Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-03-23
Maine Gossip
M agazine Poetry.
prompt action.

ing SledfS!
love to read it carefully, and prayer
fully and then
| l love to take another start and read 1t
through again.
| Its mysticism charms me with a fascna-
ton fell.
! 1t is cryptic, cabalistic, and it weaves a
magic spell;
1t monopolizes, mesmerizes, magnetizes
me,
| 1t tickles my perceptions, and 1t fills my
soul with glee.
l love its convolutions, its subtle twists
To mystify the reader. and to leave him
in daZe;
l love it's phraseofogy, so wonderful and
weird,
And at every verbal bump 1 get my In
| most soul is cheered.
How inept and how futile the old-fash-
| Toned poetry seems
| That made the reader conversant with
all the poets Dreams
How great has been the progress to this
poesy of doubt
That you read. and read, and still can't
guess what it is all about,
/ love to sit and ponder till I'm sure
cannot guess
What thought the poet hides behind the
WOODY word-O, yes,
! I love to read the poetry in the monthly
magazines.
1t fascinates and charms me, and I don't
| care what it means!
| his home in Portland after an illness
of several months at the age of 70.
| Mr. Stubs had been librarian of the
| Maine Genealogical Society since 1904.
| He was an expert in that work and did
much in the line of the genealogy of
| Maine families, descendants of the
| Mayfiower and the Sons and Daugh-
| tiers of the American Revolution. He
was a most accommodating man and
| secured much valuable data relative to
| Maine families during his term of Of
| fee The headquarters of the Maine
| Genealogical Association are in the
| Public Library building and it was
! there that the public came much in
contact with Mr.. Stubbs. During Mr..
| Stubs business career he was con-
nected with the steamboat service be-
| tween Portland and New Brunswick
| pcints in an official capacity.
| The potato inspection has been in
| full operation in Aroostook since
March g. but has made no difference
! in the shipments, in fact under a
strong demand the tubers are being
| rushed out as fast as possible, at from
| $3.50 to S1.S5 per barrel.
The Pressure Isle Star Herald says:
| Talk about Chas. Erickson, deputy
| sheriff, not enforcing the liquor law.
| One day last week he was going to
Mud Brook to arrest party. He lost
| the train but this didn't discourage
| him so he walked to the place and
| walked his prisoner back to Stockholm,
a total of 16 miles. Besides this two
more arrests were made. One was dis
charged and the other was fined $3.50
for selling rum. That is good work for
| Mr.. Sheriff, keep it going"
The quarry south of the LIMERICK
street bridge at .Rockland is being
pumped out by the Rockland & Rock
port Lime Co., which will begin opera
| tons there as soon as practicable. This
quarry is separated only by tunnel
| from the quarry in which Mrs. Austin
| Elwell is supposed to have leaped with
her two children in November, 1912.
Many persons also thoght that the sui
eide may have used the quarry which
is now being pumped, and that was
| dragged, in common with the Perry
| quarry, for some days.
The joke is on the deputy sheriff
who scented" contraband in a box
marked Toilet Articles" for a sales
woman of Sabattus and who quickly
| landed the goods in the rum room at
Auburn. while the Sabattus woman
| hurriedly explained to her cutomers
| xI,aS ix~,Y1
unexplainedly delayed. The scene
when the deputy hurried back to the
home of the Sabattus saleswoman
with the box and more or less lucidly
| explained can better be imagined than
described.
The Campobello Land Co. Is IN
! trouble and Howard Grimmer, barris-
| ter, of st. Andrews, N. B., has been
| that the island will revert to the form
! err owner, Alex Porter, but 1t is ex-
pected that the summer hotel, The
| Inn at Welshpool, will be opened as
usual the coming season.
| Mr.. and Mrs. George bennett Of
| Ellsworth had narrow escape Fri
day morning, when they were awak-
| ened from sleep by fire in their home
and had scant time to give the alarm
| to the firemen before the two-story
| structure was destroyed. The loss
| is partially covered by insurance.
| The Seniors of the Houlton and Fort
| Fairfield High schools left home on
Thursday on their way to Washington.
| d. c. Q. j. Dickey of Belfast is in
| charge Of the party and the boys and
| girls are chaperoned by Mrs. l.. G.
Paine Of Fort Fairfield and Mrs. Har-
ry M. Briggs of Houlton.
Those Waldoboro men who had put
considerable of their hard earned
| ,aknau into shoe 20 ctory snlA,,.A