Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-06

| Across the sky, the wide earth thrills
| with sorrow at the passing OF a day.
Dead are the embers on the horizons
crest,
And eager mists have yelled the heav-
ems blue;
| Stlled are the pulsings of fair nature s
breast
While peace and darkness their soft
reign renew.
| -Lurana W. Sheldon.
| Arthur L. Griffiths of Portland, who
has been engaged in educational work
in the Philippines, will soon publish a
book, wild Days In the Philippines"
| Those who have read the manuscript
state the work is a most interesting
| one.
| The Biddeford Journal is boastinS
of an infant prodigy in its neighbor-
hood in the form Of q three year-old,
| Arthur Blow, who speaks English,
| French and Greek glibly one Ian
guage apparently being as easy for
him as the other. He is related TO
three nationalities and has picked up
| the three tongues at home. The child
| has not yet reached his fourth birth
| day. Most boys of that age make
noise enough in one tongue t" salts
ly the most exacting. Three IAN
guages would be too much OF good
thing in most cases.
| Cant. Lemuel H. Soule of WoolWich
had an eventful career at sea- He
was born in that town IS years ago
and first shipped as a boy on the
topsl schooner Mary Jane. 1876 tons,
| which carried seven men all told. At
ter service in several small vessels,
he shipped in 1853 as second mate IN
| the new Morse ship Cambria. 1913 tons,
| Capt. Eli Perry, master, Whlch en-
gagged in the Mediterranean fruit trade.
Those were exciting times, capt.
Soule says, marked by hard races
across the Atlantic into Boston where
| a rich prize in the shape of IA hand-
some premium awaited the snip that
Grst landed her cargo of fruit.
At Bath the employees of the Hyde
Windlass Co. were made happy by the
distribution of the May Day envelope
containing the ninth annual employees
/ OlNIuenu, CONTINUING tiiS PioSsiNN
established May /. 1902, Of dividing a
certain proportion of the yearly earn
1 ing of the company among the en-
ployes. The amount distributed Mon
day was $1,000 and the 200 and more
men employed received an amount
corresponding to the length of service
1 of the dividend. while those who nave
been with the company for one year
| or more received the full percentage
of the dividend, while those who have
been in the employ for six months or
less than one year received one
| half of the amount of the dividend.
| The business of the company is very
good and May Day with the employees
! of this company is one Of the happi-
| est anniversaries of the year and one
| which is looked forward to by the
! employees, as it shows the disposition
of the company toward its workmen.
! Rev. George NJ. Park of Pressure Isle
is one of the orginators of striking
Hand development project. A bill is to
be presented to the legislature to en-
power AroostoOk county to acquire
title to land adapted to agricultural
purposes. Pomona oranges in Aroos-
took county are behind the plan. 1t is
largued that the farms available are
beyond the reach of young men of linn
tied means and the grangerS urge that
they should have Il chance to acquire
lands at a price within their reach.
Mr.. Park, Columbus Hayford and L. f..
futile are drafting a bill much similar
to the Burleigh bin of 1905 but coming
from the grange it is expected the
measure will have better chance in
the legislature. Lying west of Fort
| Kent and Presque Isle are 4S town
ships, 40 OF which lie directly west of
the townships of Pressure Isle and Car
ibou, representing a block of first-class
filling soil 30 miles wide by 60 miles
long. Mr.. Park says about half OF
| Aroostook county is under cultivation.
Portland Argus: A West End man
has disappeared from his customary
haunts and nobody with the exception
of three or four knew where he had
gone or what he went for. 1t has now
tgradually leaked out that he has gone
back to his former home in England
|
that has recently come to him, valued
lat about 10000 pounds, which in
American money amounts to about
100000. Nobody can absolutely swear
to this amount. or in fact to any
lamOunt specifically stated. But it is
known that the young man recently re-
lccved a letter from London lawyer
lenclosing draft for an amount suffi-
cient to enable him to go back home
with the information that large sum
of money was awaiting him there by
treason of the recent death of his faith
Ter and the distribution of his estate.
The young man secured leave of abb
sence and went home to settle up
things and then he intends to come
back and settle in this city, which he
thinks is the best city in the world.
The officials of the fish commission
being DESTROYS to learn certain facts
las to the habits of lObsters-whether
or not they migrate from their homes,
oft ~, xI,o,r cha AZ