Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-17
Maine Gossip
A SONG for March.

In motley white and brown
Who i'll the wake OF Winters llsht
Turns now &c caper, now To iigiit-
Half hector and half clown.
Ono moment from a cloud-capped hl'l
He blares his slogan, wild and shrill;
TIE next, with gusty laughter
OutStepS the SunpeimS as they dance.
And leers and floats with backward
glance,
O, sing the maid,
The lght-hcart maid,
Who follows. follows after.
He fees her down the lengthening days;
She follows him through woodland Ways,
Ger hills and wales between.
And sets for mark of victory
On every BUSH and hedge and tree
Her flag of tender green;
And when her breath hath spiccd the
night
With promise Of the warm delight
Of young 'June's love and laughter.
No other song may true hearts sing
But ''Speed thy passing. March, and
bring
The maid who follows after
The fght-neart maid,
The lily maid,
Who follows. follows after
Catholic Standard and Times.
This is St Patrick's day in the
morning-also in the afternoon and
evening.
That announcement of Portland
guberIatorial candidate adds Il little
zest to the situation.
Says the York Transcript: Last
week was a busy one with local physi-
clans hut the cooking school has closed
and relief is in sight
Lorenzo D. Small holds the remark
able record of having been town clerk
of Bowdoinham Tor 80 years He is a
Civil War veteran and has been in
trade in Bowdoinhan for 43 years.
They that go down to the sea in ships
learn much of the mysteries of life.
From the coast of Africa there tray
eled to Scarboro, Maine. the painting
OF an oldtime sea captain of that town,
who long years ago was lost. with all
on board his ship in the China seas
The ship sailed from the home por.
with every prospect Of successful
voyage, but she never returned IL the
homeland. Years went by and she was
given up as lost; her name was taken
from the shipping list and no news OF
her came back to the waiting ones al
home. Long afterwards q passing YES
sci picked up off the African coast
the portrait of an American sea
captain such as the Chinese artists
paint. and on the back of the picture
was the captains name and that of the
port from which he sailed The paint
ing WAS forwarded to the little Ameri-
can town. and it was found to be Il pic
ture Of the Scarboro sea captain. master
Of the lost vessel that had left the har-
Dor So many years ago.
\ New York newspaper has been
printing series of replies to the
question: How can family Of three
live comfortably on 81 600 Il year" Th.
editor of the Biddeford Journal feeling
ly retorts that up here in Maine almost
any of us would be willing to under
take the experiment without prelimi-
nary instructions
Richar! Garter Of South Portland, is
probably the tallest man in Maine.
his height is six feet and eight inches,
and ne is as straight as antarrow. His
shoulders are very broad arms unusu-
ally long. and body Well-proportioncd.
He hasn't an once of extra flesh as
shown by the fact that he weighs only
100 pounds. Carter is 81 years old, hav-
ing been horn in Kcnduskeag, Deccm-
btl b. 1871. His hair is as dark brown
as ever, and only Il few gray hairs are
to be seen, in his mOuStachc His faith
er. WHO was Il farmer. stood. six feet
ana three inches. while his mother was
five feet and ten inches tall a rather
unusual height for a woman. All OF
his three brothers. who are now living
are ABOUT six feet and two inches. and
his four living sisters are unusually
tall women. The family originally
numbtref eleven children. When he
was e years Old. or in 1877. Mr. Carter
went TO Minnesota, where he was in
the employ of a large lumber concern
Tor seventeen years. Returning to Maine
he worked several years in Bangor,
where at ono time ne was offered quite
large weekly salary. by Il local
Snowman. to be exhibited as 1.-THE long
man. which offer he respectfully de-
! iIitt. TIC .I'tll entered inc employ or
the Flicker Brothers, proprictors of the
Poland Spring Hotel. in 1897. He was
charge of the crew of l. to Is men who
are employed in the fields. gardens ard
stables OF that large estate Carter has
the strength of two ordinary men On
ore occasion in a. lumber camp in Ok
ford county, the bully of the camp. a
man weighing over 200 and unusually
strong, forced Il quarrel upon Carter
who fas always been of the most kind
ly disposition, and opposed to fighting
The bully made Il rush at Carter when
the latter seized him in his long. sim
eWy arms. threw him to the floor of
the camp, and then lifting him as if he
were II child. hung him up by the seat
OF his trousers on couple of StOu;
hooks that were at the ends Of chains
Ranging from the roof. That was
enough for the bully, who afterwards
became Il very decent sort of fellow.
MAINE PRESS HUMOR