Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-05
Maine Gossip
Coming and Going.

Coming and Going.
elizabeth Powers Merrill)
Souls are coming and gong!
Some souls sail into life's bay
Just as others are leaving
For a shore, all, far away.
Souls are coming and gong
From a land that no one knows
To a land no mortal Sees
On a tide that ceaseless noWs.
Souls are coming, hear them!
Hear passionate human cry
OF the souls plunged into life
From Gardens of Sleep on high.
Plunged into loving. striving
Plunged into sorrow and pain.
o God what must they suner
Until they plunge out again!
Souls are going, speak to them
Bid them final farewell!
They go from bournes OF earth-hIe
To a bourne no man can tell
Out of loving and hoping,
Out Of all sorrow and woe,
Out of the pangs Of living,
They fade into deaths purple glow.
Souls are coming and going!
They come on laden tide
They go-God's depths call to them,
They go where the dead abide.
Souls are coming and 5,g going Hgsreusu-
Is Birth, or Death, the fatrer?
Only God Himself can tell!
The area visited by the frost
Wednesday night and Thursday
morning was q wide one and the
damage will be heavy. Fruit trees
strawberry plants and many crops
just out of the ground suffering Sc
verely. The thermometer is reported
to have registered as low as %. Fri
day morning disclosed a heavy frost
in MANY sections. but no freeze was
reported.
Sherbrook Howard of Bath is COM
pleting at his home a racing canoe
similar to the racing canoes used on
Long Island Sound. 1t is built with
q cockpit and a sliding board that
extends out amidship over the water
and has two masts. On the midshlp
board the captain, who is also the
cook, crew and steward Of the craft
takes his seat while sailing the boat.
He wears a bathing suit and Is pre-
pared for duckings. The boat has
two watertight compartments. located
fore and aft the cockpit. Capt. How
ard is a good swimmer and all in
vited guests for the trial trip of the
canoe. have declined with thanks.
Might be a good idea for the Allies
to secure the services of the Cam
bridge correspondent Of the Pittsfie'd
Advertiser, since he has announced
his feelings as follows:
We should judge from the weather
and it's effect the past week that the
| weatherman is a German. We have
an apple trees that bore full last year
Of nice early apples and has bios
somed full this spring, in fact it was
the whitest tree we ever saw-looked
like a huge cornball. The freeze OF
Thursday morning made the blossoms
on the north and west part look as II
they had been through fire; those
on the southeast part looked all fresh
Later in the day he let in that north
west Free Trade wind and broke
down the part he couldn't freeze. He
meant to have torpedoed US for we
were within rod of the tree when
the crash came, nor is this all the
| dirty tricks he played. We had an
acre or more Of cedar bushes that we
had broken down on frosty mornings
the past winter. He blew about hall
Of them over the fence into our now
ing field and piled the rest onto the
fence; then to cap the whole he blew
the fence down. Then seeming salts
fled with our part he passed on and
over onto the Dexter road and finding
Alvin Hilton alone with his children
he blew off and otherwise mutilated
the roof Of Mr.. Hilton's barn. What
| worse could a German do?
Not in the least frightened by thu
fate Of the Portland boy who lassoet
a trolley car and escaped death or ser
ious injury by the promptness of
passenger who cast Off the rope, an
other Portland lad has succeeded ii
bagging q fractured shoulder whil'
playing much the same game. He wal
riding horse and was lassoed by :
playmate, when the horse became
frightened and ran away, throwing thu
lad: who landed on one shoulder ant
the bone snapped. He will recover.
| i. It is estimated that the old Casino
at Merrymeeting park, the tearing
down Of which began June 8. con
tanned about 100000 feet of hard
wood. including about $4,000 feet Of
sheathing.
Sheriff Wilbur c. Oliver Of Sagada-
hoe county has had many compli'
ments for the faithful performance Of
his official duties, but it is safe to say
that he will prize none Of them sc
highly as the following tribute to hi:
honesty and loyalty. printed June
In the Bath Times:
| Wilbur C. Oliver of the Bath Gal
vanixing Works turned down a
small fortune this morning in de-
clining to accept an offer which would
have Melted him $4,000 profit. te
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