Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-08-05
Maine Gossip
At Evening Time.

At Evening Time.
(Sinette NJ. Lowater, in Springfield Re-
publican)
A little, child, with fingers filled with
Which, tightly, clasped' it strives in
So seem /, as I clutch Times lessening
gold,
And feel it slipping ever from my hand
What have gained from all the passing
Which bore me, struggling on their
foaming crest
only found, amid their wild unrest
Time for a little laughter, many tears
Always I hoped to reach some sheltered
bay,
Where angry winds no more should
Where bathing currents should no more
perplex,
And / might anchor till the close Of day.
pests roar
Lifes sands slip fast-and can reach
no more.
L. J. Butterfield, owner of the But
terfield camps at Lincoln, was coming
out of the woods via the tote road On
rounding a sharp curve he observed
what appeared in the dim light to be
SSS@AAA
with a piece of tarred paper over 1t,
beside a big hollow log and low hol-
low stump. Wanting to see what the
object was, he reached for it with his
hand. He was Mortified to find the OBJ
ject to be a bear-a huge bear-wlth
his head down in the stump making a
still hunt for the acid ant. Mr.. Bruin
rose to his launches with a growl of
Impotence and anger. Man and beast
stood and gazed at each other, trying
to decide who was the most surprised
until finally the bear, with dis
gruntled growl at having his breakfast
distributed, dropped on all fours and
arbled back into the woods.
Boys swimming at Sandy shore, near
Calais, in the st. Croix river notice that
the rocks and places in the bottom of
the rivers are covered with thick
Shiny substance which never used to be
there and when they step upon it and
when they happen to have a cut on
their foot a rash breaks out around the
cut close inspection of the Shiny
substance revealed the fact that it
was waste pulp which evidently floats
from the paper mill from Woodland
and the sores and rash are evidently
caused from the action of the acid
from the pulp upon the flesh. Those
who work upon the booms along the
river say that they often see this
waste pulp floating along under water
and in the mill ponds and along shore
at different places there is lots of this
Of
of dollars to the mill owners. The
pulp is probably sluiced in the river
by careless and wasteful employees
when the boss is not looking.
Fenwicll Fowler of Washburn who
has returned from a trip to the Mum
sungan lake region, says the spruce
bud moth is working havoc in the
forests up that way. From heights of
land commanding a view of the woods
around he says it looks as if fire had
swept over the tops of the evergreen
trees. He found an abundance of trout
and also an abundance of mosquitoes
and black flies.
Popham Beach man, n. Perkins,
thinks that the cause of the scarcity
of mosquitoes this season at that re-
sort and all around the mouth of the
Kennebec is due to the great amount
of oily waste thrown into the river
from the motor boats. 1t is we'll
known, of course, that oil is deadly
enemy of the breeding of mosquitoes
when sprinkled about their habitations.
Fifty years ago this month the 18th
Maine Infantry was with Gen. Grant
at the front hay was $50 a ton at Cal
ais: st. Louis was caring for 10000
contrabands, Uncle Sam building a
huge barracks for their accommoda-
ton; the names Of Sergt Thomas K.
Holes of the 9th Maine and Charles A.
Green of the 32d Maine We're found in
The tall Greek. who speaks English
SO WELL of the shoe shine parlor north
of the johnson store, was saying good
bye to his friends Saturday evening
as he left Monday for Boston to report
to the Greek Consulate at noon Mon
day for duty in the Greek army, says
the Bath Times. He was called home
He went because he has a father llv-
Ing in Greece and had he refused the
Greek Government, he was AFRAID
would make it troublesome for him on
his vacations home.