Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-05
Maine Gossip
The Northern Pine.

The Northern Pine.
| A lonely pine on northern shore;
| The blue sea LAYING the sands below;
The homeland breezes blowing o'er
| And the White-winged sea-SuliS circlng
A yard where the AK and the mallet ring
| Through the busy course of the summer
A stately ship. like living thing.
| That leaps to the ocean down the ways.
| A shadow of black on the ocean path;
A brazen cast in the tropic sky;
4 typhoon loosing its awful wrath;
\ ship that is shattered while brave
| men die.
A battered spar, by the currents spurned
Which has fioated far on the surslhS
A sandy beach where the tide has turned,
| And the northern pine is at home again
John Clair Minot in Youths Companion.
James A. Traitor of Portland has
retired from active business after 81
years of horse dealing.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Stansfield of
Sanford We're married in Batby York
shire, England, so years ago.
| Lee Sanford, who recently visited
the home of his parents in Guillord,
| is a member of the United states
Marine band, which is on Il tour
| through the Middle West.
| o. J. Higgins of Mapleton has con-
tract to put up 1000 barrels of apples
within four weeks And still they tell
us that apples are scarce in Maine.
| David Longley, a travelling vender
of cleaning preparations, who is well
known among the coast resorts OF
Maine, has started on his annual jour
ney South. Longley thinks it is safer
and better to walk and averages about
5000 miles each year, according to his
| reckoning.
| Fifty years ago, the first steam lire
engine company in New England, with
| the exception of some in Boston and
one at Manchester, N. H., was organ
! lied in Portland as MachigOnne steam
! fire engine company No. l and was as
signed to quarters on Congress street,
| near Oak, in q little old house, former
ly occupied by hand tub and which
was hurriedly fitted up for the steam
| er.
| Some idea of the tremendous pres
sure exerted by the flood on the East
Bangor boom is obtained from the
statements of Brewer residents who
| stated that big trees 10 which the
boom was moored by immense haW-
sers, We're uprooted and dragged off
bodily when the boom finally pulled
away from it's mornings.
| Mrs. Sarah Sawyer of Parkhurst has
sold the home place and moved to
South Portland where she will reside
| the last of the pioneers who had lived
in Parkhurst long enough to see the
woods disappear, the modern farm
house take the place of the cabin, the
OK team exchanged for the automobile
| and buggy and the reaping hook for
| the binder.
| Fl. M. Hall, who lives at SO North
ern avenue in this city considers sifted
| coal ashes the best fertilizing mater
ial to be obtained He is showing a
fine, smooth specimen of White Noun
| tain potato raised on coal ashes and
has had beets, peas and bears from
the same small patch which is coverd
| with a thick layer Of hard coal ashes.
V. f. Thompson of Easton has three
colts that are very large, one weigh
ing nearly 1900 pounds and one 1900
This goes to prove that large horses
can be raised in this country as well
as in the West. Doubtless Mr. Thomp-
son would not trade these colts for
the best of western horses. 1t would
be better for the farmers to raise their
| own heavy horses than it would be
to pay such enormous prices for west
ern horses that are not acclimated.
| A Norway candy maker who became
interested in Maine gems has a fine
collection of cut gems in his store
window. Tourmalines. beryls and gar
nets in several sizes and shades. form
this attractive display, nearly all being
the result of his skilful lapidary work
This gem cutting is but a hobby as
he calls it, yet the quality will com
pare favorably with the more pretcn-
tious artisan
Major Ray p. Eaton of Brunswick
started Saturday for trip to New
bern, Y. c.. to witness the dedication
of monument erected to the memor,
of the soldiers of Rhode Island. Ma
jor Eaton viii, accompany the Rhod
Island commission which will leav
Providence today. The monument vii
be dedicated Wednesday. and rcturnn.
the PARTY will visit the battlefield o
Petersburg where Major Eaton lost hi
left arm, and will also make a shor
stay in Washington.
Gorham d. Gilman, native of Hal
lowell. is dead at Newton, Mass. HI
was member of the first Newton city