Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-26

day to day at the head OF this column.
l-Ed.]
The following was requested about
one week ago by l.. f. L. of Water
vile:
| The Bull and the Mastff
Seek you to train your favorite boy2
i Each caution. every care employ
| And, ere you venture to coniide,
/ Let his preceptor'S heart be tried
] Weigh well his manners, life and scope
I on these depends thy future nope
AS on a time, in peaceful reign,
A bull enjoyed the flowery plain.
A mastiff passed. inflamed with ire
| His eyeballs shot indignant hre.
| He foamed he ragged with thirst OF bloou
Spurning the ground. the monarch stood
| And roared aloud: suspend the hSht'
In whole skin go sleep tonight
What wrongs provoke thee to engage!
Is it ambition fires thy breast:
Or avarice, that ne'er can rest
The Notwithstanding wrath of kings.
The surly mastim thus returns:
within my bosom glory burns;
Like heroes of eternal name.
Whom poets sing. | fight for fame
The butchers sprit-StirrinE MIND
To daily war my youth inclined;
He trained me to heroic deed; -,
Taught me to conquer, or to bleed.
Cursed dog" the bull replied, no more
I wonder at thy thirst of gore:
For thou (beneath a butcher trained,
Whose hands with cruelty are stained,
His daily murders in tiny View
Must. like thystutor. blood pursue.
Take. them thy fate" With goring
At once he mis- him from the ground;
Aloft the sprawfing hero flies.
Mangled he fails@he bowls. and dies.
John Gay
Gus" our fossher cityseedtor and
assistant night editor8 publishes a
long stery-.,.,ins.-bis' litfIsa Record"
anent a house In Biddeford where
snakes have 1been seerk Snakes
alive," says~Gus in amazefuent. We
knew he couldn't be sticking to the
wagon and writing such stuff as has
appeared in his columns lately.
The habeus corpus petition of
Charles F. Roderick of Dover, accused
of criminal assault, has been dis
missed by Justice Warren G. Phil
brook, thus denying admission to bail
and providing for Roderick's holding
until the grand jury of the September
term of the supreme court for
L toQIilS. MI
brook arrived in Dover, Thursday
morning. especially for the purpose of
presiding over the hearing. Cher
Justice Albert r. Savage had ruled
that a bail commissioner before whom
the writ was previously brought had
no jurisdiction in the matter. County
Attorney Hudson appeared in behalt
of the State and Judge Charles W.
Hayes and Hon. Willis E. Parsons of
Foxcroft were counsel for the re-
spondent. Hazel Mckinney, the al
legged victim of Roderick, was the
first witness following the dismissal
of motion to quash the proceedings
made by County Attorney Hudson.
Love everybody, rich or poor, good
or bad, drunk or SOBER laughed
Aunt Charlotte Thomas of Portland
on her 91st birthday when asked by
her nephew, Hon. W. w. Thomas, ex-
to Sweden, how it was she
had lived SO long, kept happy ana
useful, and succeeded in making so
many others happy" On her birth
day, Aunt Charlotte had as her princi-
pal guest in the afternoon the Port
land Equal Suffrage Club. Miss Bates,
president After the annual meet
ing the time was given over to the
birthday celebration, the president in
extending Fluctuations for the club,
dropped into rhyme and Aunt Char
lotte exclaimed at the close of the
reading, THAT Bates ALL" During
the meeting, expressions of love and
were extended by Rev.
Henry NJ. Blanchard, D. D., Mrs. l..
M. N. Stevens, Mrs. Geo. S. Hunt
Mrs. E. c. Jordan, Mrs. Geo. F.
French, Mrs. NJ. C. Young Mrs. Fam
ME j. Fernald and others. The
president of the club in presenting
Miss Thomas, asked her to tell how
and when she took up suffrage work.
and she replied Il was born that way"
Wonder if Aunt Charlotte's philoso-
ply would take in such reprobates as
Deacon Merrill of Record, Col. Wish
of the Argus, Parson Fassett of the
Sentinel and Duke Staples of the l..
j.?
The little town of Chester, about So
miles northeast of Bangor opposite
Lincoln on the Canadian Pacific rail-
road has a distinction. Undoubtedly
it has several as have most COM
munities but the one that has been
attracting attention since the annual
town meeting in March is the youth
of it's board of selectmen. While
there may be other towns in the
country having selectmen of the age