Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-04-11
Maine Gossip
The A. e. F. Man
BY Strickland Gillian.

The A. e. r. Man
BY Strickland Gillian.
/ have watched him in the lobby of the
county seat hotel
If he'd got his drummer job back, ne
was doing mighty well:
He would sally forth in silence and
transact the work in hand.
Then return to wait for train time,
with a wondrous self-command.
And his eye would be on distance that
we others couldn't see
Nay, he's not the sort of fellow that
we used to know as he.
/ have seen him in the Earthquakes,
silent even there.
Conversations roared around him, but
he didn't hear or care.
Once the noisiest ofthe party. ere we
sent him overseas,
He is SmilelesS through the laughter at
the stained bromide wheeze.
He has learned. somehow and some
where, what is sense and what
is rot,
Though the subtle why's and where
fores for it, interest him not.
When the windy long-bow drawer
sings his wild, bombastic strain,
He will sit and never mention that it's
not as right as rain.
He has learned an endless patience and
charity that we
Cannot gain or understand because,
the other side the sea,
He was face to face with something
he will never give it name.
Only those who saw and felt 1T can
expect to feel the same.
Yet l know, as I observe him, he is
far above my reach.
would give my hope of heaven could
the A E. f. man teach
9th Il do h q
that Something was, he learned
Where by day the landscape shuddered
and at night the star-shells
More 1 know: That if a threat comes
to destroy the rightful things,
He will rise again and save US from
the tyranny of kings.
One of the genial r. F. d. drivers
from Union, John Fassett, by name,
has a remarkably good excuse for
losing his temper when he received
an unexpected and, we assume an I'M
"elcome bath last week. How did it
happen? John wanted an apple and
started to go down cellar. John is
no featherweight and the stairs broke
from their mornings and pitched him
backwards into the cistern. We are
not telling all he said as he crawled
back to dry land.
A money order 81 years and eight
months old was presented at the
Pennington postoffice for payment
recently, and was sent to Washing
ton with proper information for in
structions. The order was made out
in Pulaski, Iowa, Aug. 5, 1899, and
was made payable to D. H Knowlton
&, Co., educational publishers, who
this week found it wedged in behind
one of the private locked drawers in
their safe. The key of this drawer was
worn out and refused to work, and
the drawer had not been used for a
number of years. The lock was forced
so the compartment might be used
\ and this old money order was
brought to light. 1t is a curiosity,
being about the size of a sheet of
note paper, and one like it had not
been seen at the postoffice here for
many years. Postmaster H. B. Brown
expects the Government to honor the
order in spite of it's age
The first whale of the season has
arrived in PASSPORT harbor and is a
very large flnback with a great white
spot on it's left side. He is between
As and so feet long and is the center
of interest in the seaport town just
at present. The Indians of the Pass
amaquoddy reservation five miles
away are on hand every day, and
some of them hope to harpoon the
whale as there is much valuable oil
and bone. Three whales were in the
harbor last season, and it has been
noted that the early arrival of the
schools of herring is followed by one
or more whales.
Maine people gathered with rep
resentatives from the Bay state at a
meeting of the Massachusetts, Maine
Daughters on their Gentlemen's
night which was held last Thursday
at the Copley Plaza in Boston. John
Clair Minot, native of Belgrade, was
the principal speaker. Miss Ruth S.
Whitney of Bath and Wollaston,
A'Acoo., was OllC VI TIE uSncTS, ana
Mrs. Harry S. Lord, formerly of Bath
was in the receiving line. There
were. addresses by William F. Garce-
lon, Holman Day and Judge Flint.
Among the guests of honor were Gov.
and Mrs. Claiming Cox. Lieut. Gov.
and Mrs. Alvan T. Fuller. Prof.
George Copeland of Harvard univer-
sity, Col. and Mrs. John F. Osborne
and Admiral and Mrs Herbert
%. Dunn. Mrs. Alice Huston Stevens
sang a group of songs assisted bv
Harold Trip, tenor. Miss Kate RYAN.
la guest of honor gave humorous read
|ings.
An old schoolmataJ of Solomon
Cloudman, previously mentioned in
this column is along in the nineties,
|too. Mrs. Sarah A. Mayberry Wadlin