Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-24
Maine Gossip
he Answer.

The Answer.
They do me wrong who say l come ut
more
When once | knock and fail to find you
For every day stand outside your door
And BID you wake and rise to fight and
Wall not for precious chances passed
Weep not for golden ages on the wane.
| Each night l burn the records of the
At sunrise every soul is born again.
Laugh like boy at splendors that have
To vanished joys be blind and deaf and
My judgments seal the dead past with its
| dead,
But never bind moment yet to come
| Though deep in mire, wiring moi your
/ hands and weep.
| | lend my arm to all who say Il can
No shamefaced outcast ever sank so deep
| But yet might rise and be a man again
Art thou mourner? Rouse thee from
| thy spell!
Art thou a sinner? Sins may be for
Each. morning gives thee wings to flee
from hell
Each night star to guide thy feet to
heaven.
Walter Malone.
The Brooklyn Eagles statement re-
garding birthday approaching
about its 70th-has started a flood of
claims throughout the country. One
states, You haven't anything on US
and We outdistance you toward the age
limit by two whole years. Another
laughs at both, avowing IS happy and
influential periods of 365 or 366 days
each. Right up here in Maine how
ever, are the real stalwart clusters.
The Portland Argus though sadly in
its second childhood, leads in years.
having been established in 1903 The
PASSPORT Sentinel came 10 life in 1918.
The Kennebec Journal showed up in
1875. followed six years later by the
Portland Advertiser now combined
with the Express-1SS2) From then
until 1910 the following publications
were established: Maine Farmer. 1882,
Oxford Democrat, 1898; Calais Adver
tiser, 1886: Bangor Commercial. 1888;
Somerset Reporter (now Independent
Reporter), 1910. The Roekland Cour-
rier-Gazette and the Lewiston Journal
are comparative youngsters, though
precocious ones, being born respective
" in 1916 and 1s47.
Over-two thousand dollars TO Baths
munleipar ferry through transporta-
ton of automobiles Nome of the Bar
Harbof antagonism to the buzz-bug
gies here. -
a farmer with one lone squash re-
Gently drove up to a. Bath grocery
store. Anxious to return shome. he
accepted the grocer's offer of five
cents for the squash. 1t weighed just
10 pounds. woman entering the
store asked the price. The grocer re-
piled; Let you have it for 10 cents,
but I ought to get 20 cents The
farmer drove home. after remarking,
That's where the middleman gets the
money and the farmer the blame for
the high cost OF living" There may
be a moral here somewhere.
The Thompson Free Library of
Dover is to be opened, for readers.
afternoons. until next April. No books
will be given out, To take away from
the building except on week days.
Dover people believe their town is the
first in Maine. with fewer than 5000
inhabitants, to throw open its library
to the public en- the Sabbath day.
They are very proud of the edifice.
which was given them by the late DR..
E. \. Thompson, an uncle of Con
gresham Frank L. Guernsey. They
share this magnificent edifiee and its
treasures equally with the people Of
Foxeroft. who, in turn. share the ex-
pense of its maintenance.
A II. Yeaton, the grandson of
Revolutionary soldier and one of the
most ardent Democrats of Skowhegan,
has a most interesting relic of the
presidential campaign of 1910. 1t is
made of brass, about the size of an
old fashioned penny, with hole near
one edge to permit its use as a watch
charm. On one side is the super
scription Martin Van Buren,. Born
Dec. 1882" with picture of the then
president On the other side Is the
motto weighed in the balance and
found wanting" with the picture OF
pair of scales labeled Wing In one
pan and Democrat in the other.