Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-06-14

"Fiume Problem Thought Near solu-
ton
The perennial headline!
Maine GOSSIP
The Pilgrim
(Ethel Ward Strickland. New Portland.
A pilgrim stood at the shining gate
With its portal wondrous fair.
He touched the bolt with a trembling
And timid, reluctant air.
st. Peter drew back the gate and then
The travellers sad face scanned.
Within could be seen the snow-white
robes
And harps of the angel band.
whence contest thou. and thy errand
post thou think to enter in?
Hast thou heard the words Of the risen
Art thou pure and free from SIM"
The pilgrim then slowly shook his head.
And he sadly turned away,
Il have tried" said he. TO serve the
Through many a weary day.
"I've shed my tears with the mourner
I've laughed with the children gay.
But-free from SIM the lie that I've
All, no. that-I cannot say.
with no heinous crime nor towards
Have 1 ever stained nv name:
Yet many a man I've known full we'll.
Could say exactly the same.
mo friend of mine could ever say
His friendship have used
To further my own or another's aims.
Nor have ! trust abused.
"But the little things, the daily acts
Can full quickly mar shining page,
Like a garden choked with weeds"
St. Peter turned a thoughtful gaze
On the pilgrims aged race s;,u call NV
Who is ever full Of grace"
With low-bowed head the traveller
Till the Master by his side.
Whose calm, pure gaze spoke world OF
Softly said, with me abide.
Hast clothed the naked. the hungry
Hast Mghtened toilsome life?
All this i read in your ttme-nned race. :,
Thou hast known both stress anu
strife.
"rhe ..| pastures green and the waters
Are mot not for the easeful souls; 49,.
tho deenS.
Nor lived their lives midst the shoals. "
The pilgrim fell to his trembling knees.
And touched the Masters hand.
"One look" he cried, dear Lord, at
And the world would understand"
Rev. G. Elias Bergeron. assistant
priest at the Church Of st. John the
Baptist at Brunswick since Novem-
Der, 1917, will leave next week 10
serve as a missionary OF the Marist
Father in the Tonga or Friendly Is
lands in the Pacific. He will be the
first Marist Father from tho United
States to serve there. He is native
of Lawrence. Mass. and was edu-
Gated at the Marist College in WASH
ington, D. c. He was ordained IN
1907 and taught for q year in st.
Mary's College, Van Buren,. then re-
turning to the Marist College. where
he remained on the faculty until just
before going to Brunswick. He has
been very popular in Brunswick.
A Minot woman bought a package
of arsenic compound for use in the
home garden. Arriving home, she
placed the package on the table and
proceeded to stew some rhubarb TOR
supper. She sweetened it generous
ly. but when tasting it literally to
sample it, found it of a suspicuously
wrong taste and then discovered that
she had used the arsenic compound
for sweetening. The frightened wo-
man rushed herself to a Lewiston
hospital. where first and effective aid
was given and she was all right on
the following day-but disposed to be
a bit more careful with what she
sweetened rhubarb.
A Lewiston man thought to grass
his lawn, which was so situated that
it presented peculiar attraction to
most people for a short cut. An idea
presented itself. He sought q couple
Of lads in the neighborhood
and made them policemen
to protect his lawn while
the grass was growing. They enlist
ed the whole bunch Of boys as
deputies and the force" kept men.
women and children of and away
from the lawn. That the work Of the
amateur policemen was appreciated
was evidenced by the ice cream
spread the man gave the boys on a
neighboring lawn. at which the en-
tire force and specials were present.
Thursday was the Hath ami.
versary Of the capture Of the Mar
garetta in the first naval battle of
the Revolutionary War. which was
fought off Machias on June ~. ITS.
City Manager Beck Of Auburn has
just declined a very flattering offer
to become terminal supervisor Of the
Wabash Railroad. feeling that he can
and should for a while at least give
his best efforts and work to the
duties Of his present position.