Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-22
Maine Gossip
Washington.

Washington.
What figure more immovably august
Than that grave strength, SO patient and
so pure,
Calm in good fortune, when it wavered.
That mind serene impenetrably Just.
Modelled on classic lines so simple they
endure?
That soul so softly radiant, and SO white
The track it left, seems less OF fire than
light.
Cold but to such as love distemperature:
And if pure light, as some deem. be the
That drives rejoicing planets on their
course,
Why for his power benign seek an I'M
purer source?
His was the true enthusiasm that burns
long,
Domesticaly bright,
Fed from itself and shy of human sight.
The hidden force that makes a lifetime
strong,
And not the short-lived fuel of a song.
Passionless, say you? What is passion
Blu. to sublime our natures and control
To front heroic tolls with late return,
Or none, or such as shames the con-
queror?
That fire was fed with substance of the
And not with holiday stubble, that could
burn,
Uprased of men who after bonfires run.
Through seven slow years of unadvancing
war;
Equal when fields We're lost or fields were
won,
With breath of popular applause or
Nor famed nor damped, unquenchably
the same,
Too inward to be reached by flaws Of idle
fame
james Russell Lowell.
This day belongs to the memory of
the Father of his Country.
A week to the first installment of the
town meetings.
Belfast enthusiastically adds
Board of Trade to Names lengthening
list
Through the generosity of Massa-
chusetts woman Castine is to have d
public library.
Only a week more of February
billiards., cold waves, thaws, slush,
blockades and nOr'easters.
They are OVERRIDING the moving
picture business in some places but
when the new Graphic opened in BAN
gor last week they sold 1922 tickets
the first evening.
The nervy Portland burglar, known
as Bill Sykes, left a note last week on
a mans pillow thanking him for a pair
of trousers taken away and for nice
lunch enjoyed in the pantry
After seven years at the head of the
Nichols has resigned to accept a posi-
ton as a teacher of Greek and Latin
in the Roxbury Latin school of Boston.
c. Clifton Lufkin has presented the
district lodge, l. O. G. 7. of Glen Cove,
Rocllport. with Il gavel on which was
a map of Knox county, each town be-
ing represented by an inlaid piece of
wood from that town The woods used
in the construction of the gavel were
pine, oak, ask, pear, cherry, alder
larch, apple, plum. elm maple cedar.
spruce, etc. The handle OF the gavel
represents Friendship. Union and
Hope, being made of wood from those
respective towns.
The United States Daughters of 1872
State Of Maine, at it's meeting in Port
land, recently, voted to contribute to
the memorial window in Dartmouth
England. for the church which Ameri-
can soldiers helped to build at the
place. During the war of 1912, many
Of our men were in prison at Dart
mouth and many are buried there. 1t
was due to the efforts of some of the
Americans in prison that this church
was built. and although it has been
allowed to partially go to decay, yet
a letter was written by the pastor of
the church asking aid of the National
Society of the United States.
The railroad name of East Water
boro on the Worcester, Nashua and
Portland division of the Boston and
Maine railroad has been changed to
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p. Wescott. When the order was first
issued the name was spelled Westcott
and it remained that way for a few
days. Within short time the Office
of the superintendent at Nashua was
flooded with letters calling that
officials attention to the fact that the
name should properly be spelled Wes-
colt. Mr. WescOtt was one of the
men largely instrumental in the de-
velopment of the old Portland ana
Rochester Railroad and the people VINO
live along the right of way have al
ways felt that they owed him a debt of
gratitude. The original line extended
from Portland to Alfred but upon
solicitation of the people living in the
other towns it was extended to
Rochester. The station at South
WATERFORD has been changed to Water
bOrO while the station at South Lam
caster on the west end has also been
changed.
Here is what a Washington cores
pondent says of some of the Maine
men now residing at the national
capital: commissioner of Patents
Edward Bruce Moore. a Maine man, is
to be elected in few days as president