Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-15
Maine Cos sip
Before Sedan.

Before Sedan.
Here in this leafy place
quiet he lies,
cold, with his sightless face
Turned to the skies;
lis but another dead
All you can say is said.
Carry his body hence
Kings must have slaves:
Kings climb to eminenee
over mems graves;
So, this mans eye is dim
Throw the earth over him
What WAS the white you touched
There a. his side?
Paper his hand had cutched
Tight ere he died:
Message or wish, may
smooth the folds ont and sec
Hardly the worst of us
Here could have smiled
only the tremulouS
Words of a child
prattlc. that has for stops
Just "a few ruddy drops
Look She is sad to miss.
Morning and night
HiS-hcr dead father's-kiss:
Tries to be bright,
Good to mamma and sweet.
That is all. Marguerite.
All. if beside the dead
Slumbered the pain
All, if the hearts that hled
Slept with the slain,
If the grief died-hut no:
Death will not have ii so.
Austin Dobson.
The presidential shoes of that troll
leyless trolley road" are to be laced
upon tie feet OF Hon. Lindley Muir
ray Staples, and the town of Wash
ingten is ALI excited up over the
prospect of rubber-tired connection,
as il We're. with Augusta. In the lace
of al arguments against the scheme.
the senator's friends and admirers
poirt to the fact that in all his long
business career Washington's dis.
citizen has never gone into
any enterprise which has not been
carried out and been success. Fer
many Years the scheme of building
an electric road from Augusta to the
sea" has been talked up. From Au-
austa across the country to Rockland
has been a stretch of rich farming
country that has no adequate trans
poftation facilities. Now comes the
scheme of Mr.. Staples and his as
sociates, which is nothing more than
to establish an automobile line eqip-
PED with powerful motor busses ana
as rlany motor trucks as the freight
and express will demand. A company
has been formed, cars contracted Tor
and on May l the line will start The
route is from Rockland to West Rock
port South Hope. East Union, Wash
ington, West Washington and Angus
IL, about 40 miles. The line will be
opened with a celebration. and Mr.
staples viii ride on the front seal Of
the first train
The "Jonesport boom" is the latest
in Maine but it has had promising
start. Citizens have organized an ef-
fcient appearing board OF trade and
are ready. as they state, to go in Tor
vigorous industrial development as
something besides a summer resort.
The ice trust is said. by Maine.s
experts, To be casting IN
indifferent glance in the direction ot
Maine this season. Ice on the Hud-
son is reported to be from % to =
inches thick and this means That the
Maine supply may go begging except
for LEGAL demand.
President Chase of Bates College has
sounded the starting gun toward the
raising of 100000 to meet the 5ar@
present needs of the institution. BN
a rising vote the students unanlmohs-
lv niedeed themselves to cooperate
in the work by personal pledges ana
all other possible methods. y new
cvmna sium for the men is the most
arceu4 need and the immediate oo-
iaet in mind. President Chase an
nounced that the S50,0o for 4 new
,hanel recently pledged by an unknown
donor is already in the hands OF the
treasurer. At the same time SUM
cient money for an organ was given
a.. we'll as $40 600 towards a new gym
uaeium. The new building Is 10 oe
Of granite with a normal seating ca
nacitV of 900. The name of the stNef
is to he withheld until the completion
OF the building.
Another season as favorable as the
mast will see Maine farmers scorning
the lowly automobile and leading So
ciatv in aeronautics. With butter at
40 cents. eggs hesitating around 'o'
ard one lot of 1000 barrels oil Aroos-
took seed potatoes selling for $fooo'
the bacs-to-the-farm movement rs pc
siesed with popularity.
Voices Of the State Press.