Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-07-24
VOICES OF THE PRESS.
A Timely Sermon.
Gardner independently.

(deiI ulllCI independently.
Well. now, how're fixed for a vaca-
ton? 1 wish every mothers son and
daughter of Gardiner could take a whirl
to the seashore for a week or more, or
up to the mountains or big lakes, or
had a cosy cottage out on the tributar-
les to fly to and to each particular taste
and inclination bid defiance to hot
weather, no matter how rapid and tor
rid old Prob may send it along. But
lack-a- day, that's an impossibility.
Some will go and some must stay and
sweat it out, and, as misery likes COM
pany, it is the latter class to whom l
am directing my conversation just now.
If we must stay at home let's make the
most of it. Why, a fellow can have
more fun than the 'injuns" during the
heated term right here in Gardner,
keep comparatively cool and enjoy life
at a very nominal expense. How?
First. don't spend any time needlessly
envying other folks whose conditions
and circumstances allow them wake"
for all good things must have an ending
and they'll come home bye and bye, and
find work more tedious and wearisome
than before their brief outing. Second.
for it does not help matters any and
often you will find that you have had
it all for naught, that the trouble was
more of the imagination than reality,
and worrying is bound to start the per-
spiration. Third, frequent and oft take
a day or half day in one of the many
little enjoyable excursions and outings
which may be had from Gardiner at a
very slight expense. For few cents
YOU may go to Lake Maranacook, or en-
10Y an elegant boat sail on the Cobbos-
see. or go over to Togus and listen to
the incompatible Themes aggregation
of harmony makers, or down for a SnlH
of old ocean on the fleet Gardiner, or by
rail for New Meadows Park and a love-
ly shore dinner, or If the old pocket
hook won't even allow for one OF these
inexpensive outings, have mother put
I'D a good big lunch basket and take
her children down in the vicinity Oh
Mount Tom. where in one of the many
beautiful groves which abound in that
direction, put in a big and happy PIC
mic day. Oh. there are lots of ways to
enioy the summer right here at nome.
But above all keep good natured, keep
sunny. try and make those around you
glad that you are here. and my no va
cation. brother and sister, if we observe
these things. make the most of the grab
right on to what few good things are
headed our way we shall find next
September. when the vacation period
is a memory. that we are feeling as
well and have enjoyed the torrld PERIOD
in our transformations way, as well. per
haps, as our friends, the vacationlsts.
Strong Drink and Smoke.
New York World).
For every man like John Rosso, who
has drunk nothing weaker than beer Tor
forty years, and like the Michigan man
who lived to eighty nine on nearly five
thousand cigars year, there are tens
of thousands of men who have been
wrecked body and mind by liquor ana
excessive smoking.
The Greatest Monument.
Charleston PosD.
Some one has proposed that a monu-
ment be erected to the memory of the
sjgners of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence. What better monument could
be conceived or could be more lasting
than the American Republic?
Fair Division.
(Pttsburg GaZette).
Baltimore says that if the National
Conventions will meet in that town,
crabs will be plentiful. The conVen-
tions are doubtless expected to furnish
their own Holsters.
The Parsons Fine Spirit.
Baltimore American.)
A Stamford Comm minister displayed
bottle of whisky in the pulpit While ne
was preaching on sunday Hornifs.
personal conference with their Deioved
pastor. They admired the spirit he had
displayed.
IT,. Tramps, Take Notice!
.rr / sr.r.i-(New York Telegram)
Don't suppose it will in any way lessen
mans inhumanity to man, but that need
not deter us from mentioning that IN
Chester, Pa. a wayfarer dropped deau
while saving wood.
RE Looks the Part"
CKansas City Starr
The picture of Burns Fitzpatrick, the
man who hung the jury in the Jett muir
der case in Kentucky, makes 1t plausible
to all who see it that it would have been
much more fitting if the jury could have
hanged Fitzpatrick.
Distinction Without a Difference.
(Everybody's Magazine) Il
An old Florida colonel recently met
Booker T.. Washington and in bibulous
burst of confidence said to the negro
educator
Sun, I'm glad to meet you. Always
wanted to shake your hand. sub think. /
sub. you're the greatest man in America
oh, nor said Mr.. Washington,
You are. sub - said the COLONEL. anu
then pugnaciously. WHO'S greater?'
Well" said the founder Of Tuskesee, 7
there's President Roosevelt.
No, suhH' reared the colonel. Not by
invited you to dinner J. think he's a