Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-12-16
Maine G0ssa(n)
Poverty and Wealth.

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Poverty and Wealth.
The stork flew over Il town one day.
And back of each wing an infant lay,
One to a rich mans home he brought
And one he left Al laborcr's cot.
y lordly ruler Ger land and sea-
The Iaborer sighed. TITS the good God :
That | have another mouth to fiji.
The rich mans son grew strong ana fair.
And proud with the pride of a million
His motto in life was, Live while you
may
And crowded years in a single day.
He bought position and name ana place.
And ne bought him wife with hand
He journeyed over the whole wide world
But discomfort in his heart lay curled
Like serpent hidden in leaves ana
moss.
And life seemed hollow and gold WAS
dross.
He scoffed at woman and doubted God,
And died like a beast and went bach to
the sod.
The son of the laborer TILED the soil
And thanked Cod daily for health and
He welded for love in his youthful prime.
And two lives chordcd in tune and time.
lis wants Nttt SIiiIIlt, anu SIliI'lt MS
To trust God fully-it served his need.
And lightened his labor and helped him
to die
with smile on his lips ANA a hope in
his eye.
When al is over ana all is done
Now which Of these men was the richer
one?
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Only a week more for the Christmas
shopping.
The pupils and teachers are enjoying
the holiday recess.
Will a Maine polo league really have
the nerve to tempt fate again?
They are bringing out the diaries to
show when the rivers closed in previous
years.
I. of ". PROPOSES t. have 2 gym
nasium even if The last Legislature LiI
refuse an appropriation.
Islesford is sadly afflicted. With a
population Of about 80 it reports IS
cases of the measles.
The afternoons are lengthening. Tie
almanac asserts that the sun went
down one minute later yesterday, than
on the previous 10 days.
| The Bath Times complains that the
! city government does not observe par
liamentary rules in its debates ana
| business.
| The breczes have been so balmy down
on the line Of the Windham & Naples.
this week, that the motormen have
been riding in their shirt sleeves.
There is no lack Of applications for
the position of mail carrier at Bar Har-
Dor and Gardiner, since it has been
known that the free delivery system is
| assured.
| 1t seems that red headed negroes are
not such rare articles, after all. Since
| the Journal made some mention of the
scarcity Of this product, we have had
| several communications on the subject.
one Togus veteran declares that he
| knows barber i'll Bath. n. ". 'as
black as the ace, Of spades" and whose
hair and whiskers are red as fire. =
The Berwick man who captured a
white headed crow needn't feel 50 big
| now.
Bar Harbor will probably have its
first society horse show and fair, next
September. Colonel Morrell Of Phila-
delphia. one Of the most popular and
| WealthieSt of summer residents, offered
| $500 yearly to the board of trade and
the free use of his Robin Hood park
for a horse show and horse trot.
The celebration of the SD birthday
anniversary of DIR. Cheney. recalls the
fact that it was early in his long ad-
ministration as president Of Bates thai
that institution conferred the first de-
gree ever given a woman by New
England college. This was in 1869, anC
the lady was Miss Mary w. Mitchell
a native of Maine. who has since died
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