Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-03
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The Lazy Time.

On, the IaZlncSS Is creeping NucTC Tie
violets are sleeping.
And the sunshine glistens lightly on the
stream,
Where the timid shadows SILVER on the
border of the river
When the south wind wakes the crocuS
from its dream
When the. green is softly glinting like
the whisper Of a-tinting
And there's music in the rhythm of the
It's the lazy, hazy season, built for rhyme
and not for reason,
And we're glad to have it with us once
again.
All, we need no Maypole dancing nor the
CHANGING maids enhancing
To make festive such gentle time as
this.
For tits fine to watch the cleaning of the
world with sunlight teeming
And existence is Il sweet and priceless
bliss:
There is drowsy satisfaction in this per-
sOnal inactiOn
While around you nature tolls with
might and main;
There is joy enough in knowing that the
grass and trees are growing,
And the lazy time is with us once again.
Washington Star.
Every prospect of another good
apple crop.
oulC - Io' &c N"So wan ~ ob~oAS ~
along little later.
Probably those striking Bath firemen
would recant if an alarm sounded.
Sanford continues to buy up Dur
ham just as though he expected to
escape 4 term at Thomaston.
The Bowdoin nine plays Harvard at
Cambridge, today. and Brown at
Providence tomorrow.
From the eastern BURBERRY plains
comes the good news that the blossoms
are unusually numerous.
The results of the caucuses show
which way the wind is blowing in the
gubernatorial canvass.
Perhaps poultry raising pays for the
Biddeford man who has just sold Is
buff lcghOrn hens and two cOckercls
to New York parties for the handsome
sum Of $3.50, or $50 apiece.
Tho Mt. Kineo house will open for
the season, June Is, but things will not
really boom there until the Maine
Sportsmcn's excursion arrives.
The reports from the country towns
show that tile farmers of Maine are
turning out strongly to vote for Cobb.
Biddcford Journal: A report has
slowly filtered back to Maine all the
charging five cents a glass for drink
ing water on the worlds fair grounds.
Undoubtedly there are some who will
visit the big show who would never
have found this out except at second
hand.
There are evidences of some need of
home missionary work in the vicinity
of Rumford Falls. For example, a
man came into the village last Sunday
afternoon with his farm wagon and
some stuff for sale, and when it was
suggested to him that such a perform
ance was trifle strange for such a
day, candidly remarked: well, for
goodness sake, / didn't know it was
Sunday. We are all of us liable to
make mistakes sometimes" This man
will undoubtedly get a calendar, or cut
notchcs in stick, to prevent a recur-
renee of the affair."
There has been no hot air" en-
ploycd in Mr.. Cobb's canvass, but it
appears to be getting there just the
same.
Names only remaining horse car
line, that at Fryeburg, is being placed
in first class condition for the seasons
business. The line begins at the rail-
road station, passes through the
principal streets of the village, and then
continues on through the piny forests
past hte grounds of the West oxford
Agricultural Society, it's eastern
terminus being the Chautauqua Camp
grounds. nearly three miles from the
starting point. 1t is the management's
int - rs,- Sell