Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-13
Maine Gossip
DEATH

| DEATH
elizabeth Powers Merrill)
Darkness intangible face thee
| Darkness of death before mine eyes;
o must l leave earth's well known home
life
For unknown ways and unknown skies?
peer from out life's open doorway
How dark. friend, hold the lanthorn
bright,
Let me see just one step before me-
| Lest 1 should stumble in the night
So late-and I must go-"goodnight
friend
IT'S chill-withdraw your light-shut
No one can go with me this journey
! Did l e'er pass this way before?
Grayly the night-wind fiutters high,
And silence deeper than all silence
Wraps my still soul as it goes by.
The bridges-are they strong and
I must not lose the way before me,
Teh way that earth's dead millions
trod?
Behold glimmer through the darkness!
1t is a light-the light OF home!
Go swiftly feet of mine so tagging
There is no darkness,-only sunlight
No loneliness,-Im not alonei
The door of heaven is flung wide open
The darkness and the night have hoWn-
"
One could be forgiven for planting
ones feet on a choice piece of "Looey
Seize" furniture or disfiguring relic
of the Renaissance, but to put an old
fashioned dasher churn, one of the
priced mementoes of earlier days in
New England, to such base use as
was revealed in this city, says the
Portland Press, seems too terrible an
act for mediation. Deputy Sherifs
Doughty and Hermann made the dis
covery on visit to AZ Hampshire
street where in the basement they
found one of the GEAR old ehurns, sans
plunger, standing on shelf, and
within the ohurn were four quarts OF
whiskey. The deputies took the
whiskey to the rum room, along with
an empty quart bottle with a broken
neck, and they arrested Margaret
Quirk in connection with the seizure.
The woman gave bail.
On the old Lovejoy place in Cam
den, on the road from Melvin Heights
/ to Hosmer's Pond. is a gigantic elm.
/ This tree girts about "A feet at the
+ base and the spread of its limbs is
about $50 feet and the Rockland
! Courier Gazette rises to remark,
that it is extremely doubtful if it has
any close rival in that city.
I Lewiston and Auburn brd-lovers
/ have made one of the fields near the
road TO Lake Auburn the mecca of
bird walks this summer. because of
the unusual presence of the prairie
Horned lark. Prof. ]. Y. Stanton has
definitely identified this pair and their
young and he says that this is the
second time he has ever seen this
species, the first instance occurring
about 10 years ago. W. H. Waterman
OF East Auburn. however, reports hav-
ing seen the birds occasionally, al
though rare in Maine. They are
about the size of the COW blackbird
with beautiful markings and glints of
pink and yellow in the puma e.
/ The horns of the male are noticeable.
The song of the male also is very
sweet. Some of these bird-lovers
have been able to go within few feet
of the nest and have seen their young,
The parent birds were not very timid.
The late G. Irving Rice of Bangor,
who was president of a large whole
sale and retail hardware store, was
always kind and considerable to his
n
for all of his employees. about so in
all, irrespective of salary or service.
! Failure of young man to correct
ly deliver a message recently resulted
in the sounding of the Kennebunk
fire alarm which also carried much
anxiety to townspeople and firemen,
who thought the fire on the Sea road
had again broken out and was beyond
control. 1t appears that j. Frank
Warren instructed a messenger to in
form Selectman Perkins that coffee
and a substantial lunch would be very
| acceptable to the firemen who had
been on watch all night. Instead of
receiving that message Mr.. Perkins
was informed that two houses were on
fire. and that the guards were unable
to cope with the situation. When the
alarm sounded a number of village
firemen started for the Sea road in
Larrabee's auto. Half way they were
met by Berry's auto conveying firemen
to Kennebunk. An exchange of
questions cleared the situation. Sc
| lectman Perkins was very indignant
when he learned the true state of af-
fairs and is looking for the unreliable
messenger. There is no twinkle in
his eye.
Evidently the electric appliances in
and around Norway and South Paris
need a little looking after. A few
weeks ago a transformer weighing al
most a ton fell off pole, and now
there is this story: The electric car
going from Norway to South Paris
had the motor drop down on the track
in front of Charles Knights house on
Paris street. This brought the car
to a nearly dead stop. Urshall Gam
mon, the conductor. had his right
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