Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-04-19

Escaping in that way Your neat little
To make the unwary confess on the spot.
!, We unite too, in greetings and wish YOU
success.
With the hope that your shadow may
never grow less.
But may spread ana increase and IA
ven of rest.
May afford for the weary. the faint and
oppreSt.
Leslie G. Cornish. unable to be present.
sent an honest court. as his words will
show:
Here are ton for the years Of childhood.
And ten for the years Of youth.
Ten more for planning life's battle,
And ten for the fight in truth.
| The next is a fraction simply,
OF a decade not quite run;
Ana Of all the givers this evening
think I'm the only ono,
I Who will give you his age exactly
| For I've nothing of fancy TO mix,
And \ lawyer must not bubble.
That fraction is honestly-siN.
/ The rest Of this little package,
| Stands for the wears To come,
While with good Unitarian courage.
| will work till the set OF sun.
! And the brief word from Mrs Cornish
! is too good 10 pass unnoticed:
! The deacon'S wife like his one horse shay.
She ran Il hundred years TO day
| DR.. l.. j. Crooker. in making generous
enclosures for himself and Miss Adde
, Wright. happily wrote her and himself
down thus:
In the years long gone by. when | went
to a party
Or dinner or supper. was reckoned quite
| hearty.
From eight in the evening. to rise of the
! sun
/ To remain. AZ the dances. considered nut
fun.
, Eat time has worn on-as time surely will
| do
And a sad solemn truth. | must now tell
| to you.
4 Ny aGc-bended form and my muscles in
Are telling me only too plainly. the term
OF my life. for enjoyment of after-darK
| joys
| Has gone by Though I'd like to be one
| Of the boysl
! If fatigue and rheumatics will deal with
At your coy Church Parors,-l'n try to
| he there.
But The money enclosed proves truth
| sadly told.
If | do not attend. it's because I'm too
| old.
My niece. who lives with me. would glad
~ he there. I'LL
| To meet her old friends and festivities
share:
Bat it's clear. from the number of PEN
| mics shell II send
| That she's no spring chicken and may
Hbl dtttHu.
\ touching remembrance was that nam
! inc the late p NJ. Fogler, whose zeal Tor
I his church was known of all. The letter
was ~om Miss Helen FoSlcr of Boston:
Il enclose check. The amount represents
| the combined age of our family, lhciudihS
| our dear father. whose love for the
church continued to the end of his life
Manley H. Pike submitted the following
happy lines:
,TWF.NTY-THREE AND FORTY-TIIREE
| At twcnty-thrcc
| | planned my scheme of ife-l be
! \ 'mcrchait, toward whose waiting pier
CIohc-circling ships should homeward
From orient and Occident.
When millions had been won ! meant
To choose - wife of gentle race,
cultured in mind and fair in face;
/ Ru:Id me IL palace. with each part
| ljv art designed: enriched bE ART.
| And finally to have one son.
! Handsome and tail. but only one.
Thus | forecast my destiny
At twenty-three.
At forty-three
How have / prOSpered? Let me see:
& / find myself a simple clerk,
with light reward and heavy work,
Vet hoping tor advance in rank.
+ don't owe much and have in bank
4 trifie saved. | occupy
some fourth-floor rooms, winch Nate
rbini, charming. (Kate's my wife, you
nrrtty seamstress. long ago..
W. have six girls-perhaps too many.
t.,t mot for worlds we'd part with any.
81 kind has fortune been to me
At forty-three.
! with +, generous enclosure, came the
;,;uo., from Chas X. Nichols of Boston:
| I enclose YOU u penny for each year of
| my life. -
x,so same amount for those of my wife.
| % are many years OLD, but We call 1t
E, wears young,
,5st cxactly how old ne'er slips from M
vou+h adds not a year. nor age drops
"a, aao our ages secret. ana Wen un-
grudgingly pay