Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-09-08

among the great manufacturing in
dustrics of Westbrook discioses high
ly satisfactory condition of business.
with prospects never brighter than for
the coming year.
w. X. Chapman has just returned
from New York where he has selected
the new music for the festival Of 1906
He Is enthusiastic over it and thinks
II the finest program he has ever made
Inc Oratorio of the Creation by Haydn
one or the standard and best oratorios
VIII be given for the first time by the
festival chorus. The opera selected is
the beautiful LOhengrin, one of
WaSnHrs greatest efforts, and the best
| OF al. his works for concert production.
! ne story of the Knight of the Holy
| ffall Will always have fascination
md the musical setting is correspond
| ingly beautiful.
An aged cOlored lady called at one Of
| the sellers windows at the Portland
Union station, Monday, and said. "Ah
| want Il ticket" "Where to-" came the
question. Never you mind where,
honey. ah just want ticket that's ali
you white people am too curious
| about us cullud folks an cur business
| anyhow" After some tim" she was
persuaded to tell where she wanted to
go and was waited upon to her salts
faction.
An advance step has been taken
during the past week by the trustees
of the Portland Public Library which
will be appreciated by the patrons of
the institution VINO desire to make US
of its benefits to the greatest extent
possible. Under a rule which went
into effect on Friday every member il
hereafter entitled to receive an extra
| card on which only non-fiction books
| may he taken out. AS this card will
be supplementary to the che already in
use users of the library privileges will
now be able to take out two books at
once, one of which may be fiction
This method has been adopted in
libraries in many cities and has been
found to be very beneficial in tending
to increase the circulat ton of standard
reading matter. The adoption of tn"
rule in Portland has been under dis
cussion for some time and will be
hailed with pleasure by many citizens.
The Listener of the Boston
TRANSCRIPT has received from VAL
| ued Maine correspondent the follow
| ing story Of the good old days when
that State was district of Massachu-
sets. 1t has been told before but has
| lain fallOw for so many years in an old
| scrapboOk that it must have renewed
| its youth for the present generation Of
| readers: Ezekiel Whitman. an ecCen-
| trio man ana one of the best lawyers
| of his time had been chosen to repre-
| sent the district in the Massachusetts
| Legislature. When the time came for
him to set out for BOSTON. his best suit
of clothes was of homeSpun material.
His wife objected to him going i'm that
garb. but he did not care. II will get
| a fashionable suit made as soon as |
reach Boston," he said. Reaching his
deSt ination-So the story goes-Whit-
man found rest at Doolittle's City Tav-
| ern. where. as a graduate of Harvard.
he was quite at home. As he entered
the tavern parlor. he heard Il remark
/ from a group of people assembled, and
itea,u one 81 ~tkgm sHy-~-Ef;;;- mere I
comes n countryman of the real home |
spun genus. Here's fun" Whitman |
stored ut the company. and then sat |
down. Say. my friend. you are from |
the country" remarked pompous.
faShionably dressed man. "Ya-as." an |
swered Whitman. with ludicrous
- I,| ~ Ia
party laughed audibly. "And what do |
you think of our city," ITS a pooty |
thick settled place, anyhow. It's got |
Il sweepin' sight of hous'n in it."
MANY people where you come from"
oval. some" Plenty of ladies, l sup
pose?" "Ya-as. fair sprinklin'."
And I don't DOUBT you are quite ]
beau among them?" 'Ya-as. I beau |
'em home-from meetin' and singin |
school," perhaps the gentleman from |
the country will take a glass of wine?"
"Thank-ee. Don't keer if l do" The |
wine was brought. "You must drink |
toast" "Oh. git eout, i eat toast
never heard of SIGH a thing as drinkin' |
it. But I kin give We a sentiment"
The assembled people clapped their |
hands. Great was their surprise. how
ever, when the stranger. rising, spoke |
calmly and clearly as follows: Ladies |
and gentlemen. permit me to wish yor
health and happiness, with every bless |
ing earth can afford. and may you
grow better and wiser with advancing
years, bearing i'm mind that outward
appearances are often decetful. You
took me. from my dress, to be a coun- |
try BOBBY, while l, from the same
superficial cause. thought you were
ladies and gentlemen. The mistake has
been mutual" He had just finished
speaking when Caleb Strong, the gov
ernor of the State, entered and in
Uuired for Mr.. Whitman. "Ah, here I
am. governor. Glad to see you" Then,
turning to the dumbfOunded company,
Whitman said, II wish you a very
good evening"
Mary Crosby of Bangor writes to the
Commercial: "An erroneous statement
is going the rounds of the press. which
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