Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-08-22

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Midsummer.


Midsummer.
&C. j. Swaine in the Granite Monthly
What wealth of bloom what flash of wings,
Each fair and radiant morning brings.
How fun of rest the drowsy thrall!
When noonrayS on the dial fan.
What beauty round the sunset wreathes
When her last breath the daylight breathes
Oh. like a miracle of dreams
A day in sweet midsummer seems.
After the day queen seeks repose
What tender shadows round us close!
The stars are asterS pale and sweet.
Turned down to dimness by the heat.
Later the moon is set afloat,
With clouds to sail her silver boat.
oh, like a miracle of dreams
night in sweet midsummer seems!
Tramp tramp, tramp, the boys are
marching.
Extra bed blankets at the summer
resorts.
Did you get the discount on your
taxes?
Save what's left over from the va
cation expenses. You'll need it at I'll.
fairs.
Eastern Maine State fair next week
The pumpkin that Nins the prize there
will have to hustle.
| This is said to be big acorn year
Anyhow the market is overstocked Will
| chcstnuts-of the political variety.
| Mr.. Clifford didn't care to make q
| speech in the convention that would
have been glad to hear him. Isn't tina
| human nature?
Now for Camp Cleaves.
The advance guard is on the way and
| feminine admiration for martial trap
| pings is on the qui vive
See that the knapsack has plenty OF
warm clothing, boys
Society prophets predict less dan
cling this winter.
But the terpsichorean art does not
. languish IN Swanville. where they
danced one night recently and the gen
| tlemen paid the fiddler according to
the weight of their respective partners
! A man down in South Deer Isle got
| so mad the other day. his neighbors
| have written the local newspaper
| all about it, He hunted one day
| for his COW in vain. got the as
sistance of a neighbor and they bott
hunted another day, and on their re
turn the COW was found quietly feeding
, in the pasture where she ought to be
| They had overlooked her. hat was all
; This is terrible! An organ grinder
rusticating in Belfast renders a vocal
accompaniment to his instrument.
| Doubtless the burden of his refrain is.
| troubles they never come singly.
The latest individual to deplore the
cruelty of catching flies by means OF
sticky fly paper is Gardiner man.
! He sat down on sheet of it The only
anti-fly apparatus he now allows to re-
main in the house is a pair of clap
pers, two shingles hinged at the top
ana smeared on the inner sides with
! molassos.
The Bath Times thinks Bath this
year al least Will have to get fame in
some other way than in seeing one of
! her citizens elected vice president. and
| accordingly suggests working up rep
utation for being a summer resort.
Old Town city fathers refuse to IL
cense a merry go-round. When all
towns adopt that course it won't be such
a merry go-round for the owners of
/ these mechanical harvesters of nickles.
| Jack Clark, q Sherman lad. went for
the COWS the other night. There was
nothing unusual about this. but when
Jack SHE'D a rock at one of the animals
that Jagged behind in the shadow of
the trees something decidedly unusual
occurred Jack heard the rock strike
! the animal with hollow thump on it's
ribs and expected to see the COW come
out from under the tree on swinging
| run. instead Dig Dull HOUSE bpuilueu
out into the open and made for the
voungstcr with strides that would put
! the seven league boots away out be
hind the distance flag in a race. Jack
sized UP the animal al first sight He
also knew the habits and procliVities of
that kind of animal and he therefore
made for the nearest tree and slid up
the side of it with small delay. The
moose was close at the boys heels
when he climbed into the lower
| branches and he snorted around the
foot of the trunk in "a way that made
| thu. boy SILVER and grab the limbs
' closer. After about an hour the big
! brute remembered an engagement
which he had arranged with certain
| Young moose damseI over in oxford
county that evening, and he went off
in rod long jumps in that direction.
A we'll known Lewiston man claims
TO know the exact time when he VIII
die Years ago, when young man.
he had his fortune told and it was from
this source that he derived the grew
some information in question. His
mystic informant gave him long
string of predictions. every one OF which
nm to this time the gentleman tells us,
has come to pass. He is to shuttle off
this mortal coil at the age of IS. and as
| !, =: ,,,,,. 90 If will he seen that he has