Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-18
Maine Gossip

Maine Gossip
The Rushers.
tBv William F. Kirk)
Into their clothes and out Of the fiat
They rush to begin the day:
Each move strain, they rush for the
train
That rolls on its downtown way.
Reaching the shadows OF spirc and dome,
They rush ali day--and they rush back
home.
After they dine they rush for the play,
And after the play is DER
Madly they rush to some grand cafe,
TO drink and to eat once more.
Never a thought of the heavens above,
Never q moment for human love.
Then comes the day when they do not
rush,
But, dreamless and strangely STILL
They ride in the brooding funeral hush
To the marble town on the hill.
What is the use of it all? l say:
Why Gid they rush who are dead today?
The pamariscotta Herald thus chron-
icles the passing of an evidently we'll
known canine of that town:
Randall Harrinstons bull dog will
not chew at gaily colored hose any
South Bristol stage of Damariscotta
Friday. He must have jumped out soon
after starting for when found the dog
WAS very nearly worn out. Dragging
over frozen ground for Is miles is more
than muscular tissue can stand.
q
Hartford have a large number of regular
visitors in % sparrows, three blue jays
and a saucy little chipmunk that look to
them for their daily sustenance. If the
food is not forthcoming at the usual
time there is a big connection among
the feathered guests whose numbers
have not varied since the early fall,
when they apparently decided on their
winter quarters. Neighborhood cats are
getting wise to the daily assemblage but
on their appearance the birds and the
squirrel take to the tall lombard poplar,
chattering and scolding until the pussies
are compelled to seek warmer quarters
and the little creatures return to the
ground and eat their food in peace.
A hemlocll tree Of unusual size was cut
last week on the Ellis Craig lot, at
Pennington by Fred Lovejoy and Joseph
Roherge who are assisting Frank Craig
in his lumber, operation. The tree was
scaled by George Briggs and measured
% inches in diameter ct the butt. The
whole tree was sound and furnished six
logs, the butt being L feet long and the
other five logs, II feet in length each.
The tree scaled over 1900 feet.
Pennington is interested in the infor-
nation that Joseph Blethen, formerly
of that village, one of the editors of the
Seattle Times, has been elected Pres
ident of the Seattle Automobile associa-
ton which is spoken of as one of the
most active and progressive associations
in the West AR Blethen is the son OF
Alden J. Blethen, at one time principal
of the Abbott school in this village, and
has many relatives and friends living in
Franklin county. He is considered one
of the leading newspaper men of the
West.
In the Bath Times office window is a
huge broadsword made from the sword
Of sword-fsh by a sailor who added
carved wooden handle to the blade and
put the two together in ingenious fash
ion. Upon the blade is Inscribed Pre-
scented to Mr.. and Mrs. ]. T. Berry of
Bath, Me-, Nov. l. 1903 by Mr.. and Mrs.
Sinnet Doughty, Orr's Island, Me- Also
ON in, n az q
masted fishing schooner under full sail
and an apple tree bearing red apples.
Mr.. Berry, kindly lent the weapon to the
Times to go with the other sword fish
swords in the same window.
Say the members Of the Caribou
Ladies' Bridge Whist Club must be
good players. judging by their contri-
button to the Belgian Relief fund. They
have subscribed an even $50. which is
just $40 more than the treasury con-
tanned when the vote was taken. Now,
if it was a quiet game of poker. where
every Jack" contributed to the Kit
ty", we could see where the treasury
would soon be able to take care OF a
small deficiency like that, but for the
ladles-Why, we suppose they simply
chip.
Portland regrets the departure Of
John Torrance. who has gone
to Montreal. where he will hereafter
act as general manager for Canada Of
the White Star and Dominion Lines.
He had resided in Portland since 1876,
representing the same companies His
was the first Canadian
agent, founding the firm Of David Tor
rance IL Co, to the head Of which he
now succeeds. Mr.. Torrance at first
only made Portland his summer head
quarters, but for the past 10 years had
kept an office open there the year
around.
The first man to harvest ice on the
Saco river was the late Foxwell C.
Bryant, who was almost 100 years old
when he died. He filed a small house
in, no 80