Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-07-10
Maine Gossip
The Forest.

! .----
The Forest.
once the woodland portal gaped.
widespread,
To lure our steps to scenes all desolate,
Now green-clad trees their branches
Irvine o'crhead,
To hide with pail of shade. each tempt
ing gate.
Dare not our footsteps. ye sentries
Nor seek our weary Elances to delude;
Lcng have We hungered for thy vistas
dim
Long have our hearts desired thy soli-
tude
Sad and distrausht are we from all our
weary way;
Frenzied of grief and heartsick of
mans strife:
So must we brave thine anger for day
And in thy dim retreats behold the JOY
of life.
metropolitan Magazine.
Every promise Of a bumper black
berry crop.
A month before the hike Of the SOL
der boys to Augusta.
Lewiston has the symptoms Of a
baseball fever.
They are enjoying evening band con-
certss down in Bath.
Par Harbor has the promise of the
warships early in September.
Gardiner is itself again with the Bos-
ton boat coming to its wharf.
Old Orchard hears that the cold wet
spring gave the sea serpent the rheu-
matism.
chard mines will have a series of 10
games for the championship of south
eastern Maine.
There will be about 100 automobiles in
that Glidden touring party which will
strike this section of Maine about July
%.
Eowery Beach, the district in Cape
Elizabeth with the suggestive and
euphoneous name. is no more. No
terrible upheaval of nature has caused
it's downfall. but fate and aristocratc
summer cottagers have ordained that
henceforth it shall masquerade under
the assumed name of Crescent beach.
The Boston and Maine railroad has
practically used up the gravel pit near
Kittery Junction. For nearly 30 years
the company has been digging out the
earth at that place for filling and other
work and the pit was one Of the best
investments of the kind the company
ever made. A few days ago the road
department needed some gravel at
Scarboro and was compelled to haul it
from Hampton. distance of sc miles.
Writes the Paris Hill correspondent
Of the oxford Democrat: "Ex-Gover-
nor Perham and Miss George Perham
arrived at their home here for the
summer last week. Mr.. Pcrham was
in Portland on Wednesday and al
though 81 years Of age, was in at
tendance on both the forenoon and af-
tcrnoon sessions of the Republican
state convention. and occupied seat
on the stage. He is particularly inter-
est ed in the Semi-centcnnial of the Re-
publican party this year. as he had a
consdnra bic part in the formation and
both the early and later history of the
party Fifty years ago. as one Of the
electors at-large in Maine. he cast his
vote for John c. Fremont for President,
and he thinks he is the only one Of the
Fremont electors now living"
And now comes another Maine man
to he honorcd by his compeers. The
management of the New York Life In
surance Company has named as one of
its now board of trustees, Seth Mellen
Milliken of New York. Mr.. Milliken is
son of the late Seth L. Milliken. long
a representative in Congress from the
third Maine district. He is a graduate
of the u. S. Military Academy at West
Point. to which he was admitted in
1893. and from which he graduated
the year before the Spanish
war Mr. Milliken resigned from the
army and has been for some years
one OF the leading and most success
full merchants in New York.
Fishermen Of York are not meeting
with much success of late. the cause
being due, as one of them said the other
day. to the fact that "the water is
pretty near solid with dog fish" These
pests of the ocean are again off this
coast in vast numbers and are doing a
great deal Of harm to the fisheries,
They can he put to no use as far rs has
yet been discovered, and the fishermen
do not know what to do. They promise
to be even a greater pest and damage
this season than last. and they then
fairly drove the mackerel off the coast
They come in schools and feed on the
best of the food fish. Apparently they
must be exterminatadtff such a thing Is
possible. but just how is question of
importance. 1t is possible as was sug-
ges:ed last season that the government
must take hand in the determination
of the worst enemy the fisherman has
today.
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