Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-30
Maine Gossip


very perfect day.
/ took my work and worries and ! threw
l took the work | ought to do and looked
il i'm the eye
And said: You get holiday. old tasf
of mine. good-by,
l hope you have pleasant time wher-
ever you may roam.
Now don't get lost, but just the same
/ you needn't hurry home"
My work stood begging at my side, my
elbow Duty nudged,
But with stern and naughty heart
never even budged,
/ stretched myself upon my back within
the hammock here
And swung and swung and let my SOU
get bubbling full of cheer.
My work went galley-west, 1 guess
, know il isn't done
But. friend. to have Lazy Day is GER
tafnly some fun.
And all the things / worry for and Of
the pesky thingsi
| gave them all to understand they
might as we'll take wings
I'd worried over them in a most faithful,
earnest way,
But worry hasn't any place in any lazy
day.
Some little worries fretted up and
sighed: what can you do?',
blew them all to smithereens with one
intense Pooh. Pooh."
worried worries, too,
And still the grass is nice and green, the
sky is nice and blue.
The world is rolling right along, no
doubt the stars will gleam-
] guess I'll linger here while ana muse
and doze and dream.
My friend, when Work is fighting yoa
and Worry wants to stay
Just throw the whole thing to one side
and have Lazy Day.
Wilbur D. Nesbit. in Golfers.
Obadiah Gardner, in the Sunday
Magazine, tells how he earned and
what he did with his first dollar He
raised some peas and traded them for
a pair of red topped boots that were
two sizes too small. Remembering how
they hurt when he wore them, he is
naturally better able to bear the pine
of the Democratic shoe he is now wear
Biddeford journal.
Real fame has come to DR.. G. L.
Crockett at last, and through a medium
that neither his poetic nor political
versatility could not accomplish.
seeking to close a contract with him
IL 90 Oh tlt itttuIt Will ii
lecture entitled THE Battle Between
Capital and Labor" The lecture bu-
reaus believe that the man who double
crossed Samuel Gompers would draw
big in labor centers.-Rockland Court
er-GaZette.
The Kents Hill bulletin has the fol-
lowing to say of its new teachers in the
music department at the seminary:
prof Karl c. H. Drechsel, A. B., A.
NJ, l.. l.. e.. of Philadelphia, has been
a successful concert-singer in Germany
for six years. singing in many cities
on the continent in concert ana orato-
| rio. Conducting the Drechsel Academy
of Music at Munich jointly with Mrs
! Dreehsel. "Kammersaenger" 10 Hi:
! Royal Higness Prince Ludwig Ferdi-
| nand of Bavaria. Endorsed as singer
| and teacher by Frau Cosima Won
Wagner, widow of Richard Wagner
! the great composer"
Mrs. Elsie Tyler Drechsel, graduate
of the college of Music of Cincinnati
certificates, diplomas and Reuben
Springer gold medal; Professor OF
Srol S0AoNI INV oitS ASoN Z,
Cobb Institute, Athens, Ga. musiea
director of the Wyoming, O.. public ant
High schools; pupil of foremost foreign
masters
The bulletin announces the retire
ment of DR.. Wilson F. Morse, director
of the department for 40 years.
!! The steamer Carolyn, which fol
nearly year has been undergoing re-
pairs at East Boston, left Boston, Mon
day, for Stockton Springs, Me-, to load
paper for New York. She will take the
place of the steamer Millinoeket, which
was damaged by collision with tho
steamer Persian, and will probably be-
| out of commission for some time.
There are few vessels afioat that have
as interesting a history as the Carolyn
She was built at Whitby, Eng. in 1889
and was named the Parkgate. While
| flying the British flag she was nearly
wrecked on the American coast, ane
was granted an American registry, alter
an amount equal to two-thirds her value
| had been spent in an American shipyare
repairing the craft. She was purchased
| by the Bull Steamship Company of New
ton and New York until she stranded OF
Matinicus Island. Jan. /, 1911. She was
abandoned as a total wreck, after severa
wrecking companies had looked her ovel
] and decided that she was not worth hoat
1 ing. William h. Johnston of Boston theI
purchased the vessel and engaged mel
| to float her After weeks of hard work
| during which time she was bulkheaded
J the freghter was fioated and taken Il
| Rockland, where temporary repairs -wer'
! made which would enable her to mak'
] the trip to Boston. She was towed herr
, and placed in the dry dock. Bids were
J called for making permanent repairs
but Mr.. Johnston considered them too
high and he decided to make the repair:
1 himself He hired experienced men, ant
, the vessel was practically rebuilt. NJ
| fewer than 100 new plates We're put In TN
| hull and her fittings We're all renewed
Capt II. C. Calhoun, formerly i'm com
mand of the steamer William Chisholm
b, Is master of the Carolyn. AS soon a
the necessary formalties have been gon
| through the vessels name will b.
changed from Carolyn TO Mary Eliza
/. beth Before this can be done it will b.
+, necessary to advertise the proposed
change in name for several weeks. TIL
| cost of repairs to the vessel, including
the dry dock expenses, is said to hay
) amounted to $4,000.
u 1t happened before the days o
Sheriff Ferd Stevens, in Lewiston. !
;, resident of the Androscoggin city
aristocratic Frye street was on hi
T. way home from an early mornin:
L Ra in ha