Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-09-08
Maine Gossip
Daybre ak.

a wind came out of the sea.
And said, 20 mists, make room for me-
1t hailed the ships. and cried. sail on.
Ye mariners, the night is gone.'
And hurried landward far away,
Crying, Awake, it is the day,
1t said unto the forest. "Shout!
Hang all your leafy banners out"
1t touched the wood birds folded wing,
And said. 80 bird. awake and sing,'
And Ger the farms, 20 ehantieleer
Your clarion blow, the day is neari
1t whispered to the fields of corn.
Bow down, and hail the coming morn.'
1t shouted through the belfry tower
Awake, o Bell. proclaim the hour!'
1t crossed the churchyard with sigh,
And said. Not yeti in quiet lie"
-Longfellow.
Mrs. Sarah Withee of Surry has 3
children, all living, "a grandchildren
and IL great grandchildren.
Funny" remarked the cd cam
paigner. Saturday. "how all Law
rence's protestations have fshy
SMELL
mot at ALL" laughed the Observer.
THAT canning factory isn't out of his
mind for moment"
Ever hear Holman Days compari-
son-"He stands about as much chance
as cotton dog chasing an asbestos
cat through Hades" Any man of po-
ltica1 intelligence and regard for the
truth will tell you that applies hand
somelv to the candidacy of the Lubec
sardine man.
Reveridge. in Library square, Fri
day, shouted at his few hearers that
Attorney General McReynolds is the
man who attempted to prevent the
white slave trials at RENO, COLO
RADD!" Reno used to be in Nevada
when we went to school and the white
slave cases weren't to be tried even
there. 1t was at San Francisco, Cal
ifornia.
Middle street resident of Bath, who
wears pretty large shirt did not wor-
ry half as much over the loss of the
shirt the other night from the family
c.othesline as did his better half. He
was pretty sure that it was too large
for all average man and tried to make
a wager with his wife that the
thief when he learned of the size
would return it. He was right, for
a day or Two later the shirt was found
ON the door step, neatly done UP in a
| paper package.
| Baseball is a profitable pastime In
| York county If a statement i'm the Bid
deford journal may be believed. Says
| the sports writer:
"The members of the four teams in the
| Manufacturers league Will divide over
| $1,000 as their share of the net proceeds OF
| the series which closed Labor Day.
| Something like 5000 was taken at the
| gate during scheduled games. while the
| expenses will figure up to over $500. All
| the bills have not been paid. but 1t Is
| safe to say that the players will divide
| at least $1340. BY agreement at the open
| ing of the season it was voted that all
! funds left in the treasury at the end OF
| the season be distributed to the teams
| as follows: IS per cent. to the team hav-
| ing the highest percentage, 26 to the next
| "a to the next and % to the fourth. The
| Saeo- Lowell players, who won the pen
| nant, will each receive over SIS while the
| York players who We're second in the
| league will each get over S26 The La
| COMA boys, who are third, will get over
| $2i each aud the members of the Pep
| perell team, who occupied the cellar
| place in the league all summer, will to q
| man get over 80.
The following is from the Sioux City
Uowa) Tribune of Sept. 2: William
lT. Haines, governor of Maine. ad-
Idressed the meeting of the Rotary
lclub at the Martin hotel yesterday
Mr. Haines WAS enroute TO his home
lfrom Denver where he had attended
la convention of state governors. He
laccepted an invitation from local Ro-
tarians and gave brief address. The
Ipeople of his state are just awakening
to its natural resources. and rapio
strides are being taken in the checking
of immigration from the state, saiC
lGovernor Haines. Where there was
"a previous movement to encourage the
Maine citizens westward, efforts now
are being made to keep the people ir
are state, he said. Thousands of ths
states best blood has contributed tt