Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-09-02
A Night on the Fair Ground.

VI tniS one particular Ialr, ana TO treat
the matter as a fair IN general; did you
ever pass a night ON a great fair
ground?
1t wouldn't be 1alr to ask II one ever
slept on a fair ground. That Is an I'M
possibility. SO as the subject under
consideration pertains to fairs where all
should be fair, an unfair question Will
not be submitted.
The person VINO has never passed a
night on fair ground, has missed
something that did he but know what,
he would forever be dissatisfied until
he had had the experience.
Oh, 1t is great. 1t Is on a night of
this sort that one is brought to realize
how nearly like a human being all
the animals and fowl that tend to
make rural life so comforting and
truly rural, are. The kind OF human
being referred to is not man grown.
but man in his infancy, when he
wants the whole world, yet that isn't
what he wants after all. discovering
which. he makes night hideous with
his cries.
Yes, if the married man with but one
child thinks he enjoys life when that
solitary one cries the whole night, he
ought to pass the night on a fa;,
ground, and he will see that his lon.
kid isn't in tiff the slang term may
be permitted.
A night of this sort will give a man
a chance to think over his past. pres
emf. and future life, and then leave him
at a loss for material to think about,
after which he begins to notice, and
hear what is going on about him. if
morning does not arrive soon after tn s
the enjoyment of the night sort of
fades away, 1t takes strong heart
and a determined purpose to resist the
temptation to utter EXPLANATIONS. the
nature of which would hardly seem
fitting in good society.
The Journal man enjoyed CO an cx-
perience of the above nature one night
recently, and the bliss experienced in
that one night was so great he will not
attempt it again, as the sudden fall to
earthly affairs would be so great that
it would ruin his happiness.
There are people who make it a
practice to go to all the fairs, and -
camp while there on the grounds
Whatikind of people they are cannot
be stated, but they must be deaf, if
they steep.
You get used to the noise they say.
There's nothing like getting used to Il
thing.
me park in the evening is really in
terestlnS-t In this particular eyeqling.
the journal man passed the evening
with the crowds at the band concert in
front of the auditorium, and then ac-
coqnpanaed friend to the city to visit
the rooms of the Y. NJ. c. A, and in
ciden.ally TO drop into the pool room
at the hotel where the boOkmakers
were hard at work with the crowd of
sports, who had money to bet on the
results OF the next days races.
Bangor Is a nice place to pass away
the time-So 1t is said, and it was late
when the journal man wended his way
~ the gates OF the Ialr grounds, only
10 ma them securely locked.
Ialk apout running the guard at
camp POWERS. 1t is slow beside trying
10 get III or out OF the fair grounds
aiter ii O'Clock at night. Place the
pest guard at the camp on duty, with
the strictest officer in the lot over
them, ana the soldiers could pass the
lines easier than they could scale the
renee mere.
III was only after patiently waiting.
that the journal man was fortunate
enough to be let through the lines or
gates rather, and then it appeared that
the gate was opened only when po-
nceman wished to put out few
drunks, who had been found asleep
ABOUT the stable.
once in the troubles had but just be-
gun. The only accommodations offered
py the Journal office was mattress
ana blanket.
In some way the whole poultry de-
partment had gotten the idea that it
was morning, as had the cattle. swine
sheep and horses, and well, yes, the
men.
First discontinued goose would
Shrek, rooster would crow, a duck
quack, a COW would loo, several horses
neigh; the sheep were batting and the
hogs squealing. In short 1t was the
nearest approach to pandemonium that
ever was thought of. What picnic
Moan must have had in the ark with
all those animals.
1t took just three of the longest
hours ever conceived by mortal man to
takes one in her arms, and mesmer-