Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-07
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The Farm Hands Idea.
The city folks are goin' to the mountains
and the seas,
For they think that they've been workin
and had ought to have some ease;
They're shuttin' their fine houses and
they're huntin' other scenes
Some folks don't know when they're lucky
or what bein' tired means.
There they've merely been a-settin' down
at desks day after day,
While some other folks was busy hoein'
corn or pitchin hay;
They've been leanin' over counters in the
shade up there in town,
Instead OF hoein' Eaters where the suns
a-boilin' down.
Laws. If l lived in the city 'mongst the
things to see UP there,
Maxim money by the bushel and with
costly clos to wear,
You can bet nobody'd catch me packin
up to go away
Some folks don't know when they're
lucky, and that's all l got to say.
Chicago Record Herald.
Rockland is having a three days Old
Home celebration.
A score of alumni, family and
reSmental reunions are now on.
Thomaston has a grand picnic, to-
morrow, and everybody in town is go
ing.
The campmeeting season is with us.
Richmond starts off, tomorrow, with
it's 35th annual meeting.
This is custard pie day in Hartford,
one of the great days Of the summer up
in Oxford county.
They thought they had a murder
mystery over at Sabattus, but it turns
out to be a fish story with new vari-
ations.
With a modesty that does it credit,
Portland estimates it's summer popula-
ton at 100000. Perhaps, however, it
will make another guess, after think
ing it over.
Busy times in Houlton where they
are hustling with characteristic
Aroostook energy to build a new bust
great June fire.
Three weeks to the Presidents visit.
1t will give a great part of the State a
splendid chance to greet the Chief
Executive, and he will get welcome
worthy the State that gives it and the
man to whom it is given.
Old Prob cannot resist the inclination
to remind us, even during Old Home
week, that these are dog days. Every
body hopes he will provide good
weather for the encampment of the
soldier boys.
One of the smartest old men in this
part of the State is E. A. Field of
Sidney whom everybody in that town
knows as "Uncle Allen" Field. He has
one of the largest and best farms in
kennebec county and this summer
has driven the mower to cut over 125
tons of hay. His age is 50 years, but
he is full of health and vigor and does
his part of all the farm work.
Holman Day, who has been at the
bedside of sick mother most of the
time since the death of his wife a few
weeks ago, leaves, this week, for a
months trip to Colorado and California
There must be some awfully wicked
men down in Bath. Witness this ut
inant citizen last evening observed to
the editor that if the Devil himself
should come to earth he would lose his
eye teeth, owing to the fact that SO
many men in business these times are
sharper and wickeder than the Evil
One himself! The Times editor is
much of the same opinion"
Every reader of the Journal finds
enjoyment in the breezy letters of III
o." from the beautiful shores of Cob
bOseecontee. A good friend who thinks
he has a joke on the veteran journalist
writes us as follows:
Editors Kennebec Journal: In H. O's
Cobbossee letter in Tuesdays Journal
he speaks of the "atmosphere, tine
tured with the balsamic air of the
pines"
Atmosphere tinctured with air is
good. 1t reminds one of the classic
poem anent autumn leaves.
The autumn leaves are falling
They are falling everywhere,
They are falling through the atmosphere,
And likewise through the air.
E. w.
The latest issue of Leslie's Weekly
contains portraits of two distinguished
Rockland citizens. The first is that of
Congressman Littlefield, in connection
with his brief article on the subject of
trusts. reprinted from TeS1ia'S of lac,