Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-16
Maine Gossip
Why He Takes Them.

Why He Takes Them.
The flock stood whiting by the rapid
And woGld not cross.
them thither,
And banks of moss
And fields of green and velvet hills sur
rounded
The further shore;
The danger still their narrow vision
bounded
OF crossing DER.
He stretched his kindly arms and gently
They would not heed;
The deep. broad rivers rapid stream
appalled, them,
Though pleasant mead
And mountain fair, beyond the darkling
river,
Rose to their view.
And In the distance, bright, unfading
Were pastures new.
The shepherd took lamb and safely
Within his arms,
To where the pastures brightly CLEAN
before it,
And all alarms
Are hushed. The mother heard its voice
of pleading,
And crossing DER.
The flock behind her followed In her
leading
Unto the shore
o stricken hearts. all torn with grief
and bleeding,
Saviour'S voice
Ye would not hear, nor follow in his
leading
OF your own choice
SO he takes your lambs into his keeping
That eyes all dim
And dark with sorrows clouds and Ger
much weeping,
May look to Him.
And sc beyond the darkly-rolling river,
Those gone forever;
And to the fields with verdure green for-
ever
Cross safely Ger.
President Harris announces that
among the important changes which
will take place at Westbrook Seminary
this fall will be the opening of a bust
ness college. A two-year course has
been arranged and Miss Reta Prescott
a graduate of Morgan Business col
lege and an experienced teacher of
business courses, has been engaged as
the head of the department. In addi-
ton to granting a diploma at the end
of the course, the Seminary will select
their studies from shorthand, type
writing, bookkeeping, commercial
arithmetic, English and commercial
law; two of the first three studies be-
ing necessary for diploma. 1t is UNI
derstood that this is only the first step
in a general plan which the new pres
ident has presented to the trustees for
charging the seminary's curriculum.
f, Aroostook County may be Names
i, biggest garden, but there are some
very fine patches scattered here and
there in Central Maine, and one of
them is about three miles out Essex
street, right in the city of Bangor
where Hugh Jameson is giving an OBJ
jeet lesson in spud culture that has
made the oldest inhabitants and the
old time farmer open their eyes III
wonder. This is the farm, fifty-five
acres in extent. that WAS owned many
years ago by Patrick WALL who wa:
a famous merchant tailor of Bangor
and then for 80 years by the late JOIN
O'Connell. from whom II years ago
Mr.. Jameson bought it, Here is a pc
tato garden of As acres, where two
famous varieties, the Cobbler and All
Delaware, are nourishing amazlng
, ly, with every promise of a splendie
crop and good profits, although the
, lane is now devoted for the first time
to potato culture, having always beer
hay farm.
Warren Wakefield, son of Mr.. ant
Mrs. Frank E. Wakefield or Yves
Gardiner is considered one of ~
; smartest young men of this town o
t his age which is only Il. Warren, fol
[ six years. has helped his father IN
; haying, and as his father cuts, besides
his own farm, that of Mrs. Malcolm
the Davis lot Goodwin, and Branr
farm, it has KEEP. the lad busy. HI
has for the past three years done al
of the raking on the above places
With the help of his father, recently
he htched the pair of horses into thu
moving machine and started for {
large field of oats. His father was Il
come later but was detained ant
Warren started moving. The piecl
! contained four and three fourths acre