Daily Kennebec journal., 1917-07-13

The Dear Old Comma

The Dear Old Comma
(Kate Epson Clarke. in PittsSurgh Sun
day Ballettn.)
Messrs. Editors and Printers. men who
really ought to know,
Give, oh, give US back the comma OF the
happy long ago
Comma that divides the sentences so that
he who runs may read,
| Bidding suns of sense shine sweetly
through the clouds that would mis-
Never did we love the comma a. we love
it now It's gone,
Letting sentence after sentence blind and
aimleas wander on,
While we struggle through the darkness,
fitting words to this or that,
Only finding. as we muddie, more and
I more to wonder at.
Till we see that one small comma, like
bright October moon,
Could clear all in one brief instant would
| the printer grant the boon.
Oh, know full well you hate it; but
l. please, cruel printer man.,
Gave us back the dear old comma, and as
| quickly as you can!
Gen. ]. +. Cilley arrived Friday night,
says the Rockland Courier Gazette,
after an absence of nearly six months.
most Of which time he spent in Ala
media, Calf, as the guest Of his daugh-
te1s Mrs. Walter G. Tibbetts. In this
t1anscontinental tour-the fourth he
has made since his daughter went
4 West to reside-Gen. Ciiley swung
around the circle of Southern States
and paid brief visit in New Orleans
to Hon. Pearl Wight. He arrived in
California at the time when the roses
were looking their prettiest and found
the scene in striking contrast to the
itempestuous weather which he had
left behind. After a most enjoyable
visit he started homeward again June
Is. July Fourth he gave an address in
Nottingham, n. H., at the dedication Of
the memorial to four generals-Dear-
born. Cilley, Butler and Bartlett. Else
Cilley Chapter. D. A. R., had charge of
the exercises. Tropical influence is re-
fiected in the coat Of tan on Gen.
Cilley's features.
A Houlton correspondent says that
some 10000 tons of fertilizer have been
bought for use in Aroostook county
NAiiS sSoa. Liz cStlIudtSu acreage OIL
Aroostook's potatoes this year is about
$4,000. while last year it was something
over 10000. The total shipments of po-
tatoes from northern Maine the past
season have been about 1887 900
bushels, which have brought approx
mately S2s,00o.0o0 or an average of
$1.6l per bushel. OF this amount about
81 per cent was furnished by Aroostook
county, the remaining three per
cent by the rest of northern Maine out
side Of Aroostook county. OF this
amount shipped from northern Maine
about 100000 were sent by the Ca
radian Pacific and Aroostook Valley
railroads,~the remaining 10,13s0oo by
the Bangor and Aroostook. These
are interesting figures meaning a great
deal. Study them little and see how
important a factor northern Maine is
in producing food and seed for New
England and other regions.
I Frank Hamlin Of Chicago, formerly of
Bangor. has recently been elected presi-
dent OF the Bar Association of Chicago
an organization comprising many men OF
national reputation. Mr. Hamlin has
held many positions Of trust and respon.
sibility in Chicago since locating there,
having been assistant corporation coun-
tsel for years. a park commissioner presi-
dent Of the University Club and Harvard
Club, besides being connected with many
important cases. Mr.. Hamiin is also re-
garded as one Of the best after dinner
speakers in the city.
Papers were filed in the Cumberland
transferring to the city of Portland,
the Edward Payson Park, to be estab-
i liehed and maintained by the former,
for public purposes only. on the prop
erty on Forest avenue which for near
ly a century was the homestead of
Edward Payson prior to 1890.
Another Of those 50-years ago base
ball games is mentioned, in which on
July 10. 1867 Bowdoin defeated Cush-
noes Of Augusta by the gentle score OF
81 to 28.
Some OF the Aroostook county au-
thorities are giving the merchants a
taste of enforcement of the Sunday
closing laws-so, when about 1000
Aroostook farmers arrived in Houlton
last Sunday for a conference over how
to secure the needed help to care for
and harvest the demanded increase in
crops. hungry though they were. they
could not buy even sandwich or a
glass of lemonade. A splendid display
Of judgment!
A Biddeford hopital has as a patient a
man taken there from Days Mills. for an
operation for hernia, and who while un-
der the influence Of the anaesthetic made
such utterances that a search of his ef-