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MR. HIRAM W. RICKER OF POLAND SPRING.

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F H. W. mans the broad-mouthed ~un, it's so's to scatter shot; For over there at Poland, they spread a man a lot; He has to fool the Unions, in a most persistent way, By worldng to the limit, ei~hteen hours to the day. So the open-featured article that Hiram holds to view Is a s),]nbol, as I take it. that he has a lot to do. There's the Water, that he bottles-why! if the very littlest germ To, within forty miles of POIUlHl, should industriously squirm, H. "\V. calls his henchmen: puts the horrid thing to routHis to scout him and to flout him and to sterilize him outSo, with business in the detail and busine~s in the rough, H. W. takes the burdt:n and he never cries "enough."

But, not alone at Poland, has fr:end Ricker been of use -Tho I don't believe the artist, that he ever killed a moose"State School for Boys," for instance,-he has served, it day by day, With a zeal and honest service that no wage could ever pay; While, on the hills of beauteous Hebron, Uuine's Sanatorium thrives Where he's ~'iven yeru's of service to the savin,!!; of our lives. I l{now he'll read the riot-act for what I've written now But I'll ~o him one thing further, if I have to stand a row; And I'll say that, for pure kindness. and the art of doing thin~s, He ranl.:s with all the Rickers who enterta.in like ldngs, And with all the other virtues. which the verse succinctly tells, He has the family-art consummate-the running of hotels.

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