Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-22

And brought a morning from the gulf
adrift,
Omnipotent with sunshine. whose quick
charm
Startled with crocuses the sullen turf
And wiled the bluebird to his Whit of
song.
james Russell Lowell.
Topsham fair may lose it's stipend,
but it gets lot of free advertising.
Having had two weeks extra Vaca-
ton on account of the scarlet fever
scare. Bath pupils are now wondering
if the spring term will extend into July
Between the new town of Gorges--
not yet in existence however-and he
big ferryboat launched this week at
Bath, Sir Ferdinando Gorges, who was
doing things along Names coast 300
years ago, is becoming better known to
this generation.
When the State Grange next meets in
annual session they will miss Martin B
Hunt of Belmont, a grand old man
whom everybody loved He was a
pioneer in Grange work in Maine and
was for six years master and II years
treasurer of the State Grange.
1t will take Biddeford long time to
recover from the blow given it's vanity
when the two balloonists from LenoX,
Mass, landed in that city Monday
afternoon.
Where are WEE" was the first ques-
ton when they were rescued from u
tree top.
You are in Biddeford," was the
reply.
Where is that place." inquired the
pilot.
In the State OF Maine"
You don't mean it,"
The 1909 launching season at Bath
opened this week with two launchinsg
on the same day. They were the first
in five months. The two launchinys
recall busy times of Bath shipyards in
the height of its shipbuilding activity,
and suggest the busy times that are to
come, when Congress shall have
awakened to the Importance of having
a national foreigng going merchant
marine.
A great deal of attention has been
given to the plan of wireless telephones
now in use between Portland and thu
Casco bay islands The New York
Tribune thinks the system well adapted
for the above named localities and
adds: The distances between Portland
and the islands in Casco bay with
which communication has been estab-
lished are short, and powerful tidal
preclude the laying of a cable
there. A larger charge for using the
Instruments than for talking through
Bell telephone is probably made, but
such a rate is not necessarily unreason-
able. When the service has been de-
veloped further it will be possible to
determine how many conversations can
be conducted simultaneously in one
Four were carried on
Saturday, but the number
will undoubtedly be increased. By
efficient tuning it may be possible to
make the use Of 90 or more wave
lengths feasible"
1t was double joke played recently
on a Machias man who tWtited some
boys of his acquaintance of their
craftsmanship - remarking that he
would eat all the crows they could
shoot" The next day the Machias man
found dead bird of unnNstakable
character suspended from his bedroom
doorknob. Being game, he carried tine
bird to the housekeeper with a request
to have it cooked for dinner. When the
dish was served the Machias mans
friends watched his more than indif-
ferent trfling with the delicacy with
great joy But when he offered to
share the dish, behold the others fell
to with gusto. A pigeon had been sub
stitutcd for the crow. unbeknown to
the doubly joked Machias man.
Maine people will be interested to
learn that it is now practically certain
that Congressman DeAlva S. Alexander
of Buffalo. n. Y, a native of Richmond
is slated for the craftsmanship of the
Rivers and Harbors Committee Of the
House. The vacancy in the chairman
ship is caused by the absence of former
Representative Burton of Ohio. who
went into the Senate in place of Ser.a
tor Foraker after March 4. Mr..
Alexander is entitled to the position, he
being the ranking member in length %
service, and he has also been one of the
most loyal and effective workers on the
House floor. Congressman Alexander
is the founder of the Alexander prize at
Bowdoin College, from which he was
graduated in 1870, and he is one OF the
most enthusiastic of the many alumni
of the Maine institution to be found IN
or about Washington. He is a MEM
Der of the board of overseers of the
college and never misses Commence
ment.
Assist Nature.
You have been told to ''hitch your
wagon to a star"-that nature will as
sist you. That's all right. There are
times, however. when you should assist