Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-12-23
Maine GOSSIP
To an Irhab.tant of Paradise

To an Irhab.tant of Paradise
How goes it in your starlit world
The Silcnces, the broQding wood?
Does there the tiger hunt no more.
The falcon twitter for his blood?
Have YOU stript all the boughs that
And Gained the torrents from the
hill?
Are lamb and wolf now reconciled?
Is hunger banished from your sill.
Does that memorable whip.
Which drove us needless face to
No longer burn along your veins
Or cut your new dispassionate
grace?
Do you watch struggle unconcerned;
Hear voices call you and not speak
There in your timeless acres feel
Above your kinship with the weak?
Oh. guard the gates that shut you in!
Make sure the world behind your
eyes!
My world of men and lust and wheels
Begins to march on Paradise.
-SCUDDER MIDDLETON in Yale
Review.
Arthur J. Floyd, Fred J. Peaslee,
Charles A. Robinson and Albert E.
Anderson have filed applications,
petitions and Endorsements for the
Portland postmastership in Washing
ton, it was learned Wednesday in
Portland. Entries have closed and
Congressman Beedy will make rec
ommendation shortly.
Chauncey Lewis, Park street, is
beating the egg market by deceiving
his hens. He has installed electric
lights in his hen house and turns on
the lights at 4 o'clock each afternoon
and runs them until 7 and the hens
keep busy, not being very wise birds
and still waiting for the sun to set.
At I Mr.. Lewis dims the lights by
turning a switch in the house and
turns on the lights again two hours
before sunrise. Tile first day he tried
the scheme he got five extra eggs
which at present prices more than
pay for the experiment. Another
Eath man who has attached the cleo
trio switch to an alarm clock that
goes off at each morning, says his
average has increased from eight
eggs to q daily.
The disappearance of Constantinas
Janaros of Biddeford might have re-
manned a mystery all winter had not
little Alice Sherwood, after being
turned down by her mother, insisted
in being believed in her story that
she had seen a man walk into the
river and throw himself face down
in the water The man she last told
notified the police and the body was
recovered. The cause of the suicide
was ill health and dependency.
Sheriff Grant left Houlton on
Wednesday for New Brunswick to
search for the four prisoners who on
Tuesday escaped from the Houlton
Jail. The other five prisoners, under
State prison sentence and who did
not escape were taken to Thomaston
Wednesday,. The officers think that
the entire nine meant to escape but
the five We're prevented by the short
time the turnkey was away.
Rev. and Mrs. Zachias Beal Of Lis
bon Falls, who are already planning
to celebrate in 1922 the 6Sth ami
versary of their marriage, have the
unusual distinction Of having a four
generation group on each side Of the
family. Mr.. Bears great-g grand
father came from France and bought
from an Indian chief strip of land
from what Is now Bath, extending TO
Lewiston and from New Meadows to
Gardiner Mr. Beal was born in
1895 in Bowdoin. Mrs. Ann Trufant
Beal was born in 1884 in Topsharf1.
Married in 1854, their six chillren, II
grandchildren and three great-grand-
children are all living-not q death in
the family for so years. Both are
in fine health, with unimpaired facul-
ties.
The fo,ooo-tcn steamer New Jer-
sey, Capt. Christian F. Petersen,
which sailed Tuesday from the Texas
Cos. yard in Bath for Port Arthur,
has IL Bath boys in her crew.
John J. Campbell, So. Portland
John ]. Campbell. 81, Z grocer in
South Portland several years, died
morning after an illness
of but a few days. He had lived
there seven years, in Berlin, N. H..
and was native of Bass
River, N. B. His - re. three daugh.