Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-03-18
Maine Gossip
Moonlight on the Snow.

a mystic beauty rare.
What dazzling sheen of splcndor greets
the watcher everywhere.
| AS the tiny, whitend crystals into spark
ling tapers grow,
When the snow is on the hillside, and the
| moonlights on the snow.
, There are orbs of wondrous beauty in
the azure of the sky:
There's a majesty in lightning as ii
blasts the clouds on high;
| And there's something vast and awesome
in Aurora's lurid glow;
But there's nothing makes the heart
throb like the moonlight on the
| snow.
When the bell is pealng midnight from
its cN-covered tow'r,
There's witchery resistless in that soil
tary hour
And a wealth of golden fancios--sweetest
dreams that mortals know
When the Frost King has been busy, and
the moonlight's on the snow.
There's ii sense of strange enchantment
in the silence of night.
rs the hand of the Eternal touches
And qh hc e6s up pS8 III altar of the
begins TO glow ..ft
While the Lord reflects His glory in the
moonlight on the snow.
MAY the Hand that built the crystals
Tor the pale moons soften Ight
Crystalize in us His purpose-send His
That we may reflect His beauty on this
darkcn'd world below,
In a service silent, splendid, like the
moonlight on the snow
Rev Henry Clay Hall, i'm HE Methodist
The Biddeford Record in its inimita-
bic WY casts out the following nasty,
upbrotherlv, little slam at It's Just
when VT were trying our darndest to
sustain our amiably benevolent inten-
tions toward apparently relentless De-
naocracy:
"The Kenncbcc journal llnds it vastly
more Interesting 10 discuss such topics
Fruits and Nuts Trade" than the result
Of Mondays elections in Maine.
Now. ut times. one. discovers the
necessity of cropping from under
weishty burdens. those woe and these
respondent attitude" toward more
bnoyant and rarefied levels. So. then.
have we when the cost Of living has
become chaos of awaiting commo-
dities when the jingost kicks "a hole
in the footboard and hangs a wild one
Oh the chin of his peacefully sleeping
wife. in his frenzied endeaVOrs to es-'
cape from his Kaiserical and Mikado-
threaten from many quarters of the
globe: when. despite our most inspired
pronunciamentos. rum continues to
rampage-when in fact. that silver
lining has become chiefly eonspieu-
ons for its iron rust re be rudely
summoned from pleasant dreams of
weighty accomplishments is most UNI
able-but lets look the situa
ton over with the RecOrd.-Fourteen
cities have voted in the last two Mon
days. These. cities have been the
source of Decorate SuccesS-the Very
communities where the Plaisted adj
ministration has been sure of its
strength. In 1910 these II cities gave
a Democratic majority of 5.S12. On
March 4 and March II. 1917 these same
cities have given majority of only
2,65S. a net loss to Maine Democracy
of 3.214 The Republican vote in these
cities this year is 2,253. In 1910 it
was 1886. The Democratic vote this
year is 14,901 as compared with 1858
il, 1910. In other words the Republ-
cans have gained about what the
Democrats have lost-approximately
3i00 votes in the count. Now may we
dream of our squirrels" and Fruit
and Nuts Trade?
The Bangor d Aroostook railroad
has another of the new gas-eleetric
motor cars like that purchased last
fall 1t is combination motor and
passenger car with accommodations
for about IS persons and "a drawing
power sufficient to haul q trailer or
ordinary day passenger coach. 1t has
much the appearance of an ordinary
coach. except that the ends are closed
and entrance is gained from the mid
die The car received last fall has
been in service between Fort Kent and
Squa Pan and has proved a most sat
isfactory addition to the motive power
of the railroad. During the heavy
snow storms which prevailed in the
northern part of the State. the car
was taken off because it is not equip
ped with snow plows but it win be
placed back on the route shortly.
Next week. the steel ship Acme
built in 1901 at Bath, will return for
the first time since she was built The
Acme is one of two ships built by the
Sewalls and is now in command of
Capt. j. G. Park, well known native
of Maine. She was loaded in Taco
ma, Wash, with upwards of 100000
feet of lumber. the largest cargo ever
brought around Cape Horn. Her trip
down the Pacific coast was rather
slow at first. leaving Tacoma on Sep
TENDER Il and then making several
stops 10 pick up Il crew. This she
kept up until the fourth of October
when she was reported off San Fran
cisco and then she made a good pas
sage 10 New York. arriving there, last
Monday. the fourth of March or 152
days from San Francisco and 165 from
Tacoma Most of her crew of 80 sail
ers left the ship at New York and she
will be manned by only small crew
for the rest of the journey.