Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-01
Maine Gossip
The Last Analysis

The world is unfeelng for mortals to
live in
With it's Misunderstanding. injus-
tce and hate:
In the endless hereafter is time to for
give in,
Withal it may seem such a long time
to wait.
It's a world inconsistent, because there
is in 1t
The man who. supposed to know
everything, don't
And the man who. supposed to know
nothing, each minute
Does something the other man can
not or won't.
It's a mystical world, because reputa-
Like a garment conceals the real
man from his kind.
And his maker alone with exact cal
Marks the breadth of his soul and
the depth of his mind.
And no matter how strong, r.: low
true. nor how tender
How much Of his life was bound up
in the race
No one misses him long as saint or
defender.
Save God who must furnish two men
Wilbur D. Spencer.
Clara Louise Burnham who still lin
gers at her summer home at Bailey's
Island near Harpswell, is to have a
new novel published in October and the
title is The Queen Of Farrandale.'
Portland firemen are asking one day
off in four instead OF one day in SIX
as under the present plan. Wonder if
the city manager plan of government,
which will soon become effective in
that city had anything to do with the
request. Perhaps the firemen thought
it better to make their request now
rather than later.-Bath Times.
Vernon H. Scmers. sophomore at
the University Of Maine. has re-
turned to his home in Bangor from
National and International rifle shoot
at Camp Perry, O., where he eStab-
lished a new worlds record score by
shooting 397 points out of a possible
400. The previous record had been
500 out Of 400. A Washington student
made a total of 395. breaking the rec
ord. but on the following day Somers
went this mark two points better in
the trials.
October begins on Monday with
day II hours and Sc minutes long. The
decrease for the month is one hour and
IS minutes. The Maine Farmers AL
manac predicts rain on Oct. 3, frosty
nights from Oct. As; fine weather
around the 18th: a cold rain storm
Oct. 1911; clear and cool from Oct. o.
IS: rain and warmer and more rain
from the 2sth on. Columbus day on
Oct. IL and Halloween on the 31st are
the two gala days. The open season
on partridge begins on Oct. Is.
Parties who have just arrived from
Montreal report the shipping business
at that port at the present time as I'M
usually quiet, few of the steamers
leaving having capacity cargoes, says
The Portland Press Herald. Consid-
ering that the season Of navigation on
the ST. Lawrence river will be over in
less than two months shipments of
grain are very light and the total for
the season is not likely to be more
than two-thirds that of last year. All
this points to a busy season at Port
land during the coming winter if the
foreign demand for grain increases in
the near future. as is generally be-
lieved will be the case.
The law states that the maximum
load allowed for horse drawn vehicles
is $500 pounds per inch of tire or in
other words a wagon with a two-inch
tire would be allowed $500 pounds less
1900 pounds for the wagon. making
$500 pounds OF a load and estimating
lS5 pounds for a barrel of potatoes
would make practically 81 barrels of
potatoes. Using the same method Of