Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-09-07
Maine Gossip
Back to the City.

MuttcrinS deep strains in the far-swelling
chorus
This is the burden: Back, back to the
town.
Back to the pave where the lights gladly
cleaning,
Guide the great throns on its hurrying
way!
Back to the street cars! Away from the
dreaming,
Where the autumn reveals but the ruins
of May!
Back to the place where there's meeting
And shelter for all when the rain twin
kles down
Let's join the procession with hearts
lightly beating
And step to the rhythm of Back to
the town.
Washington Star.
Was Keyes sane or insane when he
shot his wife?
Now that it has finally cleared Off,
the fairs are counting on a spell of
splendid weather.
1t is indeed good news that all the
victims of the South Gardiner accident
will recover, but several of them are
SCARED and MANNED for life.
The managers of the Trolley League
teams are wondering r'hcrn the Lewis
ton Journal got its information that
''all the clubs have we;tthr:ed the sea-
son with a surplus in III" treasury"
Francis T. Faulkner. the cwner Of the
Turner wooden mill VINO persisted in the
burning mill. Sunday. was the first po-
tentat, Of kora Temple, Lewiston.
There were eight weddings over in
Lewiston, Monday, and eight more
brides have Il chance to prove that hap
piness does not depend upon sunshine
on the wedding day.
The entertainment Of the Mayflower
descendants of Maine at Poland
Springs, Sept. %, will not be exactly
aIong the line familiar to the good peo-
Pile of early Plymouth.
The last Of the Brunswick shipbuild-
ers is dead. Elbridge G. Simpson who
died. Tuesday, at the age of 80, built
no fewer than Is vessels On the lower
Androscoggin.
DR.. A. w. Harris, formerly at the
head of the University of Maine, will
get salary of $4,000 in his new posi-
ton as president of Northwestern Uni
versity, Chicago.
BiddefOrd Journal 1t was a moist
ending to the vacation of many !. sum-
mer guest i'm Maine. Nature wept cop;-
ously to think that the season was
prac tically at an end
Norris Smart Of West Windsor has 4
coon c"t which has three kittens, about
three weeks old. A few days ago, the
mother cat went out working in the
interests OF her family ana in Il short
time she brought what Mr.. Smart's
people supposed was :. mouse and laid
il very carefully in the oox with the kit
tens. Very soon after :-hc started on
the second expedition, returning with
another of the same kind, both proving
to be young grey squirrels. They are
thriving well. for they share the family
rations With the kittens, and the moth.
err appears to think as much of them as
OF her own
A question which is puzzling the ma
val authorities is what will be done to
the old katahdin, built in Bath. She
is one of the few experiments which
the navy has tried and found worth
less. Another was the gun cotton. or
dynamite boat. the Vesuvius. but she
has been utilized as a practice torpedo
boat. In the case of the Katahdin all
her supposed worth laid in the ram
with which she was equipped.
One of the curiously original charac-
ters in Holman F. Days new novel,
Squire Phin," which is to be published
in few weeks by A. S. Barnes & CO..
is Hiram Look. retired circus mama
ger who descends upon n quiet cOun-
try community with the remnants of
his show and picturesque tales of his
circus life. 1t is said that this charac-
ter closely resembles a counterpart in
real life, q circus manager named Ezra
Stevens. who was the T. T. Barnum Of
Maine. 1t is recalled that the "infant
anaconda" and dancing turkeys"
which figure in Mr.. Days novel. Origi-
mated in the Stevens show. Like Hi
ram Look, Stevens Invariably wore n
tan plug hat" and chung TO it even
when he went fox hunting in winter.
wren he wore ear muffS tied UNDER
meath.
Maine people have an interest in the
announcement that Attorney General
Rogers of Arkansas has threatened ~
shoot on sight Governor JEFF DAVIS of
that state ii In the coming campaign
he makes any statements derog ,:.ry 20
the character IT, attorney CEREAL
Governor Davis is ere of the southern
governors yho viii be preson, the
Central Maine E;.ir and it has been
facetiously suggested that the governor
max" his der, -atory al KS at the
far and that the attorney general be