Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-09-26
Maine Gossip
The Twilight Witch.

'He '"iH9Ht WitSh'
| The twilight witch comes with her stars
And strcWs them through the blue.
Then breathes below the sunset bars
A breath of meadow rue;
She trails her veil across the skies
And mutters to the trees.
And In the wood, with FREELY eyes,
She wakes the mysteries
The twilight witch, with elf and fay,
Is coming down the slumber way,
Sleep, my deerie, sleep.
The twilight witch. with crescent moon,
Steeps on the wooden hill:
She answers to the owlets tune,
And to the whippoorwill,
She leans above the reedy pool
And wakes the drowsy frog,
And with the toadstool dim and cool,
Rims gray the old dead log.
.he twilight witch comes stealing down
To take you off to slumber town.
Sleep, my deefie, sleep.
The twilight witch with windlike tread
Has entered in the room;
She steals around your trundle bed
And whispers in the gloom.
she SAYS; ~ brought my steed along
TO bear out. like a breath of song,
Into the land of dreams
/ am the witch who takes your hand
And leads YOU off to fairyland.
The far off land of sleep.
Madison Cawein. in the New York sun
Prof Frederic w Brown of BoWdoin
College. who is enjoying years leave
of absence in Europe, was the only rep
resentatite of any American college or
university to attend the sixth eenten-
airy o. the birth of Boecaecio at Ger
taldo, Italy.
Mrs. \. @. Goud of Topsham has a
fig tree which has produced as many
this season. 1T takes two summers for
the fruit to ripen. In the summer the
tree grows in a tub in the yard, but
during the winter it is put in the eel
lar
'The Overland Westerners, four
stalward cowboys from the state of
Washington. left Boston. MONDAY. for
Augusta. Me, by way of Concord. n.
H., on their 20,000- mile horseback ride
through every state capital in the
United States. They posed before the
State House before they left, as
voucher. The intrepid cowpunchers.
who left Olympia, Wash, May l. 1912,
have thus far passed through in zig
gag route. the states of Washington,
Oregon, Idaho. Montana. North Da
kota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wis
consiu. Illinois. Tennessee, Alabama,
Florida, Georgia, South Carolina,
North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland,
New York, New Jersey, Delaware,
Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massa-
ehusctts. Coy. NJ. E. Hay of Washing
ton has given the four boys letters of
to every governor in the
Union. They hoEe to wind up in San
Francisco. June l, 1915. to attend the
exposition there. With them. over the
entire route, will travel Pinto, pack
horse, and Nip. a dog.
The Washington Star joins with all
the great capital in laughing over the
following incident:
Her name is Mary. She wrote a nice
little note from Haverford. Penn, to the
bureau Of entomology at the pepartment
moths ! caught the other day.. wrote
Mary. "Will YOU kindly tell me what
they are Whereupon the bureau of
entomology rose from its several chairs
found the brown-tail moth in Pennsyi-
vania, where the brown-tail had never
been heard of before. n brown-tail
moth is as destructive to elm trees as a
forest fire. No one knows how many
millions of dollars have been spent in
lighting him. If moths have sleeves. the
brown-tail is giggling up his. Co
said the centurious of the bureau Beat
it to Pennsylvania and find out all about
this dreadful thing" 50 that a squad of
entomologists swarmed on Haverford
next morning Other but connoisseurs
heard the dreadful news and they came
to Haverford. Fer week young men
stumbled through it's streets, their eyes
fixed on the tops of trees The pockets
of the young men bulged with butterfly
nets and poison bottles. They hunted
frenziedly, but they could find no moths.
AT last they looked up Mary. Quick"
'Smost important Tell us where you
caught the brown-tail moths" "Oh,"
said Mary, 81 brought them home with
me from Maine"
According to report, credited by
yachtsmen at Portland, the ashes of
James Freeman Bush, the wealthy
New England paper manufacturer, who
died recently, We're placed aboard his
schooner Yacht Lydia and the yacht
was scuttled ten miles off Portland port
Mr.. Bush, who died at Portland hos
pital Aug. "a, made this request of his
wife with whom, during his spare time,
the last few years he had been cruis-
ing aboard the Yacht. Mrs. Bush and
two men friends of the dead man We're
In the party when the millionares
pleasure boat dove to her last anchor
age. Directly the body has been Gre
mated in Boston the ashes were
brought to Portland and the receptacle
was places in the cabin of the LYDIA,
Then, with all sails set and her old