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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-15
Miscellaneous Notices
STATE or MAINE.
Supplies for Encampment, National
Guard, State Of Maine-ProposaaIs
for Commissary Supplies.
Adjutant Generals Office.

Adjutant Generals Office.
Augusta, July 2, 1908.
Sealed proposals for furnishing and de-
livcrinS at Camp Cobb tn" subsistences
needed for the annual cncamrment of the
National Guard. State of Maine, to be
holden August Sd to 0th. inclusive, will
be received until a. NJ, July 18th. 1908
All bids must contemplate furnishing
material of best quality. Full Informal
ton may be obtained ut the Adiutant
Generals office. Envelopes containing
proposals should lie endorsed proposals
for Subsistence Supplies, Camp Cobb
tSigneO EjlWARb J. MAYO,
julv3d11t ComnsSsary General.
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A ITO Let" sign In your window
MAY let your. room sometime;
line lad, in stheaJolaEnars Want Advta
WILL let 1t toAly.
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LAKE cOB5osSEEcoNTEE.

On and after July 9. 1905 the 'Island
Belle" will run regular trips to Island
Park daily until further notice. leav-
ing Fairs Cove al a. NJ and Lake
House at $50, taking ana leaving pas
sengerss on signal at all points on the
east shore.
RETURNING.
Leave "Island Park upon arrival of
$40 T.. NJ. car for Outlet and Fairs
Cove. leaving passengers at any point
along the east shore.
THiIATER TRIPS.
Regular trips. will be run Monday
and Thursday evenings and other
evenings upon engagement. leaving
elAn's Covh al 7EiiP. M. and Lake
House. at 40. 75tt,c-,e. A.. ~ 4-4,s
a4 fasfq 5sds sfDo fttas 5asR hs sEs
JOHN l.. COLLINS, Capt.
julySeod1ano
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TIME TABLE SHOWING. THE TIME
AT WHICH TRAINS ARE DIE TO
ARRIVE AND DEPART.
In effect June 22. 1908
Pullman Car Service.
Sleeping Car between Boston and Carl
bou on trains scheduled to leave Boston
at 1000 T. NJ, and Caribou at $50 =. M
Sleeping Car between Boston and Green
vile on train scheduled to leave Boston
at 1000 Z. NJ, and Greenville at 715 T.. M.
Dining Car Service.
Dining Car on train scheduled to leave
Bangor at GEO A. M Returning on train
due at Bangor 2.15 p. NJ.
TRAINS SCHEDULED TO LEAVE
BANGOR.
500 A. M. For Grcenville. Kineo and all
Arcostook Co. stations
SIS A. NJ, For Searsport and interme-
date stations.
$50 P. NJ, For Aroostook County.
As +. M, For Greenville. Searsport and
intermediate stations.
TRAINS DUE AT BANGOR.
III A. NJ, From Searsport and interme-
date stations. Il
s.45 4, N From Greenville and jnterme-
:2.15 p. M, From Aroostook County. 4
BIB 2. NJ, FHofk Sesrsport ana laiterrife-
oiate Statls,nsE ~ 4IIgs AgotXc !;i'T
E Z E5sG ad fSsasisaas Sga .glg:
w. M. BROWN. GEO. M. HouGHToN.
Gen'l supt. Pass'r FRANC Mgr.
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HOUSES make speciality of city property and show about
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Young Women Wanted

at the Worcester Insane hospital as at
tendants. Good wages with two years
course in training school. For circular of
Information address DR.. ii. NJ. Quinby.
Supt,. Worcester. Mass. f7dtf
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RENTsDown
stable
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FARMS-I handle
O. Of n Nlnpy
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DINING ROOM SET, COMBINATION
desk and book case (black walnuD and
other household goods. Call mornings ut |
No. II East Crescent st July l4dt t |
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There Ii always a call for
secondhand machinery Of
all kinds and your partic-
ular kind can easily ana rs
quickly he sold BY the ayd on"
Of q journal Want nHho
Tia cost n small
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AGENTS WANTED

TAFT's LIFE AND SPEECHES.
Official edition. with chapter by Presi
dent Roosevelt. Only S1.0O. Big terms to
agents. Freight paid Outfit ready. Send
ten cents postage. Zieglcr Co, 20 Fourth
St. Philadelphia Junr20wcdSfsat4t
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HOUSE LOTS-If
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PIANOS OF VARIOUS MAKES AT

bargain prices. Cash or easy terms Old
taken in exchange. Call and
hear one of the finest interior (self play
ing) pianos at Music Hall, 1S5 Water
street Melville Smith. may27dtf
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Cards, Notices, Etc.
IF YOU HAVE coRNs. euNIoNs,

or callous spots. use fKimbalfs Diamond
Corn Solvent. 1t cures. Sold by John
Coughlin and. BaYditGh.s Webster. & Co..
Augusta. yards Drug Store. Gardiner,
and c. F. Fannhfdrd, Winthrop.
june29d1mo*
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ANTIQUARIAN FURNITURE. II.
Bruce. 4 Willow St., Augusta.
abr l4.ltf
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NOW IS THE TIME TO HAVE
your screens repaired and new ones made
to order We are also prepared to do con-
tracing and wood working Of all kinds.
Prices right. Give us a call. Telephone
call ASA. H. Humphrey & Son. Gage st.
Anr2sdtf
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A HOUSE WITH TEN ROOMS AND
bath. Good location. Apply to f, w.
Cole, G SeWall st. julyl5dtf
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EYES EXAMINED FREE. GLASSES
that make you see the GLcst print, 81 CO.
Frozen glasses repaired Will" You wait.
NJ. i. Wight, optici"n, 81 Water street
Augusta. iuiy111m
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To LIGHTHOUSES, Rooms etc.

A SMALL FURNISHED TENEMENT.
Inquire at % Gannett street, East side.
iulV 15I1 VIZ
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GIRL FOR GENERAL HOUSEWORk.
Highest wages paid. Mrs. p. N. Barstnw.
14S Brunswick ave. Gardiner. tune1oitf
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bath and furnace, minutes walk from
Water street. State price, street and
number Address 1908. kcnncbcc Journal.
Augusta. julyIIdt {
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WILL BOARD CHILDREN FROM

7 gTEE 6OHflO UTE OIET9 r NOW
birth up Terms, 500 per week in adj
vance. Good home in country. Best of
care. Bon 20, II. Il. d. 80, Watervillc Me.
July2d3W*
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MY COTTAGE AT WEBER POND,
Nassalhoro, on K. r. y. No. /, by the day
or week during June, July and August
Including ice and boats. Everett S. Hall
Augusta, Maine iuly9iIw
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-04-08
Method of Tariff Revision.

We must revise our tariff, and that
is big thing; we must do more
we must now make sensible up-tO-
date plans for revision, and that is
bigger thing.
/ There are nearly 1000 items
ID in our tariff laws, and every
year new articles are put on the mar
ket which are not named, bus which
are covered by general terms of the
law. 1t is plain that just and intel
ligent duties cannot be fixed without
a knowledge of the facts upon which
every one of these duties is supposed
to rest
Yet as we have made our tariffs
heretofore, committees OF congress,
working part of the time for d few
months, not only have to find out
these facts, but also to fit duties to
IL facts, study how those duties
will work out with foreign tariffs,
how our trade will thereby be helped
or hurt, and all other things that
must be thought of in making a tar
if. Yet it is plain that it would be
hard for even experts to learn all the
fac in so short time, to say moth
ing Of the other work our congress
si0nal committees are now forced to
do n making a tariff law.
is not fair to these committees
to make them do such work in so
BRIEF a period Other nations have
seen this plain truth, and therefore
made the commonsense plan OF
finding out the facts upon which
their legislatures can act with knowl-
edge and wisdom. So Germany and
japan, whose tariffs are the most
car. ! of all tariffs, had a body of
tariff experts find out the facts and
then made their tariffs fit those facts.
Senator Beveridge.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-04-08

And the wood pile grew and grew and
grew:
Tt grew so large one day
That it filed the street, blocked it up
complete.
So that nothing could pass that way.
Then it covered the ground for miles
around
And rose till it touched the sky.
The clouds were stopped, no rain was
dropped.
For nothing could eer pass by.
High up to the moon the little man
climbed
Twas just at the top of the pile
When, feeling quite gay, he sawed away.
And he never forgot to smile.
And there on the moon he still remains,
Saving great wood pile.
Most any night when the sky is bright
You can see him saw and smile.
-Womans Life.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-04-08
MUSICAL MYSTERY GAME.
A Missing Word Story That Will In.
terest Little Folks,

An interesting little musical game
may be played in the following man
ner: Have as many slips of paper as
there are guests and write on each slip
a story after the following example.
emitting the words with musical sig.
nificance and substituting dashes in
their stead. The guests are requested
to read the, story and to supply the
missing words. having had it explain
ed to them that the wanted words must
be musical terms. The words to b.
omitted appear in parentheses:
Story.-John Smith was the (minor)
son Of (Mator) Smith. who belonged to
the (stafD of q newspaper of (note).
The (rest of the Smith family were
pleasant people. loving a good (time).
They were (naturaD In manner, and
the (theme) Of their conversation was
always agreeable. Johns father, the
(major), would often pitch into hot
discussion on politics, for his reasoning
was Sharp. Johns younger sister
could sing (solo) admirably. her voice
being full OF melody and never dat.
But she required good piano for her
use. one that was in splendid Qune).
To the boy or girl who fills the spaces
with the correct words or come nearest
to doing SO simple prize may be
given. A sheet of music would be
quite appropriate. Ten minutes should
be allowed the players in which TO sup
ply the story with the missing words.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-04-08
Who's L For Spoons?

In this game one person takes his
stand in the center of the circle. blind
folded and his hands extended before
him. in each of which he holds large
spoon. The other players march around
him. clapping thor hands in time to a
tune. which NAY ne sung or played
upon the piano 81 airy slow measure
suitable fof ma png When the bliud
player calls ou1 Spoons" the others
stop. He then fGCs his way to any
player tL2t he caa and must ascertain
who he is W d.. hing him with the
spoons oal-. which he may use as he
p'eases. l. be gaesses correctly the
one whom be is spooning." that one
is b.indfolded. AID the game is played
again "a before
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-04-08

When you want TO rent house or
q room, or you have them for pent,
you don't want to wait a week be-
fore you can put an ad in the paper
you want it known at once. Adj
vertise in your city daily and get re-
suits.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-04-08
Notice to Advertisers.

To insure insertion of display adj
vertising copy must reach the World
Office not later than II o'clock; class
flied advertising will be accepted IN
til 1870 p. N.
z. J. ROCKEY,
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THE GOVERNORSHIp.

The World is preparing compre-
hensiye and detailed account of the
lineup for the Governorship. Corr
siderable pains are being taken to
make the article an accurate state
n.eut of facts. Watch for it.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-04-08
Young Folks
THE NAN IN THE NOON.
How He Got Up 60 High and What Ha
Is Doing.

s'OW TIC NOt OP @ F1I9n ana what 10
Is Doing.
It's a queer little story. boys and girls,
But a story. they say. that's true.
So listen awhile and do''t YOU smile,
And I'll tell the tale To you
There lived. oh, many years ago.
A quaint little man. All brown.
Whose hair was white, whose eyes were
bright
He lived in Il nearby town
He lived all alone. and. never a soul
Said ever a word 10 him
And every night twas the strangest sight,
The oldest kind Of 7chinl.
Tie little brown man. with saw in hand,
Would go to d big wood pile.
And all the long night Twas his delight
To saw that wood and smile.
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Classified Advertisements

Five Cents per line for each insertion.
Count five average words for each
line. Combinations of figures or
initials count as one word. Spe-
cial rates on ads running for one
week or longer.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-04-08

Don't take chances or disease by
using impure water. Melt our ice
for drinking water. Wenatchee Can
ming Co. ***
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SubScriptiOn Rates.

One Year by mail, in advance. $500
Six Months by nail, in advance $50
Delivered by carrier. per week 10
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-04-08

Now is the time to buy real .
tate. The people are 'locking mo
this state by the thousands. and Tend
will go on increasing i'll value a. i
tremendous rate for the next feS
years Get in on the ground fa
and buy now.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-04-08
GENERAL DIRECTORY.

/ UNI 1 States Senators
Levi Ankeny, S. II. Piles.
! Coz reSSmen-
V. L. Jones, F. w. Cushman
LIN n n
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Entered as second-class matter a
the postoffice at Wenatchee, Wash.
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Notice.

Fluharty Bakery has moved to 26
North Wenatchee avenue, opposite
Wiester's Department Store. As
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-04-08
WANTED.

WORK ON A RANCH; some ex-
perience in fruit ranching. Apply
at World office. 4-10
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-04-08

Main Ofice-Business and Editorial,
Columbia Valley Bank Building.
Wenatchee, Wash. Farmers Phone
1871.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-04-08

WANTED-Position as housekeeper
for an elderly lady or on ranch
for single man. Call at W. A.
A. Grants residence.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-04-08
FOR SALE OR TRADE.

RANCH FOR SALE, near Waucon-
do. Okanogan county, on Little
Bonaparte Creek; well improved,
$50 acres; so acres under cultiva-
ton; balance good farm land;
good building; creek running
through ranch; 100 acres fenced;
1 mile from school. Write or call
Mrs. Annie Foley, near C. & O.
dock, Wenatohee, Wash. Ala
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FOUND.
RENT ADS.

A SEVEN-ROOM modern house for
rent. G. w. Wine, 302 Chelan st.
Az
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NOTICE-Any person wishing to
purchase any registered jack,
weighing from 900 to 1850 will
save money by calling on J. A.
Cramlet, miles north of Govan
Washington.
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GIRL WANTED for general house
work. Phone 1853. 213
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FOR SALE-Good baled wheat hay.
G. A. Fletcher, r. F. D. No. l.
A-12
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The Wenatchee World
Published daily except Sunday by the
World-Advanca Publishing Company.

Rufus Woods. Editor and Manager
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FOR SALE-Buf Or
pington, Barred Plymouth P0ck.
Black Minorca and White Leshorn
Eggs for setting csc per doz. Also
Ho house Plants, Sweet Potatoes,
California Stock Tomatoes. Gao
bage. Caulifiower. Peppers. ready
by the 18th OF April. John thorn
hill, filth house north from stock
yards. tt
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BICYCLES, supplies and repairs
Prices right. Jesse ]. Eyer, Is
Mission If
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SECONDHAND Bridge Beach Range
for sale; in good condition. Call
at Wen. P. & H. Co.. Columbia
Valley Bank building. Phone Isl
If
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RHUBARB ROOTSfor sale; large
variety; price 81 per doz. A. l.
McMullen, r. F. D. No. 40
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-07
Sidewalk Laws Needed.

For some time past the District has
been without any means of law to compel
househOlders and business men to keep
their sidewalks clean. The courts having
brushed aside the existing snow and ice
ordinance as unconstitutional, Congress
has failed to enact any new legislation
meeting the case. Now the Commission
ers are sending up two measures, one de-
signed to keep the sidewalks clean In
winter and the other intended to require
property owners to prevent the foulng of
the walks by dirt and sand. Both of
these measures are framed with care to
avoid the objections raised by the Court
of Appeals and their passage during the
present session is urgently to be desired
1t is altogether anoma ous that the prop
erty owner should have the benefit of the
streets and sidewalks, rendering his prop
erty accessible, and not contribute any
thing beyond his share of the tax reve-
nues toward keeping the walks clean.
Obviously the municipality can not clean
off the snow from all the footwalks after
a storm. To do so would call for an
enormous sum of money, far more than
the public treasury could contribute, short
of special taxes assessed in heavy per-
equitable system is to look to the indi-
vidual householder or property owner to
keep the walks in front of his premises
cleared for traffic, whether the obstruction
to be removed falls from the skies or is
washed down from adjacent gravel banks
Until Congress passes some such meas
ures those now submitted, the streets
of Washington will remain a disgrace to
the capital. Although there is a COM
men6able spirit of community pride here
and praiseworthy degree of individual
activity on the part of citizens, leading
to a large measure of enterprise in keep
ing the sidewalks clean, law no law
there remains certain class determined
to do no more toward the comfort and
health and safety of others than the
strict letter of the statute and the law
enforcing enterprise of the municipal gov
eminent may compel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-07
Bryan and Abdication.

The Denver Post, an independent news
paper. points out the path of duty to Mr.
Bryan:
Honest investigation of the situation
is forcing men TO the conclusion that Mr..
Bryan can render his party an invaluab.e
service by finally renouncing its leader
ship. If he did that the remuneration
would entitle him to the undying gratitude
of all good democrats. And we essay
the definition Of good democrat as one
whose dominant and absorbing ambition
is that OF seeing his party back in power. =
Back In power for what? To cut the
great George Washington pie? Or. using
the other pet figure OF speech. to open the
pork barrel? Is that the chief end Of the
anti-B Bryan democrats? Have they nc
higher aim than simply to turn the repub-
iican. out Of office. trusting to luck fol-
policies after such a result?
This is Mr.. organs own appraisemeni
of the democratic opposition 10 him. and
hence the emphasis he places on his
views He Is unreserved In his contempt
for the get there brethren He regards
them as a source of weakness to the
party, and says so in plain terms. Using
his own case for illustration, he declares
that he does not desire the presidency
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-07

merely for the honor of filing the chair,
but for the purpose of forwarding the poll
cies in which he believes. The honor of
the office will consist Of using its great
power in behal4 of what he thinks will
benefit the country. A victory at the
polls. achieved by hocus-pocus combi-
nation bent wholly upon spoils. would. in
his opinion, be a national calamity.
Mr.. Bryan is acclaimed as the hero OF
his party. He is what may be called a
hero. limited. His party loves and fol-
lows him along the lines he has marked
upon the chart. He cannot lead 1t al his
pleasure in any and every direction, as
was shown in the Parker campaign. II
there are eastern democrats who rebel
when he talks silver and government
ownership of railroads. there are western
and middle state democrats who rebel
when even for mere regularity's sake,
he gives his hand to men known to be
not in sympathy with him and his pur-
poses. And the democrats who voted
against Judge Parker far outnumbered
those who, either in his first or sec
ond race. voted against Mr.. Bryan.
Another point is that. just now. Mr.
Hearst is coming strong with his In
dependence League. and If Mr.. Bryan
were to begin to shuttle. or abdicate out
right. giving precedence to the eastern
faction of the party, those now known
as Bryan mites. who favor him because of
the things he favors. would troop over
to Mr.. Hearst by the ten thousands, and
probably make the Independence League
ticket. as in Massachusetts, last year.
second in the race, the Chicago ticket
winning with ease. BY sitting tight Mr..
Bryan may save his party from annihila-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-07
Labor Colonies.

From the New York Tribune
The plan for establishing state labor
colony Incidentally calls attention to the
backwardness Of the new world in two
important matters. the relief o.; honest
men out of employment and the suppress
sion Of Migrants. Save for the work done
chiefly by private organizations, in a few
large cities, there would be absolutely
nothing in the United States which q
Swiss. German or Dutch charity worker
might compare to the labor colonies of his
native land. Even a Frenchman, whose
country is overrun by vagabonds. can
point with pride to relief measures which
have already done much to reduce the
suffering due to the enforced continuous
idleness of from 6.5 per cent to per cent
of all workingmen. The idea of allottinc
small gardens to men out of work was
conceived and put into practice by Gen.
van den Bosch in Holland as far back as
ISIS: today more than 1000 poor families
are thus supported in the little kingdom.
The environs Of Paris are dotted with
some 1000 plots assigned by the Work
mems Garden Society to the unemployed,
either gratis or at nominal cost.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-07
Hard Luck.

Oh, isn't it unlucky to be born a vernal
bard.
With birds and bees and blossoms on
the brain;
Instead of fancies suited to a sugared
Christmas card .
Or a valentine that sings Of lass and
swain.
When the climate leaves no chance foY
cen the smallest blossom crop
And the birds in silence shiver and the
bees have shut up shop;
Their the cheeriest disposition fears a
destiny ill-starred
And it's particularly sad to be vernaI
You're subject to receptions. If your
born a vernal bard.
When the radiators hot you gaily dream
OF May day merriment. The muse has
caught you off your guard.
Your balmy air, alas, is naught but
steam!
And then when duty calls you forth into
the cherries street,
Who re you must face the rain and hail
and snow and slush and sleet;
There comes a sense Of panic and the
times seem very hard;
Espe cially if you should chance to be a
vernal bard.