Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-04
Maine Gossip
The Wind from Maine

no WIN ttOHI oiUV
A wind that's from the rocks and sea and
scented by the pine
Sweeps through the sycamores today and
where seQuoias line
Tho ranks of giant sentinels that guard
the western slopes.
The balsam of this briny breeze brings
heavy hearts new hopes.
The mountains and the rivers cry the
message that is Names
To men whose pride was shattered, and
their desperation wanes;
Again their hearts are raised to look the
future in the face
For Maine has been the clarion that's
heartening a race.
Twas shame that sunk the souls Of US to
depths we never knew
In days our flag was honored in the har-
bors where it flew
When nations paid US homage, for they
knew our hands were white, .
Ere blood of our own 'countrymen had
stained them like blight.
And now again our songs we sing Of deeds
that we must do
To make the dream that passed away
come marvelously true;
For the sturdy souls that breathe the pine
have brought to life again
The faith that fills nations heart that
feels the wind from Maine.
EDWARD S. VAN ZILE.
New York Sun, sept. 10.
Perley Damon, who has been spend
ing the latter part of the summer in
the wilds Of the Allegash region, with
Leo Robbins Of Fort Kent as COM
panion arrived home last week, and
his coming brought great relief to the
family, which for a period of so
days had no tidings of him whatsoever,
reports the Rockland Courier-Gazette.
This Is accounted for by the fact that
the young men were I25 miles from the
nearest postoffice, and the several let
tiers which were entrusted to woods
men never reached their destination.
Messrs. Damon and Robbins covered a
distance OF about 500 miles, mostly in
their canoe, camping wherever fancy
dictated They estimated that they
saw at least 500 deer and moose, and
they were also in the heart Of the fish
ing region, catching as often as they
wished to a large supply OF trout
weighing four and five pounds apiece.
NJ. A. Dunn Of New Sharon is tht
proud possessor of a pullet that has
certainly made record for herself.
She is a Plymouth Rock, was Matched
on April "a. Two or three weeks ago
she was missed about the farm and on
Sept. 90 it was found she had stolen
a nest, laid Is eggs and had been set
ting one week.
n
he came from Bath Tuesday, What
are we going to do for sugar, I could
not get a bit anywhere in Bath this
morning" One of the Board of Sc
lect.nen who was present answered.
'Whv. I'm sorry that should nap
pen lust now, every one l meet is so
sour over town affairs that its rather
disastrous to have a shortage OF some
thing sweetening just at this time =
Phippsburg letter, Bath Independent.
Hon, Bradstreet L. Rairden, VINO
for about 90 wears has served the Uni
ted States as consul to Java, has re-
Gently been appointed U. S. Consul to
Canada to be located in the Province
of Quebec. Captain Rairden with his
wife and youngest son, Albert, expect
ed to sail for New York on steamship
leaving Singapore either Sept. 70 or
about Oct 49, After visiting Washing
ton, he will enter upon his new duties
Immediately. Capt. Rairdon was a
former Middle ST.. Bath, boy, residing
in the Stetson house.
While strolling in the woods at Hol-
toms Hill last Sunday with number
of other young men, Clarke D. Rowe
Of the Boothbay Register force found a
full blown violet in perfect condition.
The violet showed no signs of whiting.
but was>as brave and upright as We're
the many beautiful violets of the
spring.
Two well-known Old Town bird hunt
ers, who adventured together into the
surrounding wilds for a weekend gun
ming trip, found themselves the hunt
ed rather than the hunters, when they
incautiously stepped from the woods
| into the 1pldTy OIL one VI Tie IllOol Ca
| tensive beekeepers in that section.
Their description of the encounter
with the winged furies is graphic, to
put it mildly, and the fact that one
Of them not. only threw away his gun
but also his glasses, proves that their
case was desperate. for he is a man
whose affection for his shotgun is only
matched by his reliance upon the
glasses for the principal uses of his
eyes.
| Well, Well, Well, doesn't the follow
ing from last weeks Boothbay Register
remind you Of something-can't exactly
at such short notice think what it is?
Nine school children were each fined
| 81 and costs in the municipal court here
this morning, they having been appre-
hended by Constable H. A. Spofford
upon a warrant sworn out by John F,
Mosher, who charged that they stole
apples from his orchard. Every child