Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-02-06
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Child Labor,

AsA oAAAN 70 ia
| Child Labor.
| The fads of Fashion are costly things.
| In mere ways than one.
| They take the pennies, dimes and bills,
| As fast as they are done.
| But other cost must reckoned be,
| In order to be fair
| The cost of time and strength and nerve
| In making, everywhere.
| Perhaps within damp cellar walls,
With dingy lamp for light.
| Some mother and her little ones
| Work late into the night.
The fancy things are handled Ger,
| And made somehow to fit
| The way to please the Sldd3 nina
| OF Fashion minus wit
The little shoulders often ache.
| The weary evelids droop
Because they need Gods out-of-doorS
Where they can shout and whoop.
When will Dame Fashion call halt,
When will she be awake,
| Ana say; "Well do without before
Wen life from children take
Anna A. Robertson
4S5 columbus Avenue, Boston. Mass.
The Lisbon Enterprise says THAT
dandy new passenger boat will run
down among the islands to New
Meadows Inn next summer is an as
sumed fact. The latest report Is that
Capt. oscar Randall who at present
owns the Alpine the boat that mas
made so many trips up New Meadows
in wears past. is having a dandy new
passenger boat built. The new boat
will he driven
by a $3.50 horsepower engine.
General Frederick W. Hinkley. de-
partment commander of Patriarchs
Militant |. O. O. F.. of the department
of Maine has announced that the an
nuaI council meeting of the Patriarchs
Militant will be held at Calais, June
10. The annual field day will also be
held at Calais. June 10. II and L.
The committees on arrangements are
Major Lewis NJ. Robinson of st.
stephen. New Brunswick. Major
Charles II. Cloudman of Portland, and
Captain c. W. Matthews of CALAIS.
General Stocker of Ohio. general com
handing the Patriarehs Militant of
the world will be the guest of the De-
partment of Maine. 1t is also ex-
pected that the department will have
as its guests the department COM
manders from all the New England
states and Province of New Bruins
wick. 1t will undoubtedly be the
most notable occasion in the history
of Patriarchs Militant in Maine. and
will give to Calais the biggest parade
in it's history.
Loss on seed potatoes will be dis
astrous to Aroostook county farm
ers If the strike of engineers and
flremen on the Bangor e Aroostook
railroad continues another week. po-
tato growers We're saying Monday
night Shippers claim that thou
sands of dollars have been lost he
oaues of a lack of cars for transporta-
ton of potatoes. In statement.
Monday night. growers say that no
potatoes for food purposes have been
moved within the past two weeks and
only small amount of seed potatoes
have been moved because of ham,
pered freight service resulting from
the strike.
A Sabattus dispatch to the Portland
Express Advertiser says: With their
clothes frozen stiff and their ice boat
floating about in Sabattus lake. Fred
Austin and Harry Austin walked from
the upper end of the lake. after hav-
ing tried the temperature Of the water,
on the second day of February. Ice
boating had never been better so
everyone claimed, who was on the
lake. Saturday and Sunday, and with
their sail filled with the wind tho
Austins decided to make the other end
of the lake in a record breaking time
They reached the other end, in more
ways than one, for a hole opened up
before them, and before they could
avert the accident, they plunged into
the aperture. No one was near to
help them, but as both We're good
swimmers and used to the water, they
managed to get out They were about
three miles up the lake, and with the
thermometer registered about Il de-
grees above zero. there was no doubt
that it was some cold. But even so,
they went home, changed their wet
BOAT, apparently none the worse for
their unpleasant experience"
Rangeley correspondent of the
franklin Journal says that people at
that place are enjoying the beautiful
spectacle presented by great ice reefs
that have formed on both lakes. The
one in Rangeley Lake starting near
Mlngo Spring runs way across the
lake, but not straight, as it makes a
triangle in the middle of the lake, and
IS from three to eight feet high and
ABOUT three miles long; while the
one on Mooselookmeguntic is longer
ana OF even larger proportions, start
| ing at Bugle Cove and extending
across to Upper Dam. 1t is worth
travelling long way to see those
great cakes of ice, some of them
| large enough in themselves to form
| a layer in a goods ice house.
| standing upright on a great field Of
ice with the sun shining on them.
| looking from a distance like huge
| diamond necklace. The cause of reefs
l1s the warm days and cold nights. The
| ice expands during the day and oor-