Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-08
Maine Gossip

Maine Gossip !
What's That to Thee?
elizabeth Powers Merrill.)
He waited while they talked and TAXED
About what they would do with MIN.
He had no home in all the world
His eyes, with unshed tears, were dim.
They bound him out-he was to work
For what he had to eat and wear: -,,
The folks" thought he could Work
To even things up. straight and square.
They put him in an attic room
This little bit of flesh and bone.
They gave him just what they agreed
He had no thing to call his own.
He helped and helped from morn till
He always did as he was told
His soul was crucified by them
He bore the cross, as He of old.
They had a chance to help the child:
To help the homeless child to be
The man, that God had hoped he would.
But they had failed,-whats that TO
A stranger child, unloved and lone,
His heart broke, and he died one DAY.
He was no good-just in the way!
W. c. Ward, our neighbor at the
Pond is very fond of shooting, but as
the game has been rather scarce this
last fall, he has only brought in one
rabbit, two partridge and two ducks,
reports Bisbeetown correspondent of
the Norway Advertiser. Saturday
morning he put on his bath robe and
came down to start the fires and then
went back to his room to dress, his wife
stepped on the piazza, and then run
in and said, William, William, your
gun, a rabbit" He dropped his clothes
and grabbed his gun and rushed out
on the piazza, with his eyes bullying
out, when his wife informed him it was
April 1st did he swear? Oh, no.
A woman has been found in Foxcroft
who killed her cat because she thought
it would be taxed. WAR taxes" have
been put on a great many things but
cats have so far escaped taxation.
An ingenious Bath fisherman Of
the North End, says the Times, want
ing to obtain some logwood with which
to dye his shad nets, discovered that
logwood had jumped in price from 20
cents to $3.50 the pound. Therefore he
decided on home treatment. He took
a two quart jar of blueberries that
his mother had put up last year and
developed a good dye with which he
treated the nets, setting" the color
with a preparation from alum. The
nets are now good indigo blue and
look as we'll as though logwood had
been employed.
Many Of the farmers around East
port, who own shore privileges are
busy these days gathering large guam
called, to be used instead of fertilizer,
which just now Is very expensive.
Many years ago before the high priced
fertilizers the farmers always used
rock weed with very satisfactory re-
suits, but of late has not been used
so much. Now when it is almost i'm
possible to get the chemicals used,
rock weed is substituted. A number
of small farms did not raise crops
enough last season to pay the fertil-
izer bill and thR year with natures
supply of fertilizer in the shape Of
quantities of rock weed. which can be
made into a compost, it looks as
though the farmers may get ahead of
the game.
L.. SI,a,
umn Of the Pennington Chronicle
keeps right on putting the ginger into
his paragraphs Note this one:
/ A new family has moved onto the
Pearl Cram place, Mr.. Jeffrey by name.
They seem to be fine people. They came
from Lawrence, Mass, three in the
| family, and one aunt besides. With
| the exception Of the aunt they were
| mill workers. Farming they will find
! is different, and a family has just come
| onto the P. w. Sanders place. Their
name, Peterson, SWEDISH new mar
ried couple, just from New York
three families now in town. They are
fine people. The Jeffrey women are
] broad English, but 1 guess we will mix
| all right. We haven't got so we can
buz those Polanders yet. When we
went to school we didn't study that
language; in fact, we didn't get the
English. so perfect but we could have
crowded a little more into our crani-
UNI and not busted it. Too late now to
know it ALL
| Craig w. Haskell Of East Livermore
died April at the age of "a years, the
oldest man in town. Levi Richards,
aged 81 years of age on April IA next,
| is now the Oldest man in that town.
Listen! Two Merrymeeting bay
fishermen, who do Il considerable BUSH
ness during the fishing season, didn't
bother about cutting any ice during the
| winter for shipping purposes the COM
ing spring and summer, but sat tight
and awaited the coming over Bruins