Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-19
Maine Gossip
The Symphony.

The Symphony.
God, musing made the law, His instru-
! And set the wheels in motion with His
| word:
| Self-moVing, self adjusting, Selt-sus-
| tanned.
Law swerves not in its action. varying
! One i0t nor one iota in its course:
4 II sets the whirling atoms in the deeps,
! Fashioned upon the pattern of the suns,
! And sows the empyrean with circlins
| stars.
From unplumbed systems in the atoms
depths
| To that unreasonable and ultimate star
Which is the sum OF all the ordered
| spheres
| That move in music round the Throne of
God
Wheel within wheel revolving ceaseless-
The mighty system followeth the law,
In one divine, unhroken harmony
One in the atoms boundless depths re-
vealed;
one. in the framework of this earthly
form.
one, in the star of Heaven immeasur-
able,
Nj L. Butler. in New York Times.
iiA0 od1-i'NAh vi faiN 1hSSt'
ness. Not a grain of truth in the
whole bill These were statements
used by DR. Seth C. Gordan when
asked for statement in relation to
the petition filed. Saturday. by Fred
T., Smith of Pittsfield. one of the
trustees of the Maine State hospital
at Augusta. with Attorney General
sation of the management of that in
sttution. Sounds as though the hear
ing might be spicy. to say the least.
The Bath Times thus defends Bow
doin football ability: Bowdoin. in
spite of its football teams lack of
success in winning games this sea-
son. is nevertheless to be eongratu-
lated upon having had one of the very
best eleyens in its football history.
Many a Bowdoin team of the past
has deserved victory less and has won
constantly. Tufts had a phenomenal
team. this year, one of the strongest
in New England. and the showing
made by the Bowdoin warriors Sat
urday was highly satisfactory. In
the Bowdein- Maine game which de-
cided the Maine championship Bow
dom played rather the better game
of the two. though losing the victory.
There is nothing to &c ashamed of
in the 1913 chapter of Bowdoin foot
bali history.
j. F. Whitney Of Lee recalls pioneer
DAYS in Springfield back in 1886 and
81, from stories told him by his IA
Their When the early settlers want
ed barrel of flour they took q BUSH
ell of wheat on their backs and start
ed for Lincoln to have it ground.
Aaron Hunbress used to make these
trips at night that he might lose no
daylight" says Mr.. Whitney. He
would start about at night and get
back about in the morning and go
to work and do another days work
just as though nothing had happen
ed In those days a man would cut
down an acre of trees in a day and
live on very coarse food such as In
dian meal made into porridge and
pudding and milk and Indian ban
nocks and call it good
Belfast Republican Journal: 1t does
not seem so very many years ago
that The Journal kept standing a list
of deep-water vessels,-ships, barks,
briggs and schooners-that We're own
ed wholly or in part in Waldo county
or commanded by Waldo county men.
The list, originally a column in
length. gradually shrank; the briggs
disappeared and finally the banks: the
ships We're lost or transformed into
barges, and the list was finally given
mp. In those DAYS, too, were record
ed the movements of shipping at the
port of Belfast; fleet of schooners
owned here was busy in the Jack
sonville, Florida. trade, etc But by
| sale or shipwreck the local fleet has
totally disappeared and the only yes
| sells that come here are schooners and
| barges with coal or fertilizer. and
| there are no return cargoes. There is
no sailing packet business with Bos
| ton, as freight is delivered here by
| rail at the same rate as in Boston,
| and no vessels are coming here for
| repairs as the marine railway has
| been given up. Changed conditions,
not local but worldwide, have
| brought about this state of affairs,
| and other industries have taken the
i rIo M af tho ,-anicbad cbippipu