Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-25
Maine Gossip
Virgil and Tennyson.

o skilled with all the ,4rgil.s elder art,
The magic of the MUSES. To imPafti
To sing of England of Rome he sang,
With grand hexameter that rolled and
And able with far instructed might
The Latin lamp of splendor 10 reltSht,
Tho on a northern shore by sullen loan.
Recapture the dead melodies OF Rome.
Thou. too, didst feel the passion of the
past
Things irretrievable and fading fast.
And thou didst hear Alright the human
The sea-like striving of mortality,
Tho not TO thee WAS his full utterance
given,
Born to a different tongue and later
Heaven;
Tongue that alone in Milton could uphold
That Tyre of thunder and the tramp of
But, thou, still following with faithful
feet,
The charm of field and woodland couldst
repeat.
Repaint the faint vermilion of the morn,
And all the colors wherewth day is born;
And strangely sweet as unto him to thee,
OF waking birds the mournful melody;
Voices of kline. in dark Uncontrolled,
In the dark hour, and ere the skies are
red,
And yet vast thou content in mist to be
World -sundered by the billows of the
free,
And from that Island eyrie to descry
The widening march of Englands des-
tiny.
Like him thou didst the courtierS part
rehearse
But never ddst attain Marcellus' verse.
Nor ever the dread world beyond the
tomb
Didst thou explore with Orpheus and the
/ Where armed Aeneas frighted half the
shades,
{ Coming in splendor on the DINNER
But this we feel when thou hadst
crossed the bar.
The pilot of thy mlsic was net far.
| Stephen Phillips, in Pail Mall Gazette.
! Paris HILL August 10. The Union
Field Meeting held at Paris Hill on the
farm of Mr.. c. L. Case, demonstrators
in oreharding with the College of Agri
culture, was attended by large mum
| Der OF enthusiastic Oxford County neo-
pie More than 400 people were present
The meeting WAS held by invitation of
Mr.. Case ana under the auspices of
the Oxford County Holstein Breeders
Association and the Waterford and
Norway Dairy Testing Association
Very early in the day it became ap-
parent that the people in Oxford coun-
ty were interested in the purpose of the
presence. The meeting was called t,
order by Mr.. George A. Yeaton, Direct.
or of Farm Demonstrations in Oxfore
county, who. with a few well chosen
words, introduced Mr.. c, l.. Case as the
first speaker of the day Mr. Case ex-
tended warm welcome to the people
present, and said that the meeting was
arranged for the purpose of spreading
| agricultural truths so that better anC
more cattle, better and more fruit ant
farm crops would be produced.
i Farm demonstrations are now in Cd
:, GRAFTON in four counties in Maine, Cum
! berland, kennebec, oxford and Wash
ington. and will soon begin in Penob
scot This work is established ant
directed by the College of Agriculture
OF the University of Maine, but a MAJ
Is located in each county in direc
charge of the work. In this count,
tOxforD Mr.. George A. Yeaton is di
rector For the first year six towns ar,
selected. but il is planned to exten,
TINS group to eventually cover the en-
tire county. In the towns selected tn
director secures the active corporation
of farmer located on each of the mai,
highways leading to the business cen
ter of the town. The demonstration
J and plan of work is agreed upon, an,
during the summer the director visit
each demonstration each two weeks 70
inspection and advice. Farm demon
STATIONS are needed for the purpose o
spreading agricultural truths, and no
only this, but to actually set thes
truths at work on the land. A grea
mass of agricultural knowledge is nov
lying idle, If it is worth anything t