Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-04-05
Maine Gossip
The Same Moon From the Top

elizabeth Powers Merrill.)
There are many roads up the mountain
Many roads winding alog.
Wher countless pilgrims travel all day
With tears, or pain, or with song;
Ever they dream on the mountain top
To garner a golden CROP
But they only see as night draws on
Just the Same Moon from the top!
Some started within a grey valley
Where flowers purpled the way.
The gold Of the sun fickered Ger them
As they Journeyed through the day.
No storms from the mountain GER
.whelmed them,
Onward and up without stop.
Below them the earth. above the stars
just the Same Moon from the top!
Some chose the alluring road Of ease
Where only a few had trod.
They kept this beautiful road for them
Thinking it wound up to God.
With banners flying they marched ahead,
Let other wayfarers DROP
To their surprise they met again. saw
Others there were that had rougher
- They helped as they journeyed by,
Searched for the souls that had lost the
Climbing these trails to the sky
They never dreamed OF some great re-
ward,
They dwelt in their love and hope,
And laughed with JOY, as one night they
Just the Same Moon from the top.
Uncounted the roads that circle around
This mystical mount of life,
Many pilgrim in climbing up
Falls down-delayed in the strife,
Too gives not the self-Same road to ALL
Some waver but never STOP
In the final round all souls will see
Just the same Moon from the toni
Another boost for American veteri-
narians comes from Loyds, that COM
pany having refused to insure any
more horses shipped from this coun-
try accompanied by the French vets
sent over for the purpose. So MANY
horses have been injured and lost
While in care Of the French that to
obtain insurance the French govern
ment must send American vets with
all shipments. Less than 100 horses
now await shipment to Europe from
the Portland sheds, but fully 14OO are
on the way there from the West and
shipping will be continued as fast as
they arrive. 1t is reported that about
1000 will be sent between now and
June.
The report was current some years
ego that sacred concerts had been
eliminated from the program at Car
mel and now dark night strolls and
shady nook flirtations must Join the
before mentioned concerts-because
the. citizens are raising a fund to pro-
vides 1eecfric. lights. They have re-
centE eAaeQ g good sum to the
Bly, sgiving fair and
sof the Rockland Opinion
enioyins the grip. The
- ifs grass fires and grip
bliean city government.
~ 1eeh e month long to be
remeniueAEd With. pleasure only be-
cause It is over with. For gladstone
April, with its budding time and
green grassy slopes and spring flowers
and,maple syrup. is now with us; and
Legislature is about to adjourn. There
u.
The past grands Of Knox county
will meet Wednesday evening, April
81 in Rockland and organize a Past
Grands Association.
Lewiston having changed the old
liquor agency room over to an Office
for the city's milk inspector, Bath gets
into the game by starting a vegetarian
restaurant and home bakery in it's old
liquor agency quarters.
Two well-known Bath people OBJ
served their birthdays April /, Mrs.
Margaret Hall. aged 90, and George
w. Harrison, aged sc. Mrs. Hall re-
ceived many friends at her home on
Washington street and was the recipi-
ent Of many gifts. She is hale and
hearty and thoroughly enjoyed the
day. Mr.. Harrison also enjoyed the
day. receiving many callers and re-
Of the date at his home
on Winter street. He is Baths vet
eran restaurant keeper
The grass fires in some sections will
be very beneficial, inasmuch as the
BURBERRY crops will be aided to a
great extent.
Quo warranto proceedings have been
instituted against John A. Small OF
Bath, who is filling both the Office Of
mayor and city marshal Of that city
and the case will be heard at 10 A. NJ.
Monday before Justice Savage in Au-
burn.
A Rockland physician having an
nounced that more cases Of the grip
have occurred this season than ever
before in his practice, a Bath physi-
clan suggests that the Rockland man
was not practicing in 1SSs-9O, when