Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-11-29
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A respite from every day work during Thanks
giving week is welcome TO the tired teacher well
as to the tired traveller. This week to some brings
others wander away to other, if not foreign scenes
1t was our lot, however, to wander away, but
among old friends and kindred. We are not so
old that we can make any pretensons to wisdom,
or look back over the long time up the hill OF life,
and draw sage and profound conclusions; but we
can look back over q few years and notice what
has transpred. These few years since Augusta
knew us O resident, we can say that change is APP
parent. We move on the street, but new build
ings have taken the place Of the old. We see bus
mess, but we miss many of the old familiar kinds
such as were given by the lumber trade and its
manufacture; see faces, but only the old ones
recognized by us AS acquaintances, the younger
ones have become older grown out of knowl-
edge, and we see younger, and in some cases,
entirely different class engaged in trade, &C., and
thus it goes. But those we do meet and know,
have cordial welcome for us, whenever business
or pleasure brings us to the capital.
Not much of Importance transpires to q traveller
from Warren TO Augusta. The route is attended
nth some change of cars, an occasional glimpse
of the arms of the sea- and the coursing of numer-
Gus streams of water, present variety and beauty
but pleasant acquaintance are sometimes formed
or old ones renewed. 1t was our lot to meet thus
pleasantly our old friend, Mr.. A. Bangs of Bath,
Of the firm of Bangs, Weston 4 Co.
At Augusta the Educational Association gave
us opportunities of meeting friends Gin trade"
We got very much instruction from our betters,
but we thought, "if these come so far short, where
shall are be foundi' We got instruction con-
densed, boiled down; experiences full and rich,
from wise and true heads; but we remembered
how easy it was to talk and that they had only OBJ
tanned their power by continuous knocks; so we
must travel the same path, and in the same man
ner, knowing that what is possible to one is to
another We were sorry that our capacity did not
permit us to meet all the invitations 10 eat Thanks
giving dinner. We ate two and declined another
The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak, and
as our spirits are said to be our best guides, our
friends will hereby accept our thanks as though the
eating was done.
But all things must end; so docs the week OF
rest. We are on our journey home. 1t rains. We
must wait two hours here, aud so we wait. Moth
| ing new observable here. Trains come and go
like people, and the clicking OF the telegraph may
| be fair representation Of the tbusy hum of the
world, though the click is much shai per than the
| hard times would permit.
| On our way from Augusta we noticed that most
of the way the river was frozen over, and had not
| the rain been pouring might have thought it
dead winte:. But Warren is in the dim distance
and so are its items. Hope to see both in a few
hours and let the journal enjoy j the knowl-
edge When once we have gained the same. So
| asking Cd speed, we are, Sc, &c. W.
| Brunswick, Nov. 26, 1879.