Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-01-21
Maine Gossip
The Seeker,

I'LL
Beyond him loom the mountains black,
beyond the desert fiat and white,
Beyond him an untrodden track
he races danger, hardship, night!
Fearless he plunges straight ahead
Leaves well known face. and sky, and
One voice unto his soul has said,
"Arise, dreamer, follow mel"
He girds his will-he falters not
Love. hate. nor death can bar his way
H Se counts IN e. all obstacles as naught
No power on earth can ever part
This dreamer from his haunting dream:
Ease-ife itself change not his heart,
He follows the souls endless CLEAN!
His soul is true unto his soul
holding blazing torch on high.
ne pays with blood life's constant toll
He only fears his Dream may die.
Az once Ulysses loosed his boat.
AS sailed Columbus to SPANS DRUM
Forth goes he on life's tides to float
TO shores untrfed, he cries Il come!
Over the desert day by day,
Over the hilitops crag by crag!
New trails to make, new tracks to lay,
Never his heart nor feet do lag:
Wild shores he greets-strange skies he
Voices forever his soul thrill:
Voices as mellow as the seas,
Onward, 0 dreamer, onward still!''
The years speed by! Old. worn, and gray
He still pursues his youthful dream.
The colors of the rainbowed day
For him. shine on each halcyon stream.
A call comes ringing through the dark:
His mortal lips grow white and dumb!
He fares away on oarless barque,
His soul still whispering II come!
The lighthouses along the Maine
coast are being provided with a new
system of lighting, which much i'm
proves the intensity. Seguin and other
lights have already been equipped and
last week the Two Lights at Cape Eliz-
abeth received their outfit. The change
is from the wicks to the oil vapor sys-
tenn, the east light at the Cape being
| increased from 5000 to $4,000 candle
power and the west, fixed light, from
1900 to 10000 candlepower.
The Jemptland Chapel fund has Just
received $500 donation from Mrs. ia
cob Olsen. The Sewing Circle has
about $500 in the treasury and the Bap-
fist people are to share in the expense,
beside furnishing lumber. The pros
pect for the early erection of the
| chapel, free Of encumbrances, is good.
Tie "pome" is from an ad in a recent
| issue of an Aroostook paper:
Old Mrs. McCullar
She went to the cellar
| To get her old man a potato.
But when she got there
The cellar was bare
So the old man had none:
| But to her neighbours delight
Three-dollar potatoes are in sight
| so they will lend the old lady few.
| batn business man informs the
Times that he has received a letter
from friend not connected with the
Texas Co. but having apparently re-
naole information, stating that the
!exas on co. will begin operations
III the Sewall yard at Bath in four
weeks and will at first build four ships
and as soon as they can obtain more
room. two more will quickly follow.
inomas Spence will, the letter states,
come to Bath as soon as the material
begins to arrive and have charge.
Ihis letter apparently confirms the
Item from a trade paper, which was
rererred to earlier in the week. which
stated that the Texas Co. had ac-
quird a shipyard and had ordered
material for four vessels The ac-
QUESTION Of the shipyard of Arthur
SeWau & Co. at the North End bv the
Texas Co. has not been officially an
nounced, but an announcement was
authorized several days ago that the
negotiations were progressing favor
ably, and the two items from different
sources relating to the plans Of the
Texas Co. seem to indicate an early
resumption of steel shipbuilding at
the North End.
A High street hen at Bath moulted
SO many Of its feathers that the little
girl of the family that owned the hen
decided that something must be done
to prevent the bird dying from pneu-
monia. At least she was apprehen-
sive that somethig like that would
result, so she made a neat fitting
opera cloak on diminutive plan
and put it on the hen. The hen was
grateful and wears it right along with
apparent pride.
In the State Of Maine room at the
Falmouth hotel Tuesday evening the
members Of the Naval Militia Asso-
citation IF Portland topdaro/1 eo~o