Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-26
Maine Gossip
Thy Hosiery.

Thy Hosiery.
The socks darn for thee, dear heart'
Mean quite pile of work 10 n,e'
count them over every one apart
Thy hosiery, thy hosiery.
Each sock a mate. two mates par
To clothe thy feet in storm anu coy.
I count each sock unto the ehd' anu hiio
I've skipped hole.
oh, carelessness, this thy reproof'
See how it looms across my sole,
l grind my teeth and then in very truth
1 darn that hole sweetheart oarn
that hole.
The reporters who endeavor to
gather information from passengers VI
crews of the Holy Ghost ana os
Society fleet now at anchor IN fort-
land harbor, have not had very good
success. The most satisfactory answer
yet wrung from any of the party was
from an old weatherbeaten TAR "no'
after having withstood a rapid nre
cross examination losened up enough
to say that he didn't know anything
anyway. The reporters dechneo u
quarrel with him on that score ana
went away satisfied
Henry w. Hamlin OF MILO mas
patented an automatic telephone pay
station appliance which permits the
bell announcing that the coin has been
deposited to ring whether the receiver
is on or off.
Cant1in r. Sfa ,,1a,, of JSIpSfOru mas
retired after q years in the United
States life saving service, % years OF
which he was at the head OF the
crew. He has seen many disasters
and wrecks, but he thinks that the
year of 1907 when he responded to 10
calls for assistance including the big
wreck on Duck Island of a vessel from
Nova Scotia, was the worst OF all. On
the particular night of this wreck the
thermometer was six below zero when
they put out with the vapor Tying sea
rolling and freezing everywhere it
struck. Before they could get near
the wreck, the captain had four
fingers frozen and some of his
men suffered with frost bitten limbs.
They succeeded in making
landing on the lighthouse steps,
and saw that the crew was
taken off, but the vessel was one mass
Of ice and beating to pieces on the
rocks. The party could not use their
own boat to leave the island in, the
next morning it was SO frozen and iced
and another was brought from the life
saving station.
Nahum Littlefield of Portland, who
has retired from active service on ac-
count of the age limit was formerly
chief of the fire department in that
city. He began running with the
machine in 1851 and has been in
harness continuously ever since.
w. P. Dyke, boy who lives in So.
Portland has trained heifer so that
she acts as draft animal. The
harness consists of yoke and halter.
At Newburgh, n. Y, there is an Erie
Railroad caboosed which has had Il
varied career of more than usual
interest to Maine people. 1t was taken
north on the deck of the Windward in
1898 and was occupied by Robert E.
Peary during the following winter
when his ship was fast in the ice off
the shore of Grinnell Land. The
caboose was later landed at Etah.
North Greenland and remained there
until 1901 when it was returned to
the vessel and brought home again. 1t
Will hn &c
Peary's Polar expedition.
The town of Scion has enough
money remaining after the centennial
expenses were paid to start a Town
Improvement Society.
A graduate OF the University OF
Maine, Fred M. Bisbee, rs, made the
meeting between Pres. Taft and Pres.
Diaz at Ell Paso this week, possible.
Mr.. Bisbee, who is a civil engineer
employed by the Santa Fe railroad.
left the employ of that corporation
temporarily to lay the tracks to the
center of the international bridge,
spanning the Rio Grande at FL Paso,
and connecting the hills and plains
of Mexico and knit two strips Of steel
from the boundary line to Chihuahua,
Mex, distance of $50 miles.
The joke is on the Lewiston young
woman, who went to a wedding the
other night and neglected to remove
the heavy brown hosea pair of her
father's-whch she wore to protect her
dainty pink slippers
Beavers arc very Industrious up in
Aroostook county and the people of
Blaine and Ludlow are having trouble
with them. The busy little fellows
build dams under the small bridges and
destroying them does not seem to wor-
ry the animals. as they proceed to re-
build Immediately. At Ludlow. several
dams have been broken up and sent
down the stream or burned, but still
the patient beavers build on.
Albert p. Cannon Of Maryland, who
is visiting in Portland left the employ
of the proprietor Of the old Elm House
in 1860 to take a position as cook on
line OF steamers. He drifted about
for some years and finally settled in