Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-04-26
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immortal.

| How living are the dead!
| Enshrined, but not apart.
| How safe within the heart
We hold them still.o1r dead,
Whatever else be Hea! A.
uIihassx.p AZ. !. So "a EAE III Z al
! Our constancy Is deep
| Toward those who lie asleep,
ForgetfuI of the strain ana mortal strife
Tba1 are so large a part of this our
earthly life.
| They are our very own:
From them-from them alone,
Nothing can MS estranse-
Nor blight autumnal, no; nor wintry
change.
The midnight moments keep
4 place for them, and though We wake
They 10 ar hes beside us: still. in JOY. in pain
In every crucial hour, they come again,
Heaping the gifts of blessings and of
Irntil the shadowy path they lonely trod
Becomes for us bridge that upward
-F,o ieaGs 70 Earle apH: Coates, in Harper's
Magazine
Governor Plaisted is reported under
the influence of the balmy breezes and
Democratic atmosphere of the solid
South to have expressed preference
for Governor Harmon of Ohio as a
Democratic presidential candidate for
1912. lie also said a kind word for
Governor Wilson OF New Jersey, but
nothing Of Bryan, the former Peerless
One. Meanwhile in the United States
Senate Charles f. Johnson, the lone
Dem ocratic senator from New Eng
land has followed the leadership Of
BRYAN in the recent lineup on the
Craftsmanship of the Democratic Sem
ate caucus.
Mrs w. c. Bacnelder informs our
North Bowdoin correspondent that
when her family took possession of
their present farm "a years ago Mon
dav they encountered blocking snow
drifts. While moving their household
goods from the home of her father. the
late Giles Sampson, a distance of two
miles. the road was so blocked with
snow in places that they were COM
PEELED to take a roundabout course,
including a distance of more than
twice that length.
Kennebunk pond is al present claim
ing the attention Of salmon fishermen
and d number of goo6 catches are re-
ported during the last few days, says
the Biddeford Record. Six salmon
were taken from the pond on Friday
last. Roderick u. Tarr and Charles
Jose each caught two of these, one of
Mr.. TaErs being a large and hand
some enc, while DR. II. Willis Hurd
nd AT al oniaf.a
Rev. r. E. Conner, pastor of the
Elm Street UniversaIist church of Au-
burn is soon to resign his pastorate.
1t is understood that Mr.. Conaor
planned to take a vacation after 20
years Of service. He will go abroad
for an indefinite period for study and
recreation. Mrs. Conner will accom-
pany him.
A Boston firm has the contract for
naval trial course off Owls Head and
a representative of the coast and
geodetic survey is due there the first
of May to chose the locations. The
signals must be completed and in po
stion by June 10, They insure the
permanency of the Rockland course
for the trial of all the warships built
on this coast and of all the smaller
ships built in New England yards.
with three years appropriations
available this year for State roads in
Gardiner and Farmingdale, it ought
to be enough of a job to induce some
builder to bid on the job allowing
that they both will be given to the
same contractor" remarks the Gardi-
ner Reporter-Journal.
Mayor Small of Bath has informed
City Marshall McFadden that COM
plants have been made to him that
there are gambling places in the Ship
ping City and his orders to the mar
shall were to see that they We're closed
The marshal says that if there are any
places where gambling is conducted
they must close at once and intends to
see that the mayors orders are car
ried out
The Martin ]. Marian, the first of
two fishing steamers that have beer
under construction the past winter at
the yards of Cobb-Butler e Co. in
Rockland for the Atlantic Oil & Guano
Co., was launched one afternoon last
week. The steamer is 1876 feet long
over all, estimated tonnage about 400
and ready for sea the craft will cost
about $4,000. A duplicate of this
steamer to be named the Hubert n.
Edwards is nearly completed at me
obb-Butler yard.
The shipping of pulpwood from
Chatham and Dalhousie. N. b. to
Portland will commence early in May,