Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-07-14
maine Gossip

uI0uul< UVSSSY
The Lesson of the River.
Here you are a-sighin'. when the world
is half a song;
The river turns the mill-wheel. but it's
singin' all day long!
You never hear it growlin' when the
rains a-cOmin' down,
Or sighn' out its sorrow past the meadow
an the town.
Here you are. a mumblin' of the sorrow
When the winds laugh in the blossoms
round the breasts of singin' birds!
Moanin' in the winter over memories OF
When the halleluia season it is with you
every day:
Get out in the sunshine-see the lilies
Tell the world Good mornin'," an be
thankful for the night;
An quit a-countin' all the clouds on Jor-
dams stormy banks
While Loves banners are a-waVin' DER
the hallcluia ranksi
Frank L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
Yes, it is summerish, but 1t is the
kind of summer weather Maine wants.
The Maine orchards agree that there
will not be over half a crop of apples
next fall.
Waterville and Fairfield will now
proceed to see low much faster ball
they can put up than is played in the
Trolley league.
The appearance of the first raspber-
lies, even though summer is hardly I'M
der way. seem to suggest the coming
fall.
Biddeford will celebrate its 50th an
niversary as a city with a merchants
carnival, September 10. IA and Is.
The big circus did not strike Bath.
but 300 Bath people went to Lewiston
to see it and SO others went to Port
land.
A blOorler girl baseball aggregation
Is to tour the State but it is not yet
announced that any games have been
arranged with the Trolley league
teams
1t was a Maine man, General Thorn
as H. Hubbard of New York. who gave
the final $4,000 needed to fit out the
Peary expedition.
Nha OF m
show an unlimited capacity to fake alb,
surd stories about 1.-The Maine girl who
is going to the pole with Peary" AS a
matter Of fact. Miss Babb who is
|Westbrook girl and Commander
Pearys stenographer, has no inten-
ftion or desire to go any further north
than Mrs. Peary goes. They and the
EPeary children will return on the re-
lief ship to Maine in the fall.
I "The good effects of prohibitory
law can readily be seen in Maine"
said the veterinary of the Ringing
Bros circus. I'VE have showed In
five Maine cities and in all except one,
-Bangor-the liquor law has been en-
forced. The effect of enforcement has
two results: First. towns where men
cannot spend their money for drink pa
trOnize our circus better and second,
the crowds are more orderly. We have
had no trouble with rowdyism to speak
of while in Maine"
An amusing incident comes down
from Lewiston's Fourth of July cele-
bration, without names being given. A
man with a particularly sore boil on
his neck was Watching the hand-tub
race, when the champion Niagara team
began to squirt it's IT'S feet. The man
handling the hose lost control of the
nozzle for second and the stream
struck the aforesaid spectotor in the
neck He was drenched and knocked
10 feet. The water struck with such
force that it burst the boil on his neck.
Supt. Whitney of the fire alarm service
vouches for the truthfulness Of this
story, because he loaned the unfortu-
nate man court-plaster to put over the
break.
Five years ago a mail route was es-
tablished between Cape Roster and
CaStlne, distance OF "a miles, max
| ing a round trip of 81 miles. Mr..
Jesse Gray, an able, stalwart man OF
| about So years Of age, was appointed
as mail carrier and deserves much
| credit for the daring way i'm which he
has made these daily journeys through
| the winter months. Eight and one
half miles seems short trip when
made under favorable circumstances,
but when we consider that four miles
| of this route lay over the bay or har-
| Dor and has been made many times at
| the peril of his life. through all kinds
of weather, it is mo easy task. Mr..
Gray has left his home, daily, at Cape
Roster with his team and proceeded to
Cape Roster, a distance of two miles,
and returned to the landing at the
Cape, where his boat was waiting.
crossed to Castine. arriving there at
1920 and leaving at 1850 continued to
Cape Rozier and back to his home. The
past two winters the bay has been
frozen with now and then an open
place and many times 1t has required
both boat and handsled to make the
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