Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-17

binatiOn wasn't a palatablc one at all.
Just for fun, | next tried beer. and it
proved to be even worse. | had been
wanting to stop drinking for a long
time, and concluded if candy would
have that effect once it would again.
| That was two weeks ago, and since
then l haVn't been without a piece Of
some kind of confection in my pocket.
Whenever l feel longing for drink
coming over me just slip the candy in
my mouth, and that settles it for the
time being. Try it whenever you want
| to swear off. 1t beats taking the pledge
all hollow
The Journal prints the little tale for
the benefit of those who may want to
experiment with themselves.
Twice in the course of my life said
a cheerful visaged man, II have lost
a bunch of Electric railroad tickets. |
buy 10 or 20 tickets at time, and car
ry them in my pocket so that l don't
have to bother with having to make
change on the cars. Aside from the
comfort Of the thing, l reckon that my
gains in time saved by buying tickets
in this way amounts to considerable.
II carry my bunch of tickets in 4
pocket. where, also, ! carry paper upon
which l am accustomed occasionally to
make memoranda. In pulling out this
paper | pulled out the tickets, whose
absence | noted when | thrust the pa
per back The first time l missed the
| tickets l walked back and found them
| lying on the sidewalk, n dozen steps to
| the rear. | considered that an extra
| ordinarily fortunate recovery. That
| time there was only two or three
| tickets left. l had used up the rest.
In bunch that I lost. yesterday. there
were 10 or u; 1 had just begun to use
| from this lot.
when 1 missed the tickets this
time l turned and walked back as be
fore, but really with no expectation of
| finding them. for this was in a busy
street where there We're many people
| passing all the time, and where some
| body was sure to see them and pick
| them up. I didn't find them. but l was
not disturbed by their loss. They
| stood for 50 cents. | don't mean to say
! that 30 cents are so free with me that
I can afford to throw them away, but
! I never feel over the loss of thing
that is likely to be found again to
| somebody's benefit as | might over the
| loss Of something destroyed or other
wise lost beyond all recovery. For in
stance. I once lost an umbrella over
| board from a steamboat. Now there
was a total loss. Lost on land that
| umbrella would have been found by
somebody who would have made it use
full; but Of what use would it be to the
| g., Io ct oil c
just a dead loss to me, and no gain
whatever to anybody else.
"But take the case of those Electric
car tickets. They We're Of use to who
ever found them. ana they may have
done somebody a lot of good. 1 hope
they did, but l shall carry the next
bunch l buy in another pocket"
Hang Dreyfus." shouted the young
man, savagely, when his friend asked
him about his opinion regarding the
guilt or innocence Of that unlucky
the whole natter
Yes" persisted the friend "the
study Of the trial is an education in
itself"
Hang education, too" stormed the
young man. THE only thing that
have against my parents is that they
forced me to go to SCHOOL,"
Been putting your feet in it, asked
the friend.
Both feet, and be hanged to you"
ragged the young man. I've been
knocked out, and education is respOn-
sible for the whole thing. Know that
girl that | have been calling on? Well
I was getting on famously in that quar-
ter until her father took n hand and
sought to draw me out on what | knew
That fattered me and gave me cour-
age. as l saw he was taking an interest
in me: so | commenced to bone up on
| the Dreyfus case, and every blessed
thing that | could think Of to ring in
on the old man. I studied the financial
question:: got old Dom Paul down pat;
read up on the latest attempts to dis
cover the North Pole, and fairly filled
myself with the Philippine question
Every chance I got I went for her
father and fairly talked him to a stand
still. Soon I became aware that the
air was getting frosty, and it wasn't
| long before I discovered myself froze
ont entirely. What was the matter?
4 ven, L iluii hIlbN lily sell ullili yes
! terday when | found out that the old
man is going round telling every one
that | know too blamed much, There
| goes an educated dog. Excuse me a
moment while I go across the street
and kick the stuffing out Of him"
| Talking Of mosquitoes" said a man
| from Bangor, 81 was. up in northern
| Maine and went fishing with some
| friends They had a little camp on Che
suncook lake and we intended to stay
| there over night. but in the course of the
I evening the mosquitoes became 50 down
right ferocious that we prepared TO re-
| treat.
AT that juncture our guide suggested
| that he go after old Uncle Zeke. veneer
| able character who lives in the neighbor
| hood. and who enjoys a great reputation
| for supernatural powers over all winged
| beasts. We told him to go. and be blamed
| quick about il. ana pretty soon Zeke ap
| pelred There was 4 breeze from the lake
| ana the first thing he did was to clear Il
| little space to windward. Then he start
/ ed five or six small fires in a row, and