Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-02
Maine Gossip
The Little Yankee COLLEGE.

to LOOK upon.
But lit TO do the little things that needed
The Yankee did his duty. hut hc noticed
now and ;hcu
The wages that were offered by the devil
SO. lest his childrens children be lurcI
and led aSiray.
Said he III build them tcmplcS that will
fiOut the devils pay.
III carve my high commission into tab
lets made of STONE
lie, the spirit he the Masters and the
workmanship my own
Firm of will. the Yankee builder did his
work and went before.
And the little Yankee college acts as his
executor
The little Yankee college ii is Swallowed
now and then
BY miShticr machinery for educating
men,
But We seem to hear that builders ghost
~ whisper Il opnc
The little mills grind fewer Srairs. but
grind en- extra fine.
The title Yankee colleges. Cod bless
them. heart and soul
Each little lump of leavcn that lcaNcncth
The whole.
What need of mighty numbers. if they
fashion. one by one.
The m'n who do the little Things a-need-
ing to be done:
--BurScs Johnson.
The Wcstbrooh soldier boys cnruutc
for Washington are the envy Of their
| comrades of he Guard.
Counterfeit half dollars are circu-
lat:ng in Portland and vicinity ana
everybody is getting fooled.
One Of the largest public requests in
Maine for a long time is that of s7O.-
eco by the late Jonh G. Wordsworth of
Bangor to the Home Tor Aged Men in
that city.
A new four-.tory brick block on
Maine street is unc Of the good things
which are promised for Dexter, thi;
spring.
i:"t FOR yeas have there been 50 few
FISH arrive in Portland a. this week.
| and tn" Fridnv thinner is likely to have
| salt cOI as tn" ccntcrpiecc.
| The familiar testimony is being
| brought out ih court in Bangor that
while Il person might drown himself in
three per cent teer he could never get
intoxicated on it.
1t is reported that Boston and New
York parties have purchased all the
.;tock Of the Bar Harbor & Union River
Water Power Co. and thiL, the original
pan OF building on Cnion river. ut
Ellsworth of Il dam so feet high will be
carried out. Ii iG proposed to use The
power thus developed hy' daunninC
Union River for the generation Of elcc-
trical power. 10 be transmitted +" Bar
Iarh"r and other points in Hancock
County. and even to Bangor.
Til" prize .cuun story Of the season
comes from saltwater, and it cannot
b doubted As Zoe man has the coon's
head TO show for it. While John
Puo'er WAS working w some fireWood
with a cross-cu, saw. he was startled
to find his saw suddenly become
bloody. Upon further investigation
Mr.. Poolcr found that he had saved
through the backbone OF a big coon.
which had r::lwl"tl into the log t.
spend the winter. The coon was killed
before he wax Il up. and Mr. PoOIcr en-
tcrtaincd the nrighbors with d coon
| dinner.
From the vii Is Of southern Africa to
| the good old state Of Maine is a far
| distance to travel: but to a real estate
agent. W. y. IIutchns. of Howdoin-
| ham. there cam. thi; week across the
| continent this message. BUY me
| IA "a I of
country" Within TIL las: year. there
have been 5000 inquiries for the pros
porous farms o. Maine. North Dakota.
| Michigan. Minnesota. even the sunny
Southland has sent full quota of ques-
| tionng. while from England comes
| vast amount nr letters all from would
| be- immigrants TO Maine. From the
| extreme point of Southern Rhodcsla
sounds this lasting cry. plainly show
| ing the home feeling for the dear old
| state. that Mecca toward which all
| wanderers set. at last. their weary feet.
| In his address at the annual meeting
OF the Buwdoin men in Bangor. this
week. President Hyde summed up as
| follows the work of his college: Bow
| Join is college for r1en. and the virile
| grasp of great subjects which men
| acquire best clone: Where only tie
| trained may enter. and only the studi-
| ous stay: Where each student must
carry some chosen subjects to the point
| where prOficien"-- wakenS interest. and
| mastery gives power: Whore architcc-
tnre gives dignity to learning, and art
| lends refinement to life: Where rich
and poor as absolute equals teach each
| other social lessons which neither could
learn by themselves. Where partci-
| patton in the conduct and response
hility for the good name OF the college
trains students in personal character
and for public leadership"
Gardiner Reporter-Journal: A wO-
man recently sued for divorce from her
husband on the ground that he made
misrepresentation as to station and
wealth during cOurtship. The judge
ruled that there was no ground for d.
vorce. saying in conclusion. "if All w.