Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-21
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Maine Gossip
Battle S0rg.

Battle Sorg.
When the vengeance wakes. when the
battle breaks
And the ships sweep out To sc3:
hen the foe is neared. when the decks
are cleared.
And the colors floating free;
When the squadrons meet, when it's ncet
10 fleet,
And front to front with SPAIN
From ship To ship from lii 10 lip
Pass on the quick refrain,
Remember,
Remember the Maine"
When the Nag shall sign, advance in
Train ships on an even keel
When the guns shall flash ana the shot
shall crash,
And bound on the ringing steel;
When the rafting blasts from the ar
mored masts
Are hurting their d,ailieS; rain.
Let their voices loud, through the blind
ing cloud.
Cry. ever the fierce refrain.
Remember
Remember the Maine"
Gods sky and sea in that Stnrm shall be
Fate's chaos Of smoke and flame
But across that hell every Shot shall tell
Not gun can miss its aim:
Not blow viii tail on the crumbling
mail,
And the waves that engulf The slain
Shall sweep the decks Of ;he blackened
wrecks.
With the laundering. dread refrain,
Remember.
Remember the Maine,'
Robert Burns Wilson in New York Her
aid.
How the rain made the grass laugh
Two weeks before the Moosehead ice
will go out
Auburn has the honor Of Justice
Fogler's first term.
Norway gave the Methodists, especi-
ally the Oregon bishop. a rousing well
come Yesterday.
The Peoples party takes the lead IN
calling its State convention, then it
gracefully subsidies to the rear.
That Readfied man who fought fiVe
tramps, single handed in the dark and
put them to rout. is the kind Of man
needed in the n. G. $. NJ.
An escaped inmate of the Lewiston
city farm stopped the midnight train
at Crowley Junction. recently because
he wanted TO borrer a chaw Of to-
becker He was accommodated
1t was a RoclIand five ear-old who
added this important postscript to his
evening prayer: 20 Lord, make Spaln
so weak that the United States can
knock the packing out Of her"
The Watcrville Mail comedies that
Augusta will get the kennebcc &
Franklin, but claims that Watervilla
will also get u railroad to Farmington
which will do a lot more business. 1t
considers that the kennebec Il Frank
lin will be merely a summer excursion
road for those in search of beautiful
scenery and good fishing
Paris man relates that on some If
those warm days during the sugar
making season. while the snow WIS
still several feet deep in the woods, he
was annoyed by mosquitoes around his
sap camp. They seemed to be of a
little different species from the or
binary summer pest. but their venom
was of the same old kind, and they
were not at all bashful about leaving
it. What are we coming to? The
mosquitoes hung on last fall until the
snow came, and if the first warm day
brings them out again, where shall We
be in June?
Who can beat the carpet cleaning
record held by Seth l.. Waterhouse Of
Saco? He claims that during the past
Is years he has cleaned 1897 carpets,
and put down more than 5000 This
would be one carpet. on the average, in
every family in Biddeford. Saco and
Old Orchard. What clouds of dust he
has sent into the spring air.
A Lewiston Grand Army man says
that the biggest flag ever made will be
one of the features of the G.. A. r. en-
campment at Cincinnati next Septem-
Der. The flag will measure $50 feet
wide and $50 feet long. Each one ot
the strips will be 80 feet wide. 1t will