Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-24
Maine Gossip
The Fire Divine.

The Fire Divine.
! edward Wilbur Mason, in National
! Magazine for June)
/ Who goes with song behind the plow
| Turning all day the SOIL
With bird that builds upon the hough
! He shares the joy of toll.
Who works with glee in the red glare
| OF forge or furnace fame,
| Has healthfulness and strength 10 spare
/ Tho lacking wealth and fame.
Who sweeps a room with right good
cheer
| Or weeds a garden close
Fate's insolence need never fear
Companioned of the rose.
Who builds mousetrap or song,
Shaping with frenzy fine,
He has joy both sure and long
He has the fire divine!
Commander K. Kabayamo and Lieut..
Commander O. Nagano of the Japan
csc navy were visitors Friday at the
Kittery navy yard. On permit from
the secretary of the navy they were
shown about the reservation and visit
ed several of the shops, accompanied
by Capt. Field, Lieut.. Commander
Sheffield and Lieut.. Constructor liam
ner. They expressed themselves as
delighted with their visit and comph-
mented the yard officials on general
fine appearance of Uncle Sans estate
Lumber business on the Penobseot
continues dull with a very sluggish de-
mand for spruce, due to lack of build
ing operations in the territory supplied
bv the Maine mills. The old logs are
being RATED .out of the Penobscot
boom. The up-river drives are COM
ING along rather slowly, due to long
prevalence of head winds and general
cold weather.
Judge Nathaniel Hobbs of the York
county probate court has just returned
from fishing trip to Sebage lake. In
spite of the fact that he is 80 he en-
lows fishing as we'll as when he was
Young man. He has been making
trips TO Sebago for % years The
biggest salmon he ever caught was "a
inches long and weighed "a pounds.
The Judge did not catch any fish this
trip. but he will return later in the
season and make another try for sal
mon.
C. T. Southland of Groton, Mass.
who is one of the greatest and most
scientific fly fishermen in America
has been here for two weeks and as
usual made remarkable catches, says
the Maine Woods. The largest trout
weighed pounds and hundreds OF
smaller ones were counted and return
ed to the lake, for he does not often
kill a fish. His new book "Fly FISH
ing in America" is soon TO come from
the publishers and is, without doubt
the hest thing ever written about the
speckled beauties, the trout we all love
so we'll and that have been caught from
the Raegeley waters larger IN SIZE
than anywhere else in the world,
The family of Charles w. Wilson
Vernon street, Saco has four genera
tiens. Mr. Wilson is aged so and
has recently retired from the YORK
Man'fg Co.'S employ after 81 years oil
continuous service. He is a native OF
Westbrook. His son. Frank Z, VII
son, whose age is As, is employed in the
York Mills. He had worked there
since he left school, Guy, the son OF
Frank, was born in Saco q years ago.
and he lives in Kennehunk, The
Youngest member of the four genera
tiens is Rudolph, the 4-year-ela son
of Guy, who lived in Saeo untll re"
years before he was married
A pathetic incident connected with
the tragedy by which Sewall n. York
lost his life at Leeds Junction last
week, is being narrated here, says the
Rockland Courier Gazette. Mrs. YORK.
it appears, was on her way to her Tor
mer home in Wiseasset. Seated at
the open window of her passenger car
in brunswick she heard two tralnmen
talking about an accident which mad
befallen a conductor up the line.
It may have been intuition, or the
nervous feeling which the wives OF all
trainmen have, which caused her to
leave the car and make inquiries OF
the two men whose conversation she
nod overheard. Where was the
train accident you were talking
about?" she asked. AT LEEDS juno
ton" was the reply. VINO was II,
iufed? p "A freight CohuuSeOi
York" Mrs. York collapsed. lmmedl-
ately upon her revival she took
train for Lewiston. and was with her
husband in his last hours,
The tug Perry was sold last week
nv Manager Small of the Kennebec
Towbeat Co. to W. Z, Sawyer oil
Boethbay Harbor and will be toWea
from Bath to Boothbay Harbor where
she will be broken up for junk. The
Perry has been in service or the Ken
nebec for the past z6 years and was
an economical and powerful towing
craft She was built in Phliadel-
mia in 1863 for parties in New
orleans and was a well-knoWn MIS-
sissippi craft Her last work in the
South was on the Bath schooner
Charles A. Campbell which was
wrecked in the Gulf of Mexico in TIT
winter of 1888,
Civil War news of so years ago IN
cluded; 1t, is reported that Col. Pres
colt of the 32d Massachusetts, regl-
ment has heen MORALLY wounded. ana