Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-02-08
Maine Gossip
A Winters Night.

| A Winters Night.
THE silent fields are massed i'll white
/ The trees are downward bent.
| Beneath their garb of dazzling light
| From wonder regions sent
The naked rocks rise stern and cold
/ Mid hoary lines of frost,
| While here and there glist ming fold
In nook and crack is tossed.
Again the drifting snow is piled
In shapeless mounds of white;
| Could poets words or fancy wild
Describe a scene 50 bright?
The hooded clumps OF underbrush
i That lie athwart the west,
| Droop idly in the evenings hush.
| And bow their heads in rest.
| And on throughout the lonely night
| The starry fields on high,
Look down OH cleaning fields of white
| That meet the far off sky.
SO calm, so still, no sound upon
l The air, nor moan, nor sigh.
Ye quiet fields sleep on and on.
| Meath winters lullaby.
i-Livia /. Young, in Boston Transcript.
| Commenting on the unreasonable
weather of the past two months the
| WaIdoboro correspondent of the Rock
Hand Opinion says that before the cold
snap which set in saturday night there
was quite a large spot of green grass
at least two inches high in Edgar.
| E,ugley's field. Two butterflies were
caught, one robin was seen. and apple
trees we're budding. II the warm spell
| had continued another week people
| would have been eating dandelion
| greens.
| And continuing on the same subject
the Cambridge paragrapher for the
Pittsfield Advertiser proceeds 10 go the
| Waldoboro man one better: We III
| Cambridge DO not pretend to keep step
with some Of the towns farther south
| in some things, but think we average
| with towns of our size. We maven
picked any daisies this month dug any
dandelion greens, seen any newly maoe
| woodchucks' holes, or any ROBINS, as
we have seen reported through the
papers of some towns south OF US, pul
| Wednesday morning. lJan. 2s) the
| weather at Cambridge village Is re-
| portcd at % and 20 degrees below zero
| car YOU beat that? II not try inns. FIJI
| day morning while eating breakfast we
/ saw mosquitoes on the WlndoW-ho
| dwarf or stunted specimens either-put
full grown and up-to- date mosquitoes
| such as we raise in Cambridge IN the
| summertime We took one glance AT
/ them and another at the calendar 10
make sure of the month, then we mast
ened to put them where they can new
pr hand down to their "aunts sisters
| how early they got round in 1913.
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The prospects that a breakwater Will
be built at Criehaven ill the near tu-
| ture are very good Charles T. Smalley,
who has been working in the interest
Of tie Rockland and CriehaVen petl-
TONERS. was notified by Congressman
| MctiiIicuddy. early last week, that
| ulans for the final survey had been APP
| proved of by the chief of engineers IN
/ the War Department, and another let
fer came. Thursday night, stating that
a surveying party had been sent to the
island by Col w. E. Craighill OF the
| district engineers office in Portland
| The purpose of this survey is to deter
| mino the cost of the whole project,
| which has been locally estimated at
st0. 900. It will he a big thing for crie-
| haven, and for fishermen and steam
boat men who have to use that haroof'
Rockland Opinion: Rev. E. V. Allen
chaplain of Maine state prison, Is IN
Producing interesting features at the
lo'oloek sunday morning services. Mu-
sic nv orchestra is rendered at the 200
men file in to their seats. They are per-
United to sing one familiar HYMN, or
two If there is time They sing surpris-
ingly we'll To relieve the monotony OF
the sabbath sacred concert is held
in the corridors from to o'clock.
last Sunday morning Chaplain Allen
exchanged with Rev. E. S. Ufford. Dur
ing the prison service the author of
"Throw Out the Line" received as
with surprise the hearty and effective
rendering Of his own hymn.
/ The recent large shipments of sar-
4 dimes from PASSPORT both by the Sea-
/ coast Canning Co. and the American
Sard;ne Co.. have about exhausted the
supply held over from last season
mack and with the increased demand
for domestic sardines the outlook Tor
a busy season this year grows more
encouraging as spring approaches.
According 10 the Macliias Union,
absent Minded Abner'' of one OF the
Boston papers has rival in Machias
The Union says: Ernest Miller. VINO
!hauls considerable corn from the cars
to the grist mill. went to the car one
day recently and being so ratified over
a run away horse which he tried to
stop he drove to the mill and backed
up to the door to dump the corn. Be
ing asked where the corn was Mr.. Mil
Ter admitted that he was somewhat
excited and started again to load his
cart"
Roy Pratt and Doe" Robinson re-
Gently went fox hunting with Pratts
, Extra fox hunting hound. on the nigh
way from South Paris to the fore
street covered bridge, the dog was let
/ IanSa chnmipo rnanV manifestations OF