Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-05-05
Maine GOSSIP
1.-THE Ascent Of Woman"

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1.-THE Ascent Of Woman"
elizabeth Powers MerrilD
God gave the world to man!
He gave him woman for
His crowning gift Of life
Woman; sharer Of his dreams.
His counsellor and friend.
Man held her not his equal
In the high estate OF life
But as toy or chattel!
Through centuries she followed him
- Obedient to his slightest whim.
She sowed and reaped
And gathered into barns.
She fed him with grain
Cleaned by her own hand.
She rocked his children on her breast,
And bore the scorn of scorn!
Today she claims her birthright-
The birthright of a human soul!
Freedom. knowledge. justice.
These are hers by right-
The tools wherewith she lifts
Herself to higher life
Her human love, unfettered,
Shall be free to choose the best,
And to abide therein
In marriage chaste-with children
Born of cleanest life..
She. beyond the giant crags
Her love, shall march to God!
The triangular fight for the post
mastership Of Bath, to succeed Post
master E. w. Hyde, has been mar
rowed to two candidates, by the with
drawal Of L. B. SWEET, who finds that
the requirement that postmaster
shall give all his time to the duties ot
the Office cannot be complied with by
him. This leave Ex-Mayor G. e.
Hughes and Fred w. Hartnett in the
race, but there is no law on the
statute books which will prevent 9TH
ers from entering.
A story Of almost unbelievable bru-
tally comes from Mt. Vernon, one
that should be Investigated and if the
perpetrator is found he or she should
be punished to the full extent Of thu
law-and then some! The report
says that cat. which had been
boarded at a well-known family's, had
been missing for week and WIS
found in a barn on farm recently
vacated by the tenants. pinned to
beam with a rusty 10-penny nail
driven through one hind leg. The
poor animal was terribly emaciated
and in its struggles to free itself had
unjointed both the ankle and hip
joints. The entire community is
shocked and indignant at the brutal
deed.
Plenty Of water now for the drives.
The heavy rains of the past week
has done considerable damage to the
roads in the vicinity of Calais, some
of them, where the frost was coming
out, being badly washed and quilted.
The Portland Board of Health, con-
sisting Of DR.. F. E. Carmichael.
chairman, DR.. John T. Palmer and
Michael J. O'Day and John Church,
inspector, and Hon. w. T.. Guptill,
State commissioner of agriculture,
Boyden Bearce, live stock sanitary in
spector and A. Morton G. Soule, chief
Of bureau of inspection, have visited
some Of the places in the vicinity Of
Portland where animals are slaugh-
tered for food, and, it is understood,
found conditions, which the pro-
prietors will be obliged to remedy
and at once.
G. w. Austin Of Bar Harbor. who
began the grocery business there 10
years ago with $500 capital, cele
brated his 62d birthday on May by
retiring from active business. He
has had considerable recreation dur
ing his active business life, having
made 10 trips to California. one to
the West Indies and one to Europe.
Crowded electric cars evidently do
not please all the Portland City
Fathers, for Monday night Alderman
Stockman introduced an order pro-
viding that the electric lines should
pay special tax Of $50 per year per
car and If passenger is unable to Sc.
cure a seat he or she shall be entitled
to ride free It was referred to the
committee on ordinances.
A Pemaquid man just now has his
hands full in explaining to his friends
satisfaction the reason of his being
so absorbed in thought that he was
carried by Wiscasset. where he had
been summoned to appear as "a wit
ness in court. He explained to the
Judge by means of the telephone and
returned on the next train, but too
late to give his evidence.
Patents have recently been granted
Maine men as follows: For a builder
motion, to VIM. H. Goldsmith, Bidde-
forA. Conoo hoorA Tvror II Nelson