Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-02-24

And you shiver up to bed,
! While your teeth all wildly rattle
| Like a dice-boN in your head.
When the wind mournfully whistles
In million different keys,
! And shrieks and walls a Wild refrain
| Through a million leafiess trees.
| When the snow is so persistent
/ That il comes right through the door,
! And all around the window-sills,
And heaps up on the floor.
/ Then YOU wade around in snow drifts
TIL life is one grand sneeZe.
| And then You have the rheumatic
| On one. or both, your knees.
You start out in the morning.
The frost bites you in the race
And you're only saved from bad words
By a large amount of grace.
It seems a dozen demons
Start dancing in your toes.
And a pair of frosty pinchers
Are a-hanging to your nose
Then you think with less aversion
Even though your conscience pricks-
or a place said to be warmer,
On the other side the StyN.
o no, we've not forgotten,
We can't forget, you know,
With the faithful old thermometer
Forty degrees below.
1t may be Maine is changing
To an atmosphere less keen,
But not without resistance
From the young 1914
Bangor. Mar! SWeetialiu.
Politics as it is played in Lewiston
and Auburn surrenders to the vail OF
one of Names leading statesmen:
"Oh, if there were only sufficient in
terest therein to draw the people as
will a ball gameH'
DIR. c. NJ. Sleeper of York along with
John Clark Scates of Westbrook, who
would be congressman. had better take
a little tip from Peter Charles Keegan
of Van Buren, and get into the race
without waiting very long for that call
of the peepel''-else they may still be
waiting at the post when the returns
come in.
The popular Democratic song of the
nearing contests probably will be, IT'S
Better to be an Also-ran than Never
Rama All"
the Progressive Emerson of Portland to
the eminence of the Hon. Walter c.
The fattening of the Progressive.
pretensions is read in the Saturday
night speech of Halbert Gardner, ma
tional committeeman of that party
Gardner thanks the newspapers for
even the small amount of space now
given to accounts of Progressive ac-
tiVities Less than one short year ago
Gardner and other Bull Moose leaders
believed their party important enough
to take the whole of every front page
every day-and raved and tore their
hair when they didn't get it.
That the people of Westbrook will
have an opportunity to express their
preference for one of the three active
candidates for the appointment as
postmaster in that city is apparent
from correspondence between Senator
Charles f. Johnson, in whose hands the
appointment lies, and two, at least, OF
the candidates for the office. 1t IS
thought that Messrs. Wilson, Eastman
and Gray have all shown much
strength, and in view of this fact Sen
ator Johnson desires that the people
of the city shall name the man who is
to serve them for the coming four
years or more in the capacity of Dem
ocratic city committee call a primary
election for the purpose, and that the
decision of the enrolled Democrats be
l ,fv1,n nTlf'
of a man to fill the office is nearly
three weeks overdue. and the people
of the city have become anxious that
some move be made in relation to in
| dicating who Postmaster Woodman's
successor will be. The fact that the
matter has been held up in Washing
ton since Feb. makes 1t apparent that
| there is some hitch in the usual pro-
ceedings, and the move by Senator
! Johnson in urging primary vote on
| the question shows that he desires TO
wash his hands of the responsibility of
naming the man for the office.
| Attention has been called to the agi-
| tation being made by yacht clubs,
steamboat companies and others in
| terested to have a draw placed in the
so called Gurnet bridge which con-
meets the town of Brunswick with
| Great Island and under which at cer-
| tain tides small boats now pass on
| their way to New Meadows points. II
has been suggested that as long as the
bridge must soon be repaired an ef-
| fort be made to incorporate articles
in the warrants of Brunswick and
Harpswell asking for the draw. Natur-
ally it is the desire Of the interested
parties to have this done so the sub
| ject may be settled at the spring town
meetings. 1t seems to be the general
| feeling that a draw would serve a very
large number Of people and that if re-
pairs must be made anyway it is not