Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-05
Maine Gossip
The Toll Gate.

Ease. and Wealth. and Pride;
Pafreys fretting meath the spur.
/ iackeys by their side.
:, Largess flung to left and right
For the crowds acclaim.
| Pages riding on before
! HeraldinE their fame,
Silken banners Scarlet-fiung
! Ger golden scroll
Hauaehword drew with snlky curb:
/ "Narlet! Name the toll"
Bare of head the keep slept forth into tn
/ light,
Where the springtime sunlight slept oil
the roadway white.
NAY. put back your purses store, mesh
| ed with cFowding gold:
Never need to tax them sore, when th
tale is told,
4 Love, the lord of these fair lands bad
me TO say.
This the toll that he demands ere ye en-
{ ter may.
Copper coin of simple love
| Hoarded through the years,
SilVer-p piece of sympathy
Wet with honest tears:
Glad-heart penny, toiling gained,
Grmed with plowshare's earth;
or single farthing's need
Wrung by human WORTH"
Who come faring down the WAY.
Brown cheeks moorland-tanned?
/ Cottage lass ana cottage lad
TASTED hand in hand.
4
Meath blue moorland skies.
smiling trusting joy and love
To each others eyes.
Passed the scowling, bafiied train,
Ease. and Wealth and Pride
Paid their toll with gathered coins
These had flung aside!
Martha Haskett Clark in The Outlook
says the Boston Post of the Range
ley region:
No other State in the Union and
no country in Europe offers greater
variety 10 the vacationist than does
Maine. The rugged coast-"hun
dred harbored Maines-calls to sum
Der residents from inland states; the
wonderful woods and lakes, renowned
wherever hunters and anglers gather,
prove as irresistible To lovers of the
wild. The fame of the Rangeiey
chain of lakes has travelled far. A.
fishing centres this and the Dead
River section, close by, are as re-
noWned among Americans as the sal
mon streams of Norway and Iceland
to Europeans. The Rangeiey lakes
are about 1900 feet above sea level,
set like sapphires among hills and
wild today as when the first white
men gazed upon them. Six lakes
make up the Rangeley chain, the dis
tance from one end to ther other be-
ing about so miles. Mountains al
most completely surround them, and
the views of the SUBMITS, with the
whole chain outspread before the be-
holder. has been pronounced by trav-
elers TO be as beautiful as anything
in Switzerland. The trout in tho
lakes are said To be the largest in the
world. One giant extracted from the
waters of Mooselookmeguntic, the
longest lake of the chain, weighed 1a
pounds, and many trout have beer
caught in the other lakes close to 10
pounds in weight Salmon were in
troduced few years ago and have
| now reached a large size. Game il
abundant. During the winter many
of the guides turn to trapping, Sc :
curing many foxes, minks, etters and
beavers. Bear frequently stray
down near the camps. and the vaca
tlenist. even during the season whcH
animals are most timorous, does not
have TO travel far off the beaten
track TO catch tantalizing glimpse
of fine antlers. Rangeley has become
so popular that some lovers of tie
woods find the principal settlements
too crowded during the summer and
too comfortable. Great hotels have
sprung up about the lakes and camps
are numerous.
An interesting experiment with an
orchard is being carried on at Eaton
Mountain Farm by woman. The