Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-09-16
Maine GOSSIP

Maine Gossip
And the Old Men Shall Dream Dreams
And dream to their souls content
They were gallant enough in their
time. God knows!
But the gold of their youth is spent.
They were rovers, daring and eager.
there
In their manhoods radiant dawn:
They are rovers STILL for their souls
at will
Go ,venturing on and on:
The Length r;gsa and breadth Of the Heb
From the far north fields to the south
ern seas,
Past the austere Pillars of Hercules,
Nenturing on and on.
They stir uneasily in their sleep,
They shuttle their hearth-bound feet:
While the visions last they must hold
them fast.
For the dream is sweet, is sweet!
The old wives sit by the fire and knit
And dream of their grlhoods gone; :
But the souls of the old men seek the
lands
They never have trod upon:
For the languid beauty of tropic
Through the shrouding mists of the
far Azores,
Past the frozen cliffs that are Labra-
doris.
Venturing on and on.
We, too, shall sit by the fire some day
When our blood runs chill and thin:
And our once swift feet are no longer
fleet
For wandering out and in.
We, too. shall sit where the old wives
knit
And the old men doze and yawn,
AS bent and gray and as spent as they.
When the flower of our youth is
We shall nod and dream as the years
drift past
Till we. come to the one great dream,
the last
And then, with our hands on our
hearts locked fast,
Go venturing farther on.
Esther Clark Hill in Kansas City
Star.
Houlton is serene over the an
nouncement that the extensive lime
bearing property about five miles from
that town is to be developed, with
the reported investment in plant of
half asmillion dollars. 1t is said tina.
nearly 1000, 100000 tons of the rocb
is in sight. William r. Alexander
general manager of the Consolidated
Construction Power and Minerals Co
of Newburyport, Mass, is in Houltor
preparing the preliminaries for the
undertaking.
The Quoddy district according to
iva 90
reau, has retrieved itself from The
reputation of having a surplus of fog.
gy weather, the past month having
been productive of the least fog dur.
ing August, that has been recorded
for 80 years. A record of II per cent
sunshine has been made, and the lack
of rainfall has only been 'equalled by
that of 1899. A record was estab-
lished for wind movement during the
month, the total being $500 miles.
ArooStook's claims to be the most
fertile spot in the world and with a
climate that will raise anything from
berries to potatoes, comes forward
with a substantiation in the form OF
report of cantaloupes, equal to any
raised anywhere. from the garden OF
j. H. Lurvey of Island Falls
The popularity of all parts OF
Boothbay Harbor as a summer resort
is well illustrated by story told b,
a local man who owns some prop
erty at the West Harbor. He built
a woodshed and along came some
summer people who said he ought to
put in some partitions and let it for
q bungalow. He talked business with
them and finally let to them for $19
per week for the season, with nothing
but the three rooms. not even an oil
stove. His property has a bathing
beach and the summer people told
him that it would certainly pay him
to erect more bungalows of the type
they had hired. as he could rent all
he could supply.
Miss Marion Soule of New Glou-
cester was awakened the other morn
ing by the barking of dogs Frank
w. Berry on a neighboring farm had
some sheep in a pasture. Miss Soule
suspecting trouble there, donned her
overall suit, grabbed rife and hur-
red to the pasture, where she found
two dogs worrying the sheep. One
dog is dead. one escaped and the
sheep are safe-for the present.
The United States motorboat ST.
wash, of the Navigation Inspection
Service, is at Eastport for a several
days stay. The craft is fast and also
carries an 1S-foot tender with %
knots speed. so has little trouble in
overhauling any motorboat that may
be eyading or violating any law. She
was built in 1916, is 81 feet long, 14.7