Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-16
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An Interval.
You wouldn't think to look at him a-lay-
In thar so meek
With his chubby hands both folded UNI
derneath his chubby check
You wouldn't think to see the peace his
sleepin' features take
he's awake!
bet if you could get a peep beneath
those laSheS now
You'd find spark o. mischief lurkin' In
his eyes somehow;
An those curved lips that'st nodded like
cherub's soft and sweet.
They,s yearin' jest to give a whoop would
lift you off your feet!
Look at his ragged little coat a-hangin'
on that chair
Thar amt, thing that belongs to him
that don't show signs of wear
Jest see those rusty little shoes, with
both the toes stumped out
They give a sort of idea of the way he
gifts about!
Somehow it don't feel natural fur the
house to be so still,
It's full of empty spaces that it takes his
An kinder miss the racket an the pat
ter of his feet,
An the litter that l growl about-things
look heap too neat.
It's curious how little scamp like that
kin take part
In all your thoughts and fancies, till he
fills feller'S heart
With the rattle and the prattle that you
learn to love somehow,
Till you're lonesome when you miss it
Sh!-Great Scott he's waking now.
Atlanta Constitution.
Names latest murder results from
horse trade.
The State lost it's prettiest camp
when Camp Comfort burned.
The national w. c. T. U. honors it
self and Maine in selecting Mrs. Stew
ems for the highest Office in it's gift.
Bath is taking a lead in the polo race
that has championship" sticking out
all over it.
The old battle flags in the Capitol
rotunda will have no cause to be
ashamed of the additions soon to be
made to their number.
Nothing is left of the list Maine eX-
cept the field, staff and band, but that
is no small part of it. After a few
days Uncle Sam will have to get along
without them.
Boston Journal: General Grosvenor
well says that there will be no mans
name mentioned in the caucus Of the
Republican party for speaker of the
House of Representatives except the
name of Thomas B. Reed of Maine"
That is only the inevitable.
They say that Carrie Hayes of Lee,
is the heaviest woman in the State
She is 80 years old, and weighs 465
pounds. She enjoys good health and
eats but little.
The farmers, who suffered all sum-
mer and the early fall on account of
the lack of water by their wells drying
up, have plenty now and enough to
last during the winter. due to the
heavy rains of the last few weeks.
A Lewiston lady went to Richmond
Saturday who said it was the first
time in her life that she had ever rode
on the steam cars. She has lived in
Lewiston As years.
The Philadelphia Ledger prints this
story about an honored daughter of
Maine: Once when Nine. Nordica was
singing at a concert in Texas she for
got her warm overshoeS. A cowboy
whom she had utterly fascinated, Of
fered to bring them to her. and he did
so, but he brought only one at a time.
When Nine. Nordica thanked him, and
in her gracious way regretted to have
given him so much trouble, he said to
her, Don't name it, ma'am. / wish
you We're a centipede."
Bath Times: Laugh and grow fat,
Americans and Maine-iacs. 1t is by
becoming morbidly serious, usually,
that one falls victim to the mania OF
self destruction. Even the worst of ills
and all circumstances may be borne if
one but cultivates cheerfulness OF
mind. In Maine, even, suicides have
become so common that ordinary af-
fairs of self destruction are being
given small heads and the bottom Of
the column.
The man, who is alleged to have
walked off with some 1900 of the pool
stakes at the New England fair, is far
from being likely to ever return to
Portland. For that matter he might
come back all right, and stay there,
because it is evident enough that no
legal steps will be taken against him
In fact that was just what was said
by the police authorities when in
formed that, the missing man was I'M
der arrest in New York. 1t has not pro-
posed to use the powers of the law for
the purpose of recovering money
staked on horse racing. OF course this
makes it evident that pool selling will
not have in 1899, the least bit of legal
protection at Rigby, and there is more
than a probability that if there is a
fair at Rigby, and that is by no means
settled thing, there will be no pool
selling.
The Maria Teresa, in spite Of the