Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-08
Maine Gossip

Maine Gossip
"our Country Is the Right"
That fallacious saying of a mistaken
patriotism-"Our Country! In her inter
course with foreign nations, may she al
ways be in the right but our country
right or wrong"-gave rise nearly three
quarters of a century ago. 70 the follow
ing verses by S. D. Robbins, entitled,
Our Country. Right or Wrong"
Our country is the Right, no SOIL no
CLINE,
No spot on earth, no period of time;
Where truth resides, with liberty and
love,
There is our Fatherland, below, above.
Dear is the realm alone where good
abides,
Where justice dwells. and equity pre-
sides;
There is our homestead, there our altar
place,
Our father, God! our brotherhood, the
race.
Our country right, not wrong, be this our
boast;
That most our country. which to man is
most,
This be. our aim of life, our theme of
song
Our country shall be Right, and right
the wrong!'
Miss Mildred Patten Of Sanford.
trained nurse, has offered her services
in Mexico whenever needed and has
received from the Red Cross the pa
pers stating the requirements.
The newspaper La Lucha of Havana
has the following: Another passenger
on the Saratoga was a very rich mer-
chant from Houlton, State of Maine,
Mr.. Calvin L. Fox, who comes to Cuba
on Agricultural business. The resemb-
lance between Mr.. Fox and the secre-
tary Of State, Bryan, is so striking
that on board ship he was called by
the latter name, MIR. Fox enjoying the
Joke with great relish. This resemb-
lance is so great that even a port re-
porter was caught in the trap. Mr..
Fox travels in company of a Cuban
merchant, Mr.. Luis f. Ferrer, ma
tive of Pinar del Rio"
The slot machines have disappeared
from their accustomed places in Ban
gor the edict of the mayor having
gore forth to that effect.
Two Hampden small boys were walk
ing through a field the other day and
noticed two men come from nearby
woods, one of them carrying rife.
10 TOR IF the
the 10-year- old son of Charles O'Hearn
noticed that his right hand was
numb and found blood dropping from
1t. He ran home, where it was found
that he had been shot between the
elbow and shoulder, a painful wound.
No one can account for 1t, as the boys
heard no report and there is nothing
to show that the man seen with a
rife fired the shot.
The statement sent out from Ban
gor that the seizure there Tuesday Of
a certain amount of liquor was the
largest ever made in Maine, needs to
be taken with good deal of allow
ance for the way they love to magni-
fly things down Bangor way, says the
Portland Press. Right here in Port
land there have been seizures that
can beat it all to pieces. Years and
years ago when prohibition was a
new thing, the deputies landed on the
old McGlinchy establishment and
cleaned out upwards of $4,000 worth
of whskey alone, with no mixture OF
fancy LIQUORS of any kind. Then once
in the time of County Attorney Lib
do hxrt a rnlfcA
upon one of the local bottling houses
that was estimated to be valued at
$500. A third record seizure was one
that was made at another OF the
bottling houses when the place was
cleaned out, the estimated value OF
the stuff being 1880.
A former Portland girl, Miss Mar
jorie Nicolson. was one of the 10
women and II men honored at the
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor,
by election to the Phi Beta Kappa
fraternity. The election is one OF the
highest honors to be obtained by a
student in the literary department of
an American university, scholarship
and personality forming the basis OF
selection.
Hugh Higgins OF Fort Fairfield, an
amateur wireless operator, is said to
be the first in Aroostook or northern
Maine to pick up messages from the
Mexican war and steamers off our
coast. He has succeeded recently in
catching many important pieces OF
news.
Oxford county is rejoicing over the
fact that 1t is out of debt. having on
May called in the last $4,000 Of bonds
due and paid them. This was the last
OF the 100000 issue for the court
house at South Paris and were not