Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-21
Name Gossip
The Pyres.

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The Pyres.
fBy Hermann Hagedorn in the Outlook
Pyres in the night, in the night!
And the roaring yellow and red,
Trooper trooper, why SO white!
We are out to gather our dead.
We have brought dry boughs from the
bloody wood
And the torn hillside;
We have felled great trunks, wet with
the blood
OF brothers that died;
We have piled them high for flaming
Hemiock and ash and pine for bed.
A throne in the night. throne for a
And we go to gather our dead.
Pyres in the night, in the night
In the plain, on the hill.
No yolleys for their last rite.
We need our powder to kill.
High on their golden bed,
Pile up the dead!
pyres in the night in the night!
Torches, piercing the gloom!
Look! How the sparks take hight!
| Stars, stars, make room!
Smoke that was bone and blood!
Harki The deep roar,
1t is the souls telling God
The glory Of WAR!
The Norway oxford County Adver-
tiser is responsible for the following:
Alfred w. whitehouse, at the Center,
commenced haying right after Fourth
of July and in one NOW he accident
ally buried a hen in the hay NOW.
Mrs, Whitehouse has a good many
hens and chickens and don't count
'em every night. The loss of TINS plooy
wasn't known and probably wouldn't
have been until the hay was pitched
| out il the aforesaid hen hadn't worked
her way. to a crack in the hay-moW-
foot boards and attracted Mr.. White
houses attention on Friday morning,
Nov. 18th. A board was sawed OH
and the imprisoned hen liberated, VINO
/ immediately visited the dough tub ana
began to eat and call for water.
Mr.. Whitehouse solemnly AYERS that
/ he states the exact truth minus malice
| and prevarication. The hen was IN
| there four months with nothing 10
eat or drink and came out alive but
| thin in flesh. Next.
Once upon a time a story was cireu-
lated that the late John Wyman-big
farmer at the Center-covered flock
/
early spring when the hired man was
! feeding the cattle he forked EN- OUT
and those that were living were full
| grown and laying eggs
Oscar Bennett, on orchard street.
| had a similar experience, but as they
werey old hens one died. Pfopaoiy
with old age. The other lived. how
many months or years they had peen
confined in the hay Oscar has forgot
| ten. 1t occurred some years ago ana
| was properly announced he says IN
| this paper. Next!
! The following explanation is sent IN
by the standish correspondent of the
ossipee Valley Herald:
The item in last weeks paper should
have read Mr.. Higgins is boarding
Mrs. stones house instead of Mr..
Higgins boarding with Mrs. Stone.
The following winters forecast comes
from the same source:
heavy thunder shower passed over
here Friday night and in the morning
it showed. Some say it is a sign OF
an open winter to have thunder
shower so late in, the season. 3..-
The goth anniversary of the found
ing of the Association ST. Dominique
Band was celebrated at the Associa-
ton building, Bartlett street, Lewis
ton, Thursday evening, with nearly loo
in attendance. A complimentary BAN
ouet to the former members OF the
band was a feature of the evening,
which also included speeches, and Sc
lections by the A. s. D. Band.
A curious phase of the Maine game
laws was cited by a well-known Ban
gor man on Thursday who had re-.
turned from hunting trip in dis
appointed frame of mind owing to MS
failure to bring home with him the
big game which the laws OF the state
allowed him to kill and have in his
possession. A big moose fell to his
lot, but he did not care to bring all Oh
IL home. Consequently the animal
was partially cut up and large por-
ton of it transported to the nearest
railroad station to be shipped to Ban
gor by express. There the express
agent refused to accept the shipment
on the ground that the animal was not
complete as to antlers and other parts
to show it's sex, the express company
being liable according to law to
fine of 5000 for transportation under
the circumstances. 1t was legal 10
kill the animal and have it, but 1T
could not be shipped in the manner
described, so the Bangor man Is Won
dering where he is at on the trip anu
the transaction.
John H. Fahey former manager OF
the Western Union Telegraph Co. In
Bangor, has been promoted in the
Boston office Of that company to the
management of the cable section, an
important position. Mr.. Fahey has
been in the telegraph business all his
life, having worked up from messen-
ger boy and has had long ana
valuable experience in handling the
cables. His many friends will con-
graduate him on his success with this