Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-12-28

DIcSeut, tHt uuS oitSi'
Most time for a January thaW.
The small boy who was given sleC
instead Of skates was bit disap'
pointed Saturday.
4 Lewiston youngster insisted or
Having a cold lunch set out alongside
his stocking for he thought Santa
Claus must be hungry and tired. W.
Ihope that lad got full stocking.
What 4 pleasant picture, the morn
ling after Christmas, is the bright face
of a happy little one at the window
lpeeping at the passers-by over the top
Iof Il drum beaten vigorously! But
when the drum and the urchin get too
lbig to stay in the house and the tiny
INSTRUMENTATION becomes q terrific rub
a-dub-dub all over the neighborhood-
well. that is another matter. But let's
admire the cherubic picture at the win
dow while we may.
| Lewiston Sun: An Auburn man re-
lates the following anecdote about
Campmeeting John Allen: "A man
who thought he would quiz the old
gentleman said to him at one time.
How old is the devil?' Mr.. Allen an
swered promptly. Keep your own fam
lily records.
A hair pin got into one of the Lew
iston electric car heaters, Friday, and
caused it to burn out. 1t must have
been a red hair pin
| The Salvation Army at Portland, full
| filed the true Christmas spirit by feed
| ing the hungry. For two hours they
kept open house" There was no for
NAL invitations. All who came. men.
women and children, We're welcomed
with true army heartiness and were
asked no questions save will you sit
down and have some dinner with u.s."
| 1t was merry Christmas for the
! skaters.
| How can a thinly clad poorly and
| these cold nights without shelter or
covering" That is a question Il Grand
Trunk railroad man would like to have
answered. He says: Friday night !
noticed two tramps fast asleep by the
side of the track They had taken old
| railroad sleepers and piled one on top
| of another until they'd made shelter
| OF course open to the top. Then they'd
| built little fire and were sleeping be
| side it. All their sleepers could do was
| to break the force of the wind. This
was near Gilead and even in that cold
country they We're sleeping out of
doors. There We're two of them. with
out a thing under or over them, and
| with only that little fire to help keep
them warm. Any amount of them do
| this. We see their fires these cold
nights as we used to last summer.
| They try to find some depression in the
| ground, or else get behind some bank.
pile up old sleepers. make sort Of
shelter start a little fire. lay down and
go to sleep. We can't understand how
| they stand it. but they do night after
night. Give a tramp a meal, and if
he's a real tramp he'll sleep out of
doors and not mind it q bit"
| Lewiston doesn't call it local option
and doesn't need to-
| This is the way in which 4 genius Of
Frog Pond Corner in the town of
Newport takes comfort out of life.
really we believe he must have the fac
| ulty OF extracting solar effulgence from
! cucumbers. He collects cream and
dri> es about regardless of the weather
starting every morning about three
loclock. To obviate in n measure the
disagreeable part of it. he originated Il
contrivance which seems likely to prove
all that he anticipated. In appearance
/ it is not wholly unlike a large dry
| goods box, with a door in one end. It's
/ interior is roOmy and for furnishings
/ it is provided with an oil stove and one
seat. This is mounted on the forward
end of his horse sled and securely fas
| tened. When he starts mornings he
harnesses his horse. opens the door of
his coop" enters, seats himself, grasps
the reins which pass through an aper-
ture in the front. through which he is
1
| be in the road ahead, and with his oil
stove shedding its genial warmth. he
feels mighty sight more comfortable.
He is aware that the peculiar looking
| affair causes no end of comment, but
| it matters not to him; it answers his
purpose and that very satisfactorily.
| A Lewiston attorney relates an Incl
dent of how good luck and he brought
, a much needed witness into court. This
attorney was counsel for a landlady
who was attempting to collect a board
| bill, and the result hinged upon the
| evidence as to the removal of trunk
belonging to the young woman who was
sued. She testified that the trunk had
| been removed by a truckman and not
| by a certain man who drives a team
| for a Lewiston corporation. as was
suspected by the attorney. The attor-
| ney did not know the driver referred
to- never having seen him, but just as
the girl was testifying that this driver
] had not removed the trunk, the attor-
ney happened to glance out of the
| window and saw team belonging to