Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-12


maine Gossip
In the Green Meadows.
Larks DER the meadows
Coin jest a-Skimmin.
Little tUwhcad fellers
Strippin off fer swmmn!
An it's Oh. to be L boy
In the sunny land of JOY.
The bright cup OF pleasure
Just a-brimmin''
Green fields an daisies.
Cattle-bellS a-ringin;
Little tOWhcad fellerS
In the trec-tOpS Swingin:
An it's Oh. to be boy
IN the sunny land Of Joy,
With the south winds
An mOcllin' birds a-sinsin'
Frank l.. Stanton.
Commander Pcary who addressed the
Rowdoin boys. last night. speaks at
PresHue Isle. tonight.
Few places have made 4 larger pro-
pOrtiOnal gain i'm population since 1900
than Milo Then it had 1850 people
ana this spring the assessors find 1915.
A Sebec correspondent reminds those
who are talking of a late spring that IA
inches of snow fell there May ?. 1884
We may complain that the weather
is a bit unreasonable as to temperature
but it is comforting to know that
Maine is outside the cyclone belt.
The many kicks against the umpires
in the Maine college games show how
much the boys miss Hassett who has
umpired so efficiently for several sea-
sons.
an no other State in the Union are
the newspapers SO outspoken and SO
original as they are in Maine" says
the Bangor News. and of all the news
papers on our exchange list not one is
more outspoken or original than the
News itself.
The editor of the Piscataquis OBJ
server urges the good people of Dover
to look in their sheds and see if they
can find any trace of the editorial
wheelbarrOw which somebody has bOr
rowed and forgotten to return.
Frank p. Sanborn. the last survivor
of the Concord school of philosophers.
teacher. lecturer. writer, abolitionist,
and professional philanthrOpist. lee
tured in Portland the other evening.
When he had spoken an hour he sud-
denly stopped and said he believed in
the rule Of Emerson never to talk
over an hour unless his audience
unanimously rose and demanded more.
The audience i'm this case rose as one
person and made the demand so he
continued mis- remarks for some time
longer.
A stranger in Bath last Saturday
night purchased quart Of peanuts at
n local fruit store and when paying
displayed a roll of bills containing
uNS f'SvV $IVv OIiIS s'iiu
others of smaller denOmina tons.
none smaller than "tener." He
first passed a $500 bill i'm payment.
which nearly frightened the fruit
dealer out Of new suit Of clothes.
Anyway. this is the tale told by the
Bath Times.
William Cooper of Milo. taxidermist
and student of humanity. has been in
vestigating terminal mOraine just
outside of the village. and has found
We're capable of making stone toma-
hawks and other rude implements that
look as well as most of the Indian rel
les that are kept in the museums.
which discovery leads to the question
whether the Indians ever made any i'm
plements at all. In view Of the fact that
they could find them ready made. there
was no need of iLbOring. The average
Indian is not fond of hard work at
any period Of his life. and it is be-
lieved that lis ancestors were addicted
to the same habit.
Holman r. Day of Auburn left Tues
day for New York. to be the guest of
Mr.. Hitchcock at the Strathmore Mr..
Hitchcock has charge Of the a. r.
Barnes publications in this country.
Mr.. Day will also be a guest at the an
nual meeting at Lakewood, n. j., of
| the Book Publishers Association Of
America. To this meeting all of the
| successful authors are invited-the IA
miliar names in current fiction and the
| contributors to the magazines of the
day. This will be notable session.
Mr.. and Mrs. Day. their daughter
Dorothy. will leave early in June for
Long Pond. near Katahdin Iron
Works. where they will pass the sum-
mer in their new camp by the lake.
On May l the opening season on
| mink, sable. muskrat and fisher came
to close. and the trapping season in
Maine was officially ended. The year
has been n good one for capturing all
| of these fur-bearing animals. and the