Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-09
Maine Gossip
West and East.

tHenry ADAMS bclioWS.b
A vas, ., pew land half Weakened to the
OF mighty strength; great level plains
unmeasured wealth; and the prophetic
Of triumphs yet untold.
A land of eager hearts and kindly faces,
LIE BY the glory Of a newborn day:
Where every eye seeks the far-distant
OF an untraveled way. 4
Oh generous gen, landi Oh mighty inSpira-
That GOODS the morning of the world
Thy people are the builders of a nation,
Lofty, benisnant, free.
Yet at trivial word, stars clear
cleaning,
A birds sweet song, sunset fading
fast,
There comes longing for the homeland,
Upon its sacred past.
a laq Ts, of dear remembered faces NOV
Through happy days that had to have
an end;
Each stream is a companion known ana
And every hill a friend,
A longing to behold the mountains, rear
ing
rheir great, gaunt heads; and once
again to be
Upon the barren, wind-s~ept heaoiaho'
hearing
The surges of the sea.
Miss Mabel Stafford, one of the best
known educators in the State has &C
cepted a fine position at Barre, Ver-
mont, where she will be principal at
the Goddard Seminary the largest pre-
paratory school in Vermont Miss SAT-
ford has been preceptress at west
brook Seminary for several years
where she has exerted great lnfiu-
ence in the lives of the young people
with whom she has come in contact.
That steep hill. the steepeSt in the
world, at Orr's Island has been cut
down 80 feet and the rock placed In
the approach. 1t is now an easy grace.
The cut Is one of the deepest in Maine
f. w. s. Blanchard, native OF Rlch-
mond and for some years a resident
of Bath, arrived from Cincinnati Sat
urday for a brief visit in Bath. Mr..
Blanchard is construction draughts-
man and engineer OF the United states
war Department and since he was
home has been on government duty at
Pribiloff Islands, in the Behring sea-
as far north as 72 degrees. 1t is the Dig
seal island supposed to be protected
by the Government. Mr.. Blanchard
saws that there is very little whiskey
UP there and what there is Is three
dollars a quart, which beats Maine
prices. Mr. Blanchard says they use
very little of the stuff there. He thinks
Alaska fine country. He has to re-
turn soon to Cincinnati to work on
maps of the flooded district.
Charles B. Eustis, who is stopping
this summer in Bath. may be called
tatteoed man properly as he bears
on his body properly pricked into his
skin In indelible ink some 60 artistic
emblems and subjects, among whlcn
may be enumerated spread American
eagle, a snake. the American rag, Wo-
mans face ard other native and FOR
eign designs. These were put on Tor
the most part by Chinaman In Slnga-
pore. Eustis by the way once travel
led with Charles Wagner, Barnum's
original tattooed man, with cifcuses
and elbows. In former years these tat
tooed designs were put on py haho
but now the work is generally done
with electric needles, needles run by
electricity frem designs made on is
inglass.
The departure Monday of Mrs. Ed
win ]. Huelin Of Montreal street, Port
land, and her son. George Huslin, for
Mrs. Huelin's old home in the Province
of Quebec revealed number OF coin
cidences in connection with the trip.
1t was just 81 years ago MONDAY that
she left the homestead, and ten years
ago on the same Gay her daughter,
Annie. Alberta Huelin was married to
Lamont winslow Littlefield, we'll
known travelling man. On the ami
versary Of the day that she left home
as bride, Mrs. Littlefield returned to
have charge of the. house in her moth
ers absence, and Just before she went
she recalled that 1t was the second an
niversary Of her fathers death.
Herbert r. Comforth Of Thorndike is
one of the Maine people who had to
quit Mexico on 24-hours notice He
left Guadalajara. April "a, with other
refugees, abandoning wholesale and
| retail drug business and also some re-
pair shops, Mr.. comforth was In
party with w. B. Davis, the American
consul and 80 others, who departed by
train to Manzanillo and thence by
German steamer to San Diego. MI
Comforth took with him only few
pesos which he had in his safe at the
time He has written Senator Bur-
leigh, inquiring what steps can be
taken toward amends for his losses.
Senator Burleigh has been to the state
department.. where he was advised to
suggest that Mr.. Comforth make out
papers, covering his case. The state
department offfcials say his claim in
due time will be given careful consid-
Grafton"
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