Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1899-01-04
NEW YEARS sOLILOQUY.
BY .sTYLUSn


old, old couple Father Time and Dame
Nature, and its name upon the town rec
ord is 1882.
January has come around again after
an interval OF few days and we business
man receiveth more notes OF hand at 6 per
cent. aud other ''pay or dien duns than he
can pay in Il year and a half and utter
bankruptcy. But he gritteth his teeth
and thinketh within himself that he will
carry the business through or go down i'll
the wreck.
And We fast man who hath wasted his
ubstance in Ill living maketh good reso-
hut ions to the wife of his bosom and of
his bread and batter, ana vowetn to turn
over new leaf and to live a sober life
from this time on forevermore, so help
him. Then he goeth out and tilleth his
pocket flask with cold tea at the Maine
prohibition restaurant around the corner.
And We gallant youth and we merry
| maid, two hopeful hearts that beat rs
one TO loves old song, put their brown
haired heads together in sweet calculation
and figure out how much the wedding
can live in a four room cottage, where
love abideth and the woodbine twineth,
on 80 a week. And they say this blessed
new year; for in it we'll b,gin to live.
While the old folks go doietuily upstairs
at 9 and the mother sits down and cries
and the old man says that he wonders
what in all human nature the girl sees in
that gawky to like.
new lease OF life has come aud ye dis
couraged man who hath lost his horse,
broken his leg, failed in business and hat
buried in the green churchysrd the loved
OF years and the pride OF life, lifieth up
his melancholy countenanee and saith:
"Anot her year hath come to me; thank
God it can't be worse than last"
And ye successful man, who hath torn
down his barns to build greater, whose
hips have come IN Iaden with the gold
and silver and the spices of he Indies,
and whose prosperity is like the green
bay tree, he looketh around for some rail-
road to buy and he saith: "l'il go to the
legislature and get some laws passed to
help the perishing business interests OF
bsiliwick in particular" And he cocketh
his eye to the proba bilities and waggeth
his head in unhoiy satisfaction.
Another page written on the life record
irrevocable, and We long haired poet
writeth a melancholy ditty about llies
tleeting years and wasted tears and de-
serted bowers and withered flowers, etc,
ctr he fak ct To
uncomb bed, pastepot daubed editor OF the
Weekly Gadabout who saith that it is
fine and that they will give it set up at
10 cents per agate line per week and not
copper less, so help them high heaven.
Whereat the poet inaketh IA rude unpoeti-
cal remark about the condition OF the
EDITORS brains and 10, there followeth
sound of wild revelry and banging. and
the poet picks himself up at the foot of
the stairs and goeth his troubled way
with smashed hat, torn coat and
sore place or two.
And ye bold lad seizeth his books and
wendeth his way to the old seholast ic
barrack on the hill and hopeth in his
heart that he'll ''pass" somehow, and that
y
anyhow, and may all the gods in Greek
and Roman mythology help him to that
noble END. While his brig hit eyed sister
whose fragrance and whose freshness are
like the May time vioiets on the noun
tains sunny slopes saith: This year I'll
graduate and have such lovely gown for
graduation and the bali, aud what Will
Toa Stnit n thjDk of me- her, -
And the old man wi hose knees are feeble,
whose cane is almost his only companion
of earth and time, whose strength the
climb up life's bare crags for the summit
view never seen, for when at last he got
there he was blind, he saith: ~ was
young and now am old my days upon the
earth are numbered. Give peace to my
waiting soul, oh Lord God OF Hosts"