Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-09-10
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ana grand,
Bordered by flowers on every hand,
And granite walks but newly laid
Shone marble white meath the naples
shade.
Within it was furnished both richly
Tapestries heavy with none could COM
pare,
The walls and the easements were
guilt-leSs stain,
No finger prints showed on the pol
ished grain.
And yet. mid it all it was empty and
bare,
No childs voice had wakened the still
echoes there;
The father returning from work and
to rest
Had known. not the joy of babys
No loving wife greeted his step with
smile,
Dispelling cares shadow and gloom
For worldly was she, and the servants
Welcomed his step, yet they called it
Home.
Not far from this wealth that the
Fates had let fall.
The twilight glow fell on bare white
washed wall,
Scant were the furnishings, yet
mother love
Fell like a blessing from heaven
above.
The husband returning from work at
the store,
Was met by sweet, loving wife at
the door;
While within came the call of a rosy
checked ladde,
The call of the ages the welcome of
Daddy
They were rich-not perhaps as the
world reckons wealth,
But rich in the blessings of Love-
Trust and Health.
Ihey mad found in their want what the
rlch did not own,
The gem of the world--the true mean
ing of Home.
GRACE MARGARET HASKELL.
from washington county comes the
report of an abundance of game birds
and deer. Rabbits too. are said to be
very plentiful owing to the scarcity Of
foxes and the dry season.
Miss Nina Robinson performed
good swimming feat at Island Falls
when she swan across Pleasant pond,
distance of some three quarters OF
mile. Miss Robinson is the first
woman to accomplish this and she beat
the young men who were swimming
at the same time by about three min
utes.
Some queer electrical phenomena
were noticed in connection with the
death of Ernest H. Good of Caribou,
who was killed Tuesday while working
in the cellar of the home of John b.
Roberts. Mr.. Good noticed sparks
coming from the wires on the washing
Nlachine and started to investigate.
He put both hands on the machine and
received a shock which caused instant
death After this accident. sparks
were noticed coming from an electric
toaster in the kitchen at Mr. Roberts
house, and when this was disconnect-
the floor and took off the heel from the
shoe of Mrs. Fred Roberts who was
standing in the room at the time. 1t
, is thought the wires on that street
! must have been crossed with other
heavily charged wires.
Like everything else Of today the
price of college education has taken
big jump" says the Biddeford Jour
nal and continues; "A Saco man who
was a member of the class of 1864
from Bowdoin college has a cata-
In iCh
of 1928 by the college in which
the estimated cost of keeping one
boy in college for one year, includ-
ing all expenses, is $1S5. At that
time the tuition of Bowdoin was $50:
room rent for the year. SO: board
ranged from 50 to So a week; incl
dental charges of the college were
given at SIP: and the cost of books,
lighting, heating, etc, was estimat-
ed at s35.
At present the cheapest that one
can go through college for, for one
year is about $500. and the prices at
different schools range from $500 to
$1,000. The tuition of different COL
leges ranges from $3.50 to $500: board
from Sc to SO per week; room rent
from SIS to 1925 a year, and other
charges as much more in proportion.
At cost of $1S5 year the attend
ance would be so large today that
new colleges would have to be built"
The aquarium at the lobster
hatchery at Boothbay Harbor con-
tinues to attract crowds of people.
Capt. Hahn takes much interest and
much pride in it. He desires all
kinds Of aquatic animals either from
fresh or salt water likewise any
animals whose habitat is partly wa
ter. One of the latest acquisitions is
a number of these little fish we call
"sunfish" or "punkin seeds" They are
insignificant creatures but they in
terest some. A small boy found a
colony of big barnacles on a piece of
drift wood They were large and of
an unusual variety. There are three
connected animals. The shells are
large as small clans very prettily
marked. Long clam like necks ex-
tend several inches to the wood to
which they are attached. From the !
other end of the shell are projected
at times curly filaments which gently !
wave in the water. The filaments
make a current in the water which |
warts food towards the mouth. It !
is as If one should wave his hands in |
the air to make draft which would |
Dear food to the lips. These barna- I