Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-04
Maine Gossip.
Lifters and leaners.

| Lifters and Learners.
There are two kinds of people on earth
| today:
Just two kinds of people, no more, I say;
| Not the rich and the poor. for 10 count
| a mans wealth
You must first know the state of his
| conscience and health.
| Not the humble and proud, for In life
/ little span
Who puts on vain airs is not counted a
Not the happy and sad. for the swift fly
1 ing years
Bring each man his laughter and each
| man his tears A.
/ No! the two kinds of people on earth Il
| mean
| Are the people who lift. and the people
| who lean.
Wherever you go you will find the
| worlds masses
Are always divided in just the two
| classes,
There's only one litter to twenty who
In which class are you? Are you easing
OF overtaxed lifters who toll down the
road2
or are YOU the leaner, who let's others
Your portion of labor. and worry and
care?
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
A Maine song. 1.-The Country Fairs
composed by a Kennebec county wo-
man, Mrs. Lillian Louise Weber of
Clinton, aud published by a big east
ern music publishing house of Wash
ington, d. c., was placed before the
public last month.
Manufacturers of orchard heating
appliances report a growing interest
manifest in Maine agricultural circles.
Although orders are not numerous. as
yet, requests for information are rap
idly growing more frequent. Scientific
misunderstanding has made it possible
to raise the temperature of a 200-acre
orchard 10 to is degrees with as much
certainty as the janitor can heat the
city mans fiat. Nowadays the fruit
farmer can go to bed with feeling
of security leaving the frost alarm
thermometer to watch for him-a spe
eially made thermometer with fine
platinum wire fused into the mercury
at the freezing point or at whatever is
considered the danger point. AS soon
as the mercury sinks below this wire
the circuit is broken and the alarm at
the head of the orchard boss bed
rings out it's warning.
A Waldo correspondent of the jour
nal writes: "a prominent Democrat
here said to me yesterday that if the
voters attend the primaries there is no
doubt as to who will be the choice of
the people for u. S. Senator-ft will be
Governor Burleigh.' He added; I.
with good many other Democrats of
the Third district, were fooled two
years ago because we thought Bur-
leigh was safe anyway. 1t is up to
YOU Republicans to go to the prima-
ries now
The new convent of the Dominican
Sisters in Lewiston is now near COM
pletion and is reported as one of the
finest structures erected for many
years in that city. The building is of
brick with concrete trimmings and is
of massive style or architecture. A
gothic chapel two stories high, half
columns and stained glass windows.
occupies a large portion of the first
and second stories. There is also on
the first floor a community room,
where the sisters will gather for read
ing and recreation. There are also
five reception rooms, a music room,
office, attendants room and telephone
room. ON the south side is cloister.
inclosed in glass. The second, third
and fourth floors are almost entirely
devoted to small sleeping rooms for
the nuns, there being ample accommo-
dalton for so of them. There are am
pie bathrooms, closets, lavatories, etc.
On the third floor is also a second
community room On the northwest
corner is massive bell tower, five
stories high, which makes it promi-
nent feature in the landscape.
brick wall u feet high surrounds the
building, so that the sisters when
within the Enclosure are completely
shut off from the outer world.
The fishing along the Maine coast
off Bath has been very good for the
past week. since the weather became
more favorable, most of those who
have gone out returning with good
fares. There has been more trouble in
getting sufficient bait than there has
been in getting fish, once the bait has
been secured.
Ground has been broken for the $15.-
900 gymnasium to be built on the
Thornton Academy campus at Saco.
1t is believed that the work will be
completed by September 1.
Bangor women lead off the Maine
"Swatthefly" campaign. The Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs in that section,
representing about 500 members, has
voted an appropriation for literature
to be distributed among the school
children Efforts will be made to in
duce the marketmen and provision
dealers to protect foodstuffs exposed
for sale, and other lines of campaign
ing against the fly, worked out.
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