Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-08-03
Maine Gossip

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Why Don't You Think? .
Il didn't think"
Your lips have said. your soul has cried,
AS eyes beheld or ears oerheard
How some one wept, or even died,
Because you spoke a careless word.
Then stop and think.
Each little act of yours may mean
A tender touch or bitter smart
To some one you have never seen
Or some one ever in your heart
Why don't you think?
Each hour of life is a precious gift
Heaven sent to you in which to etrive
For others gain and your own uplift
Then think. o think, and be alive!
If men would think,
AS they drink deep from fortunes cup,
OF what. of whom and why it brims
For them alone, while others sup
What deadly toll but barely skins.
And when they think,
If men would think of some one else
Instead of self or self's own gain,
Then brother love. as fire ore smelts,
Would melt all woe, cleanse foulest
o God, forgive
The pain We've caused. the woe we've
From this day forth our pledge we give
Our lives in earnest, sincere thought
Down through eternity to live.
Edith Burnham. in the New York Sun.
August the third-summer is Slip
ping.
Lucky that frost struck Topsham
Sunday instead of Wednesday.
A prominent Augusta man stood on
the Point" in Bath watching the af-
ternoon shopping parade pass by
We'll | vum," said he to the Gossiper.
after gazing at the parade five min
uteS with much interest. while I've
been standing here l guess 200 girls
and ladies have passed by and I
haven't seen homely face. There
must be more good looking women in
Bath than in any one other city in
the world.'
Ellison Smullett, son of Frank Q.
Purington of Mechanic Falls, this
year captured Bowdoins highest cash
prize. Smythe Mathematical. of $500.
Young Mr.. Purington is an Alpha
Delta Phi brother and only II.
A fine reproduction of the portrait
of Sir William Pepperell appears as
the frontspiece in Dr. Burrage's
maine at Louisburg," recently pub
lished. This portrait was recently
painted by POrtland's young artist,
Joseph B. Cahill, for Henry Deering,
Esq, who presented it to the Maine
Historical Society. 1t is taken partly,
says DR.. Burrage, from the Pepperell
portrait in the Essex Institute and
partly from engravings of Sir Will
liam. The portrait of Sir William
which adorns the State House at Au-
gusta, DR.. Burrage adds. was placed
there in 1862 by gift of S. Brannan of
San Francisco. native of Maine. 1t
is copied from a portrait by a Scotch
painter. Smibert, who had come to
Boston in the first half of the eight
zenith century.
Farmers in the vicinity of Skowhe-
gan are saying that not for years have
the crops been so good. The hay crop
is nearly double what it was last year.
The potato crop is most promising and
the sweet corn crop will exceed any
in several years. The grain fields are
looking fine
If Portland builds it's proposed new
hotel it might hand over one of it's
old ones to the Shipping City.
Charles w. Fletcher deputy insur-
ance commissioner of Massachusetts,
for ten years deputy insurance com
recognized as one of the ablest State
insurance officials in the country, has
resigned to become comptroller of the
Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance
Co. of Boston. Mr. Fletcher was born
at Starks, Somerset county, Me, and
was educated at the Wesleyan Semi
nary.
The Boston transcripts correspond
ent from Kennebunkport. who con-
tributed the interesting fact that that
wonderfully yellow and rare wild
flower, the whin, has migrated from
the Salem pastures to the "Genista
Road in that neighborhood, pro-
poses the often-asked question, why.
Maine is always spoken of by the
natives as the Estate of Maine? AL
bert Matthews of Boston has made
some entertaining and scholarly stud
les, if not of this particular locution,
Of many other curious localisms of his
toric significance, when their origin