Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-24
Maine Gossip
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Forget Thee?"
Forget theea If to dream by night and
muse of thee by day;
If ali the worship. deep and wild a
poets heart can pay.
If PRAYERS in absence breathed for tHte
to Heavens protecting power;
IF winged thoughts that fit to thee
thousand in an hour;
If busy fancy blending thee with all my
future lot;
If this thou callst forgetting. thou in
deed shalt be forgot,
Forget thee? Bid the forest birds forget
their sweetest tune,
Forget thee? Bid the sea forget to sven
beneath the moon,
Bid the thirsty flowers forget to drink
the ewes refreshing dew,
Thyself forget thine own dear lana
and it's mountains wild and blue :
Forget each old familiar face, each long
remembered spot;
When these things are forgot by thee
then thou shalt be forgot!
Keen. if thou wilt. thy maiden peace.
still calm and fancy free,
For God forbid thy gladstone heart
should grow less glad for me.
Yet while that heart is still unwon, on
bid not mine To rove.
But lei il nurse it's humble faith and uu
complaining love.
If these. preserved for patient years. at
last avail me not,
Forget me then, but ne'er believe ttiat
thou can'st be forgot
Congressman John A. Peters. If you
please!
Something like a fishy smell around
Portland, Monday, with 100000 pounds
Of sea food landed within SO hours.
Rear Admiral Peary denies the en-
of his daughter to Donald
Macmillan. another explorer now on
his way TO the far North. We suppose
Mr.. Peary ought TO know but ii sound
ed good.
We are informed that a Kingfield boy
lost one leg of his trousers in beating
bear To the first limb of the nearest
tree Probably it would be a waste OF
energy To advise the young Mr.. Hutch-
ms to be more careful in the future
how he pumps number Fights at 4
she bear 100 feet away.
The Bath Times editor advertises his
lack of soul with the following:
..Unhappily, the Kennebec is not,
ifter all, to lose vet that marvellous
specimen of marine architecture, the
City of Augusta. For the honor Of the
ocal shipyards, she ought to bear con-
,picuously on her sides the informa-
ion that she was not Kennebec pro-
1uet"
Saturday at Bangor marked the end
Of one Of the most extensive dredging
ever undertaken in Maine
waters when a contract covering I'VE
years and an expense of Sl24,soV WAS
The operations have COW
cred a general improvement ana deep
aning of Bangor harbor and the cut
ing of deeper channel, mostly
through hard ledge, which has been
blasted, scooped by Upper
lredpes. and towed off and dumped
rhe work has included the dredging 10
IA feet at mean low water or an area
On the Brewer side of the river aDoa.
200 feet long and 40 feet in WIDTH
also the clearing of channel ABOUT
800 feet wide from the High Heau
docks to the pier of the Eastern
Steamship Corporation nearly mile,
The harbor can now accommodate as
la rye vessels as can come up the river.
The New York Herald always has
bean q reliable newspaper and we have
no reason to believe the following
"faked:"
Samuel Cline. who keeps the store in
Knightsville, Me-. and here to see the
sights, thought he would see the me.
nagerie He first went to the non
house He was dressed in his summer
clothes and wore straw nat Wheh ne
got to the cage in which Akbar Is I'M
prisoned he found the young non slt ,tIr
ING peacefully. To attract his attention
he leaned over the rail and waved MS
straw hat. In a twinklins Akbar awoke
from his apparent lethargy ana huge
paw reached through the bafs ana
t'line's open season on straw hats ended
then and there Cline shouted, and
when George Seichert. Keeper. reached
him, complained of the ruin OF ms NAT;
Il intended to wear it until winter.
mournfully said Cline. Don't you know
that this is September 49,, when straw
hats go out OF STYLE asked Seichert
well | didn't know that. SAID Cline
81 guess that lion is pretty smart, I'll
go get a derby hat right away.
Judging from observation and from
reports received by the Maine Agricul-
tural Experiment Station, the peren-
NAL SOW thistle is becoming quite
common in some parts of the State,
particularly along the northern border
1t Is known by various other local
names, such as creeping SOW thistle
corn SOW thistle and some times IN
correctly as the Russian thistle. This
latter is an entirely different plant be-
| longing to the Spinach family. AS its
name implies it is perennial, very deep
rooted, with large and vigorous run