Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-24
Maine Gossip
The Sonas of Pan.

The Songs of Pan.
Why Will you say that Pan is dead.
win ms reed pipes shattered and torn
In ncaf MIN MIN play. where willows sway,
by a stream of song that lifts away,
y melody made in the morn,
And he played of love and the sweets of
q smile,
And of dreams come true in the after
while.
OF the rose that hides the thorn.
Why viii you say that Pan is dead
WIN his reed pipes lost in the years.
/ heard him Weep with winds that keep
Inc toll of hearts on the land and the
And he played with the drop of his
tears
\ melody made of the cries of the street,
VI the endless throb of the passing feet
And of dead dreams and of fears.
Why will you say that Pan is dead.
With his reed pipes blown apart2
For sun today you must hear him play,
Nor Gold nor Hell can drive him away.
In the fields of the sun or the mart,
Each day he has come as the years have
fled.
And piped the songs in your heart!
Glenn Ward Dresbach. in the Smart
Set.
lmperrel perhaps by the way the
eolleetorship fell to certain ether
Emmons, John Collins Emmons. West
kennebunk's veteran Republican
worker. is playing the huncha for
all its worth and announces his can
didacy for sheriff. 1t is stated that he
plans . race which will sweep his OPP
ponents off their feet. y speaking
campaign is on the schedule.
Giaeomo Lucci from sunny Italy ar
rived, Saturday, in Bangor and afford
ed that city its first harbinger of spring
for a few minutes. until he found
himself too busy rubbing cold spots
to continue grinding out the strains of
Two Little Girls in Blue" Then Cha
como shouldered his organ and will
let the warm breezes come when they
get ready. "Museek has no charm to
SCOTIA da savage Jack Frost"' he de-
elareS.
Surrounded by three children and
many neighbors and other friends.
Rufus Adams of Bath declares his 9th
anniversary the happiest of his life
Bath reports one of the first aspir-
ants for county office, with a petition
circulating to place his name on the
direct primary ballot. as Cyrus w.
Longley. for 81 years a register of pro-
bate in Sagadahoc.
Notice South Windhams new trick
stopping horses by telephone? One
farmer failed to make efficient con-
nections with runaway team, and
rushing into the house, he yanked
down the receiver and gave quick in
structions to a neighbor further up
the line. The second attempt was
successful.
The thought occurs to us that the
sleigh owned by NJ. j. Drummey of
Ellsworth has outlasted by Is years
the deaeons wonderful one-hoss
shay, which ran 100 years and a day
also, that the automobile still has its
weak points,
Joseph r. Parrott, born in the little
town of oxford, has accomplished a
wonderful railway reaching 20 miles
out over the Florida Keys-rails and
supports skipping from island to is
land to Key West, only so miles from
Cuba. His assurance to Henry NJ.
flaglef, whose properties he managed.
was sufficient to secure backing for
the gigantic project. Mr.. Parrot
passed his boyhood days in oxford
and fitted for college at Hebron and
Phillips-Andover, then entering Yale
where he gained prominence as an
athlete. After he finished his CLASH
cal course he took his degree at the
Yale Law School, and then for a
short time he was in the Office of
Charles +. Libby of Portland At
opening appeared in Florida, however,
and he went there and became a
member of a firm that was counsel
for for the Jacksonville, Tampa. and
Key West X. r. Later this road was
merged with Flagler's Florida South
ern and then, the merger falling, Par
rott was appointed receiver for the
combined roads. BY 1892, however,
FlaSler had succeeded in clearing his
road and he engaged Parrot as his
chief counsel and made him vice pres
ident of the roalroad and of the F'lori-
da East Coast Canal. From that time
on the Maine man rose rapidly in the
service of the New York magnate, and
become counsel and manager for all
his railroad, steamship and hotel hold
ings in the South. 1t was because of
his position and his proved worth that
Flagler went to PARROT when he was
considering the construction of the
line from the mainland out to Key
West. Mr.. PARROT has a brother, Ell
mer l.. Parrot, who lives at Portland.
His father, George ]. Parrot. and a
brother, James L. Parrott still live in
oxford.
Do we need any stronger example of
| the liquor evil than the present law
| lessness now grasping Lewiston with
| it's IA saloons in one stretch of four
| blocks" Women are declared in dam