Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-08
Maine Gossip.

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When the scarlet cardinal tells
Her dreams to the dragon fly,
And the lazy breeze makes nest in the
trees.
And murmurs a lullaby,
When the tangled cobweb pulls
The cornfiOwer'S cap aWry,
And the lilies tall lean over the wall
To bow to the butterfly,
1t is July.
When the heat like a mist veil floats.
And peoples fame in the rye,
And the silver note in the streamlets
Has softened almost to sigh,
When the hours are so still that time
Forgets them, and let's them lie
Meath petals pink till the night stars
wink
AT the sunset in the sky,
When each finger-post by the way
Says that SlumbertOwn is nigh;
When the grass is tall and the roses fall,
And nobody wonders why.
Susan Hartley SWEET, in American Kit
chen Magazine.
The opinions of one who from nothing
or practically that establishes a great
industry, builds up community,
amasses an immense fortune and lives
on terms of positive friendliness with
his employees, the opinions of such a
man havS weight even if they do some
times run counter to common impress
sions. By this we do not mean their
views will prevail, for they probably
will not, certainly not when the opposi-
ton largely preponderates, neverthe-
less they are likely to exert consider
able degree of influence in the way of
modification. An instance of this has
just been brought to our attention. c. M.
Bailey. the millionaire oil cloth manu-
| facturer, president of steamboat lines
and in other ways a conspicuous type
of the self made man who has been re .
markably successful, but who remains
unspoiled by success, does not believe
in the trend of sentiment favorable to Il
multiplication of holidays. He remarked
to a Journal representative the other
day that he had not during the As years
he had been in business had holiday
| himself or closed HIS shops. He has
men in his employ todayawho have been
with him Tor tile - years. His EN-
ployes, of course, have the legal holi-
days if they choose to take them but
many of them, more than half Mr..
Bailey says. rather work on those days.
Last Saturday and Monday the shops
I,
ders ahead than can be filled.
We agree with Mr.. Bailey to the ex-
tent that persons, themselves, are bet
ter off to work every week day than to
have holidays and not know how to
employ them to advantage. AS to their
posterity we have doubts. There is in
the holiday properly observed much of
benefit, relaxation which softens the
| unduly rigid lines in the character,
broadens and elevates, for we do rot
believe the highest welfare of the hu
| man race on this earth is to be found
in incessant drudgery. But people do
not become accustomed to proper ex-
ercise of new liberties except by prac-
| tice and if the present generation
| makes mistakes the succeeding ones
may profit thereby fe. Is
For a week or two the Biddeford pa
pers have been trying to find out why
| the valuation of the local water COM
pany was raised a few years ago from
$75,00 to $500, 900, and have worked up
quite an excitement over the matter,
| interviewing officers of the company
and eX-ciiy assessors, and throwing out
various dark hints. Now it turns out.
after a simple inquiry at the State
| assessors office, that the valuation of
the water company has always been
100000 and the elements of the sensa :
ton disappear in very thin air.
| Another miraculous revelation by the
X-ray. A Lewiston lady recently con-
ceived the idea that she had swallowed
something hard and that it had lodged
in her stomach, and she insisted on
| having an X-Iay picture taken of her
whole body in order that the foreign
substance might be located. When the
plate was developed, to her horror a
large shawl pin was discovered, appar-
emily lodged in the bowels. After a
great deal of worry on her part, it was
| body, but had been used to pin a sheet
about her before the picture was taken.
| Her shock was perhaps equalled by