Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-01
Maine Gossip
A Day in June.


And what is so rare as a day in June?
Then, If ever, come perfect days;
Then heaven tries earth IL ii be In tune,
And over it softly her warm ear lays:
Whether we look, or whether We listen,
We hear life murmur or see ii giisten
Every. clod feels a stir of might,
An instinct within 1t that reaches and
towers.
And cropping blindly above it for light.
Climbs to soul in grass and flowers
The flush of life may well be seen
Thrilling back over hills and valleys
The cowslip startles In meadows green.
The buttercup catches the sun IN It's
chalice.
mean
To be some happy creatures palace.
The little bird sits at its door IN tne sun sun
Atit like a blossom among the leaves
And lets his illumined being o'errun
With the deluge of summer IT receives
His mate feels the eggs peheath her
wings, ,.,a
And the heart in her dutnp breast hut''i >
He sings to the wide world, and she to
her nest -. i,
In the nice ear OF nature WHO" aoe "
the best?
Now is the high tide of the year
Comes flooding back with a ripply ci hes,
into every bare inlet and creek ana pas
Now the heart is full that drop 'Se
,ua are bannv now because God wills IL.
James Russell Lowell.
The Free Baptists will meet in their
35th session, in general conference al
Ocean Park, July 1a-1S.
Maine is being covered" at present
bv more than the usual complement III
circuses and "shows"-some bad, ana
some not exactly.
Two deer We're seen, saturday, vi
the farm of Geo. Wadsworth at
Meadow Hill, Manchester. The deer
were feeding in one of the fields on
the Wadsworth farm and stayed loi
many minutes while several persons
watched.
Bangor is complaining at the IN
crease of her tax rate within ten years.
In that time the city's valuation has
increased about 40 per cent. or from
SIG. OO0. 900 TO $24,000,000. The m
crease in appropriation for the decade.
however, has been 73 per cent.-frem
s337.3S5 to $584,000 Meantime the
population has increased only about
16 per cent, or from 21,SoO to 24,So5.
Hav, YOU met The Professor? A
good many people in Westbrook nave
met the Professor He was genial
wholehearted gentleman who won ms
way into the esteem of his associates
in most extraordinary fashloh.
Six months or SO ago, it Will be re-
membered that the people OF West
brook were greatly aroused over the
condition of lawlessness when pre-
vailed in. that city. II was discovered
that rum selling was carried on as
openly as the selling OF sugar anu
-four. 1t was discovered that numer-
Gus gambling joints We're in opera
ton, practically all the time, and WIN
out any fear of disturbance either by
county or local officials II was DIS
covered that boys from the high school
were patronizing Illicit bar rooms and
participating in the Illicit poker games
and that the time had come when
something must be done about 1T. II
was found that no help could De Cd
tianed from the executive officers VINO
were then in power in the county,
and that no definite assistance could
be rendered by the local city admins
.tration The citizens arose, formed a
committee and secured The Profess
sor" He gave lessons on the mando-
Inland became very friendly with
saloon and dive keepers. Raids start
ed-everyone successful. Now that
things are cleared up nicely 1t de-
yelops that THE Professor" is Burns
detective and has suddenly disap-
peared