Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-29
Maine Gossip
Franco in Battle Flame.

/ France in Battle Flame.
o France, rose-hearted France.
You seemed of old the spirit of winged
Light as leaf. that circles in the sky
Light as a bubble when the pillows fly.
We had forgot that in you burned spark
That lit with dawn the spirit Of Jeanne
dare;
We had forgot that in you burned the
| fame
With which Corday and Roland wreathed
| your name.
Then suddenly from the summer sky
| were hurled
Wars mad incredible thunders on the
world;
And at the sound we saw your soul up
| start
To fold your stricken people to your
Erect. mperious. you stood and smiled.
Your eyes divinely wild
A sudden light upon your lifted face,
A splendor fallen from starry place
| Debonair delicate France.
Spirit of light, spirit of young romance,
Now we behold you dim in the battle
dust,
Reused, reticent. invincible. august.
We see you a mother of sorrow, where
you stand
The sword of heaven alive within your
| hand,
The lilies in YOUR hair
Blood-spattered from the crown Of thorns
you wear.
1edYS-
Too still and terrible for mortal tears
0 France of the worlds desire,
Q France new-lighted by supernal fire,
Wrapped in your bottle-fame,
All nations take splendor from your
All souls are. touched to greatness by
your SOUL
In you we are reborn to noble dreams
In you we see again the sacred CLEANS
From mans immortal goal
Inc faith that rises from you as star
VIII light the ages coming from affair."
When men shall band in one confederate
To build the beauty of the Comrade State.
! Edwin Markham in the Art World.
"A. T. Brown, Editor" now appears at
the top Of the editorial column of the
Republican journal OF Belfast.
Old Town has the distinction Of having
two pair Of twins in the list Of recruits
for the regular army for last Tuesday,
Henry and Louis Thibodeau and John
and Thomas Gauvin being the boys
Sheriff Stevens Of Androscoggin county
appointed Deputy Sheriff Thomas r.
Williams Of Livermore to Clean up
Livermore and vicinity and the sheriff
says good job was done. The county
commissioners refused to pay the So per
day bill for the work and the matter was
left to Justice W. c. Phlbrook as a ref
cree, who has decided in favor of Will
liams, although the case goes to the law
court on an appeal.
r. H. Young Of Hancock Point, the vet
eran guide and fisherman, has been show
ing the Green Lake fishermen something
about fly fishing for salmon. On a re-
cent trip to the lake, after catching four
salmon trolling, Mr. Young saw the swirl
Of salmon near a likely-looking rock,
and decided to try Grand Lake Stream
tactics on Green Lake salmon. Taking a
position on the rock, he began casting,
and at about the third cast hooked s.
pound salmon, which he landed in about
10 minutes. Two more fish came to the
net within the hour. The next day he
tried again from the same rock, and
hooked what he estimated was a 7-pound
fish, but the fish cleared itself after a
short fight. Three more smaller fish were
landed SO much for fly fishing at Green
Lake. First find Young's rock.
The Maine Gossip inquiry of last
Monday if anyone now living was at
the dedication so years ago of the Au-
gusta Driving park brings a response
from Mrs. Della Morse of Franklin, n
H, formerly of Augusta, in which she
says:
Il will say I was there with a num-
Der of friends, all Of whom have passed
away. including my beau on that oc-
casion and whom l afterward married.
the late James Morse. He died in 1880
while warden of the Maine State
prison at Thomaston."
1 clapboard was on June %, 1917
taken from the house on High street
Bath, recently purchased by Joseph M.
Trott and now undergoing alterations,
which bore on the reverse side and
written in pencil the name Henry
Turner and the date June %, 1874 Mr.
Turner was the builder of the house
and the only surviving child. Miss
Emily Turner. lives directly opposite
Mr.. Trott presented the clapboard to
her
Rev. NJ. j. Duncklee recently discovered
in secret drawer Of an old desk in the
Winter street parsonage at Bath, an old
and badly furnished metal badge which
after cleaning proved to be one of the an
cient and original medals Of the Phi Beta
Kappa, the distinguished honorary fra
ternfty to which only high rank of college
graduates entities to membership. 1t Is
the oldest of the American college fra
ternities. Mr.. Duncklee turned it over to
William T. Hall. Esq, Of Bath, himself
a Phi Beta Kappa man, and Squire Hall
took 1t up to Commencement at Bowdoin
where 1t was received with enthusiasm
and a hearty welcome at the annual
meeting Of the fraternity in the alumni
Room, Hubbard Hall, for there are only
five or six such medals in existence. The
date on this medal was 1925 and 1t was no
doubt owned by some member Of Phi,
Beta Kappa Of the famous class Of that
year, which included Longfellow and
Hawthorne, John s. c. Abbott, the ia
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