Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-21
Maine Gossip
The ProdigaPs Mother.


All Could. let the love flame of my
Shine for thee through the darkness of
the night,
ray to pierce the clinsing mists of
And for thy storms of soul steadfast
light,
Could 1 but see its light to guide thee
And not this feeble candle in my room
That strikes scarce further than a beck
oning hand, zzf +ss1 zt
= the gloom.
Could 1 but set my heart beacon high.
Its quenchless fire aglow in darkness
To make a path of radiance for thy
And brighter than the splendor of a
star
All could loves steadfast light but lure
thee home
To warmth, and rest, and tranquil
The dawn breaks cold; the night is near
~ spent
am a-weary waiting, child, for thee
Mary McMullen, in New York Times.
The philosophical Bath Times offers
the following:
Those 800 gallons Of seized
liquors which the sheriff has just
disposed of were a veritable Pan
dora's box of troubles warded off
from Bath people. When one at
tempts to estimate the headaches and
heartaches, the quarrels, the domes-
tic unhappinesses, the financial trou-
bles and the possible tragedies of
many kinds headed up in those six
barrels of bad booze and shipped out
of the community. one cannot help
feeling that the burdens of life in
the town have, been measurably
lightened thereby
The schooner Northland, which the
cutter Woodbury. picked up a few days
ago and towed to Rockland, at one
time enjoyed the distinction of being
the largest motor boat afloat. When
she was launched at Rockland on
October IS, 1906, she was equipped
with a 500-horse power gasoline
motor. The schooner was designed to
carry paper from Stockton to New
York and then to load coal at the
southern ports for New York, Boston
and Portland. The idea Of installing
motor was, of course. to save towage
| bills and to permit the Northland to
make good Roadway in still weather.
1t was believed that the auxiliary
power would enable the big schooner to
make such quick trips that it would
be a decidedly paying proposition. But
the power was found inadequate and
expensive. The horse power was not
sufficient for so large a craft heavily
laden as she generally was with eth
er paper cor coal and the great amount
| of gasoline consumed in making COM
paratively few miles offset whatever
might have been saved in time and
towage fees SO the motor was even
tually removed and the Northland be-
came as other sailing schooners.
Boston Globe: President William
Dewitt Hyde struck a high note in
athletic ideals when at the recent
dinner of the Boston alumni, he made
substantially this declaration: There
are two things Bowdoin will not do
and two things Bowdoin will do for
athletes. We will not assure to any
man, either directly or indirectly.
money aid of any sort before he
comes to Bowdoin, and we will not
lower our standard Of entrance re-
| quirements one whit in order to Sc
cure athletes. We will furnish to
such as see fit to come to Bowdoin
and can meet the requirements that
we set the best possible facilities for
physical development. and we will
undertake to supplement this with
the best coaching talent obtainable
Win or lose, Bowdoin will play fair"
This Is in accord with the policy Pres
Hyde has maintained throughout the
nearly 80 years that he has conducted