Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-07
Name Gossip
The Common looking Man

| Name Gossip
The Communicating Man
R H. Dyer.)
He amt man you'd pop your eye at,
He amt Teller you'd look at twice,
He ain't the type a dog would fly at,
Nor yet the specie that folks cali nice"
An ev'rige- kind Of human being
With ev'rige virtues and ev'rige sins
The kind you centrally miss seeing
Till he shoulders gun when war be-
gins.
You'd rYever look to him for valor
More than you would to snail for
speed;
You might expect a sudden pallor
If he was called for a dangerous deed
You couldn't picture a spark of fire
Flashing to fame in his mild blue eye;
Or that he ever. in righteous ire,
Could lead men on to fight and die.
He doesn't look like a "bold-browed
hero
Dare-devil-Dick'' or "Thunderins
Tom
Or man of iron" cool as zero
In the path of bullet and bursting bomb.
He doesn't wear no mark nor label
Indicating his make or brand,
Or intimating that he is able
As a bull to charge or rock to stand.
But-he is the Sammy that planted
First on the margin of No Mans Land,
When the captain shipped the strainng
tether
With one sharp word of stern com
mand.
And fun IN the field, when the captain
stumb led--
Minus a eg-in the first bold run,
And the first and second lieutenant
! tumbled.-
He was the chap that got the Hun.
And he is the one whose mild eye
sighted
AS the monster-vulture swooped and
kited
TO shell our ammunition train
Instant, eager loud and clear
lie answered, and foremost stepped TO
front
When the colonel called for volunteer
For an extra hazardous sort of stunt.
And when they came with decorations,
All unsought-though worthily won,
He .colored up like pink carnations
And stammered, Lord, what have
done?'
Yes he Is downright plain appearing
You wouldn't spot Aim in a crowd
But his is a name that's well worth
cheering,
And you can sing il and shout If loudt
Many famous lawyers have been
fnoted for their absent mndedness, saws
the Commercial. prominent Bangor
attorney boarded u car which he fond
~ hoped would take him to Old Town.
lie opened a copy of the Commercial,
turned to the Around Town column
ana became so engrossed in its CON
tents that the car was half way over.
the Brewer bridge before the legal en-
pert came to-" Then he had the car
stopped, dropped off and the sprint
that he MADE to the Bangor side of the
bridge in an effort to beat the Old
ToWn trolley to the corner far eX-
ceeded III speed the famous dash of
Gen. Strickland from Houlton to Au-
gusta during the Aroostook war.
III" captain of a coaster was telling
his troubles to the Bath Times and
acc "rdine to him. there have been only
nine sailing days since last Thanks
when he had to lie at anchor some
where waiting for conditions to i'm
prove. Then he was frozen in.and then
he was mixed up in some other way 80
that virtually the whole winter has
been lost.
I The son Of ii Norway man is to be-
come censor of foreign mails. when
Zeora klan, b. A., professor of Ian
guaGes at the Pennsylvania State Col
!ese, SON of Mr.. and Mrs. Norris Klain
OF Norway, accepts that position which
has recently been offered to him. The
offer Is accompanied with good sal
AIRY, and if arrangements can he made
/ for him to remain at college until
April J. Prof, Klain will accept.
From the remote isle of Monhegan
| comes n familiar wall: Can any one
| tell US why ice cream and candy in
abundance is allowed to he made and
| sold and we are deprived Of sugar?
There have been on the island all
/ winter few pounds only of sugar
( and while we are as patriotic as any
one and only too glad to go without
for the boys over there. We don't be-
| lieve in total abstinence We need
! some sugar and if candy and ice cream
| can be made why cannot families at
| least have pound a week? We think
/ it IS worth looking into. Molasses pies,
! cakes, doughnutS. etc. are all very
| well, but they would be better if alter
mated once. in a while with sugar
Where is it and why is it we can't gee
any"
! The Berne correspondent of the
Agenzie Liberia learns, says the Central
News, that during December % Ger
man submarines failed to return to
their bases. In order to counteract
the alarm which this fact has coca
stoned in naval circles, the German
Admiralty issued a statement saying
most of the missing submarines were
sent to operate in distant waters, and
hopes are entertained that they will
return.