Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-13
Maine Gossip
T apestries.

| Fairer than any product of the East,
| More delicate than threads through ned
| dies drawn,
Spread the rich tapestries that Autumn
| And fashions 'twixt the even and dawn
| Her frosty shuttle moving as pawn.
Folding her choicest fabrics tenderiy
| Ger shabby Mother Earths worn,
threadbare breast.
With grace concealing all unslShtllnesSi
| The magic of her alchemy doth rest
| In glory ON each hill, from foot to crest
At early morn yelled in mist of tears,
| Like dusty cobwebs from some ancient
loom,
They wait the garnishing of high moons
sun
| Then burst into miracle of bloom,
AS smould'ring embers quickened, light
the room;
\ prodigal of riotious harmony
She proudly filings her gorgeous carpet
Flaming with crimson. emerald and gold,
Fit setting for royal monarch's crown.
And calls to worship all the waking
town.
Framed by my western window hangs a
Divine in pattern. in effect so rare
That it proclaims the Master Weaver's
Upon His wondrous beauty woven there,
My soul doth kneel, and its allegiance
bear
As some far Moslem devetee at prayer.
Florence Bronson-Tucker, in Boston
Transcript
The new power plant of the Calais
Street Railway will be in operation by
Jan. / 1918, barring accident. The con-
crete work has nearly been completed
and some of the machinery IS being in
stalled. The work has been prosecut-
cd under great difficulties owing to the
fact of a rather unusually wet sum-
mer, which delayed the excavation for
the big water wheel and interfered
generally with the work
Lewiston Journal: The history of
Pennington gives sketch of the ex-
odus of people from that town TO Ohio,
when the Ohio fever was on. The
journey was made by teams and took
six weeks When parties left their
Maine homes it was with little eXpec-
tation that they would ever meet their
friends again. There was gathering
to bid them good bye. One philosoph-
ical woman said as she babe her friends
farewell. We'll, l suppose Hopkinson
may as well go to Heaven by way of
Ohio as any other"
Somewhere up in the woods around
Salem, Franklin county, is bear
which certainly deserves its liberty
having twice been caught in traps
from which it cleared itself each time,
though at the cost of being seriously
81. ne
caught in trap belonging to Arthur
Jones of Salem 1t had been caught
before as one of it's forefeet had been
taken off and this time it released it
self by ripping off eight inches of the
same leg From smaller tracks near
by, it was supposed that the bear was
accompanied by one or more cubs.
Portland fishermen have now given
up all hope CT finding any, pollock OF
the Maine coast this year. The fish
ara being taken by the meters in large
quantities to the westward, but hardly
one has been seen in Maine waters,
except those caught on the travis. AS
the Maine fishermen look at it, the poll
lock fishing on the coast of the Pine
Tree State has been a big failure for
the present year. The fish are now
heading south and have probably left
the coast. 1t is because they are go
ing to warmer waters that they are
being 1caught by members of the Glou-
cester fleet. A year ago, there were
more pollock caught off the Maine
coast than ever before in the history
of the industry. This year there has
been hardly a fish landed. Some de-
clare it is because many of those
caught year ago were dumped into
the water. 1t is "a We'll established
fact, that no fish will visit water for
a year where dead fish have been
thrown overheard.