Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-28
Man is Justified in Kicking at
the Weather.
Long Search for Man Who Likes the
Present Variety.
At Last He is Found and is Gu.
riosity.

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understood that he won't get much Of
d cnahce afterwards, and man who
would not kick at this glorious china r.
mas all the elements in his makeup of
a Christian. one of the kind of fellows
VINO When banged on one cheak turns
the other and wants you to do * again.
WAS discussing the weather question
with an honest old Granger the other
Gay VINO sald MS farm was about two
thirds under water and he had either
got TO caI out the Naval reserve or
put q m Keel and center board on his
moving machine to do his hayng with,
ana then get a submarine diver to help
MN 20 his harvesting. He said he
had read q great deal about Noah and
the time he was in the excursion bust
ness long before j. p Morgan formed
syndicate and took him in and water
ed the STOCK Tin the ark) and ne had
about come to the conclusion that was
the time when Maine got the name Of
being dry state for it had been wet
ever since. He said the weather re-
port man was all right only the people
didn't know how to read the bulletins
and in fact they hadn't got onto his
| curves. When the report said fair and
warmer he always covered up his
cucumbers and souashes so the frost
wouldn't hit them and started ont with
an umbrella under his arm as a pre-
tentative. He said there was no great
| loss without some small gain for dur
| ing this moist spell his hens had all de-
veloped web feet ard learned to SWIM
L told him that l was looking over
some rusty records of the past and |
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and stony path the late lamented
DioSenes Travelled in hunting for an
honest man. [ knew Diogenes was per-
sistent and stuck to his job like q pup
| to root, and used his lantern until the
oil gave out, and | appreciated the fact
| that the crop of honest men at that
| time was not as plentiful as it is at The
present writing. but had he continued
| his search until today he would have
no trouble in finding a pretty fair speci-
men for any Of US would have gone to
| the door if he had knocked.
| But L never fully appreciated the true
| inwardness of Dogs character and the
difficulties that he labored under in his
still hunt until some little time ago
| when / started out to find the man who
liked this weather. l didn't expect to
| find a man who was really in love with
it but did have strong hopes of finding
| somebody with just enough elasticity
| in their conscience to stretch it far
enough to say that the weather we
| have been having for the past three
| months was good for something.
AS far as [ am concerned personally
/ have got no earthly use for it in my
business. When you come to get up in
| the morning and hold heated discus
| sion with yourself whether to put on
| a rubber coat and storm rubbers or
| take d buffalo coat and n hot brick.
a fellow don't know which garment to
pack away with moth balls. The
| calendar says it's time to lay away the
winter cap and ear mittens and heavy
ulster and about the time he partially
| decides to retire these useful articles
on half pay his pump freezes up and
| then he is all at sea again so | started
out like old dog to see if there was
anybody who really liked this Klondike
spring and at last | found my man.
He was one Of many ana when
approached him ard made my Grand
known his face was wreathed in smiles
! like June bride He said this was the
| most beautiful spring and summer he
| had ever seen since the old town re-
| ceived it's charter. He said he knew a
| good thing when he saw it and he
| had q monopoly, one of those close
| corporation cinches that would make a
beef trust man turn green with envy
and a Standard oil magnate take TO
| drink 1t was clear ease with him of
"The Lord will provide" He said that
| il was a well known fact that most
people earned their bread by the sweat
\ OF their brow and there was only one
| case on record to the contrary. That
| was a fellow down in Connecticut\who
makes sweat leather for hats. This
fellow seemed to have the bulge on his
| fellowmen and he saw the world
| through Il pair of rosy colored spec
| tacles. l asked hinf if he wanted to
| take in partner and he thought not.
| He had an idea that he could run his
business without any outside help. In
| fact he said that all he had to do was
to draw his salary and that rather
fatigued him. He said that ii was not
often that man fell into gold mine
upholstered in green plush with silver
rail around ii and he was rather enjoy
| ing the novelty of the situation. He
thought il the weather continued
through the next two months he could
afford 20 take his wife over to Europe
and live on hummng birds and wine.
was satisfied that this was the man
i had long sought and when j asked
him If he had any objections to telling
me what mis- business was he said not
in the least He was driving a sprink-
Ter or rather that he had an iron-clad
contract to keep the streets sprinkled
and the dust laid IN the residential por
ton. He was drawing the salary and
the rain was doing the rest. About all
he had had TODD so far was to drive a
hoop occasionally to keep the sprinkler
from drying up. l bid him goodby and
gently murmured TO myself Verify the
ways IF Providence are beyond finding
out
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