The Portland daily press., 1896-04-02


ing in Fish, and Coasters Beginning to
Arrive.
There was good illustration of the
truth of Darwin's statement: "The con-
Meeting link is everywhere" on Com
mereial street yesterday. A dog was
trotting after the wagon of a farmer,
when he happened to notice another dog
half a block distant, and pulling hard at
the rope by which he was attached to the
wagon, he broke away, and made off.
The farmer did not at first notice the
runaway, and before he had time to more
than observe that something had hap
pened some boys had tied the loose end
of the rope to the collar of the other dog,
and there was prospect for any amount
of excitement ahead.
Before the dogs themselves fully com
pretended the full extent OF their sudden
attachment, man started to walk across
the street. He is good citizen, but it
was doing him no more than justice, to
say that he is stoutly built in fact, fat.
Now there is nothing in that circum-
ashamed. Sam Walter Foss insists that
it is d great moral advantage to man,
because as he says:
"rhe fat nan, everybody knows,
Doth bask in virtues smile;
For as he grows in adipose
He doth decrease in guile.
And tbs my creed, through cynicS carp
Anu cavil much thereat
No man can be entirely good
Till he is fairly fat"
And taking Mr.. Sam Walter Foss, as
an authority, it can be safely stated that
the citizen in question is very good
man.
As has been stated, he was crossing the
street with a basket of groceries on his
arm, and peace and contentment in his
heart
just than the farmer noticed his dog
and shouted: "Come here Spring, gosh
durn ye,'' and the owner of the other
dog whistled from down the street.
II may be stated that one dog was yell
low. and the other black and white. Not
that this fact has any special bearing on
the case, but because 1t may serve to
identify the dogs later on.
One dog startedgup street, and the other
had an engagement in the opposite di-
rection. Both were about alike in
strength, and there was some wild strug
Cling to break the ties that bound them.
The fat man got wit, IN reasonably
close distance to them before he noticed
that anything was wrong, and when he
did it was eyerlastingly too late. For
second or SO the dogs made break di
rectly across the street and tried to pass
him one on his right and the other On his
left hand, and they did, but the rope
didn't.
There was shout of SECT out drat
you," or something stronger and more
vigorC us maybe, for there are moments
when the man who is commonly a very
st. Anthony, yields to temptation, and
then groceries,, a fat man, yellow dog,
a black and white dog, profanity and
strong rope were mixed up together SO
completely that when the old farmer ar
rived on the scene he tunlbled over the
profanity while trying to catch at Uhe
collar of the yellow dog. and the owner
of the black and white dog slipped on
some butter once in the basket, and went
down with the rest. 1t was some NOM
ents before the dogs were elected from
the pile, ssand the man was helped up.
And then it was, but not until then.
that two small boys, the fellows who
tied the dogs together started off down
street whistling well-known Salvation
Army tune.
MARINE NOTES.
One more cargo of Nova Scotia pulp
was received here yesterday.
J. W. Trefethen reported the arrival
yesterday of feet of small boats, with
30, 90 pounds of cod and haddock.
The coasters began TO come in rapidly
yesterday.
An agent of the Boston Marine Uuder-
writers was trying yesterday to ascertain
how much the cargo of the schooner
Maggie Hurley was damaged. The
schooner is now at Winterport. The car
go was insured in Boston.
Commissioner Tolman doesn't take any
stock In the story that an agent of the
Cuban revolutionists has been trying to
ship sailors from Portland.
The new 1S00-ton schooner William B,
Palmer of Bath, will make her first trip
from Norfolk to Portland bringing $500
tons coal for the Maine Central railroad.