Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-19
A Hasty Texan.

l "A ItCCht uicpdlCI ilC'iA
i Mass. conveys the information that
Colonel Cecil Lyon, Republican City
Committeeman from Texas, who has
been in Beverly trying to arrange some
additional stops on the Presidents
itinerary through Texas, returned to
Boston with anything but high opin-
ion of Beverly.
In the first place, he delayed seeking
a place to dine until O'Clock, and then
found that both of the hotel dining
rooms had closed. With director of
the census Durand, Colonel Lyon had
to sit on a high stool at lunch coun-
| ter and eat Boston beans and pie. The
i Texan thought this bad enough, but
when the curfew bell began to toll at
9 o'clock he nearly collapsed.
| well, you must admit colonel, that
Beverly is better than Oyster Bay" in
terposed one of his friends
Eyes, better in one way" replied the
colonel "There are more trains to
| leave it by, and me for the next one"
1t seems to us that the genial Colonel
| must have been misquoted in the above
dispatch Certainly a man of his wide
attachments and clear discrimination
would not for one moment turn up his
nose at an opportunity to partake of
ba and MIC Ac a
Texan, he doubtless learned, before he
attained his majority how to camp out
under the lone star amid the cactus
plants, and eat sand crabs from the
point of bowie knife. Compared with
such humble fare Boston baked beans
are as the ambrosia of Olympus. Even
the Agricultural Department at Wash
ington has not hesitated to recommend
them as an excellent substitute for
meat, having all it's nutriment at
small fraction of the expense. AS for
flavor, well, who can describe it,
Once enjoyed it fingers in the memory
like pleasant dream, and rare in
deed has been found one so callous
ever afterwards to do it reverence. We
cannot bring ourselves to believe that
it was the baked beans which were
served to him, that made Colonel Lyon
disapprove of Beverly. 1t must be re-
memhered that these were not the dry,
odorless, tasteless beans, cooked in an
open pan, such as are sometimes
served in Texas restaurants as "baked
BEANS" thus grossly libelling noble
dish. They We're the genuine Boston
Baked Beans the elimination of the
culinary art, crisp, brown, fragrant,
and swimming in pork fat! Still the
Colonel soured on Beverly. Verify it
is hard at times to account for the
perversities Of human nature. OF the
pie, of course We cannot speak with SO
much confidence. There are many de-
but Boston Baked Beans are always
good. Indeed they are supposed to
cmbody in a marked degree all those
delicious and nutrtive qualities that
made the mama so appetiZng and life
sustaining to the Children of Isreal in
their long journey through the wilder
ness. Besides the pie was a secondary
matter anyway not to be mentioned in
the same breath with Boston Baked
Beans. Possibly. however, we do Col
Lyon an injustice. A careful re-read-
ing OF the dispatch from Beverly shows
that ne did not complain of the Boston
Baked Beans, except, possibly, by in
ference. ale had" it says "to sit on
eat Boston Beans and pie" 1t may
he, therefore. that the CoIoneIs in
dictment of Beverly was not based up
on the baked beans at ALL but proceed
ed entirely from his disapproval of
the "high stool and the "lunch coun-
ter" If this is so, he was certainly
hasty. Some of the most distinguished
men in the country are eating under
similar circumstances, and holding
their avoirdupoiS. Besides, of what
significance is a high stool or a lunch |
counter when one enjoys the inestm-
able privilege of eating Boston Baked
Beans.