Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-01-03
Maine Gossip
The Gods Do Not Forget.
elizabeth Powers NJ


He raised his blade high in the air and
Stay his brother man:
The same great tragedy of old, born when
the world began.
No mortal eye beheld the deed-kneW
how or where they met,
But do you think it passed unseen! the
Gods do not forget!
One uttered bat few brief words-lighter
than wind that blows:
They broke a gentle human heart-its
very life blood froze.
Words with such cruel, living power, that
their power fingers yet
The great. world tossed them to ana fro
the Gods do not forget!
A man betrayed a maiden fair and sui
lied her good name.
She was the plaything of day, ne left
her to her shame
Throughout the weary years that came
her soul with tears was wet
He gaily went his own sweet way-the
Gods do not forget!
A man once wronged another man, filched
from him all his wealth
And slowly undermined his life he did
The man he robbed lost. heart and
strength. and died by. want beset:
But no one ever knew the cause.-the
Gods do not forget!
tapestr'' of pain
So throbs they world of Joy and love, the
wheel turns round ;, aga ainnoa unseen
must pay each bitter debit.
Though years unnumbered rise and fall
the Gods do not forget!
The poem by James Whitcomb RheS'
"a Good Man." which was published in
our issue for December nth. omitted the
following copyright credit: From the
Biographical Edition of the Complete
Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Copy
right 1918, The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Indianapolis.
A new method of relieving want.
which was adopted in some of the
New York City schools recently, was
emploved in Bangor for the first time
one day last week, when each OF the
pupils of ST. Johns School, state
street, contributed few potatoes or
a. few Jumps of coal, by which means
considerable quantities of two neces-
stiles of life were obtained for dis
tribution to poor families. There are
about 400 pupils in the big Cathohc
school.
George w. Mugridge, the veteran
sailmaker of Rockland, has been
making wings for Atlantic coast
wind TANNERS 26 years. Yes ne
saws. 1.-The high cost of living affects
our business just the same as every
other industry. with this exception
that we have not been able to get
correspondingly high prices for our
product. Rope costs us 30 per cent
more than it did few years ago;
canvas costs 25 per cent more and
iron work, brass and other materials
have advanced in proportion
There was a Christmas tree at the
,o,,e of Mr.. and Mrs. Add L. Foss on
Pleasant street this year as usual, writes
the Machias correspondent of the Bangor
News. and no member Of the househoid
had to 70 out into the deep snow ana tho
Indictment weather to procure II Tor Il
heean to grow in the house some seven
wears previous from seed planted by
ono of the two sons and had attained
he;oh+ of Ave feet. 1t filled good-siZed
.nace IN the bay window. its branches
were sudacientiy strong to support an
abundance of decorations and gifts like
bags of candy. handkerchiefs. neckties
and various other light articles, and its
,horns which we're of considerable length
were utilized as hangers, making hne
ones. We will not keep the reader won
der,nr any longer. but will say that this
novel tree was a lemon plant
rwenty-three cents apiece day is
tina cost which DR.. C. H. Cakes Of Liv-
ermore Fails has figured out for the
members Of. his family. He says that
he has kept an exact memorandum Of
the cost Of food for some years and
thinks that the estimates OF previous