Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-07-07
Maine Gossip
"The Ocean Burial"


We're nigh,
They had gathered around to see him die.
Bury me not i'm the deep, deep sea.
Where the bilowy shroud will roll o'er
me.
Where no light can break through the
dark, cold wave,
No sunbeam rest on my watery grave.
II matters not I've oft been told
Where the body lies when the heart is
cold - o.
Yet grant We this boon unto me.
Bury me not in the deep deep sea.
I'm fancy I've listened oft to the we'll
known words.
OF the free, wild winds and the song of
the birds.
l have thought of home. of cot and
And of scenes that loved in child
hoods hour.
And fondy hoped to be laid when / died.
In the churchyard there on the green
BY the home of my fathers my grave
should be,
O. bury me not in the deep, deep sea.
Let my death slumbers be where a
mothers PRAYER
And sisters tears will be mingled
there
Twill be sweet ere the death throb is
Ger
TO know when its fountain shall gush no
more,
That those 1t so fondly hath yearned for
will come
To plant the first bright flower of
Spring on my tomb:
Let me die where loved ones can weep
Ger me,
o, bury me not in the deep. deep sea.
And there is another whose tears would
For him who lies far in the cold ocean
bed;
In hours that 1t pains me to think of
She hath twined these locks and pressed
this brow:
sea serpent hiss,
And the brow she hath pressed shall the
cold wave kiss. :.
For the sake of that loved one who waits
for me
O. bury me not in the deep, deep sea.
"She hath been in my dreams" his voice
r,av psve no heed to his dying prayer.
But iewered him slow DER the vessers
side. T.
And above him hath closed the lark, eo'o
tide. It'd
Where to dip the iight Wlhs the sea ''' -
rests, NJ. ttir
And the blue waves dance with their
ybora "at'e the bilIows bound and the winds
sport free.
Should advise that the man in charSe
of Auburn blasting look where she
pointing next time.
1t is welcome news that the ioVerh-
ment is preparing to wage strenuous
warfare upon the gypsy and Drown
tail moth pests in Maine
A journal subscriber at Rochiaho
writes. Il am very much interested IN
Maine Grange activities and have had
the Keunebec Journal. every edition,
for over a year on that account. l ap-
preciate the fact that the news gain
erine forces of a real newspaper are
mysterious-even uncanny-but | can
figure any organization which would
gain Won such a supply of Grange news
I would also remark admir!nsly upon
your Iuce grist of weil-handled coun-
try correspondence. which, / suppose'
is made possible by the same orSanlza-
ton
r. II Thomas of IIallowell brings
to the Kennebec Journal office very
newspaper of the long ago.
It is an issue of the Columbian
Centinel G. Massachusetts Federalis''
published by Benjamin Russell. cor
ner of Congress and State streets
81 per annum, one-haiI
paid in advance" This issue was
NO. So of Vol. XLI," August
%. 1904. 1t carries an address mark
naming w. w. Page. Halloweil. anu
contains the announcement OF an as
sessment of one and three -eights cents
per acre on 28.S00 acres of land IN
Washington county, district OF Maine
The Portlanders are just beginning
to wake up to the fact that one Oh
their best chances has slipped smooth
ly overhead with nought to stay it's
course. Says an exchange from that
city.
"It was generous of us not to ask for
any of that State automobile money.
Portiand's citizens contributed something
more than one-tenth of this tax but none
of it has come back to TINS CITY, II - wv ~
be used by other cities and towns to n. nN
up their roads and streets and uhdoupt-
edly the money will be well spent. ANY
way we didn't get any of this money anu ann
it is probably too late for us TO ask 10.
any part of it now. The Governor anu
council gave notice that they lhtendeu 70
dist tribute this fund so that II HliSnt pe
used to some advantage in road pullnihs :
or repairing this season ana otner ct.ie9
and towns Immediately sent III their az
plicatjons for part of it. As usual !,
however Portland was not In II WheIl ~
came to getting her share. She, Wds
asleep or her officials were. anu .!
course the Governor and council uiu'
call up by telephone and remind US Una, M
they had something like SllWo OF our
money at Augusta which they were an
xjous to send back to us. The tax payers
of Portland will make up TINS deiitienuS '.
when the time comes to making IT w;
We have the greatest little lot Oh wei
satisfied tax payers in tins town TO ~
found in the world. unless we TAKE ,,. n,to
account the subjects of the Gar Oh IsuS
sia who nav their taxes because they
have to pay them with a smile or 20 u
Siberia or the people of the German en-
pire who at least get something Won woI
while for their money our AUTONOMY ~
owners who settled their tax WIN sn' wv
state are we'll pleased to think tnat ,e o.ne'
cities ana towns are using tnelr ii,onss ),
to build roads and improve highways.
North Newport Grange
North Newport Grange held specia
meeting. Wednesday, June 18TH, TO en-
tertain the Union Grange, when
comprised of thirteen oranges, namely
Hartiand. st. Adams, Pittsfieid. De
troit. Plymouth, Exeter. Dexter, Seoas