Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-16
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A Hymn for War Time.

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A Hymn for War Time.
Oh, Lord Almighty. Thou whose hands
Despair and victory give;
In whom, though tyrants tread their
lands
The souls of nations live:
Thou wilt not turn Thy face away
From those who work Thy Will.
But send Thy peace on hearts that pray,
And guard Thy people still.
Remember not the days Of shame.
The hands with rapine dyed.
The waverng will, the haser aim,
The brute material pride;
Remember, Lord, the years of faith.
The spirits humbly brave,
The strength that died dcfYing death.
The love that loved the slave;
The race that strove to rule Thine earth
With equal laws unbought;
Who bore for Truth the pangs OF birth,
And brake the bonds of Thought.
Remember how. since time began.
Thy dark eternai mind
Through lives of men that fear not man
Is light for all mankind
Thou wilt not turn Thy face away
From those who work Thy Will,
But send Thy strength on hearts that
pray
For strength to serve Thee stll.
Henry Newbolt in Longman's Maya
zine.
1t was a great Sunday in Camp
Powers.
At last, at last. The Montank
is at Portland and the Forest city is
saved.
commissioners for all those anxious
to serve their country in officers berths.
The word Chicamaugua has suddenly
acquired a new and intense meaning
in hundreds of Maine homes.
This is the kind of weather that de-
lights the farmer, the soldier boy. the
fisherman, and in fact, all living
creatures.
The boys of the I'd didn't meet quite
such a grand demonstration in return
ing as they did in leaving home, but
they deserved it.
Auburn Methodists are proud that
their pastor is going to the front with
the LIST. but they wish they had had
a chance first to get acquainted with
him.
Gardiner is excited over an alleged
attempt to bride one of the aldermen.
The attempt failed, for Gardiner
but there is music in the air. just the
same.
A small girl in Rockland has earned
SO this spring by digging greens and
selling them. The greens were all dug
from one lawn. which is more profit
for the same area than most Maine
farmers safely count on.
A Bath hotel which boasts of the al
tograph of Admiral Dewey on its reg
lister is not putting on the most airs,
just at present. That opportunity be-
longs to James Brooks, the clerk at
the house aforementioned. who loaned
Admiral Dewey a coat to wear while
ashore. That coat is now valued by
the owner at 500 and is not for sale
at even that figure.
Bangor Commercial: "Stand by the
colors, regiment or no regiment"
That is what the Houlton men tele-
graphed their company. at Camp
Powers. That is the war spirit. Talk
about regiments, What does it mat
ter whether you fight in the First,
Second or Eightieth regiment, 50 long
as you stand by the flag! Preserve
the identity of the organization,
Bosh, Preserve the integrity of the
country. The man who refuses to
fight for his country because he can't
be known as a member of the Squash
Light infantry. Second regiment. is no
soldier, to put it mildly. | admire
Capt. bennett for the spirit which led
him to take lieutenancy in the First
regiment when he had no opportunity
in the Second.
One of the interesting spots in the
northern part of the town of Gushing,
according to a Rockland Star reporter,
is a privates' cave not in use now, but
showing traces of occupation in the
laWlesS days of a century or two ago.
The cave is situated a short distance
from the river and is about forty feet
long and shows that a one time it was
carefully stoned up. making it's walls
firm and 1ff0r6ipor anita con, fort q h a
dwelling place. An underground pas
sage led from its entrance to the shore
near the waters edge. so that travel
from this point into the more spacious
and inhabtable apartment could he
unseen and made in quick and con-