Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-05-15
Maine Gossip
Sonnet to Liberty.

(By the Journals Peripatetic)
The grass Ia green that grows upon my
And also It is long and thick and tough.
used to think had scarce strength
To hack at it at evening time and dawn.
Sometimes l thought that had best De
Unto another street bald Of the stuff,
But certain was my wife to call the
Point to the grass, and shout, Thou
There comes sweet peace just now with
liberty
And all this summer I'll not NOV a
For 1 have found-O ecstasy. o glee'--
In which shape am also found. You zee;
I'll neither mend nor buy; Just Sill ana
A curiosity was discovered the
other day when Mr.. Blanding OF
Great Pond removed the banking
from his house. thing somewhat re-
sembling an alligator being taken
from its winters resting place. 1t IS
about 8 inches long. has bright yell
low spots along each side and Is SAID
by the local experts to be neither
snake. frog or lizard. Mr.. Banding
is inclined to believe that it may be-
long to the frog family. though the
only resemblance that can be seen by
a casual observance is little in the
eyes.
H. N. Pringle Of Washington. u.
c., representing the National Reform
Bureau, was visitor in town today
said the Bath Times of May 1S, and
in a hurried trip about town ex-
pressed his pleasure at the clean
up that has resulted by the enforce
men of the prohibitory law under
Sheriff Oliver. Mr. Pringle has been
engaged in reform work in Massa-
chusetts and has furnished plenty OF
work for the courts in the many
cases he has handled where illegal
liouor selling was carried on. In
Cambridge he was responsible lor
bringing 106 indictments.
It was so years ago last week that
the 3oth Maine was ordered home on
3O-days furlough.
Bar Harbor had a road bee last
Wednesday at which about 500 men
turned out with their teams and did
some fine work on the roads, and
Ellsworth Is contemplating the same
kind Of missionary work on an exceed
ingly bad piece Of road.
Friends of Mrs. Fred Small are ex-
pressing admiration for the courage
and grit she displayed in escaping
from the Shiloh colony at Durham
this week, where she went with her
husband and two children, Faith and
Chester. says the Cornish correspon-
dent Of the Ossipee Valley Herald
Several years ago Mr.. and Mrs. Small
came here from the colony and bought
farm on the High road, where they
have lived ever since, both working
hard to pay for the home. But Mr.
Small was not contented and was de-
termined to return to Shiloh and she
was as determined not to go back and
as 1t is a rule Of the institution that
only the whole family shall be &C
cepted. he could not go without her
Last week she decided to go with
him. They sold their farm and start
ed off. she secretly planning to re-
turn to Cornish at the first opportuni-
ty. So each morning after her arriva
she with the children, took walk sc
that suspicion might not be aroused
! whenever she saw At to start fol
home. The morning before she left
! she packed an extra suit Of clothes
for herself and children in a box and
took 1t to the station at Lisbon Falls
checking it for Cornish and then re.
turned to the colony. The next morn
ing when she and the children tool
their walk they boarded the cars fol
Portland, che notifying her husband
of her intentions by letter which
he would receive when they had beer
| on their way about an hour. They
are staying with his brother and wife
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Small on the
High road.
her collection Of curios and relics {
stone bearing three distinct represen
tations of the human face. The work
manship seems to be that of the In
dams.
Nequasset lake in Woolwich is sale
to be extremely deep, sounding in som.
parts having failed to ind bottom ant
1000 feet being claimed in other parts
The lake contains about 1900 acre:
and q fine head Of water is had at thu
mill.
Boston baked beans are known the