Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-02
Maine Gossip
Tho Hunting Season.

Tho Hunting Season.
| Uaurana Sheldon. in TRUTH
| Only a deer in tangled wood
| With bullet hole in it's side
only a pain-racked deer. that stood
And braved the danger as best he could,
Then fell in the brush and died.
Only a timid, frightened deer,
That was bleeding as 1t ran
Chased from its home in the thicket
To suffer, die, in the woodland drear-
The prey of so-called Man.
Only deer kind gentle, tame,
| Stretched dead by a human hand.
Yet men tpray note the noble name)
Sun lmpudently rise to claim
This is a Christian land.
The Journals correspondent in
Canaan writes as follows:
1 noticed in your paper a few
weeks ago that Mr. Pike of Skowhe-
gan thought he had the largest rub
Der plant in the State. Reuben Reed
of this town has one that is consid-
erably larger. 1t measures SA inches
| around the steam and has a spread OF
Is feet. 1t has been transplanted
many times and is growing at pres
ent in a half barrel and 1t is only
seven years old. He has an enormous
| fern Of the same age, which has a
spread of liz feet, some of the
branches being 51s feet long. Mr..
! Reed also has pair of ne-months-
old steers which girt five feet.
There is possibility of a good ice
year on the Kennebec. The Times
interviewed Saturday a prominent
Bath business man, who has had in
| former years some experience in the
ice business on the river, and this was
his opinion. He explained. 1t acts like
one. The weather, barring out few
days this fall, has been cold since last
| February. There have been no autumn
nal rains. In past years when similar
conditions prevailed the winter was
wide open and much ice was cut on
the kennebec. During the entire year
heat and cold, dry and wet weather
averages up about the same from year
to year. / look to see a wide open win
ter, especially as it was so cold for
time in November. There will be, of
course, more cold snaps and falls of
snow and freezings of the ice, but
there will come frequent thaws and
heavy rains and probably in midwinter
freshet, carrying out all the kenne-
bee ice. There will probably be little
if any ice on the Hudson" This ref
erence to the law of general average in
the weather recalls the opinion of the
late John H. Ramsey, the father or
Baths beautiful landscape gardening
in the cemeteries and parks. He claim
ed that if we had hot summers, cold
winters would follow as a rule. To be
sure there is the adage, Winter never
rots in the sky and even II
the average law holds this winter. We
shall have cold and snow in punches.
but the prospect is that there will be
something doing in Kennebec ice this
winter and early spring.
Those Bangor policemen must be
of the unfeeling kind, according to the
following tragic story from the Ban
gor News:
The comparative merits of a grip
and a wife in the mind of certain
Frenchman in town on Friday would
be subject for speculation if one cares
to spec. Patrolman Simon oLeary
was approaehedfdM his beat by villa
eyed specimen WHO struck right into
business in a brisk way, without beat
ing about the bush an instant. Say.
do me favor? Find my grip. Teller
he stole eet-at- Water-ville. Same
time he stole my wife," The wife part
of it seemed to be IAN afterthought.
and thrown in merely TO round out his
denunciation of the man who was
bad enough to steal his suitcase.
Patrolman O'Leary steered him Off to
Patrolman Donovan. who said briefly
and pointedly: "Scoot."
Can't. F. A. Garnsey. of the Bangor
Board of Assessors, recently received
letter from the family of his broth
er, Frederick E. Guernsey. who was
for many years editor of the Mexico
City Herald. the leading newspaper
of the city. Capt Garnsey's brother
and family are now living in a town
eight miles from Mexico City, his
brother having been disabled by ILL
ness so seriously that he gave up his
newspaper work.. The letter stated
that fighting was going on fiercely in
their town and that everything was
in a state of chaos. Owing to the
strict censorship maintained In Mexico
little definite information could be
given in any communication.
John Spencer, who created sensa-
ton at Bangor the Saturday follow
ing the big fire of April 80, 1911, by
setting fire to the dry grass on farm
out near the Griffin road, and was
taken into custody by the police after
q fierce fight and committed to the
State Insane hospital, has again been
taken into charge by the Bangor
police. A complaint was received
that Spencer was carnped out on a
farm owned by Charles w. Morse In
little shack built up roughly or
packing boxes, hardly fit habitation
at this time of year for any human
being. He was brought in and taken
to the City farm. Spencer was
known as the wild man" and his
struggle with three of Bangor's most
powerful patrolman in 1911 JUSTIFIED
that name.
Rev. Frank W. Sanford of Shiloh