Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-11-01
maine Gossip
Indian Summer.

Indian Summer.
Faint blue the distant hills before.
Yellow the harvest lands behind;
WavfarerS We upon the pain
The tLiStledOWn goes out to 1inu
On naked branch and empty nest.
The woodlands blended gold and red.
DIm glory lies which autumn shares
With faces of the newly dead.
Tender this moment of the year
To eyes that seek and feet that roam
II is the lifting of the latch.
A footstcp on the flags of home.
Now may the peace of wilhercd grass
And goldcn-rOd abide with YOU;
Abide with me-for what is d"ath'
Fall of il leaf against the blue.
Sci .bn.rs.
November, and only two months to
1906.
Yes. the boys remembered it was All
Halloween.
The wetest September for many
years was followed by the dryest Octo-
Der.
Anyway there is no mystery in Bid
defords murder and that is something
to be thankful for.
They say that wolves are back again
hunters expect some great sport.
The Bangor News is urging its read
ers to cut their Christmas trees before
the best ones are sold to go out of the
State.
Rockland has a couple. Mr.. and Mrs.
E. S. McAllister. who have spent 5S
years of married life in the same home.
A party of SO persons started. this
week, from Lubec and Eastport on an
excursion to California. Most of them
propose to settle there.
Company D. First Regiment, Ma
tional Guard. State of Maine. stationed
at Norway, has an enthusiastic mem
Der who does not think anything Of
away. to attend weekly drill.
Portland Sunday Times: If the meet
ing of the Maine Teachers associat ton
had done nothing else of Importance it
has certainly accomplished good
work in calling attention to the low
salaries which are paid to many of the
faithful and efficient teachers of our
State. If teachers services are not
worth being well-paid for they are GER
tainly absolutely worthless to the
cause of education.
A Bangor paper, in describing Frank
forts welcome to the first train. says
that whistles blew, bells rang and
powder burned" A Frankfort cOrre-
spondent says: "Citizens of the town
failed to remark these features. but it
is true that hens got dizzy. cats ran
and hid. horses waltZed and dinner
pals ran away with staid quarrymen.'
The Northern Maine Seaport Rail
way is complete. Trains have been run
the whole length of the line and the
ballasting is well under way. The sta
tons are practically complete and it is
expected that the towns along the road
will be enjoying a regular train service
within three or four weeks. According
to press notices the management plans
to run two passenger and one freight
each way day. The new road, reach
ing towns that have been so long out
OF easy touch with the outside world,
ought to be of incstimable benefit to
the section. and all the towns along the
line.
Light-Keeper Robinson at Quoddy
Head has been having some fun with
the old-fashioned blister back pollock.
writes the Lubec correspondent of the
E,astport Sentinel. Looking over the
steep bank west of the power house the
other day, he noticed "a great commo-
tion in the waters of one of the gulches,
which proved to be a school of herring.
penned in by pollock, while the gulls
had assembled in great force overhead,
swooping down fiercely at times, max
ing it lively for~the herring. He ran
the steep bank of so or more feet, COM
menced fishing and in a short time
landed some three quintals of fish,
which gave him quite job getting
them up the steep bank. This story
has been corrOborated by competent
witnesses.
Frank Z. Kidder. who died in Denver
last week, at the age of As, was a Ban
gor boy who had become one of the
foremost architects in the country He
was educated at the University of
Maine, Cornell and Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology. For some years
he was member of the firm of Curtis
& Kidder. architects. of Boston. and
delivered several courses of lectures at
Technology. At the age of II he began