Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-08-27
Maine Gossip
The Nation Speaks.

AVAGASsIS oOSoF
The Nation Speaks.
beatrice Barry, in New York Times.)
Children of Liberty, awake!
Where Freedoms sons have blazed the
trail,
Shall you, their leal descendants. fail
To hold in trust the ideal pure
That is their heritage secure?
Against the hour you would know how,
Learn We to serve me-learn it now.
You. who from forms of bondage drear.
Have sought and found refuge here
Who reap the fruit of bitter tears
And patriot blood Of former years,
Taking the most that l can give,
Learning how God meant men to live
You promised fealty. Your vow
was pledged to me. / need you now!
In, need you now. my soas i, Why wait
Your desperate resistance then
Might not avail. A host OF men
Unframed. undisciplined, are less.
In time OF peril and distress.
Than half that multitude would be,
Nersed in the arts Of sOldiery.
Oh these. my children! So secure.
SO confident, so over-sure.
While Europe dies, with warning writ
In blood across the face Of 1t!
Valcr. doubt not, warns your heart
Discretion is the better part!
Lest to the scourge your neck must bow,
Be We prepared! 1 need you now!
The apple crop SO years ago this
season was not so large as the previ-
Gus year and some of the growers
were predicting that Al. Baldwins
would bring SO per BARREL
Willard Weston, one of Houlton's
prominent farmers. brought into the
Aroostook Times office on Monday
some of the contents of cows stom-
ach which he recently killed. There was
in all about four ounces Of metal,
consisting Of an ear to an old pail,
nails. tacks short pieces of wire and
stone weighing l 12 ounces. The
animal was taken lame in June and
he attributed it to rheumatism. and
one morning she refused to get up SO
he had to kill her.
A merited tribute was paid the
memory Of the late John R. Graham
Thursday when theentire system of
electric roads in which he had been
interested ceased all business for five
minutes. from 2.3O to 2.35 o'clock.
Employees and passengers alike could
remember with but respect and adj
miration the great work he had done
in the development of the electric road
service in our State.
Kendall's big farm in Bowdoinham
was on Thursday a busy place. A
crew of nine double teams, four rakes
and 81 men hauled into two barns 1O5
two-horse loads of hay, averaging
1900 pounds each, or IS tons, an aver
age OF a load each four minutes be
tween 10 A. NJ. and P. NJ. Nine
machines the day before in one field
VI over 200 acres and moved most of
this 5000 or 1000 punches. This was
one days work in the regular system
in harvesting the crop of 900 tons. $50
tons of which will be fed their sheep.
The report of the killing of good
sized rattlesnake the other day at
Cundy's Harbor has brought out the
statement that several of the rep
tiles were two years ago found and
killed at the feldspar quarries in
Topsham.
The horse mackerel are doing one
favor for the people Of the New
Meadows river-driving the thinkers
and even larger mackerel up the river,
where the natives and summer visit
ors are having the time Of their lives
in catching them. The fish bite as
soon as the baited hook can be thrown
overheard and oftentimes as soon as
the undated hook arrives. Some Of
the regular fishermen are planning to
sweep the river with nets. hoping to
clean up some of the schools. Any
old place at New Meadows just now
is good fishing ground-shore. float,
bridge or boat.
Two skeletons have been unearthed
in tearing down the old building on
Spruce street. Lewiston. where F. X.
Billodeau Is to erect a new block The
old building is known to have been at
least 70 years old. but why the skele
tons were buried about two feet deep
in one corner of the cellar is un-
known. A workman first found the
skull of a child and then another man
found the bones Of a large man.
Thirteen year-old Helen Dryer of
Bangor. the miss who with COM
panion Of like age a few weeks ago
was found broke" in Boston, where
they had been ito see the sights" has
just been in evidence in New Yorh
City. where she marched into the
Greenwich Street police station and
announced that she was again
BROKE" but as she guessed she had
seen all the sights she thought she
had better tell you cops all about
It," She also said she had stolen $27
from her parents when she decided to
visit the metropolis. She was de-
tanned and her people notified.
The voters Of Eastport will decide
Monday at a special meeting whether
or not to accept the offer Of the State
to give the sum of $4,000. in two year.
ly instalments, in return for which the
toll bridge between the city and the
mainland Is to be maintained as free
bridge. Sentiment seems to be in