil engineer, forestry ana
library work, one each. Three members
OF the class will enter other colleges AZ
graduate students. one to study Greek
and Latin, one history and political
science, and one chemistry. Nine
members of the class are undecided as
TO their future occupations.
The Bangor Commercial calls atten-
ton to the fact that the present year is
one of many historic anniversaries for