Daily Kennebec journal., 1918-01-12
Name Gossip
There Is Something In a Flag

(By Eugene +. Ware)
There is something in flag. and in lit
tie FURNISHED eagle.
That is more than embamatic, it is glorl-
GUS, it's regal;
You may never live to feel it, you may
never be in danger,
You may never visit foreign lands and
play the roll of stranger;
You may never in the army check the
march of an invader.
You may never on the ocean cheer the
smarthy cannonader;
But II these should happen to you, then,
when age is on you pressing.
And your great big BOBBY boy comes to
ask your final, blessing
You will tell him: ''son of mine. be your
station proud or frugal,
When your country calls her children, and
you hear the blare Of bugle,
Don't you stop to think of Kansas, or the
quota of your county;
Don't you go to asking questions, don't
you stop for pay or bounty;
But you volunteer at once, and you go
where orders take you,
And obey them to the letter. if they make
you or they break you;
Hunt that flag and then stay with 1t, be
you wealthy or plebeian;
Let eh women sing the d;rges, scrape the
INT and chant the paean.
Though the magazines and journals
teen with anti-war persuasion,
And the stay-at-homes and towards glad
ly take the like occasion.
Don't you ever dream of asking is the
war right or wrong one?'
You are in it, and your duty is to make
the fight a strong one;
And you stay till it is over. be the war a
short or long one;
Make amends when war is over: then the
power with you is lying:
Then, If wrong, do ample justice-but that
nag. you keep it flying
IT that flag goes down to ruin time Will
then. without warning,
Turn the dial back to midnight and the
world must wait till morning..
Bangor youngster was much sur
prised and not little alarmed when
Secret Service man called upon him
and asked to see what he was doing
with wireless material. The boy, who
is but Ia years old, has been getting
together a crude apparatus and bought
some wire from a Chicago mail-order
house. He had no intention of setting
up any apparatus until after the war.
1t appears that the mail order house
reports all sales of any material that
can be used in wireless to the Federal
authorities and every such supply is
investigated.
The Boothbay Vacationists Associa-
tion, composed Of young men and wom-
of Greater Boston, who pass their va
cations in Southport, Capitol Island
and other nearby resorts will on Fri
day evening hold their annual reunion,
reception and ball at the Elks club
ballroom, Central square, Cambridge,
Mass.
large sized eagle perched on top of
tie Portland Custom House, Saturday
attracted great attention from people
passing along Commercial street, many
OF whom had never before seen q bird
of that kind. The large flock of pig
cons who are in the habit of roostng
on the coving of the government build
ing did not take very kindly to the new
arrival. flying away as though greatly
alarmed. The eagle did not remain
long. soon resuming its flight heading
towards Falmouth.-Argus.
We should look on the Fuel Admin
istration with a little more favor if it
did not spend so much time reiterating
that cord of wood is equal in fuel
value to a ton of coal. We who have
burned both haven't done it under ex
act Laboratory" conditions. but we
have observed somewhat, and are still
from Missouri on that statement, says
| the oxford Democrat.
Mrs. VIM. G. Leavitt on Orchard
street, Norway, reports the Advertiser.
has flock of IS hens and roosters.
She has kept careful account of their
doings for the year just closing. For
eggs she has received s296.4S and for
poultry $685. making a total OF s394.71.
She has paid for feed S24S.31 and for
chickens s11.75. total cash cost ofl
$260.12 and the balance between re-
ceipts and expenses is s134.59 which is
either profit or what was realized for
her labor to say nothing Of the eggs
and poultry used In the family which il
sold would have brought the profit to
more than $500 each per hen for the
year.
She says the account is accurate and
her books are open to spectators and
that she lost IL young roosters by
drowning last spring and maybe this
was a profit in this as they might |
have eaten their heads off and become |
an expense.
One Of the most efficient members Of
the Rumford fire department is dead |
reports the Rumford Falls Times. He |
was Diamond. the white bull dog that
has been a companion OF the fire boys
for many years. Diamond was on the
iob the moment he heard an alarm.
The dog was given q funeral. the |