Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-02-06
Maine Cos sip
The Two Old Nurses.
Cjohn Pearson in Youths Companio

| The Two Old Nurses.
! iJohn PEARSON in Youths Companion
| FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE.
| Dtcd aEpast Is, 1910, aged ninety.
| Fragile, remote lady dwelt apart
| l!,time's space from all the life of men
Then .3itly slept. And Englands mother
! Grew very tender as she saw again
| SICK lads at Scutari, who kissed the pale,
| Swift shadow OF Sain: Florence nightingale
CLARA BARTON.
| Entered h'r nnctish Hcar December rs,
| 1870.
All worthily she shares the Birthday slest
| Who made her owr the lite the Chrst-chiid
| taught,
| And gently, through the unnumbered years.
| has brought
To war and woe His mercy and His rest.
y delegation of i Portland high
! school men are at the University Of
| Maine, and as token of profound re-
| speCt and admiration for their pre-
paratory school, they have shipped Il
fac photo-engraving of the university
| to be hung in the high school. The en-
craving is handsomely framed. and
| with it went a communication to Prin-
eipal North, expressing the interest of
these young men In the welfare Of
| their Alma Mater.
| John Harris. the first officer of the
Dominion liner Manxman. has crossed
| the Atlantic 341 times, and has been
| following the sea for 35 years He
says that he gave up going to sea i'll
| sailing vessels because that kind of
craft yrOingr Of hIISinaSs nd
| because the long voyages We're not so
pleasant as the short trips. During
the years when he was in sailing YES
sells Harris made Is trips around Cape
Horn to Chill and Peru. He also made
ten voyages to Australia and four voy-
ages to India. He received his first
command when he was eS years old.
| The Norway Advertiser tells this one
| but does not give a hint of the young
mans errand: The other night a GER
| tain young man of the village left his
lantern on the piazza at F. II. Rich
ardson's barber shop while he went
| over to Paris on an GRAND. On re-
turning he called and got the lantern
and went home. The next day he was
| his lantern burned. Surmising what
had happened. the next one he met
who inquired. he replied, ., fine, who
| filed it up with water?' 1 didn't but
/ saw the fellow who did, was the an
swer. Well replied the owner of the
lantern. i haven't tried to light it yet,
but will Put some oil in il before 1
do
The annual report OF the Brunswick
& Topsham water district, issued Fri
day, shows that there had been an in
crease in profits of nearly $1,000 this
year over last. The profits for the
twelve months are s4S491S. The total
revenue for the year was $3o.766.3o.
A South Berwick Republican is up
and coming. He is Frederick 4.
Hobbs, who obviously believes that
the early bird catches the worm. In
letter to the press he says: Il shall
endeayor to be the Republican candi-
date for attorney general for this State
for the term commencing in 1913. Will
you please announce my candidacy in
your paper?"
While Eastport folks claim the horror
of seeing the sun before anyone else in
the United States in the morning,
Lukec retcrts that Eastport is on an
island and that she herself is the most
easterly point of the mainland. Lubec
also does II sardine business of mag
nitude. even if PASSPORT is the King
Sardine City of the world. In Lubec's
sweet impulsiveness. one finds toler-
ance for her Boosting, but it is easy
to recall indications of her impulse
which have proved costly. Lubec does
not like tc refer to those abandoned
lead mines. and the mention of the
Reverend Jernegan causes SILVER to
go down the Lubec spine. The gold
from sea-water" fake was the biggest
sardine ever packed in Lubec.
Miss Beatrice Waldron of Mechanic
Falls. has just received from Mrs. A.
A. Pulsifer, who lives in La Gloria,
Cuba. a great cocoanut just as 1t was
taken from the tree. 1t is quite a
curiosity to the neighbors who have
never seen one If these great nuts in
the first rough shell. Mr.. and Mrs
Pulsifer carry on an extensive farm In
the Pearl of the Antilles and raise
pineapples, oranges, bananas and CO.
coanuts. The nut came from their
own grounds. The Pulsifers formerly
lived near Mechanic Falls. Mrs Pulsi-
fer being Miss Minnie Jumper of Lew
iston.
Corinth boasts that nearly 2la per
cent of the population is more than so
years old. The following list is sub
mitted as proof Of it: Reuben Good
win. 9S yrs; Lucy Chandler. 90 yrs:
aaron French. 9j yrs: Hannah Nc
| Gregor, 50 yrs; Jas. Stewart, 90 yrs; ;
Thankful Dodge, SS yrs; Mary Trim,
~ yrs; Mary Merrifield, IS; Amelia
Chandler. 81; Lydia Eddy. 81 yrs;
Hannah Cushman, Sc yrs; Eunice
Roulette. So yrs; John Tate, IS yrs. ,
John Savage, SIS yrs; Zernah Jeffries.
81 yrs, ThOS, Rowe az yrs Caoroc