Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-12-21
WELCOMING DARK DAYS.
THEY ARE NOT UNIVERSALLY HATED,
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dive them freedom from the persecution Of
psddlGA A long a tns days are fair, front
doom. x,ds doom, area doom and back doom
arv harntei BY an ever changing brood OF
vanderx, each with q load Of nefcnAndise
hAavy enough 6os PACK horss. No refusal
Win discourage their coming, and no answer
short Of al emphatic zlamuing Of the door In
their faces VII stop the seller from deposiring
his pack and exhibiting Turkish rugs from
Philadelphia, SwiA clocks from Connecticut
md plush albums from Randolph street All
Of thess goods are readily guaranteed 70 b
al ths lady ct the house may demand, The
dealer piesiging bis commercial honor that
they will wear ion1nr than any similar
articles bought On State street or Wabash
avenue, while his price, ne is practically Ger
tain. Is far below anything ever before known
And as long as the days are fair these stray
ing merchantmen are haunting houses and
enecting sales on the easy instaliment plan,
securing pronissory notes and chat;ei mort
cages from women who did not want 10 buy
and who hate themselves as soon the p-d-
der Is gone. But when cloudy days come
and copious rains pour into bottomless depths
Of mud, the easy payment man must keep his
wares indoors, and housewives have welcome
assurance Of a rest
OLD CLOTHES DAY.
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the house 10 house canvass Is laid under .
ike embargo by the rain. When the air Is
black with storm clouds and the unpaved
streets in the outlying districts offer impassa-
bls barriers TO a horse and wagon, the man
who travels for music merchandise house
must travel alone and unattended by his Gus
tomary instrument For rain quickly pene-
trates the case that incloses bis marvel Of
music and renders the organ an Accumulation
Of discords and the piano u distracting clamor
Of harsh sounds
In days when darkness and rain bring
gloom TO the man of limitless solvency. he
can never imagine the mental condition OF
the wight who walks the streets in grateful
security during ali business hours assured
that no man ne owes can recognize him TWEEN
ty feet away, and relying with absolute Ger
tainty on the Opaque gloom to secure him i'm
munity from the ever impending dun. He
can visit places Of resort that knew him in
happier hours, and sit in safety by the day,
for none of the men to whom he owes dol
lar can come through that gloom and In
clement weather on any mission less iInpera-
tive than death. He can walk the streets
dressed in clothing TOO awfully shabby for
sunny weather wear, and knows that no
apology is needed. the bad weather is excuse
enough.
He can drift along unabashed in "A hat
that might well have provoked the inquiry
current in theatre song, and newsboy badin-
age and need tell no where he got that
covering for the head He can wear a pair
of trousers with an unchecked tendency to
bag at the knees, and frayed and muddy
appearance altogether: he can cover a shabby
suit OF clothes with Il shabbier overcoat and
march side by side with the best Of them,
for the awful appearance of streets and sky
is a constant and sufficient apology. He can
brave his way wherever he will and hold
his head up with the unspoken assurance
that he has better clothes if he chose To wear
them, but that no man with high forehead
will go we'll dressed in such abomnahle
weather.
TRE GIANT IN THE DYNAMO.
The companies that generate electric light,
the sellers of gas and even Ahe modest trades
men who dabble in kerosene, all welcome a
dark day us the iceman does warm weather
When the sun rises and shines and sets with
out once s.,eing the world-which must take
him on trust-the artificial lighting Is con
slant, and bills pile up as regularly as the
SCOT comes down. When brighter shining
dissipat.s the gloom and gentle winds carry
the clouds away to dissolve their borders in
tine pure lake air, ugbts 20 out in town; the
business OF electricians aud gas men and
vendors Of oil suffers point or two from the
bear influence OF Old Sol on the market.
The dar ker the day the happier the man
who has lights substitute for sale. As the
clouds lower, the giant imprisoned in dy-
namo ronse- little, stretches fraction Of
his huge strength, darts viriie thrill along
hundred wires and feels the spirit in him
toss il. Weakened anger. for, dark as he seems,
he is the offspring Of the sun, producing light
and hea. by swift and tireless motion, and he
looks on clouds as traitors to the king of day.
He arms him with strength from two great
masses of iron. catches quicker breath as
the armature whirls in a revolution passing
thought with its speed grasps his wire lances
with gloved hands and plunges into the At
tack on shadows 1t is a very revel with
him
Lashed to a certain station he cannot 90
beyond limit circumscribed, but he leaps
without warning into nest of gloom and
drives the darkness 10 the limit Of his boun-
DIARIES with a single sweep OF his claYInore Of
light He cannot follow the shadows. but he
dances and Kisses and dares them 10 an ad-
vance they never attempt while he watches.
He lowers his weapons and sinks for an in
slant as If the fight were wearisone. and u
the legion of shades press little nearer he
flashes into power again and losses them over
like pillows of blackness and guards to the
uttermost the space assigned him.
How gladly would he pursue the shadows,
how keenly he senses the power of day over
night; how loyal is ne to his parent, the sun
how he beats his bars and pleads to be loosed
for the chase wherever darkness hovers-up
In the air, down in the earth, behind thick
walls and in ghostly corners 1t is carni
val for the giant of electric light, and deep
est shadows, gloomiest days and thickest at
mospheres are to him welcome as the breezes
Of Araby to the dropping pilgrim of the east.
There is many = welcome even for dark
days Chicago Herald.