Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-22
N25{QlQ0yB Gossip
Keep Thou Our Lips.


Some unkind words of him escaped my
At morn, and now, as evenings light is
shed,
1 know zen while I spoke those thought
less quipS
The calm. grave face 1 Knocked lay cold
and dead.
Twas not 1 loved him; how could I
The good that unknown heart held under
meath?
But oh the thought that scornful lips of
mine
Dear Lord, teach US to use Alright Thine
own
Great gift of speech; cool Thou our an
o set Thy seal on every word and tone.
Till we in everything Thy praise repeat.
Keep Thou our lips and check the hasty
word
Our feverish, unframed souls would
send through them,
Keep Thou our lips from speaking guile,
o Lord
Who by our words doth judge, by them
Stanley p. Chase, 'O5 in Bowdoin Quill.
The college commandments, this
week, and a lot of lesser graduations.
The Maine Press Association is off,
today, for week in Knox county.
This is the day when Augusta votes
on the Water District question.
Hundreds of French people will go to
Canada, this week, from the mill cities
of Maine.
t. t.. L,
marriages. There were six, last week,
and at least five are scheduled for this
week.
The Sautelle circus is in Rockland,
today, and Bath, tomorrow. 1t will be
in Brunswick, Wednesday; in Augusta,
Thursday, and in Waterville, Friday.
The real extent of the damage done
Colby by the trouble between the stu
dents and faculty will be more appar-
ent when next September comes.
At least one newspaper is found to
say a good word for fireworks and ex-
plosions on the Fourth. The Lincoln
County News hopes that now that the
drouth is over the ban will be removed
from their sale in WaldoborO.
Mrs. Sarah Whitman of Boston, has
just completed beautiful memorial
window for her friend, Mrs. Sarah
Orne Jewett, the Maine novelist, which
is intended by Miss JeWett as tribute
to her father, DIR. Theodore Herman
Jewett, a graduate and professor OF
BoWdoin College. The window will be
placed in the Memorial hall of DR..
JcWett's alma mater. and there I'M
yelled June %. In the design for this
window Mrs. Whitman has demon
stratcd anew her rare artistic gifts.
Both in conception, material and in
scriptiou the memorial is simple and
sincere just as was the country doc
tors life it aims to celebrate. Con-
Structed almost entirely of transparent
glass in diaper pattern it is touched
here and there with red cathedral
glass, relieved by opalcscent shades of
the same material. The design is
Gothic, and on one of the panels APP
pear the words, "Thcodore Herman
JcWett. Class of MDCCCNXXIF.' On
the opposite panel is this motto from
Hiprocrates to show the four gifts in
Gispensable to a good physician:'
'I.earning, Sagacity, Humanity,
Probity." 1t is peculiarly fitting that
Miss Sarah Orne Jewctt, whom Bow
Goin College honored two years ago
with the degree of doctor of letters,
should commemorate in this fashion
the institution from which her father
took his arts degrees Later the young
student was graduated in medicine at
the jefferson Medical College in Phila-
delphia, and afterWard, rs has been
said, he held a profcssorship in mcdi-
cine at Bowdoin. Once before but then
through her own charming artistic
medium, the story, Miss Jewett paid