Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-02-02
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Then-and Now

Then-and Now
In other times. when man loved maid,
He was little bit afraid,
Approached her gingerly, somehow
Came to her side with knightly bow.
Swung plumed hat low, and babe her
What lie could do for her today;
Would she have dragons killed. or
could
He STAY some giant in the wood?
Those were the Gays that did not
OF love, of joust of Holy Grail.
Then lover swan a stream to find
The lady of his lovers mind;
Dashed from the West, not in his car
But horseback, like Young Lochinvar.
Fought every inch path of blood.
Or laid his fine cloak in the mud
That she might step across the street
Safely. nor get mud on her feet.
Those were the times when love
went out
To win, that poets write about.
This gross, too simple day Of ours
OF motor cars. cocktails and flowers.
| Of pettlng parties, wink an eye
And let that car behind go by!
. where he's true romance taken Wings
To leave us all these brazen things?
What can inspire Il worthy poet
When girls have legs, and all men
know it?
Dollars and TASKS. our wooe' needs
But nevermore loves knightly deeds
Henry Edward Warner in Richmond
Timcs-Dispatch.
a travelling man, whose business
takes him to many parts of the State
says that business conditions are
quiet in practically all Maine cities
this winter and the merchants in
nearly all towns report that they find
trade below the average. He says
that the general opinion is that bust
ness will pick up in the spring.
With the number of vessels tied up
in Maine ports this winter on ac-
count Of lack of profitable freights,
: it is easy to see why new vessels are
not being built. This same thing
has happened before, however, and
there may yet come a time when the
schooner will once more be in de-
mand.-Bath Times.
Robert J. Peacock of Lubec, chair
, man of the Republican State COM
mittee, gives it as his opinion that
there Will be no more entrants in the
race for the gubernatorial nomina-
ton of his party. He believes that
the time has now become sufficiently
late so that all who intended enter
ing the contest have manifested
their intentions.
Portland is already having trouble
, with its new form of government,
says The Bath Times. An affidavit
las been sworn out asking for the
recall ot George F.. West, one of the
members OF the new council there
, Maine people will watch with much
interest the doings in Portland for
! the people of that city builded high
| Eopes on the new plan of govern
! mcnt and it is now being put to the
F.; test.
Years ago there were many cigar
making plants in this State located
! in small towns and did quite a bust
ness. OF late years most of them
. have disappeared. The late Albert
G. Brown Of Bath made quantities of
cigars and at the time that the Ala
media polo team was at the height
of its popularity. 40 years ago. he
made cigar called alameda" which
had n big sale in Bath and some of
j.
Blanchard for nearly a half century
cigar maker in Bowdoinham died
last week. running his little factory
up to within short time of his
death
DIR. D. p. Holt of 90 High street.
Auburn. head of the Augusta District
of Methodist churches, sustained a
Ernlnn homo
slightly sprained ankle when he fell
IN Pullman car while on his way
20 Boston. He did not consider his
injury serious but continued to Chi
caSo where he attended the Council
of Benevolence of the Methodist
churches held in that city. As his
foot did not get better he had an
N-ray examination made which re-
vealed one of the small bones to he
broken. This injury is not serious.
but DIR. Holt has to use crutches for
| tima until 1t heals. He returned to
Auburn after being gone week.
Speaking of long sermons which
I were the vogue some years ago,
Judge Lauren NJ. Sanborn of the
Cumberland superior court, tells this
story: Many years ago when the
State Methodist conference met in
Portland Rev. Charles Munger
; preached the annual sermon. Num-
ger was an able preacher of the
Gospel. according to the father OF
Judge Sanborn from whom he got
the story. but rather inclined to long
discourses. 1t was evident that Rev.
John Collins, another delegate who
made the prayer preceding the SER
mon. knew what was likely to be in