Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-12-12
JAY EPF BEE
elys Some Slbstilnal Reasons Ehy
People ShsaN Lot BIi66sPats,
And Relates . few Personal Expssi-
sucss to Show that Truth 10
etroness than Fiction

NJ. Editor;
+, the sin Of exaggeration born 10 man
,omeslmes think so-"Whew, Never saw
!, 20 cold before in my life" Yes. re have
had cooIish snap, but the person whose
.oiourn on this terrestrial sphere has exceeded
sighteen months, kuev when he or she made
he above stereotyped remark, that they
aid it with diminishing veraciiy. I DO
no, wish 10 convey the idea that
they deliberately perpetrated = falsehooi,
bot 10 exagaeration - we'll ~ In other thipgs.
mos, people must follow the fashion or get
Ell. Hence We hear that ''Its axfsity hot
.hen Is is ten above. according to Anne
aoid or that "sleighing 10 just fwmense''
shen the ground over which you pass re-
.embles q first class dynamo in fall blast
Nine gu, Of fifteen greet you with, "How de
do. nne day isn't it, even il . volcanic
eruption vas tipped up edgevise and threat
,ned to quake without further notice, and
the answer, Yes, very When perhaps st
the moment, heavily surchsrged cioads
threaten 10 deiage the universe, il too oblig-
Ing.
Why people cannot tell things ~ they are,
has always been q mystery, and Why white
.hoald be called black or blue. green, IN
l,., We are color blind. is conundrum-
| have led some what perforated exist
soce. experienced soft snaps as well ss cold
ones-but never was inclined 10 initiate facts
truth. in my particular case being stronger
than fiction.
Speaking Of cold snaps reminds me" Of
trip once made across the Atlantic In Feb
nary. We were in the ntighborhood Of the
Newfoundland Banks when we got = fog
blizzard the like of which had never seen
a, tina, time We got Jacksoned in the ice,
and the ocean froze over and eleven of US built
toboggans and taking advantage Of right
cant in the earth slid into Halifax on the
ice-a distance Of two hundred miles, In one
hour aud seventeen minutes.
also met with a peculiar experience in
Eastern Siberia. | saw il 90 cold there that
4 mans breath would CONCEAL so quickly,
that every respiration would push him back
yard fourteen inches--and progress was only
possible by turning our backs in the direction
We Wished to proceed.
While on a sheep ranch 'out west" I bad
warning that regular sneezer was coming
and started my flock for shelter. The biz
gard met me and the entire lot were frozen
stiff in their tracks. Next morning the air was
full of bass suspe nded from four to ten feet
above the ground. As the sun rose those
sheep blats" thawed out and the last half
Of hundreds of unfinished bleatings broke
mournfuly on the morning air.
think my most wonderful experience
su in Canada where Was doing the com
mercial traveller act, with seven pairs of
stockings and a fur lined AMI padded buffalo
oyeroost crswled befWeen all the bed
clothes could find ~ithout bothering TO
remove supertiuous clothing, and dreamed q
dream. It was so cold that that dream froze
solid and the first thing | saw in the morn
ing was the legend, finely ornamented with
fro.t~ork and icicles, plainly inscribed upon
the wall. Thou shalt not lie" and | never
have.
honestly think that rather than be reck-
onsd 10 with the throng of mealy-mouthed
ersggerstors that ornament the earth,
would accept without a murmur the fumi-
xstious toridity of that warmer slime.
JAY ETY. BEE.