Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-04-03
Maine Gossip.
When a Feller's Packin' Up.

When FelIer's Packin' Up.
When a feler's packin' up to leave he
whiStles-don't you know;
Or, tells you it's the weather that affiicts
his feelin's so!
Or eff from jest one corner of his eye a
tear may run.
He says he's lest perspirn'."-but he
don't fool any one,
Fer that ere packin' up amt what they
crack it up TO be;
You never pack your heart in with the
other things you seei
Thar $ the letters that she wrote you
that you've kept an loved fer
years;
An some of EN- looks blotted-but
reckon it's yer tears,
An the last sweet letter mebbe, is the
one that give the pain.
An made yer eyes run over like rivers
Swelled by rain.
But thar it is amongst 'em, an you sigh,
an understan'
You're only keepin of it cause she writ
it with her han.
When a feIler's packin' up to leave he'd
better keep apart,
Or he'll have a sad time tryin' fer to
whistle off his heart,
That laugh O his rings hollow. an his
jokes air feeble, TOO;
He's a funeral procession spite O. all
that he kin do.
/ never did like packin' When the leav-
in time comes on
j allus give instructions:-'Sh my
things when | am gone
An, that's Jest what I've toll EN-. (Nev-
er think Ill shed a tear
But ii looks as eff twuz rainin' ten or
twenty mile from hereD
Atlanta Constitution.
Now the battery boys come home.
Calais letters along with its cleo
ton, today.
Bangor reports bright outlook for
building.
after all.
The hustling housewives are begin
ming the spring cleaning.
sance of distributing handbills on the
streets.
The morals of Rockland and vicinity
must be on the mend as the police have
not had to make an arrest for fort
night
The Hancock county bob-cat hunters
mourn because of the repeal Of the 81
bounty on bobcats.
You cannot convince the Maine mill
! operatives that Republican prosperity
is anything but the solid, substantial
kind which is worth having.
Still another Maine party is going to
the Klondike, this spring. They will
soon be able to organize a good-sized
Pine Tree State Club on the Yukon.
With an army of 2OOO workmen al
ready working at Millinocket. a magic
city is rising in the Maine wilderness.
Several new creameres in various
parts of the State show that the Maine
farmers are realizing that there is
profit in dairying
Last years hay crop was a record
breaker and there is every indication
| that it will be followed, this year, by
another good one. The winter has been
just right for the grass roots.
Rev. A. ]. Haynes. the young Chica-
go pastor whose liberal orthodoxy has
| caused a stir in religious circles of the
country, is Hancock county boy-a
native of Trenton.
Portland Press: If William J. Bryan
can be induced to come to Scarboro
| Democratic town for 81 out of the last
SO years. he is to be fed on a regular
| farm dinner-Dork and beans and
baked Indian pudding, with a side dish
| of ScarbOro clans, and perhaps a
drink of ''stonewall' cider at the end.
But perhaps even this appetizing fare
will not draw Col Bryan when he
| learns that the exception in Scarboro' s
| Democratic record was in 1896. when
that town gave William Mckinley 1872
votes and William J. Bryan 1877 votes.
! The Lenten egg market, in Salem,
Mass. suffered rude shock through
the independence and enterprise of