Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-16
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Tiger Lilies.
I like not lady slippers.
Nor yet the sweet pea blossom
Nor yet the f!aky roses.
| Red. or white as snow,
! l like the chaliced lilies.
The heavy eastern lilies.
| The gorgeous tiger lilies,
| That i'll our gardens grow.
For they are tail and slender.
Their mouths are dashed WIN "a inihe
And when the wind sweeps pS theih
| On their emerald stalks
lThey bend SO proud and graceiui
IThey are CirCassian women,
| The favoritcS of the sultan.
| AdOWn our garden walks!
And when the rain is falling
| sit beside the window
And watch them glow and shsteh'
| How they burn and glow
o for the bun ming lilies.
The tender eastern lilies.
| The gorgeous tiger lilies,
| That in our gardens grow .,,.,,
| The convention season is practically
ended.
| There is a bumper crop of luscious
raspberries.
| First excursion of the season to Old
| Orchard tomorrow.
The church attendance is getting
down to the midsummer minimum.
| II 1>I, tnrnnrrOW
of hay will be rolled into the Maine
barns.
1t is admitted that the summer traVei
is somewhat below the usual mid-July
mark.
| Somehow, the Republicans refuse TO
be frightened at anything the Demo-
Gratis did at Waterville.
| Thanks to the generosity of Hon. j..
L. Bass Maplewood park henceforth De-
longs to the people of Bangor.
| The apportionment Of the schooi
fund and mill tax is d reminder that
the majority of our towns get more
from the State treasury than they pay
into it.
| That story of love in cottage on the
shore of Lake Sebasticook. involving
one man and three women. reads as
| though there might be another chapter
| coming.
| What a slur at the brightest period
of youth is given by that Portland man
advertises for "a middle-aged man.
about 30 or 80 years. Probably he re-
! cards 50 to 40 as old age.
| Last week Bath lady Oh reading
an item i'm a Massachusetts paper
about the discovery of several hun
dred needles in an old pin cushion re-
called the fact that she put away Il
cushion a long time ago which was
| the gift from her sister that had been
| in the family for years and years and
out of curiosity she hunted it up and
on opening it found a bed Of needles
of all sizes. The total number was al
| even 500. MANY Of them were rusted
but the most Of them were as bright as
when new. The fIA cushion is known
to be over fifty wears eld,
Bangor News:&oidt Hope Week is
like wine. At first ii anfAes and foams
and makes "a great; noise. saluch of the
co,nmotion is pure wind. which must
escape before the genuine ferment can
| 4 which re-
qures time. AS rule the longer the
| tir1e. the better the result. Indications
are that the fermentation period Is
nearly over The promoters and
boomers and money-makers who en-
tered the field and strove to twist the
useful features of Old Home Week to
their own advantage, are falling away.
They are leaving to make room for bet
ter people. The prospects for more
useful and more harmonious Old Home
Weeks in the coming years are very
bright 1t is one of those ideas which
are Xix, good words. because it never
dies.
The Bangor Daily News publishes
anonymously the following verses
descriptive of popular puzzle that
was being sprung on long-sufferlng
hotel clerks, six or eight years ago
The lines were written by w. A. KIM
ball of Rockland, now deceased, who
was at that time the popular advertis-
ing agent for the Maine Central, the
ma gazine published by the Maine Cen
trail railroad. kim welded a skillful
pen. and his bright and witty sketches.
in prose and verse, were eas-HyS read
with interest: d in
Ten weary. footsore traveleileas'
| All in woful plight. ioi
Sought shelter i'm "A wayside inn
| one dark and stormy night.
Mine beds no more the landlord said.
| Have | to offer you:
To each cf eight single room.
But the ninth must serve for two.
\ din arose The troubled host
Could only scratch his head:
For Of these tired men no two
| Could occupy one bed.
The puzzled host was soon at ease
: He was a clever man
| And 50 to please his guests devised
! This most ingenious plan;
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