Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-31
Maine Gossip
The Shoes of Happiness.

| Edwin Markham's ballad, The Shoes
| of Happiness in the December Century
| Magazine, the eventful story Of the
Sultan Mahmoud and of HALL, the Grand
Vizier," tells of the search for the shoes
of a happy man to cure the sultan, VINO
will otherwise die, and ends with these
lines:
Now all went black for the Grand Vizier,
And he turned toward home with trick
But as he came, with his grim regrets,
To the home sky speared by the nlnarets'
And as one by one, Of the purple rim
The domes of the city began to swifn'
Hark, suddenly over the hush of morn
Came a fiuting note from field OF corn.
Where a man. stretched out with ms arm
Blew thin -': sweet sounds from pipe Of
The ,angbter lines had scrubbed his face,
And his limbs lay long with loMAhe
grace.
"14om cried HALL. 81 am seeking one .e
Whose hours are all in brightness run
Then / am he, for / nay nroo,, hJ nv hands,
Favor nor fortune nor fame nave !,
And only ask for road ro ,f and t sxs-
These. and a pipe OF the 49, W ,oe
To whisper the music out Oh NE.
Ont into the field the Vizier ran. WON,
"AI,ah-il- Allah! but you are the me- srsa,
Your SHOES, then. quick lor Tue
Quick. and and all fortunes are yours 10
choose! .,+ 7 have no
shoes!
The editor of the Bangor News thus
oo,,,r,er+s upon the selection OF
Charles Clason as Rhodes schoia'
from Maine; honorable
WHAT'S this we hear from dio nao,mit-
pavson Smith at the head OF d SCharias
20 a. IF Maine educators? That eLal tes
Zee CIason' ESQ, a graduate OF , BATES
CoIlege and an Undergraduate OF d w $50 nf
ington law school, first man III orabIe
his classes, and the son , 3i aot also a
O s,raanate Of Bates, has won the Rhoaes
Sxford scholarship for Maine at tIe . az
Sair contest for the highest nterarS ,fa.+
phv which can be gained III m''t I'll abofIt
IIon9rahia oliver B. Clason. AS ciase
nate of Judge Alden Spear-he eli .1ed
Rates as a goor Gardiner poy c ap.ated
the average amount OIL RfiT Waine politics
60, what he believed to be the goou ~
Maine, He served with DISTINCTION JILL
in the Maine House and senate, pel aS
the honored president oil 'f than 20 years
400 he fought calamity for ana sscul eu
the triumphant enactment oL a. he
first Australian law, Whlch PioNeo ~
a great advance over any Ply oiS oct
which Maine had adopted. me oi9 Eli
bas been amended several times anu sun
needs doctoring in places; pu. even e , nj
since the direct primary form Oh iona, ,
natinp and eIecting officers mas peeh
niaeaS in front of much that is worthy
.ba old oliver B. Clason Australian eai-
nv e,,ectnent forns-a solid milestone IN
NIaina's advance toward cleaner ana
more honest form of political control OF
ali Maine Mr. Clason, the younger,
seems to be "a chip of the OLD p!ocn.
Revond question his winning OF Tue
Rhodes scholarship for Maine places MN
among the most ambitious and promls-
ing students on earth 10 SIT III 6 1iie M
lowed cloisters of Magdalen or orlei, 70
more over classic volumes, under those
gray and ivy-clad chambers-eNen as
Milton and the saints of English itera-
ture have done in the long dead years;
to associate and fraternize with the
sons of kings and dukes-even as Rhodes
binoaelf had done; to view life and help
tn make life from the English-Ameriean
standard of living-all these prlYlieses
belong freely to the younger Mr.; Clason
TO enjoy In the republic OF letters no
man is better than another. he VINO
wins at oxford is certainly the king In
hat wide land of Bohemia-where
heggar in fortune may rise to become
the modern Aladdin in fortune ana
magic, The selection of Mr.. Clason was
a most happy one, not 50 much as a re-
ward of merit. but as fitting recosni-
ton of hard and continuous labor ap-
nlied from early childhood to the very
dawn of manhood. Maine should special
ize in breeding more Clasons, potn
young and old.