Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-12-14
Maine Gossip
Many Mansions

Many Mansions
elizabeth Powers Merrin.)
The Mansions that l kuilt long years
ago
Have crumbled in the very dust:
The place wherein they stood no one
Nor dream of dreams that gave them
birth.
They were go fair. they stood in lands
Upon a River men call Life,
And all about them there were mead
ows green.
No sound Of misery and strife.
One day storm came sweeping through
my soul
Shattered my Mansions one by one
Gu: of my heart and brain it took its
Stripped from my life-life's stars and
sun.
Where peace had slep- upon my heart
Where Love had sung there was no
song.
Strive as l would ] could not build
Those Mansions had loved so long:
One day a soundless voice spake unto
me
Melodious as the waves that run:
II ny TIC ever iiOWiuS Scds
1t whispered when the day was done.
70 Soul, why do you weep your man
sions fair!
They served lifes purpose day by
day. .sr
Be not irresolute. do not despair!
Build loftier Mansions on lifes way!'
Then rose my soul and builded Man
With turrets that to heaven dill
With coIors of the hyacinths, gems rara,
The Mansions of a greater dream
My long loved Mansions did not rise i:i
Though they did fall and fade awav:-
And He who gave me Power to bull j
Will give me Power 20 build for aye,
Many people in eastern Maine are
still wondering about the cause of the
GREAT rumbling. shaking and other
disturbances they noticed at 1880
Wednesday evening. evidently not
having read that almanac that has
given such correct forecasts of the
weather and solar and earth condi-
tions, which said: Dec. IL to IS, cold
wave and earthquake period: severe
cold in early part of the period but
moderating considerably toward the
last" 1t has all been and is being
fulfilled, Ell?
Charles F. Palmer of Foxcroft is in
terested in relics which are valuable
because of age or association and
while going through an abandoned
house in the country recently he
found one that must be very rare. II
is n check drawn in Wiscasset Dec. .
1909, as follows: The President, Di-
rectors and Company Of the Lincoln
and Kennebec Bank promise TO pay
T. Cony or bearer. Ten Dollars on de-
mand Signed. II. itoby, Cashier
Abel Wood, Jr., President. The
check is 2axGa inches and it would
hardly be possible to find some slimsl
paper than it is written on.
Papers were served last week ,ioi
two suits developing from the death
of Frank Lewis in collision with the
car of Harry Burpce on the night OF
July II, states the Passport Sentinel
The respondent in one suit is Harold
Burpee and in the second J. Il
Holmes. who was driving the car i'm
mediatcly ahead of the Burpee ma
chine. The plaintiff is George /.
Lewis, the father of the young mar
who met his death, and the amount III
, each case is $1,000 Several wit
nesscs have already been summoned
The cases will be tried at the Janu-
airy term of the supreme, court, and
as the accident aroused considerable
comment and discussion, trey Will he
watched with much interest. The at
tornevs for the plaintiff ave l.. y
I.amond and X. j. McGarrigle. IN
this connection tho hnding Of Mcdi-
cal Examiner Macdonald has been
announced and it is said to eNoncrate
Young Burpee from all blame.
A series of conferences of Methodist
laymen at which prominent leaders OF
Methodism will he pre- sent and rlah+
addresses pertaining TO the purpose
Of the great Methodist Centenary Move
ment in 1919 will take place next We .k
Dec. II to 20 in IL different sections OF
New England. Conferences in Maint
will be held at the following places
Houlton, Dec. Il; Bangor, Grace chUci
Dec. Is; Rockland, Dec. 20. Hundreds
of Methodists from the various sections
will attend the conferences These con
ferences will doubtless he the most in-
portant meetings the Methodists Of tlis
vicinity have ever had. for the great
Centenary program involves many fea
lures for the stimulation and deveop-
ment of the church in wider fields ans
to great activities.
Can't John Cameron. we'll known 70
nenrIe il, this city and former mdsi ~