Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-03
Maine Gossip
"The Battle of GETTYSBURG"

Gettysburg lay fair and bright,
In the holy calm of n Summer night,
But the stars from their heavenly dome
looked down
With solemn light on the sleeping town
For clouds of war Were gathering fast
And threatened to break in their wrath
at last,
f er the CLEAN of the suns first ray
Welcomed the dawn of another day.
When the town folks woke to the toll
of life
They looked on scene of bitter strife;
Before the close of that July day
The dead and wounded in hundreds lay;
The wheat field lay all tramplea and red
With the life blood of the gallant dead
Waving fields of ripened grain
Were the scene of misery, oeath or pain.
Near Little Round Top, the rebel foe.
Charged on the boys in blue below;
From the dark old rocks of Devil s Den
TO the Valley of Death fought the Union
And many a face. with dying eyes,
Turned with prayer to the sun-kissea
AS the pale rays sank in the golden West:
The brave soul passed from TINS worm
to rest.
At twilight of the second night
At Spangler's Spring, just after the nsne ;
The Blue and the Gray as brotnefs niee.
To drink of the waters. cool ana sweet,
the snarkling stream retreshes now
The burning thirst, the feVefed bfo"p
As enemies they turn away
At morning TO renew the Tray.
A national park of beauty STANDS
Today upon that war-swepI laho;
And marble shafts in grandeur rise'
Tall and stately, toward the skies'
Ana mark the spot in silent pride -.
Wbere famous men had fought ana olea'
while over in the fields are founu In
Long rows of low graves, marheo o
known.
To free the captive of the SOUTH ,outb.
Thev bravely faced the cannon ~, ii free
To break their chains, TO SCI ..ei" i'''
~ " Give them peace and liberty.
Dork slavery can no more abouno SOW,
A I'd martyred Lincoln's name shsl s,''''
~ ra,orenee loved through the .ano..
III rev Bessie Mathiot BeacH'
Tho Manchester Union picks us up as
fo,lows. 1.-THE Blight of Summer Nisi-
tora" is an editorial caption IN ,le
K ennebec Journal. @. we'll, II eha' .ns
way YOU feel about 1t, SEM EN- w ~
Hampshire. We still have room ,o'
limited and select nuinpel' =,
must sadly refuse. AL the it.Ni.a - !
the old and respected Union we s',ooiI
have gladly shipped rev eaiionus ~
orr surplus supply. But trus. ~
the wolf now masauerading IN .,'e
though slightly torn SKIN >eN
r,raa Winterport boys, Percy
Clarke John Cook ana Noi'''''
| Cuddy. had thrilling adventure ~
| ~ river between Wirterport anu
| p,,cksnort. saturday, all of them MAJ
roylv escaping death by drowhihs
,.han The frail row boat In whiei
i RXcurSlOu
| uas swamped by wave. ihes
finally managed to reach shore a"-
aided after having been In the wa'e'
for two hours. All were utterly
hausted and could have held Out oo
n short time longer.
1awiston,s school garden is proNlh'
an immense success. AT the "aiias'
sohonl there is a siZeable plot accom-
modating two dozen of these niue ga,
dens. Says a Lewiston writer
/ Charlie scoots off in the mofni's
fore doing his daily chores anu aoesn
| SHOW upsuntil the noon hour, anu 'ne
as hungry as bear you may pe Pr.
~ sure he has been zine Man Win III
Hoe" If Mary skips cut wlthou. waSn
ing the breakfast dishes, you VIII nne
" fluid her pulling weeds III 'ii' ST.
garden Happy-a happier siouP
children never lived than these WHO a.
havinp the privilege of digging In IN
dirt, in a garden all their own an
Hacking forward to the time Whei 'ne
can supply their FANNY green s,u"
Eor some years, Supt. OF Scnoois ~
callahan. has carefully followed III
scbool garden methods in various cue
Inc country over and long ago ne pe
came convinced of their value. ne ao
visibility of starting gardens yea
apo was discussed but Tor aiiieieh
raasons. II did not seem pracucapie'
mar time. Because of the ample op
| nartnnity for a large garden at W
rear of the Wallace school. II SCENE
| hest to begin work there. Sup,. Sai's'
han consulted with Miss Grace !
Teague, teacher of the fifth grade am
found her extremely interested in tn