Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-11-23
Maine GOSSIP
Earth's Great Ones
elizabeth Powers MerrilD.

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Earth's Great Ones
elizabeth Powers MerrilD.
Among the bulrushes beside the Nile
A princess fair child did find;
She bore the child to Pharoah's palace
Trained him in body and in mind.
In Egypt's land he grew to fame and
Holding a high and honored place:
Yet to his people was he ever true
And led to Freedom his own race.
Within the academic land of Greece
There lived a man of toughest mould
Divine philosophy unfold.
Despised. he drank the hemlock from
Bidding his friends . glad farewell:
Pilgrims from lands afar pause at bis
Shall not all men his story tell?
Upon those hills where oleanders blooSa
A babe was born beneath a star.
The shepherds and the Wise Men came
From Bethlehem folds and lands
The moons went by, this little child
became
The greatest teacher of the earth.
He died. yet proved the nothingness OF
In Him the hopes of men had birth!
BY Avon Stream a man of England
dwelt
And with his pen created men again
Who should the tides of time outlast.
Now all the world can read his words
OF life long past, of life today.
He saw men as they really were anil
Shakespeare lived then. will live for
The circling years return. suns come
and go!
The earth awaits another man
To give to many-sided life different
Wider horizon yet to scan.
Man ripened by earth's countless suns
and days
Possessing goodness, beauty. youth
Bringing to light things that eternal
are:
Guiaing mems souls toward the trutI!
Edward F. Nottingham, who gave
his life to save another Tuesday
night at Boston, jumping from Com
| monwealth pier in an attempt to save
! a drowning sailor, was former Bid
deford policeman He was brought
ashore in an unconscious condition
and almost Immediately died. The
sailor was rescued by others.
The steamer service between Port
land and Boston, which has been in
operation for the past a years,
ceased Friday night with the trip of
the Ransom Il. Fuller from the Maine
port 10 the Hub. An interesting rum
or is that Charles w. Morse will i'm
medately start line between Port
, land and Boston. He has often in
the past been credited with such q
plan and now seems to be a good OPP
portunity to try it.
At dinner of the Maine Sheep and
Wool Growers Association at the
Falmouth Hotel, Portland, Wednes-
day evening, a. c. Bigelow of Phila-
delphia, president of the More Sheep,
| More Wool Association of America
who was the chief speaker. offered a
prize of SIS for the first boys and
girls sheep club organized in Maine.
This set the fashion. and Ex-Governor
William T. Haines followed with Il
SIS prize offer for the first club in
Kennebec, and in turn Col. Fred y.
Dow offered the same amount for the
first one in Cumberland, the Portland
Farmers club for the second club in
this county. Frank II. Dudley, State
horticulturalist, for the first in An
droscoggin, Hon. John A. Roberts,
State commissioner of agriculture
for the first in oxford county, Dr.
Owen Smith for the second in oxford,
DR.. f. w. Jackson for the first in
Washington, William 8. Kendall for
the first in Sagadahoc and Henry w.
Brock of Alfred for the first in York
county. Frank S. Adams also offered
SIS for the sheep club in Maine show
ing the most net profit.
According to the Lewiston Sun the
coal situation in Lewiston and Au-
burn is said to be much worse now
than it was a year ago at this time.
1t is estimated that less than so per
cent. of the allotment of anthracite,
mas tnuS lar Deen received IN tHOSe
cities, and the outlook is anything
but encouraging. say the dealers.
Some of the dealers have plenty of
Buckwheat coal and also plenty of
soft coal, but there is a scarcity Of
egg, stove and nut sizes in hard coal
1t is said that several lots of coal
that have been shipped to Lewiston
and Auburn dealers, have failed to
reach their destination and that an
investigation revealed that it had
been seized in Portland.
It is announced that all licenses Of