Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-04
STATE HOUSE.
A Man Visits the Capitol in Search Of
Dog Clipper.
The Game Seen in a 81 Days Journey in
Maine Woods.

Whenever the people of Augusta arc
especially bored by book agents or insur-
ance agents or any other bores of one
sort or another. they send the said agents
to the State House. The greatest joke Oh
the State House people in this line oc-
CURED. Wednesday afternoon when a
man called and asked for someone to clip
his dog.
The attaches of the State House have
callers of all sorts and at all hours of
the day. Every subscription paper and
every book agent is sure to strike the
State House. In this manner the people
there have a chance to learn to say no
a great many times in the course of 3,
day or a year.
1t seems that man visited Augusta
Wednesday. for the express purpose of
having mis- dog clipped and someone in Il
moment of jest thought it would be n
good joke on the State House people to
send him there. They accordingly sent
him to the secretary of States depart
ment and told him to call for Joseph AL
eXander who did such work
The man entered the room and walking
up to Mr.. Alexander asked if he could
7.
Alexander said that he would be very
much pleased to do the work. but his
clippers We're in Richmond at his home
ana so he could not possibly accommo-
date him. He said however. that MIR
Wiswell of the treasury department. was
a good man at such work and did quite
a little of it.
10 the treasury department the man
went and addressing the mystified Wis.
we'll he said Can you clip my dog, to.
day."
Inc man who counts the money looked
at the stranger in amazement and then
burst out laughing at the idea, but he
quickly saw that the joke was on him
from the number who were walking back
and forth by the door in the rotunda. 80
he braced up and put on his most seri-
Gus. sober countenance and said he hal
not the time though he enjoyed such
work and liked to earn a little extra by
doing il. He said he had been 50 busy
in the past few weeks that he had done
nothing in that line and had even been
obliged to get Assistant State Librarian
Ernest w. Emery to clip a dog the day
before. He said if the man would just
step to the head of the stairs and see Mr.
Emery all could be arranged.
To the library the man went and ad-
dressing Mr. Emery he asked again tn,
question If he could get his dog clipped
here. Mr.. Emery tried to put him off,
but a gentleman entering at this mo-
ment and complmented him upon the
good work in clipping a dog the week be-
fore. This was too much. Finally Mr.
Emery ridded himself of the man. 1t Is
said there were more people in the room
looking for books a the time the dog
man was there than at any other time
for weeks.
Mr.. Emery says the other members Of
the State House departments made
mistake in sending the man to him. as
he will now know where to send the book
agents who make the library their head
quarters. They always center in the Ii
brary and they ask Mr.. Emery who in
the building will be the most liable to
buy a book. All the iokers in this case
will in the future be remembered by Mr.
Emery.
The man did not get his dog clipped at
the State House.