Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-25
Maine Gossip
A Higher Key.

A Higher Key.
(Lonsfellow.)
Teach me then
/ To harmonic the discord of my life
And stop the painful jangle of these
| wires.
That is task impossible, until
You tune your heartstrings 10 higher
Than earthly melodies.
| Reports have reached Eastport from
nieghboring Canadian islands in the
/ Bay of Fundy and Passamaquoddy
| Bay that German spies are operating
| in that section of the eastern Maine
border, the foreigners making East
port their headquarters and making
occasional trips across the line to the
| Dominion islands for information
needed by Germany. 1t was stated sun
| day that an earnest hunt was on at one
of the Dominion islands, few miles
away for a wireless station said to have
| been set up and operated, and the Ca
madam officials at these islands 50
close to Eastport are somewhat work
ed up over the reports and intend
making careful investigation. What
German spy would find of interest to
his country in that section remains to
be learned, but it is stated that the
recent visit to the harbor of the Cana
dian cable steamer Tyrial from Hall
fax, N. S., was for something not per-
tanning to cables, and was on import
ant government business that was not
disclosed to the island friends of those
on board The government cable from
Eastport to Grand Manan has been in
satisfactory working order for some
time past.
All possibility that the wireless sta
ton at Bonny Eagle which was 10
Gated on Saturday could be the mys-
terious station which has been detected
sending messages was set at rest Mon
day when its owner called the Portland
Press to state that it was a receiving
station only. The station was estab-
lished about two years ago by an en-
ploye Of the Cumberland County Light
& Power Co. for the purpose of test
ing the high pressure lines and de-
tecting broken insulators, as well as
to give the power company men an
advance hint as to the probable pres
ence Of thunder showers in that vi
cinity. Although it's owner now occa-
sionally, listens for his own delecta-
ton to some of the war news that
comes over the wires he sends no mes
sages, and has not done so since the
war opened.
The many friends of Hon. Elmer H.
Spofford, who is i'll at his home at
Deer Isle, will regret to learn that
there is no change for the better III
his condition and if anything, he does
not seem quite SO we'll.
Rev. Henry y. Pringle, who is so
well known in Bangor and other Maine
cities through his operation in connec-
ton with the liquor traffic, is engaged
in a crusade in Cambridge, Mass. in
prosecution of the drug stores. acting
as agent of the Reform Bureau. He
appeared In the district court in Cam
bridge on Saturday and made COM
plant against a number of druggists.
The crusade has resulted in "a rush
there to do away with intoxicating
drinks in drug stores.
The Mirror, the annual publication
of the Bates College Seniors, is caus-
ing serious breach among the mem
bers over the election of the editorial
board for the present year. The
girls of the class seem to hold the
balance of power and the fight is be-
ing waged with more bitterness than
any Militant Suffragette campaign in
England. The class is so far di-
vided that it is probable that an in
dependent publication will make it's
appearance. The plan is for the
same pledge by the independents IF
$40 per man as for the regular Mir
ror and non-support of the regular.
The boilers claim the support of over
half of the men and large part OF
the women and declare that they viii
carry the fight to finish. The cleo
ton of the editor was the point upon
which the split came The boilers
allege that the class president voted
for the stand pat candidate and thus
made tie vote, whereupon one of the
tellers voted orally after the polls
had been declared closed, all of which
was illegal according to the constitu-
ton of the class. The bitter fight is
being watched with great interest by
the entire college membership and
friends.
Thomas F. Allen of Bangor, who re-
turned to Bangor Tuesday from New
Brunswick, has just completed 25
years of service with the Tobique Sal
mon Club, composed of New York and
Philadelphia men. When he first went
to the Tobiaue river there were no
deer, but plenty of caribou. Now the
deer are plenty, but caribou have gone
farther north.
A letter has been received in Bangor
by j. Laurin Clark from E. B. Pilsbury,
a former Bangor man and now general
superintendent of the Marconi Wireless
Telegraph Co. of America, requesting
information regarding Operator c. H
Hutchings of Bangor, aged A years,
who lost his life at the time of the
wreck of the s. S. Yukon on the
Alaskan coast, June Is, 1913. The
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