Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-12-15

| Now in this Chr1StmaStluo,
| Help the Red Cross.
| Beggar and priest and king,
For all alike
In the appointed hour
| Gods clock doth strike.
Round the world, Der the sea,
| Join hands across.
| Now, when Christ comes to We,
Help the Red Cross
From ITO Arms by Laura E. Rich
| ards, The Page Company, Boston.
One Of the new industries now being
established at Van Buren, is the plant of
the Aroostook Pulp & Paper Co, which
is expected to turn the huge waste In
sawdust and other small refuse into pup
and paper and thus also turn large loss
into a good profit. Van Buren,, by the
way. confidently expects to be the larg-
est place in that part of the State ana
that at very early date.
Red, White and Blue are everywhere
the colors of the hour, literally speaking
and Red, White and Blue, figurativeG
speaking, are also THE colors for the
! Christmas bookshelf. Obviously a pa
! triotic volume is the book of books for
this years Yuletide gift. a volume sure
of a wide appeal to the mothers and sis
tiers and wives of soldiers is ITO Armst'
a collection of war poems by Laura E.
Richards. Mrs. Richards is the daughter
of the late Julia Ward Howe, whose noble
Battle Hymn of the Republic is sung to-
day more than ever. and also the mother
Of soldier son somewhere in France,
and kno, s whereof she speaks. Her pub
/ fishers, The Page Company of Boston,
have also issued timely edition of Ed
ward Everett Hales patriotic classic,
1.-THE Man Without Country" with in
PRODUCTION and notes by Thomas Taper,
! Lift. D. of New York University.
| A Bath baker. William Mann. when
the news of the Halifax disaster was
received began baking 300 loaves of
/ bread and shipped them through by eX-
! press to the sufferers. He has received
Geographic thanks, the message saying
that the bread arrived at an opportune
time.
| Maine leads, of course, even when
sample of genuine cold weather is want
ed. Wytopitlock reported 50 below
| Thursday morning, the lowest reported
in the United States. Bangor reported
% below: Brewer &c; Old Town 20; Mill
nocket %; Fort Kent %; Caribou u.
Enough?
| Matthew Ball. South street, Port
land. past 80 and looking not day
more than 20, fought IL years in the
British Army. in the Crimean cam
paign, and saw Lord Raglan shot in "a
charge into Alma Wood. Mr.. Ball de-
scribes the perils and hardships en-
countered in the campaign, how the
Russians poisoned wells and rivers in
their retreat and he was four days on
that battle line with cracker and
half for rations and every man was
forbidden to taste water for fear of
poison. Two drinks of rum day were
distributed to the men regularly; the
military censor read all letters writ
ten by the soldiers and promptly tore
up such as had merely a single sem
tence which did not meet with his ap-
prevail. Mr.. Ball says the losses in
| battle were light as compared with
casualties in the present war. but that
disease and exposure exacted heavy
toll.
This veteran insists that England
| will win in the present war. that te-
| nacity VIII count and that he would like
to get into the front line again if he
were younger.
State street Portland one of the most
beautiful streets in New England, not
even barring the well-known beautiful
streets of Springfield. Mass, is III
years old. having been laid out in 1900
on land that was donated to the City
by Joseph II. Ingraham. who was at
that time one Of the towns most pro-
gressive citizens, says the Portland
Sunday Telegram. At the time when
State street was first laid out, that sec
| ton Of the city was as remote from
the city proper as Stroudwater is from
Monument Square today. In that vi
cinity there were only a very few
scattered farm houses and the land
for the most part. now covered by this
beautiful thoroughfare and its attract
i've old mansions, was an undeveloped
pasture, thick underbrush, and here
and there a few vegetable gardens.
"Gec, I'd like to be back in Africa
tonight" said Fred Hall as he stood
| in the zero weather Wednesday night
on Sagadahoc corner. Bath. Mr.. Hall
was in Natal, South Africa, 1908 to 1910
and taught school for native children.
He graduated from the Castine Ncr-
NAL School in June, 1908 and the same
| month took an examination for service
| in South Africa and had the satisfac-
ton of winning out over a big field of
competitors from leading colleges in the
country.
He said the natives Of Natal at that
time were very hospitable and he
thoroughly enjoyed his two years stay
there. Well, Kingfleld on Wednesday
Imorning reported 43 below.
The mounting Of deer heads seems
to have gone out Of style and hundreds
Of fine heads are never brought out of
the woods. Some hunter with plenty
of money who gets a fine head will
send it out to be mounted and there is
always some work on birds and small
animals and museum work. but nothing