Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-12
Maine Gossip

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Cavalry Song.
our good stecds snuff the evening air,
Our pulses with their purpose tingle;
The foemans fires are twinkling there;
lie leaps to hear our sabres jingle!
Halt!
Each carbine sends its whizzing ball;
Now cling. clang. forward all,
Into the fight
Dash on beneath the smoking dome:
Through level lightnings gallop nearer:
One look to Heaven, No thoughts or
home:
The guiions that we bear are dearer.
Charge!
clinei clang, forward all,
Heaven help those whose horses fall!
Cut left and right.
They flee before our fierce attack!
They fail. they spread in broken snfges'
Now, comrades bear our wounded back.
And leave the foeman to his dirges.
Wheel
The bugles sound the swift recall:
Cling cIang; backward all.
Home. and good night!
Edward Clarence Stedman.
Just watch the leaves grow, these
days.
This is a busy time for those who till
the soil.
Beware of mines" is the sign at the
mouth Of the Kennebec
Won't Hallowel be proud, and justly
so, of that new City hall?
So patriotic Rockland will not have
the privilege after all of furnishing
that heavy battery.
behring's murder mystery is the first
that Maine has been afflicted with for
many months.
Maine has had more than it's share
of fires, this week, and pretty South
Paris suffers the worst.
Would that Harmony. with a big II,
might reign once more in the ranks of
the n. c. s. NJ
one WeStbroo boy who was rejected
is the manager of a base ball team,
and consoles himself by the reflection
that he will see moro fighting than the
accepted ones.
Ex-Governor Garcelon, age Sc, who
wants To volunteer, shows that he is
still in condition fer hard work by
managing a wild, runaway colt in
Lewiston, this week.
No special session of the Legisla-
ture at present" is the decree of the
Governor and Council, and it is a just
and sensible decision. \ special scs-
sion is not a necessity and would he
a very expensive luxury.
Alas for Dangers crack Go. &,
Fully one halt of the men We're turned
down by the examining board, with
the captain and most Of the survivors
husthng into another company. Just
listen to the Queen Citya wall Of an
suish.
1t is rumorCd that every man who
flew out of the West End Hotel so
promptly last Thursday night when
the highWaymen appeared. wore
miniature flag in his buttonholc Prob
ably they wanted to save their valu-
able lives to fight Spain
Remarkable poultry they have down
in Saco one hen, in that city, has
been made a pet Of by the family and
has been privileged to take maps in one
of the beds The other day She went
up to take her afternoon nap and
found the door shut. The hen went
back into the yard and returned With
rooster. and together they succeeded
in unlatching and opening the door.
The hen struggled down in the bed as
usual but the rooster flew up on a
dressing case and promptly Inaugural
ted a fight against his own reflection
in the mirror. The family down stairs
heard the unusual connection and
noise and hurried up to see what the
trouble was. They arrived just in time
to hear the triumphant crow of the
rooster. who had succeeded in demol-
ishng the mirror and with it his fan
cied enemy.
Th2 Bath Independent tells this
story. Two Bath brothers had not
spoken for years. Their house caught
fire. One aWOke the 18Th who was
sleeping in an exposed portion of the
house. The thought of danger melted
the ice and he broke the sinister sill
ence in which he wrapped himself and
informed him that the house was on
fire. This kindly act was greatly to
his credit because it might have been
terrible roast upon his brother if he
had stolidly kept still"
1t is refreshing to note that the
Maine l.. A. w. is not to be party
this year to the usual debauching of