Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-31
Maine Gossip
Doubt.


| Tired? So am I. Let's rest,
Stop preparing for the worst;
Get ready for the best,
/ fear that most of us are curst
With q too persistent zest
AT counting FER the Ills Oh lie
For getting all the rest
Disappointed? So am l.
NV plans have come TO nausht,
And success has passed me py,
Nor given me a thought,
But no tear shall dim my eye
Till the battle has been fought
| To finish-live or die
Heartbroken? No. you're not, an
You've too many blessings still.
That you know cannot be bought
See the good-forget the HI
JOYS that come to us unsouSht,
And abide with US until
We leave this earth-Worn spot
O doubter, Lift your eyes
From your little selfish gloom,
Beneath the wide blue skies,
o see you not there's room
For all the hopes you prize
Some time somewhere to bloom?
Stop doubling and grow wise.
Cora Greenleaf. in Detroit Free fress.
Naw Castle. n. H., claims the record
for longevity of it's residents. In its pop
ulation of not more than 900 there are
four persons 50 years old eig gnu Of ost tnese
eV an i yo Hall and John V. White,
ioiptiv observed their ssth birthday Fri
day.-Boston Globe.
Guess again. Newcastle, Maine, can
beat that record to a pulp. The last
census gave Newcastle, Maine, 1866
inhabitants. In it's limits are SO peo-
ple over so years of age. One is Mrs.
Harriet Austin, who will De loo III
July. One is 80 and several VIII De
| 90 this year. Newcastle, Maine mas
| much larger percentage of people
| over so years of age than has New
castle. N. H.-Damariscotta Herald.
Although Bar Harbor town meeting
is hardly more than month away It's
| nerennial interest we'll nigh eclipsed
Just at present by the long hoped-Ior
and Immediately expected 10y the
| candidates) announcement from
Washington of the appointment to bar
| Harbor postoffice, says the CORES
pondent of the Bangor News. Thurs
day the nine receptive minded canoi-
dates for this plum received notlce
from Senator Johnson that he sug-
costs a caucus, at which OF course
only registered Democrats could vote,
in which the Democratic circles or
Par Harbor would register their wish
es as to the postmastership. This,
goes on the correspondent, is the Gull
m;nat ton of neat and SICK Httie
political game carefully engineered the
past two or three weeks, very quietly
| of course, by Otha H. Jellison, ex-
Democratic high sheriff of the county,
and his henchman, John T.. BUNKER,
once listed as a Republican. But just
at the present time wearing the DEM
ocratic colors. 1t is supposed that
Senator Johnson's suggestion OF eau
Gus comes from these two champions,
since they have been soliciting
pledges. very quietly, and would un-
| doubtedly carry local caucus COM
posed entirely as it must be, by regis
tered Democrats. These two men con-
troll the rum sellers and bar-room vote
of the town. The correspondent Is
definitely and specifically INFORMED ne
states. by one of the other candidates
that it is altogether probable that
most all of the suggested will be ut
terly against the suggested caucus.
The candidates are nine In NUMBER
Leonard A. Austin, Elliot f. Benson
A. j. Babbidge, Herbert L. Graham,
Fred Jellison, Otha H .Jellison, w. E.
Peach, Representative W. H Sherman,
and Bion Whitney
It is estimated that the cost of the
International st. John river or Van
Buren, commission, to the two gov
ernments, United States and Domin-
ion of Canada, has been to date, S67,-
900. This amount is divided equally
between the two countries. OF the
4 large sum about $4,000 went to pay