Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-19
Maine Cos sip
They Know Not Harhors.

HeI fNUO~ iNot bOtSs
The ships now in the harbor lie asleep
And have forgot how sea wind puffs the
sails
There cast upon the decks. Yonder the
Lies brooding and the lost gull weakly
fails
The calm with listless wing. that fain
Wet with the spindrift of scudding
prov,
He sickens. pale odysseus of the. sea.
Shaped for the storm. Ger MINDLESS wa
tiers now.
So have I fallen in thine arms asleep
And INV soul sickens and | restless lie.
Adventure struck and hungry TOT the
OF S rhytRmic oars and islands drifting
by.
waken let me go! 1t is not pride;
Bright Lucifer into the darkness
va h hannier than angels quiet eyed, >
God in me urges; yonder glooms thf
world
ri, sailor seeks the haven but day.,
His life spills on the sea; then sWeetef
And dearer thou for warnings far away
They know not harbors VINO know not
christian Gauss, in Scribner's.
Albert l.. Staples oil Seuth E'ii't Ia =
no stock in the tales of the sea ser
mont Mr.. Staples, who is retired
fisherman, says that when he was d
Young boy in his teens and eellhe III
the York river in the vicinity OF the
Maine town of Kittery, he caught an
eel which measured over "A feet ana
resembled a small sized sea serpent,
His recollection of the fish was that
tte meat was good and sweet and the
skin held eight bushels of corn.
one of the most prosperous of the
growing border towns up north Is van
Buren,, which contains a population OF
about 1000 souls. nearly all of whom
are French. The town has several
lumber mills and there is good tram
ing school there called st. Mary's col
lege with splendid brick convent
building for the young Catholic ehll-
dren.
Work upon the reconstruction of the
Portland High school building is pro-
crossing nicely and Architect Fassett
announces that there is now no doubt
of the building being in readiness for
occupancy by the first of September.
The exterior work will be completed
in few days and but little now re-
mains to be done except the plaster
ing and tfnting. the building is to
contain the same number of rooms as
the old High school. although an adj
ditional lecture room is provided for.
The pictures formerly in the old High
school building are now i'm the hands
of a picture Trainer for renovation.
poem recently brought to light by
E J. Bragdon of Cumberland Mills
recalls a peculiar custom in the city
of Westbrook about 25 years ago.
custom was in vogue at that time of
sending men around from the mill to
awaken the tower hands at about 11.30
each night These men armed them
selves with long stick and would rap
on the sides of the house. The noise
would waken not only the right men
but usually the nearby neighbors.
sometimes the rappings would be on
the wrong house and the language adj
dressed TO the OilenueT iIOIfl Tile SET
ond story windows was oftentimes
profuse and unique.
The late Charles r. Whitney of
Rockland was one of the first men to
go into the lime burning business in
that city and for sometime had been
the only living pioneer of that indus
try. He had been an invalid for the
last few years and will be missed by
a large circle of friends who knew him
as a business man. Mr. Whttneys
death occurred last week at the age
of ~.
That concrete and reinforced con-
crete construction are of established
worth is not disputed in Portland but
the use of this material for dwellings
and still more for commercial build
ings is steadily growing. More atten
ton is being given the architectural as
we'll as the practical treatment of this
construction.
F. Atwell Newlin who lives at the
Charlesgate hotel, Boston, now spend
ing the summer in Rangeley. Maine.