Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-09-20
Name Gossip
Life's Sweetest Prayer.

Name Gossip
Lifs's Sweetest Prayer.
elizabeth Powers MerrilD
God bless you. DEAR" the words fan
As soft as rose leaves on the earth.
Lips murmur them when loved ones
Words that are heard at death and
1t is the sweetest, tenderest Of prayers
And to all hearts the message bears.
God !, bless ss; you, dear" the mother s0fs-
Above the little happy face -
That on her knees In helpless beauty
The child! the hope q. all the race:
A mot-ers' heart knows depths Of Joy
She cam saa but Is cry. GOD bless you. dear"
God bless you. DEAR" 1t 10 earth's
As giides the soul to other sea,
The dying one the last dear words has
And keeps the thought eternally:
For God Is There. even az God ID Here,
And there Is naught the soul can fear!
"eod ,I bless ss, y yo H.. DEAR" the sweetest
The Faith that God alone can bless!
When men fare forth to days OF Toll
II breathes a world Of tenderness!
God bless you. dear" repeat the words
Above iife's Joy. above life's pain!
Two prominent residents Of Mon
tanA, both members Of the senate Of
that state and well-known bankers
and ranchrnen, arrived in Saco
Wednesday for indefinite stays. They
are LlewelIyn B. Taylor. a native OF
Saco. who is making his first visit to
his native town for SO years, and F.
s. Hobscn. The latter at present Is
visiting at the home Of DR.. Went
worth at Scarboro. while Senator
Taylor Is the guest Of his cousin, At
torney Eva E. Bean at her home on
Main street, Saco.
Senators Taylor and Hobson were
in Chicago with shipments of cattle
and then concluded to continue their
journey to Maine and visit ecenes Of
their boyhood. They are both promi-
nent in banking circles in Lloyd,
Montana, where they five. Mr.. Hob
son Is president Of a bank, while Mr..
Taylor Is q member Of the board Of
directors.
One change in construction Of ships
which has been brought about by the
war and which some builders declare
viii prevail to large extent from
now out. says the Bath Times, is the
substitution of braces for knees in
the building Of wooden vessels. In
the past. builders have used knees
which had to be brought a long DIS
lance. were expensive and had to be
fitted carefully in place. Now a lock
streak is put In and braces driven.
These answer the purpose Of the
knees but it is the opinion Of many
OF the veteran builders that while II
IL cheaper and makes a very good
substitute that the braces do not give
the strength that they gained by the
use Of knees.
you appear to be in trouble; let
me try It," remarked a passer by to a
man who was wrestling vainly with a
stone cutters drill ON Tillson whar.
the other day. relates the Rockland
Courier-Gazette. The stone cutter
looked in surprise at the we'll dressed
volunteer. but was quite willing the
latter should have g. try at the re-
fractory drill. The stranger gave the
drill twist that only an expert would
1 understand and proceeded to drill
the block Of granite in a manner that
bespoke evident practice. "Who was
that mani" asked the stone cutter
after the stranger had gone. Tyler
Coombs. clerk of courts, and an old
stone-cutter," was the reply.
The will Of the late Mrs. Harriet
o'Hrien Walker. who died Sept. in
New York. has been filed in the York
County probate court. II contains =
provision for the income of 5000 70
found the o'Brien scholarship at Bow.
| doin college. preference to be given 70
students from Machias.
4 nram Kicker Of Poland Spring il said
" nave prophecied that Maine wound
nave AZ least 10000 summer v,.,tor.
this season ana indications .r. IT,. !. .
did not over-estimate. The -. "s
Of It ID also. that they are not Ie.vs,s
the state a. early as usual. in spite Of
the present little weather disturbance,
September and October in Maine as a
rule have some Of the finest vacation
weather Of the year.
Il scarcity OF rents m Portiand causes
the prediction that Peaks island will
have the largest winter colony In ~
history.
Prayer Is not overcoming Gods -.