Daily Kennebec journal., 1916-08-29
Maine Gossip
When You are Old.

When You are Old.
When you are old and gray and full of
sleep,
And nodding by 'he~sSe, take down this
book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft
look
Your eyes had once, and Of their shadows
deep:
How many loved your movements of glad
And loved your beauty with love false
or true;
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in
And loved the sorrows of your changing
face.
And bending down beside the glowing
Murmur, little sadly. how love fed
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid crowd OF stars stars.
The shortening of the days. hours
and minutes today-is very notice
able.
New moon yesterday, changing in
the south.
The United States steamboat inspec-
tors have been ordered to get after
steamboat shippers who cut corners
or go on the wrong side of channels
in passing in or out Of ports, especial
ly Boston. There has been a great
deal of complaint, especially about ex-
cursion steamers, that they take all
sorts of chances and as result the
order has come down the line to look
out for this fault everywhere.
Marshall Bird of Los Angeles has
travelled 6152 miles since June and
has slept in a tent every night. Mrs.
Bird and Mr. and Mrs. c. r. Stein ac-
companied them on the trip as far
east a North River bridge, Cape Bret
on, the native town of the women, who
are sisters. This trip of twice across
the continent was made on a bet that
they would not pass night under
rooted shelter They went to Boston
Sunday from Portland to visit relatives
and will proceed thence directly home
Their car is decorated with American
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complete camping outfit.
Capt. Andrew Peterson brought in
Thursday to Monhegan the largest
shark ever seen hereabouts but he
was not Of the man-eating variety, re-
ports the Boothbay Register The
shark was caught in open water far
from shore. He was just slightly over
25 feet in length by actual measure
ments and was estimated to weigh
over two and a half tons The fish
was opened up and five barrels Of
livers were taken out A rigid inspec-
ton Of. the stomach did not reveal
legs, arms or torsos of human bathers,
nor scrap or thread Of silk stocking
or bathing suits.
From Monhegan comes the story Of
the capture of a 25-foot shark, weigh
ing 5000 pounds. 2he monster was
caught in a fisherman's net and
drowned. The liver filled five barrels
Of oil. Now will you other fish story
tellers be good.-Bath Times.
Aw, just wait for Luther Maddock's
next dog fish yarn!
The farmers up around Saltwater
report that the silo corn has not been
a great success this year One man
had three acres planted for this pur-
pose that was a failure so he plowed
it up and sowed it to Japanese millet
which promises big yield and which
he will put in his silo. The other
parts of the farming question seem
to be going along in fine shape. What
is called a bumper crop of hay has
been raised by one man and now his
barn contains 80 sweet tons of hay.
One successful farmer Of that locality
says: II you want a sweet corn that
beats the Golden Bantam in early ma
turity plant the Early Lambert, which
is three to four weeks earlier although
it may not be equal in quality" This
corn originated in Hampden.
One Penobscot farmer, FELTON, SUIT
ton, the 16-year-old son of Mr.. ana
Mrs. George A. Sutton Of saltwater,
anticipated the i Importance OF the
sheep in connection with home econ
omics and a few years ago started
flock of sheep which have paid MIN
we'll for his pains. He has recently
purchased a Spanish merino buck ana
five ewes of high registry which are to
be delivered after the fall fairs. The
buck sheared 35 pounds Of wool this
year and the ewes averaged 21 pounds
each. At the present time Mr.. Sutton
has flock Of "a sheep. He is a stu
dent at Old Town High school. He is
much interested in sheep husbandry,
plans his affairs and pays his own
bills and is making a success of 1t so
far.
Speaking Of the intelligence Of the
dumb animals here is an extract from
the Alfred news Of the Sanford Trib-
une which will speak for itself, as did
Mr.. Foxy:
Howard Clark's venture az trainer
Of foxes received a partial setback
this week, when one Of his two pets