Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-08-08

1t should be yours, if l could build
The quaint old dwelling l desire.
With Books and pictures Dravely filled
And chairs beside an open fire,
White-p ancled rooms with candles lit
L lie awake to think of it.
\ dial for the sunny hours.
4 garden of fashioned flowers
Say mari Colds and lavender
And miSnonCtte and foVcr-ieW,
And Judas-tree and maidcnhair
And candytuft and thyme and rue
All these for YOU to wander in.
A Chinese carp called Mandarin)
Waving a sluggish silver fin
Deep in the moat; so tame he comes
TO lip Your fingers offering crumbs
Tall chimnoys. like long listening ears,
White shutters. ivy green and thick,
And walls of rudy Tudor brick
Grown mellow with the passing years.
And windows with small loaded pancs
Broad Wlrd0W-seats for when il rains;
\ big blue bowl Of pot pourrI
And-yeS. a spanish chestnut tree
To coin the Autumn's mintcd sold.
4 Summer house for drinking tea
All these Gust think for YOU and me.
A staircase of the old black wood
Cut in tho days of Robin Hood,
And baniStcrs worn smooth as glass
Down which your hand VIII lightly
pass
A piano with pale yellow koys
Tor wistful twilight melodies.
And dusty bottles IN bin
All these for yoa to revcl in!
Dut when All we'll, until that time
Well habit in this house of rhyme.
Christopher Morley. in American
Poetry Magazine.
Eastport claims to be among the
busiest towns along the coast of
Maine. Their sardine packing sea-
son runs to November 80.
A fund of $4,000 is to be raised
for the relief of the victims of the
Rumford fire. The Red Cross was
pledged $1,000 The housing situa-
ton seems to be the biggest concern.
Tho old Gov. King state ferry at
Bath had a record day of it, last
Sunday, having conveyed over the
river, 1000 automobiles and more
than 5000 foot passengers.
1t must be that they give things
away in Dexter. A recent item in
the Dexter letter of a Bangor paper
reads: THE Gordon Remnant Co.
will throw $50 packages of goods
from the Gerry block, Wednesday
afternoon at 3 O'Clock.
Bangor bellhops will evidently
have to watch their step, according
to what Dame Rumor says. At q
dance in Newport, Saturday night
a bellhop from the Queen City was
detained and will be charged with
intoXication. They say that other
bellhops may be arrested.
A fat tire in every sense of the
word it proved to be, when a party
of nine Massachusetts men, rode into
Biddeford. Sunday, with two fiat
tires. The men were taken to the
police station. because the car was
careening about and disturbing
traffic. But it was found that all
members of the party were sober.
It now appears that the summer
folks at Southwest Harbor were not
witnessing near ship wreck on
recent date as the occupant of the
craft. which he correctively calls a
raft. says there was not even a
ghost of wreck in his cruise.
Head Keeper Freeman of Mount
Desert Rock. who was the man on
the raft makes the correction.
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What If he was lost? That was
nothing in the life of three-year old
James, Jr., Bangor, son of Col.
James Gillian of Governor BaXter's
staff. When he was finally found,
after being lost for day. he was in
the process of bargaining for the
purchase of candy store for three
cents, which had been given him by
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