Daily Kennebec journal., 1918-05-06
Name Gossip
Tho Bivouae Of the Dead.

Name Gossip
Tho Bivouac Of the Dead.
(By Theodore O'Hara.)
/ The muftied urums sad roll has Deat
| The soldiers last tattoo;
! No more Oh Lies parade snail meet
| That brave and fallen few:
! on Fame's eternal camping-g
Their silent tents are spread,
And Glory guards, with solemn round,
The bivouac Of the dead.
No rumor of the foes advance
Now swels upon the wind
NJ troubled thought at midnight haunts
OF loved ones LETT behind;
No vision Of the morroWS strife
The warriors 8 dream alarms,
No braying horn nor screaming fife
At dawn shall call to arms.
Their shivered swords are red with rust
Their pluned heads are bowed;
Their naughty banner. tralled IN dust
Is now their martial shroud
And plenteous funeral tears have
washed
The red stains from each brow,
And the proud forms, by battle gashed
Are free from anguish now.
The neighing troop. the flashing blade,
The bugle's stirring blast,
The charge. the dreadful cannonade,
The din and shout are past;
Nor wars wild note, nor glory's peal.
Shall thrill with fierce delight
Those breasts that nevermore may feel
The rapture of the fight.
Yon marble minstrel's VoicelesS stone
In deathleSS song shall tell.
When many vanished age hath hoWn,
The story how We fell:
nor wreck, nor change, nor winters S
blight.
Nor Times remorseless doom.
Shall dim one ray of gloryS light
That gilds your deafness tomb.
Bath has joined the Maine cities hav-
ing a Rotary Club, fine one having
been organized there last Thursday
evening in X. OF p. hall with % men,
| bers They organized with the assist
ance of delegates from the Lewiston and
| Auburn and Boston Rotary Clubs. The
following officers were elected: Presi-
dent, DR. H. S. Snpe; vice president,
Rev Culbert McGay; secretary. Har-
rv Weber; treasurer. Charles Hooper
sergeant-at-arms. F. s. Curtis; direc-
tors. Dr. s. Wadsworth, Harry Tfuse
and Harry L. Passmore.
The shad have arrived in the Kenne-
bee, Carlton Trott of West Woolwich
catching buck and roe Thursday y
nigh. and disposing of the buck for 50
cents and the roe for 81. Possibly fish
erman Trotts good luck in securing the
first of the season was due to the fact
that Mrs. Trott helped build the weir,
after her husband had hunted in vain
for man helper.
T. F. Callahan and George Pottle
who made a report on the city of Lewis
tons financial condition ,ear ago at
the initiation Of the Lewiston city coun-
Gil. have been engaged to go over the
records and accounts Of the city again
and present a complete statement,
Mayor Lemaire announced on Friday.
! The school census recently taken
at Bangor shows 62SS children of the
school age. against 6377 in 1861, a
decrease of SO. OF the total the boys
number 5000, against 1889; and the
girls 5l9S, against 31SS.
isaac E. Pennell who died last
! Tuesday evening at his home in
Whitneyville. was a native of Ma
chias and when boy showed re-
markable inventive genius and when
a young man made parachute or
4 tn
flights from the top OF his fathers
barn in safety. More than so years
ago he predicted that the flying ma
chine was possible, and had he pres
ent day advantages, no doubt would
have made notable progress in aero
nautics. He also studied and expert
mented on perpetual motion, as did
many others of that day.
For the most Of his life he was the
and noted for his skill both in iron
and working. It was a very compli-
Gated mechanical problem that he
could not solve. For miles around all
kinds OF repair jobs were brought to
Mr.. Pennell.
lie was perhaps entitled to the
honor of being the first Maine rail-
road mechanic as back in the late 40's
when the old Machiasport g. Whit
NEVILLE railroad was in operation as
a lumber road. with the famous old
locomotives Lion and Tiger, it was
at first necessary to send to Boston
FOR machinists to make repairs, but
Mr.. Pennell. who assisted in the
work. proved himself so capable that
the Boston men said that he could
do anything tina; they could and there
was no need OF sending for them, SO
Mr.. Pennell was for some years the
master mechanic of motive power of
the little old railroad.
The Lion is now preserved in Lord
Hall. at the University of Maine.
Bath has just lad visitor who ap-
pears to be doubly afflicted. a local
paper referring to him as "a deaf and
dumb mute"
The new foliage is rapidly becom-
ing thick enough to give shade.
II is rumored that Rev. Joseph r.
Norwood, Of EastDort. who recently