Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1866-06-08
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GorLpsloEo. May 23d., ls6G.
DEAR AMERICAN: -
My last epi>te is before me. warning
against trusting my self in type but We i,
rot always profit by experience. Mis-
takes will happen" even with Printer. wlc
rs every one knows. are the salt of the
Earth. throw in this compliment tt
Offset the rest of my remarks. Will yut
please allow me to repeat rs wrote ii. I;
paragraph iii my last unfortunate letter.
: There i hothin" like the Typos thought
| ibeholdin@ the medley which had been mad,
| of that unlucky paragraph. to take the con.
ceiL out Of rs poor WRITER'S and let us
down from our sentimental ili.Iit>.
don't say that the idea was very happily
depressed, hll such aS it was, il stood thus
in the original. Nevertheless he old say
Ing. Poetry is Truth" still holds rood
but in Il spiritual rather than material sense:
appealing for recognition to Our inner ma
lures; and giving Us Il glimpse olthr high
er and purer life beyond. In the next par
a"raph | am made to speak of grass. in
stead of gross materialiSm. Pertains tho
former is all right but am ut Il loss to un-
dcr>taHd i'll what connection. There is not
a vast difference in the look, of the two lit
tie letters and o in manuscript, but one
of them misplaced, will alter the sense of
Il word amazingly. But is good old liar
pen" tells us, when We consider the nuu-
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and the manifold modes in which they may
be produced, it is wonderful that books cor
other lnatter) should bca, correctly print
ed rs they are" VIII you please correct
two errors i'll the list of Officers names,
which appeared in the report of our Lod1-
e's quarterly election: The name of the
W. {. L. should have been reported IL. +.
instead OF III. {. Whitaker. | am not sure
but that was my mistake. In printing the
name of the w. ID. VI. quite wide mistake
wa, made. The true name is Katie. in
stead Of Hattie NJ. Handy us printed. The
initials of the same name appear i'll the list
OF the Room Committee, and the X there
is also metamorpho,ed into an IL. | am
aware there is little difference in TIE looks
of an III and X as usually written, and the
gentle Juliet" according to her immortal
Biographer, our friend, Shakespeare. speaks
rather di'paragngly of names in general !;
propoundin" the famous query. Whats
i'll L name But we must be permitted To
diilcr from even her gentle lady ship in that
respect, and to aver, with all due respect
for the distinguished bard, that there is Of
ten Il great deal in Il name. UPray don't,
Mr.. Compositor, spell the little word after
distinguished with an instead Of although
there may be some connection between Il
bard and bird.) Coz why: Don't they both
sing: Well, think ollr worthy sister ka-
tie, has decided objections in her avn mind
towards losing her identity, and the qucs-
ton was asked me wonderin@ly by one of
her oldest acqpaintances "who is Hattie NJ.
Handy Z" If it were not for being pcrsou-
al, should say somcthin" in regard to
that same Katie, which would not be at
all lluncomplimentary. Our Good Templaro
Lodge continues to flourish like "a green
bay tree to quote scriptural simile.) al
though we can hardly say that it comes
quite up TO the exalted signilication of the
name Nonpareil; but the motto of the day
is progress, and the aim of true life is al
ways to advance. We still wage unremit-
ting warfare with the old, and once mighty
Potentate, Iclcped, King Alchohol, who,
having but Il small force a. his command
in This vicinity, is obliged to succumb. His
yotaries have the consolation of knowing
that they are decidedly unpopular, at this
enlightened era, 50 far "bchind the times, .
that they can never hope to compete with
the grand Temperance Army in the march
of life. While we, as Good Templars, give
due credit to the noble Pioneers in the great
cause of Temperance, and extend the right
hand of GOOD fellowship" without the
"Grip") to all promoters of the great prin-
ciples Of morality in general and OF lem