Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-16
Maine Gossip
BY This Sim.

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(By Elizabeth Powers Merrill)
Was 1t dream or did I once behold.
A royal amphitheatre upon
Romes cireiing hills. Above. the bril-
Beyond, the hazy line Of city walls,
The golden CLEAN of tower and minaret.
Within these curving bounds of massive,
On lofty seats uprising tier on tier,
Thousands on thousands hail the En-
The roar of lions. ominous and loud
Arises through the grated doors Of steel.
The music-wild, tempestuous and bold,
Outings the open space and strikes the
A trumpet blast cuts through the air.
A GREATNESS silence falls across the
As eager eyes behold stalwart man
Advancing toward the Emperor's high
Seat, gay with flags and banners of
proud Rome
The flags fly high above the waiting
The grated doors swing wide. The lions,
lean, i-r
Hungry-with tongues as red as scarlet
Stalk madly forth! They spring toward
the man
Who holds aloft a cross of white and
gold.
Who hurts the deathless words across
20 Emperor, we conquer by this sign"
In unplumbed sea the centuries lie.
The stones of Coliseum strew the
The fuller IS forgotten and unsung.
But on the distant marge of life itself,
Above the wild ambitions of men
Over the years that rise like tidal waves.
The Cross remains-undimmed by Time
or change,
The deathless words fall on the hearts
of men, .
20 Emperor. we conquer by this sign"'
The first ship load of horses ever
loaded at Portland left that port Mon
day afternoon for France. Nearly 500
horses were loaded aboard the FIRE.
mona at Grand Trunk wharf number
s, after they were brought from the
East Deering Stock Yards. The port
of Portland is becoming more and
more important shipping point, and
every now and then has new ex-
perience in this industry
Mondays storm was, as everybody
who lived within its limit knows, an
unusually violent one. Shipping felt
it and will remember it and 1t raised
havoc in many places along the New
England coast. At Portland the water
was so high that it came over the
breakwater. The storm was of short
duration, but the IS mile wind and
three inches of rain left more marks
than many long and less severe
storm.
There are Irish blackthorn shrubs
growing in Maine. The Bangor News
is authority for this statement and
the News recently said editorially:
Miss Kate Curran of Old Orchard
road, Chestnut Hill Mass, is the only
person of Maine birth who owns a
small plantation of Irish blackthorn
shrubs, those incurved thickets OF
hard hitting thorn bushes, whose ma
tive homes are in County Donegal,
away at the northwest of Ireland.
1t was a freakish within of Miss Cur
rams, who having inherited from her
father, small farm at South Brewer,
Maine, to desire to see with her own
eyes the original basis of blackthorn
canes growing as far north as Bangor,
Maine.
She engaged some wealthy Irish ma
tives residing In Brookline Mass, to
secure and bring over for her planting
in Maine, several biackthorn cuttings.
They were brought to Maine three
years ago-six OF them-and four took
root in far north Maine SOIL
They are living now. as fresh and
as gnarley as when at home in the
xyf1a of
though one may like to receive a rap
the shrubs are all too young and ten
der to do one great injury. ~
Thus may good Kate Curran sing:
Away up north in DONEGAL
Where they eat their 'taters skins and
ALL"
Miss Harriet Pinkham, of sawyer's
| Island, died last week at the age Of
go. Only few years ago her mother
died at the age OF 1o4 Miss Pinkham
was notable aside from her distinction
due to her ripe age, for she was, in
deed, a grand old lady who had
served her country well The Booth
bay Register sums up her record as
an army nurse as follows:
Miss Pinkham had most interest
ing career and an honorable one. Born
in BoothbsY. at the old homestead
where she died. on January 2, 1924, she
had made that her childhood and olden
age home. The period between was
that of her greatest activity in life
and was spent in nursing in various
parts Of the country.
Miss Pinkham was one of the very
few army nurses of the Civil war who
are left of all that great band Of gentle
| enrolled as nurse on January l 1863.
She was commissioned by DR.. Bart
hold. For two years and seven
months she served her country val
iantly and well. near many battleflelds