Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-02-12
Maine Gossip
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
70 Him Is Homage Due.


fBy Kinahaa CoynwalIis.)
Wen may We all TO Lincoln homage pay,
For Patriotic Duty points the way.
a debt Of gratitude that all should know;
And ne'er will perish that historic tale
To hin.the UNIONS great defender
hail.
Through battling years he steered the
And ever proved a Captain just and
great
numbered woes,
While oft assaiied in fury by his foes,
He held MS course, and triumphed over
Responding ever to his Country's call;
And more divine than human seemed
When ss5:dly he the slave frog bondage
And from the South its human chattels
tore
Twas his 20 Nan his manhood to re-
Tha, righteous action sealed Rebellion's
And paved secessions pathway to its
tomb.
Each year with praise We celebrate his
And giorify his advent here on earth.
Through Times deep vista, Lincoia's
We gladly greet. a hundred years away:
For he was born to mighty deeds per-
And BRING the Union through secession's
By wisdom he achieved the glorious END,
And saved the land Rebellion tried 10
rend,
Yet died martyr. by cruel hand.
labors grand
So lie. Us join in plaudits North and
From Bunker Hill to Mississippiz
And as nation mourn anew his fate,
Concentrating thus one truly great,
Whose name will ever in our annals
Whose tomb will be a patriotic shrine.
Enshrinec is Lincoln in the peoples
An actor true, who nobly played his
WIFI love our martyred President we
crown
A hero everlasting in renova.
Two former Maine women now in
London are doing their share in
shouldering the burdens Of the pres
ent war. Mrs. Harry Higgins, for
merry Miss villa Haskell Of Var
mouth, graduate Of Wellesley Col
lege, Is employed in the war Office as
interpreter and her daughter, Miss
Louise Higgins, is an army nurse.
Mrs. Higgins has many friends in
Bath, having visited there frequently.
and her daughter resided there for
several years in her childhood. Mrs.
Higgins's father, W. L. Haskell, was
a veteran Of the Civil War and the
Grand Army Post in Yarmouth IS
named in mis- honor.
It is remarkable how meat cutters
are able to judge the weight OF meat,
says the Rumford Falls Times. Re-
Gently. a Rumford man purchased
leg Of lamb and some beef steak at
the market Of J. 4. Garneau & Go.
Mr. Arthur St. Pierre, who waited up
ON the customer, before weighing the
lamb said that it would weigh five
pounds. When placed on the scales,
it weighed exactly five pounds. After
cutting a slice Of steak, the customer
asked: How much will that weigh"
Mr.. St. Pierre gave one glance at the
steak and said: 1T viii weigh five
pounds and one ounce" When placed
on the scales it weighed exactly five
pounds and one ounce.
It is, indeed, marvellous. II makes
Us think Of a story told US the other
day by a lady who had paid for six
pounds of chicken and after her hus-
band remarked that it looked like
An awful weak six FOUNDER, had it
weighed and found but five pounds,
according TO several pairs of scales.
Waldo Pettengill Of Rumford Point
is one Of the best farmers in this part
of the town, says the Rumford Falls
Times At Pine Hill Farm he is win
tering 40 head Of cattle, 50 sheep and
three horses. At Broad View Farm
eight head Of cattle and so sheep, at
Edge Hill farm 16 head Of cattle. On
this farm the past season he raised
10000 bushels Of potatoes and on the
three farms he raised some over 300
bushels Of oats, besides II acres OF
sweet corn and other small crops.
4 considerable number Of the cit
liens Of Bar Harbor seem disinclined
to believe that much actual efforts has
been put forth in Kidding the town Of
the gambling that has prevailed there.
The last Citizens meeting was the
scene of very forcible language and
pointed statements. First Selectman
Mcfarland said the police had been
ordered to clean out the gambling dens
and he believed that no gambling was
now going on in town. The meeting
voted 70 request Chief Of Police Gerry
and Officer Burke to attend the next
meeting and tell of their efforts to
close the gambling places.
The recent stories in the Journals
Maine Gossip column reminds an Ice
boro correspondent OF an incident in
her younger days., which she tells as
follows:
When I was a child l had a pet
cat of which I was very fond. also
had very poor memory and so often
would l forget the commands which
my mother would put upon me for
good behavior, that she was nearly
in despair how to quicken that mem
DRY. At last she hit upon something
she hoped would be very effective. The
next time I did a certain forbidden
thing, l should be made to drown my
pet kitten. with my, own hands. This
surely did prove effective for long
while, but alas: One day the newt