Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-10
Maine Gossip
The Road.

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The Road.
1t dips between the fields of green,
The dusty country way,
The same same road her eyes have seer
| Since grlhood's happy day.
! Beneath the moon it lay so white.
| And stretched afar so fair,
, Upon that unforgotten night
When troth was plighted there.
How bright the sunshine on it poured
| That morning long ago,
When first to school along the road
| She saw her children go.
And then it beckoned them until
| 1t lured them out of sight, -
| With eyes grown dim she watches sun
| At morning and at night
Where leads the road she does not know;
Its call comes not to her;
Her feet in rounds of service go,
, And homely paths prefer.
She knows that Just beyond the hill
She some day soon will fare
And that a city white and still,
Awaits her coming there.
John Clair Minot, in Youths Companion.
An interesting report comes from
Frenchman's Island telling of the re-
suits of the digging operations by
Edward S. Everett, who has been
hunting for Indian relics. He is SAID
to have found a strange skull under
/ three feet of clam shells, and thinks II
must have been left there more than a
thousand years ago. We are sorry to
in any way damage a good story, hut
it is much easier to believe the relic %
! be the victim of one of those clam
bakes which have become so popular
along the coast in recent years. MANY
a man has spoiled the interior of
three feet of clam shells and got away
with it. but perhaps all have not been
SO lucky.
| Belfast boasts such a business hoont
that 300 hands are needed in various
occupations and, if the help is secured.
| it creates another problem of housing
! them. which is more difficult than the
! first Verify the troubles of some com
munities are almost beyond patience,
but Belfast is rather inclined to boast
than. mourn.
| Shooting accidents have begun early,
this year. We hope the Norridgewock
fatality is not forerunner of the three
months which follow August. -
| 1t is suggested that had the Bangor
& Aroostook railway maintained a tel
ephone at Grindstone and required
conductors to use it at that station.
the risk of such disasters as that of the
other day would be greatly lessaned
1t might be added also that an exami-
nation of employees as to common sense
and foolhardiness might save thous-
ands of dollars for the railway.
An Old Orchard cottager has solved
the dust problem near his bungalow by
sprinkling stray or hay over the sand.
This does not impede the progress of
automobiles or other traffic. but it
helps to hold the sand in place. and in
turn the sand prevents the straw from
blowing away.
The janitor of BANGOR city hall. Her
bert L. Archer. is proud of three val
liable books which he INTENDS TO pre-
sent to the Bangor public library. They
are the Bangor city directories of 1851,
1890 and 1854 -65. The citys popula-
ton in 1851 was 14.441,
1t is said that an Orr's Island man
has discovered a liquid lobster oait.
and that he proposes to patent it, Lii
quid bait has been the cause for gem
erations of all kinds of big stories after
fishing trip, and we hope this liquid
lobster bait will not have the same eff
feet on those who use the Orrs Island
preparation
Bath reports commercial business in
the ship building line is at a stand
still. Only government craft are un-
der construction there at the present
time. Shipbuilders declare they are
discouraged in their attempts to get
aid from Congress. They report that
ship owners find that it costs more to
operate an American ship than one
living any other flag because of the
higher wages that must be paid
Tuesday was Old Home day at Ellis
worth, ard the town enjoyed picnic
followed by exercises in Hancock nall
| where 800 or 400 people gathered.
Brewer had fire alarm system in
vestigation, Tuesday night. which for
vim and results had the Lorimer in
curry beaten to frazzle in the first
hour. Before the close of the council
meeting, an offer of $50 for the detec.
ton of any person maliciously pulling
false alarm was authorized.
The tragedy in an Arson home EN-.
phasizes the fact that the price OF
child life is eternal caution. Wher
-four year old Roy Macklin gave his IA
TEonths-old sister d dose of corrosive