Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-08-09
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downward droop.
Upon his face. Il scowi, as if he'd fallen
in the soup.
He roams about the busy streets in an
And puts a surIy accent on the things he
has to say.
He goes into restaurant and drops into
Il seat
And wonders why they've not a thing ii,
for "A dog to eat.
And If you care to seek the cause tina
makes him feel sd brown
You'll not have very far to look: his wife
is out Of town.
We see another man dressed up unusually
gay.
He wears a smile of glatlncss and but
tonholc boQuCt;
He joins the cruising parties. where the
whitc-topped scnooncrs sail.
And goo-Soos all the pretty girls who
chance to cross his trail
At striking of the midnight hour he vet
is on the street.
Is strenuous in his efforts to control his
wabbling feet:
lie wears his hat tipped sideways on his
beer-befuddlcd crown.
The mousey knows the eats away. his
wife is out of town.
james Barton Adams. in Denver Post.
There being no excursions. yesterday.
the weather was beautiful
The coming Sunday will be the high
water mark Of the summer season at
the coast resorts.
freight train with "a
mile Il minute gait. is too exciting for
any fun.
Oh, if yesterday. instead of Wednes-
day could have been the inside of that
three day weather sandwich what
crowd would have gone upon the Mcr-
chants excursion and what good
time every one of them would have
had.
1t is to be hoped that the present
moist condition of the soil may serve
to put little more "in'ards' into the
potato crop.
Maine pastors are putting the finish
ing touches on tnClr oiu home week
sermons.
Old orchard is having a remarkab bic
orderly season despite its throngs OF
visitors. From Monday morning. July
20. until Tuesday, August 6. there had
been only one arrest there for intoXica-
ton.
The Biddeford Journal scouts the re
port that Sheriff Pearson is about to
arm his liquor deputies with stomach
pumps to aid them in their search for
places where contraband of war is hid
den. and it may be set down as a base
fabrication of the enemy.
Portland has put square jaw upon
fortune tcllcrs. and the city marshal
will not premit them in that city.
Well what Of that? Any one can So
cure vastly more glimpses Of futurity
with half Il cold mincc pic taken just
before retiring than can be purchased
from all the nccromanccrs in Chrstcn-
dom.
Happy Portland where six mackercI
Cor a quarter bcguileth away the dog
days.
Portland announces that the late
book Of Edwin :. Maclay. which has
stirred up such Il connection in naval
circles. is on sale at local book store.
1t is doubtful. however. if the readers
of the Forest City jostle one another in
their eaGerness to purchase it. There
is a growing impression that Maclay
is rather more of frost than a
historian.
1t looks now as if the ice-houses
vel cleaned out before til. close Of
the season. 1t is to be hoped that this
may mean their refillinC next winter
The Biddeford Record states that H.
w. Staples the proprietor Of the Old
Orchard House. is to clear Fern Park
of it's timber. The trouble seems To Toe
that farmers coming to the beach have
been accustomed to hitch their horses
there. Just what particular damage
was done by this does not appear
Perhaps Mr.. Staples thought that it
might lay him open to the suspicion
of being accommodating. At any rate
he caused wire to be strung around
the lot. Some one, however, removed
the wire Saturday. and the tillers of
the soil left their teams there as has
been the custom in years past. Mr.
Staples learned of this fact in the
afternoon and proceeding to the park
cut tho horses loose To saw that the