Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-07-26
Maine Gossip
The Woman Pays!

The Woman Pays!
CBy Elizabeth Powers Merrill)
The woman pays in the market Of life
| She pays the heaviest toll.
| She pays with her heart, and hand and
Pays? Yea, with her very soul:
Upon the woman there falls the curse
| That was uttered long ago
The woman bears the burdens of life
Unuttered anguish and woe.
The weman pays when poverty saps
The very blood from her veins.
She works and struggles to keep the
Scared by life's hardships and pains.
She tolls that her child may have the
| chance
On a cross the world has never seen,
| The mother Is crucifed.
The woman pays when mankind proves
And robs her Of her just rights.
In the sin and misery of the world
| She barters her days and nights.
In sorrow no mortal can understand
The sins Of the world she bears.
How long, o World. must a woman know
| The sting of life's lust and tears!
The woman pays when the war drum
sounds
| And her son goes forth to war
When heart Of her heart. soul Of her soul,
| Embarks for those lands afar.
The woman pays from cradle to grave!
She gives to the world her best!
And then, o God, she must give to War,
The Son she rocked on her breast.
Think ye not, Man. on earth's high
That for al, life brings. the Woman Pays?
| A Calais youngster left in the rear
seat of an automobile, which took
matters into its own hands and started
off down the incline toward the inter-
national bridge, didn't lose his nerve
or presence of mind, but quietly though
quickly climbed over into the front seat
and stopped the car, just as 1t was
about to mount the sidewalk, where it
would certainly have hit woman and
child, standing there unconscious Of
their danger.
| The shock of seeing her little daugh-
ter apparently stricken lifeless by
bolt Of lightning last Sunday rendered
Mrs. Charles Eagan Of Lewiston
speeches. for a period of about "a
hours, her vocal cords being paralyzed.
The child had merely stubbed her toe
when running for shelter and was I'M
| injured. The mother has recovered.
Ellsworth people are feeling fairly
well encouraged in a business way.
thank you. The mining business has
so far developed that a branch of the
railroad is asked; it is reported that
the recently vacated shoe factory is to
be re-opened under another manage
ment; and last but not least, it is said
| that shipbuilding for the government
is not unlikely along the shores Of that
city.
Miss Madeline Porter of Lagrange
, was rescued from drowning at Phillips
lake last week by the skillful efforts
of Ted Rowe, aged is, and Jack Par
ker, aged Is. Miss Porter, who. was
unable to swim, had jumped into Is
feet Of water, not realizing the depth.
Ted Rowe, who was swimming around
| in the cove. went to the rescue, but
ewing to the struggles Of the girl could
do but little. His chum Jack Parker
appeared on the scene and by a care
fully placed punch knocked her IN
conscious and the work of taking to
the wharf was then quite easy.
F., Quite a number of Rockland per-
sons were handed a gold brick Satur-
day, and the party who did 1t was
Harry F. Ross of Bangor. says the
/ Courier Gazette. 1t was a real gold
brick, however,--not phony stuff. and
came from mine in the Provinces
which is owned and operated by Mr..
Ross and his brother n-law, c. Vey
Holman who is now summering at In
graham Hill. The brick was valued at
$1,000.
The announcement that the bodies
of Civil War soldiers were to be trans
ferred from Sea View cemetery at
Rockland to the lot in Achorn cemetery
presented by the Gen. Davis Tillson
estate, has led to a misunderstanding.
The bodies tc be moved are only the 30
which are inferred in the so.called SOL
diers' lot. These which are buried in
private LUIS are uoI " NC oiStui uSo'
and it was never the Posts intention
to do So
Agricultural notes. No. from Rock
land Courier-Gazette:
Various scientific methods are advanced
for the destruction Of the aggravating
gaIde pest known as the squash bug,
Tho writer, who is devoting considerable
Of his and his employers time in back
yard garden has come to the conclusion
that the only effective method of killing a
squash bug is between the thumb and
forefinger. Otherwise 1t is doubtful II
they eyer die. except Of old age or acute
indigestion.
Note No. 2: