Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-10-29
Maine GOSSIP
Autumn in the Garden.

| Autumn in the Garden.
Pale gossamers of marshland birth
Are. tangled through the shortened
days;
New favors from the SPECIFIED earth
Blow tightly down the garden ways.
Among the rose vines russell leaves.
Across the pinks' deserted bed,
A thrifty housewife spider weaVes
1 tapestry of silver thread.
Through dreamy lights of afternoon.
| Against the shadows lilac folds,
| In pomp of saffron and maroon
| Parade the saucy marigolds
A cricket from its lush retreat
| "a ragged plantain awning) sings;
About the empty garden seat,
| Like cameo the bead moss clings.
AS rainy-seented mornings come
/ And chiller grows each narrow day,
Afoot, awning, with whir and hum,
The summer insects fit away;
And like an echo of the tides
That murmur in an ocean shell,
| A zephyr in the woodbine hides
And bids the emigrants farewell.
Harriet Whitney Symonds. in Youths
| Companion.
| w. p Atherton of Granite Hill, Hal
lowell, will harvest 700 barrels of ap-
pies this fall About $50 of them are
choice merchantable fruit Less than
one per cent of the total yield was
I injured by the coddling moth He is
very proud of about $50 barrels of
Roxbury russets, apples that would he
hard to match. Mr.. Anterior has had
long experience in orchanding and
! is now expected each season to have
some of the finest fruit raised any
where around, while his opinion on
! fruit and fruit raising is always con-
sidered that of an authority.
| Sylvanus Davis of Lincoln was quite
| an extensive manufacturer of guns
for those days. says the Lincoln Chron-
| icle. He produced the first repeating
rifles, several of which are owned and
preserved in different parts of the
county This was about 1859 two years
| before the outbreak of the civil was
! The rifle was a muzzle loader with two
tubes for percussion caps. One charge
was put in over the other. A rod
touching the top of the hammer ex
ploded the first cap, then on releasing
the rod the hammer would discharge
the other. This rifle sold for $50 and
upward. One man who became the
proud possessor of one of these guns
declared that he believed that the
limit of ingenuity and invention in
gun making had been reached.
Ernest Ross and Joe Dyer of West
in the lower bay saw a coot disappear
in the water some distance from their
boat Seeing the coot's feet above the
water they brought their boat along
side and decided that something held
him there and using their gaff pulled
in a monkfish that had tried to swallow
the coot. Upon releasing the bird
they found that it would readily have
flown away had it been allowed to
do so and showed no signs of exhaus
ton.
A black duck chased the steamer
Virginia up the river to Bath Tuesday
morning, flying on the river and light
ing ahead of the steamer until the
boat was near enough for a deck
hand to hit her with club and then
flying ahead again. The duck seemed
tame and playful
October 81 1S64.-General Ricketts,,
who was wounded at Cedar Mountain,
may not recover from his wounds.
Capt. T. ]. C. Bailey, 18th U. S. Reg
ulars, had been taken prisoner by the
rebels and was reported to be confined
in Belle Isle prison. General Beal. late
colonel of the 29th Maine, was visitor
in Portland Major Hunt, who was
connected with the organization of the
Maine batteries, was also a guest in
that city.
Residents of Aroostook cannot but
compare the present season with that
of 1913. especially as far as the con-,
dition of the roads is concerned, OBJ
serves the Caribou correspondent of
the Bangor News. Last year at this
time all the highways in the county
were regular troughs of mud, due to so
much rain. This season, however, not
withstanding we have had plenty of
fall rains, filling wells and streams.
the roads are remarkably dry, go in
whichever way one wishes. Automo-
biles were out Sunday and Monday al
most as numerous as in summer and
the dust was filing the air. The tenn
perature, too, for the closing week in
October is remarkably midland all
hope for at least another month be-
fore winter sets in in earnest.
According to the rumors which were
floating around the water front at
Portland Wednesday, says the Press,
horses will be shipped from this port
to England during the coming winter,
providing, of course, that the war
does not come to an end before the
steamer season begins locally. Ex-
tensive repairs have been made at
the stockyards at East Deering in
preparation for the receiving of the
animals, in case the shipment from
this port is necessary. Thousands of
horses have been shipped from other