Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-08
Maine Gossip
For Those Who Fail.

For Those Who Fail.
"All honor to him who shall win the
The world has cried for tnounsand
years. .
But to him who tries. and who fails and
give great honor and glory and
tears.
Give glory and honor and pitifu! tears
To all who Tail in their deeds subiiine, :,
Their ghosts are many in the Van OF
years
They we're born with time in advance
of time.
Oh, great is the hero who wins naEle,
But greater many and many a time.
Some pale-faced fellow who MAY die IN
And lets God finish the thought sub
lime.
And sr4a, is the man with sword I'M
drawn.
And good is the mar who remains from
But the man WHO fails and yet still fights
I.o, lie is the twin-born brother or
Joaquin Miller.
The chief thing in the Saco munich
pal campaign is the proposition to IN
crease the tax on the York mills.
Portland'S Tar Bucket night VIII
have the tin horns and feather tlcklers
left, even if the bonfires are eliui-
mated.
The Portland Express, Fort Fairfield
Review and Bangor Commercial join
in a vigorous protest against the par
don of Sam Haines
The star performer on the West
brook seminary basketball team is q
little jap who rejoices in the name OF
Nagai.
The mixture Of rain with the snow,
followed ny freeze. has resulted in
Numerous broken snOwshovels and
lame backs.
That lurid story of eastern Maine
lumber crews being put out of COM
mission by liquor shipped to the
camps from Boston proves TO have
been largely work of the iniagina-
ton.
Stree the Portland City hall fire
about Jog men have been busy remov-
ing the debris and over 1900 loads have
been hauled away from the ruins. The
clearing up is now practically COM
pllted.
Fort Fairfield Review: Efforts are
being made by the State Federation OF
Women's Clubs for the preservation of
Mt. katandin as a public forest park
aud State or national reservation.
Success to the Federation in this most
worthy object.
Nobody can blame the r. F. D.
carriers for kicking at the practice of
putting pennies in the box in place of
stamps on the letters. On a cold day
1T is not pleasant TO remove gloves
and mittens to rummage around in n
box after stray coins.
Among the messages of sympathy
received by Mayor Leighton of Port
land after the City hall fire was one
from Isidora j. Ojeda mayor of Ma
tanZas, Cuba. Mayor Ojeda is n ma
tive Cuban, but in his boyhood. half Il
century ago. he was 4 student at Var
mouth academy. Later he married a
Portland girl and was in business
there several years before going back
to Cuba.
The youngest citizen of Maine who
has had his eyes fitted and is wearing
glasses. is said to be 4 resident Of
His name is MyrOn Will
lams, the eleven months old son Of
Dir. and Mrs. Perley e. Williams. The
aruditc youngsters of Boston will have
% look to their laurelS.
A movement has been launched to
organize in the near future. an organ
cation which will probably be known
rs the PiScataQuis County Historical
Letters explaining the
purposes and plans for organization
will be sent out in the near future by
Judge Edgar c. Smith who is one of
the prime movers. Others who are in
Leres.ed arc Hon. John F. Sprague OF
and Hon. Willis T.. Parsons of
Foxcroft. Piscataquis county historic
ally, though one of the most interest
Ing counties in the Pine Tree State has
had little Of it's real history in print.