Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-04-20
Maine Gossip
The Country Of Spring.

The Country Of Spring.
Tell me- o Life where a man may be
Wishing life longer, and longer the day?
Where are the dawns most seraphic OF
wing.
in the country of Spring.
Tell me. Love. where beggar may
Love? And o Love. where art thou the
least blind?
herds sing
Blown on the wind?
In the country of Spring.
Answer me. Age, where those green
Where man returns ere ne turns him to
die?
Where lives the Mother to whom all men
For whom all men sigh?
In the country of Spring.
Death. in what land do the violets blow
over the women men loved long ago?
Where Ger their graves bloom the lilies.
O King.
Whittier than snow
In the country of Spring.
Henry De We're Stachpooie, in Poems
and Ballads.
The State committee of the Socialist
party of Maine is after the Pennell
direct primary bill with a sharp
stick. Resolutions were adopted at a
recent meeting of the committee in
Auburn declaring that the law must
be looked upon by all good citizens as
betrayal of good government.
The maximum number of patients
ever enrolled at one time in the Maine
General Hospital at Portland was
reached last week when 145 We're in the
institution for treatment. DR.. c. d.
Smith. the superintendent, says that
on account OF the crowded condition
of the hospital only accident and
emergency cases can be received at
the present time.
The Woodfords Universalists are
planning to hold a big celebration
some time next week to commemorate
the lifting of the mortgage indebted
ness of the church. 1t is expected that
speeches will be made by many of the
prominent Universalists of Portland
and vicinity in connection with the
exercises. The newly elected parish
officers are to have charge of the cele-
bration.
The children of the Butler school,
Portland, We're subjected to great dan
ger Monday by the work of some mis-
creant who plugged the water gage and
broke the safety valves of the boiler.
Had the janitor depended upon his
glass it would have shown an APP
parently satisfactory condition of the
boiler even if the danger of explosion
had been very great. 1t is believed
that whoever tempered with the valves
did so with the idea of annoying the
ianitor and not from any deeper mo-
tive.
The epidemic of measles continues
to rage at Boothbay and Boothbay
Harbor and also at Southport Sew
eral of the schools at Boothbay have
already been closed and Superintend-
ent Perkins of the Southport schools
has already ordered the High school
and a grade school in the west side of
the town closed.
Sixteen convictions for intexieation
were recorded Wednesday in the Port
land municipal court. The Portland
papers report a large increase in the
number of intoxicated persons seen
on the street.
The work of Improvements upon the
Portland City hall is progressing rap
idly. The balconies are in position in
the auditorium and the steel lathing
is now being put in.
The Wells town hall recently de-
stroyed by fire is to be rebuilt at once.
AT the town meeting held Monday
afternoon it was voted to rebuild the
town building upon the same plans as
the one burned week ago Sunday and
$I00O was appropriated for that pur-
pose. The session was stormy one
and the writer, John Kendrick Bangs,
undertook, but without avail, to paci-
fy the warning factions.
Lorenzo Allen. who died a few days
ago at South Lubec. is said to have
been the last survivor of the gold
seekers who in the fall of 1s49 sailed
from Lubec for the Golden gate in
the brig Quoddy Belle. He was 81
years old.
The committee on estimates of the
Portland city council has reported n
total appropriation of s1,436 36S. The
State tax will be s3S5,2SO and there was
an appropriation of $171,3s5 for streets,
sidewalks and bridges, $4,000 for po-
lice salaries and pensions and l25,OOo
for the fire department 1t is not
thought that there will be any change
in the tax rate of the city.
A tidy fortune is said to await Bea-
trice and Emily Comely, two Cudy's