Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-12-10
Maine Gossip
Nv Ewes Are YOUNG.

Soft spake TO Age at his dusk of day,
'Wouldst tell me thy secret, friend?
Thy form is gaunt and thy locks are
Yet youth withal doth seem TO lend
Its springtime smile and thee attend:
Give me thy secret pray.
And Age replied. "seest thou yonder
With its silkweed pods now burst,
And the fine white threads by the frost
Nor Yet by the winds dispersed.
Nor yet by the SHOWS amerced
OF the crade-forming shield?
My locks are like down on the siikweed
To pods on the frost-killed reeds.
My limbs are like leaves to their dead
stalks clung,
But my eyes are like margined seeds
Not scattered as yet to meads,
And my eyes like them are young
Methought as l wended my way alone
And viewed all the silkweeds strung
With their sloat-eyed seeds, and their
OF the golden words of this age-wise
tongue.
And | vowed to keep my eyes still
young
When my youth with years had flown.
Charles L. H. Wagner, in Boston Tran
script
Washington county is mourning the
loss Of its Oldest member of the bar,
Bernard Rogers, who recently died at
somerville at the age of 10. Mr.. Rogers
was a native of Perry and had prac-
t.ced law in and about Pembroke for
nearly 40 years.
The town of Lubec has serious
problem to house the 500 scholars who
are let without quarters as result OF
the recent destruction by fire of the only
school building in town. The churches
are being fitted up as school rooms. 1t
is expected that there will be no ses-
sions held until after Jan. /. There is
q strong sentiment in town that two
separate school buildings should be
erected and it is possible that the mat
ter may be threshed out at a special
town meeting.
Steamship companies operating along
the Maine coast are protesting against
the LaFollette seamens bill, Which has
passed the Senate. a provision which
is especially Objectionable requires all
9ttdIs SOIHS SlGdlliStS W 1di1
lent lifeboats to provide a seat for ev-
cry passenger This is going far beyond
all previous requirements. Life RATS,
under the terms of the Senate bill, will
no longer suffice. Neither will life pre-
servers. Furthermore, with fiotilla of
life boats which would require the re-
construction of most steamers that ply
along the Maine coast, there must be
skilled seamen to man every one of
them.
Bangor is proudly advertising it's new
lighting system-if such unregulated
arrangements from so many sources
could be called a system. The News
says:
Within fortnight or three weeks,
therefore, Main and Central streets will
be transformed-the former by immense
arcs, set at top of 25-foot standards, and
the latter by the softer 5-eluster lights,
placed upon 15-foot standards In all
there Will be "A standards and liz lights.
Then there are private displays, which
fit we'll into the general scheme Before
the building of the Merrill Trust Com
p stee ot Se o she mhes se
already in place; and on the granite
steps of the library building are mas
SlVe ana ornamental standards support
ing fye-light clusters each.
In short, Bangor is to be very bril-
liantly illuminated city; and the best of
it all is that this is no dream of the
future. AS has been said, the lights will
be turned on the streets will blaze within
two or three weeks
Although 81 years of age, Melvin
Shaw of South Otisfield has cut and
split Is cords of wood, this fall.
Norway Advertiser: A fine piece of
work and one highly priced by the Ma
sonic Lodge of Norway is the largest
chart done with pen and ink in 1855 by
Judge William Virgin, who practiced
law in Norway for several years. In
some way the chart became lost and
was later found in the attic The men,
hers Of the lodge had it framed and
hung in the anteroom. Mr.. Virgin was
appointed judge of the supreme court
ana made his home in Portland where
he died. He is remembered by many
lawyers in the State as very apt with
his pen and often caricatured scenes in
the court room greatly to the amuse-
ment of his associates.
Mrs. Emma Hamblet, who has re-
Gently moved from Freeman to Wilton,
to be with the family of her daughter,
celebrated her 95th birthday, Saturday.
Mrs. Hamblet, whose maiden name
was Emma Willard Hebberd, was the
daughter of Stephen and Mary Stew
ens-Hebberd, and was born in 1918 in
Mercer Uhen in Province of Maine).
Her mother died when she was five
yars of age and she was receivd into
the home of Josiah and Priscilla Howes
on Cape Cod Hill in New Sharon. In
1s40 she was married to David Welts
smith OF Mercer, where they lived until
the death OF her husband in 1869. Four
children were born, all of whom are
living: Henry Abijah Smith, a farmer
in Litchfield; Josiah Howes Smith of
East Hartford, who runs a market gar
den; Albert David Smith, a Congrega-
tional minister in Milton, Mass. The
only daughter is Mrs. Harriet Smith
Savage, with whhm she now lives. In
1884 she was married to Charles Hamb-
let of Pennington. Soon after his death
her daughter was married to Ivory p.