Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-31
Maine G0sslnl
Fair lnez.

| Fair lnez.
o saw we not fair Inez? q
| She went away to camp
IOut where brooklet murmurs,
Out where the weeds are damp; 1.
| She took her best clothes with her,
she went away with song
| BEFORE she left her heart was light
| Ana She was well and strong
saw the lovely Inez
| The day she went away;
| Her dimpled checks were fair and soft,
| And she was feeling gay!
| She'd never been out camping.
She thought it would be nice
y nurse now stands beside her bed ~
| And cools her brow with Ice.
A toad got in her stocking
me hrst night She was there:
| She tainted when she put her foot
Against it in its lair;
a greenish little serpent
| Looked IN her tent next day
| They say her scream was neard at least
| Eleven miles away.
She fought the flies in daytime
| She furnished the mosquitoes
| With many a juicy bite:
| The cooking made her weary,
The water made her i'll
| Oh. how her pa will grumble when
| lie gets the Doctors bill.
! Alas. Alack, for Inez,
| She caroled when she went,
But found no fellow in the camp
| For whom she cared Il cent,
| And. Oh, "A wasp got under
| The sweater that she wore
| 1t once was plenty loose enough
| But hts her form no more.
| Chicago Times-Herald.
| The city population is small, over
Sunday.
| The churches that remain open Were
not crowded yesterday.
The end Of July,-how fast the sum
mer is going.
The naval cadets have captured Bath
with its beautiful buds and all.
| Tramps who attempt to wreck trains
are fit subjects FOR a tar and feathers
outrage"
They are making the usual mid
summer talk about closing the old
orchard bar rooms.
| The small boy and green apple com
hination is rare. this summer. but il
isn't the small boys fault.
The almanac predicts that August
will be the most delightful month of
the year. and it never fails in its
| representations
| Summer travellers who have been an
noycd by the senseless toot-toot-toot
| salute from steam vessels 10 every
| cottager on the route who lights a bon
| fire or burns u little red fire. viii be
| pleased to know uf an innovation made
by the Boston * bangor Steamship
| line. which company has recently add
| ed a powerful searchiight to the equip
| ment of its ship city of Bangor. and
| now, instead OF the hdcous three times
| ear-splittinE footing Of the whistle.
| three powerful but silent rays are
| thrown on the cottages. and that is tho
| end and all of the salute from the ship.
From the frequency with which one
reads in the Maine papers such items
as John Smith is at home for a few
days" one might infer that Maine PEG
pie We're great strangers at their own
firesides. But that would be serious
error. These people lat home" are the
business men and women. and teachers
and artists and statesmen and all the
rest who. though they may be winning
fame in other states, yet call Maine
home and return to il every time they
can get a vacation.
The opinion Of what constitutes a
state of drunkenness varies in 4 great
measure The fact that man has
| taken one drink of liquor is enough to
convict him in court but good many
criminals who are arrested on the
charge allow that they know a little
something about how much man
should drink before he Is considered
drunk. In the progress of 4 trial in
the Old Town municipal court the other
morning. one of the respondents said
he was mot guilty" to the charge Of
drunkenness. When asked by the
judge if he had been drinking any the
day before. he replied. Yes, some,
perhaps 10 or l. drinks The judge
| wanted to know what kind if liquor
| the man maintained he was not drunk.
| The judge didn't see it that way. how
| ever.
Waterville Mail: The popularity of
| the Belgrade lakes as resorts where
may be had leisure and comfort and
sport combined in pleasing proportions
| increases every season: and not with
out good reasons. The principal center
| Of the resort business about these
lakes for number of years has been
the little village of Belgrade Mills. al
| though there are scores of boarding.
| houses and farmhouses scattered
| about the lake which entertain their
| quota of visitors every year. Both
| these places and the hotels at the Mills
| have been proving more and more at
| tractiVe until the latter have been abso-
| lutely overrun with guests. 1t is said
| that scores of people who wished to