Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-05-19
Maine GOSSIP
Hymn to America-The Ways =,
Peace.

Hymn to Ameriea-The Ways Of
Peace.
By Elizabeth Powers Merrill.)
God keep thee in the ways of Peace.
God give thee honor, power. increase,
God make. thy sins as white as wool!
What II afar. red ruin. tears.
Men lighting for the Golden Fleece
With blood of thousands on their spears
God keep thee in the ways Of Peace,
God keep thee in the ways of Peace!
No hollow throated trumpets blow
Across thy fields of golden wheat.
Thine eyes behold no ruthless foe,
Thy harborS fear no hostile fleet.
Thy arms. the plough. the spade. the
mill,
Thy laws. the best Of Rome and Greece,
Thy dream. the worlds hope to fulfill
God keep thee in the ways of Peace,
God Keep thee in the ways of Peace:
Once flowed the blood that drained thy
Once aei feii thy tears across nfe's day.
Once loved ones watched the loved de-
To scenes where death and danger lay.
Healed are those wounds that were so
deep
OF wars alarm there is surcease!
america thy high faith keep
walk thou within the ways of Peace,
Walk thou within the ways Of Peace!
What Via shall it profit If thou bind
IL hidden in thy heart we find
The Greed that waxeth never old?
Let gold nor lust thy heart divide,
/ Give not thy birthright to wars lease
America for whom men died.
god keep thee in the ways of Peace.
God keep thee in the ways of Peace.
Gen. Joseph S. Smith arrived home
Monday forenoon from Washington.
after stopping in Togus over Sunday,
at Fortress Monroe. where he will
be soon established as governor of
the National Soldiers Home, is regard
ed as the best office in the coun-
try in that branch of service, and the
home is the best Of the many splen-
did institutions established by the
government for the veterans The ap-
pointment to the office Of governor Of
the Virginia post was entirely unex-
pected and unsought by Gen. Smith.
The home commands a magnificent
sweep of Chesapeake Bay, with the
dozens OF warships riding at anchor
there, and its location so near WASH
ington makes it unusually desirable.
Gen. Smith and daughter, Miss Hor-
tense Smith. will soon remove their
effects to the home.
One of the finest apple orchards in
Maine is located in the town of Free.
man. 1t was set out by the Dyer
brothers Is years ago, but is now the
property Of H. L. Conant, a member OF
the Oxford Bears Fruit Association.
There are 1000 trees in the orchard
and last year nearly 1000 barrels of
fruit were produced. The property is
estimated to be worth at least $4,000.
The annual religious festival of
Corpus Christi will be observed by
the 400 members of Passamaquoddy
tribe of Indians at Pleasant Point
reservation on Thursday, June 8, and
is always one Of the most important
events of the tribe. Rev. J. j. Ahern
of st. Joseph's Catholic church, East
port. will conduct the impressive SER
vices in the morning at st. Anne:
Catholic chapel and will be assisted
by Catholic clergymen from the
| neighboring parishes, also by the Sis
tiers of Mercy who are located dt
Pleasant Point. The procession in
the open air is held about the villagc
and the afternoon and evening is CIV
en- over to various games and sports
| Major Philip Sheridan Brown who died
Saturday in the Manhattan Square sani-
tarium. New York City. was a native Of
Maine, born Nov. 10, 1867, and appointed
as a second. lieutenant Of marines on
June 8, 1893, for the war with Spain,
served through the war and was hon
orably discharged Jan. 9, 1899. He was
commissioned a first lieutenant in the
United States Marine Corps April l3, 1899,
and was ordered to the marine barracks,
Boston, for instruction, served on board
the Baltimore and Brooklyn and was pro-
NOTED captain July q, 1900, and major
| Aug. q. 1912. Upon the occupation Of
Vera Cruz, Mexico, by the naval forces
Maj. Brown accompanied his regiment
and served there until November, 1914.
| when he was invaded home. He was
| on leave at the time of his death, having
peen In poor health for some time. The
mother. Mrs. Harriet E. Brown, lives in
Boston.
An ice cream plant which will manu-
facture for shipment to the large cities
in car load or other large lots is nearly
ready to begin work at Bangor.
Sheriff Wilbur c. Oliver of Sagadahoc
county in answer to criticism of his ap-
| pointment Of Almon L. Mari of George
town. Democrat, as a deputy sheriff,
says that he is running an enforcement
administration and cares not whether
his deputies are Republicans or Demo-
Gratis. so long as they do their duty and
enforce the liquor laws.
The recent beating up suffered by q
Boston salesman in Portland, which
gained some prominence on account
of the thorough walloping the man
got, Is said by the police to have
| been the roou1f nf ot<optiopc for<o1