Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-31
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A Mascot

a Mascot
In the glow of their youth they nave
come and they pass
With the flare OF the steel and the blare
| OF their brass;
And the brave little dog, with prisk
little Wag
To his sump of a tail. trots along by the
flag
At his post in the ranks like the rest Of
For the brave little dog is away to the
| war.
They will go. They will go"' throbs
! drum as it nearS;
There's the fail Of a vail In the roar OF
our cheers
But the brave little dog is as gay as =
lark:
There is JOY. there is heart, in his brave
little bark
As he gambols behind or he frolics be
fore,
For the brave little dog is away TO the
war.
He's away to the war. There'n be need
| of MIN there
For the staunch little tyke that's the roe
OF despair:
And there's none that's so Old in the
world or SO wise
But may find a new faith in the depth Of
his eyes
And his tongue is 4 balm to the heart
that is sore:
So the brave little dog IS away TO the
war
May the powers be good to the glad little
Who is first for his friends and is last f3r
himself
May there still be bone FOR his hunger
to find.
And pat on the head from a hand tina:
IS kind;
May the Heaven of men keep wide
open door.
For the brave little dog that's away 70
the war
Arthur Guiterman in Life.
Capt. Dan Tarbox, who firmly announces
that after next Saturday the hackbo.I:
of winter will be broken and following
Candlemas day fine weather is due. He
declares for an early spring"
While we in Maine and New Eng
land are bemoaning the hard winter
we are experiencing, some other parts
OF the country are suffering in a differ
ent manner, says the GuilfOrd Register.
\. W. Wight. proprietor of n ranch i'll
the western part Of Texas writes that
that part of the state is in hard shape.
having had only about inches of rain
fall there since Oct. 10th. 1916. and in
some places not that much. The losses
in cattle the past year have been Very
heavy and will continue to be until
they have plenty of rain.
Will Winslow of Larone recently re-
ceived from friend in Australia rare
gift-an egg of the strange and almost
extinct bird, the emu. The egg is
black in color or very faint drab. 1t
measures liz by 14l inches and Is near
ly elliptical in shape.
The Byron correspondent of the OK
ford Democrat thus chronicles tie
tragedy Of the pies:
While Mrs. l.. \. Mason and her
daughter Clara We're making a call re-
Gently, the house took fire near the
stove. When they returned the floor
had burned away, the stove had fallen
into the cellar. and the pies i'll the oven
were done to a turn. They succeed ded
in extingushing the fire.
Nine Emma Eames de Gogorza has re-
aurned to Bath from New York. She was
accompanied by her husband Emilio DC
Gogorza. the tenor. who has been oblise
to cancel his tour to the Pacific Coas.
owing TO a severe attack of bronchitis
and larangytis. Since the accident in
Boston last fall when Mr.. Gogorza was
knocked down by racing automobile,
his health has been somewhat shattered
and he has decided it best to return to
Maine, where he will be able TO recup.
crate under the pure and hracng air OF
the old Pine Tree State.
1t was possible on Tuesday to make the
trip from Portland to Small Point via
Harpswell, about 40 miles on the ice,
something not possible for ages before
One of the most interesting of the y
patients at Or. Silsby's Hospital in Rock
land says the Conference.-The. is Charles
Bartlett Of Hope. who is still alive anu
healthy in spite OF the popular belief tina,
a man can be neither who has had his
neck broken The accident occurred !.
weeks ago just across the Hope line IL
the town Of Lincolnville. Riding atop a
load of hoop-shavings Mr.. Bartlett was
suddenly obliged to dodge the limb of ?
tree. AS he did so the top Of the load be
came displaced and Mr.. Bartlett was
thrown headlong into gully striking on
the back of his neck. He was stunned,
but felt, as he lay there, that he wouli
eventually be able to get back onto the
load 1t was an hour before help came.
and surgeon found that Mr.. Bartlett's
neck was broken. The injured man was
brought to DR.. Silsby's Hospital 10 weeks
ago The broken neck is mending very
satisfactorily. but the nerves in one OF
his arms were effected SO as to prevent
the use of that hand. and the Improve
ment in that quarter is less rapid
Miss Sarah Flaherty commenced
duties al the Office of Inspector oil