Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-18
Maine GOSSIP

Maine Gossip
As Children Do.
Sometimes. when night is creeping down
And all the world about is dim,
And he must so to sleepytown,
You lie down at the side of him
And whisper soothing little things
In childish words such as you frame
To tell the sound of beetle wings
And how the freely gets its lame.
And soon the world grows darker yet
And the little fellows eyes
Strange, hidden dangers now beset
The shadow places in the skies;
But you speak low and comforting
And tell him none of them are there,
That near him is not anything
But what is kind and good ana falr'
Then trembling come his little hands
Out through the dark and find your
AS though by touch he understands
That he is in the safest place;
And so with fingers on your cheeh
He signs contentedly TO sIeep.,
And you-you may not even spedh'
So very, very still you keep.
Some time you, as little child.
Shall fare into an unknown night
And shall yearn for the stars that salleo
With all their soothing, drowsy light
And you, as little children do,
May grope out through the darks OF
space
And Sigh in peace to sleep. when you
At last have touched your Fathers lace.
Chicago Post.
stnrrns continue to throw specimens
of coal on the beach at Small Point
but where it comes from no one can
find out The land is not of the right
formation, and tests there have not
found any trace of it. If 1t was sunk
en- cargo that has been washing ashore,
it would be supposed that it would all
have been washed out by this time, for
it has been found after storms for
many years.
There is one Bangor man who TOOK
desperate measures a short time $50
20 make sure that he really had seeur-
Cd his moose says the Bangor Com
mercial. The Bangor sport in question
took a trip upriver last year, and after
n few days hunting, was lucky enough
to sec a fine big moose. He shot at the
| forest king and hit him just where the
| antlers projected from his head. This
| stunned the moose and he fell to the
! ground. Mr.. Sport ran off to tell the
| ether members of the hunting party
about his wonderful success. They were
quite a distance off, and it took some
time to reach them. On returning with
| his friends to view the carcass, he
found that the moose had disappeared.
The story is not over yet, This fall, the
same Bangor man went up hunting,
and as luck would have it, again shot
q moose. He took no chances. Running
Up to the MORALLY wounded prey, he
shot it several times, intent upon not
allowing it to escape as the other did.
The Michigan Legislature has read the
danger of allowing hunters to carry
liquor into the woods and is consider
ing the passage of law to stop it. a
careful investigation has disclosed the
fact that a great majority of cunning
accidents in that State are due to
drink Maine and other states might
profit by like steps.
| Hon. Joel Wilbur of Phillips tells the
Franklin Journal that he taught school
| in Pennington IS years ago, having
ninety-six pupils of all ages from or
| years old to u. Among his pupils he
| still finds a number of the gray haired
| business men of today and some of the
matrcns wearing the dignity of grand
mothers. He has pleasant recollections
| of the winter passed at Pennington
| and it is evident that happy relations
| existed all around
| In the neighborhood of Bishop Hill
or Curtis Corner, there has reigned
confusion and near tragedy. For two
months the Bishop family and theiI
reighbors have made desperate efforts
to regain control of a herd of IL cattle
made wild by association with a hero
of deer By hard, physical labor anG
the NEST strategic planning they have
captured all but one steer, and thai
| one was last seen on the way toward
| Kcnncbec county. The mate to thi:
steer, the last one to se housed, was
surrounded after long, Vigorous pursui
| by a large party aided by shepherd
dog. Cornered he became Infatuated
and dashed at first one, then another o.
HlS puTSuefS. one Oh lU6 men WAL
knocked down and severely bruised
escaping goring on fatal trampling b.
a seeming miracle. The animal was
left to his freedom as far as this party
| was concerned, but was later corallet
by one of Mr.. Bishops neighbors AND
| delivered to the owner.
1t is said that Miss Isabelle Trask o.
Rome is reading all available report!
On how Joe Knowles caught his dec
and bear. After gaining this informa
ton she probably will adapt the sys
tenn 10 the capture of foxes. She has
discovered that had she taken one O
these animals alive, recently, instead
Ct shooting It, she might be som,
thousands of dollars richer. Miss Trasl
is very good shot and neatly dropped
reynard with bullet through the
head. She was jubilant when she
found 1t was a silver gray and tina
the pelt was worth $500. Her joy wal
somewhat diminished, however wheI
she learned the value of a live one.
HlNCkLEY.