The Republican journal., 1883-05-31
The Maine Chance.

The general outlook for the State is very
hopeful at present writing. The much needed
rains have come. to the relief of the lumberman
and the agricuturist. The grass having Win
tered well, good hay crop is almost assured,
and the swollen rivers will bring the drives to
boom and market. About the only thing which
troubles the farmer now is a dread of the pota-
to beetle which is reported as early in tie field
aud unusually numerous and active. This will
call for an increased consumption of Paris green
and London purple, and it is to be hoped extra
care will be taken in using them. In this part
of the state the weather has been favorable for
farm work, but in Northern Maine the spring
has been cold and backward. The farmers are
putting in their grain crop and larger acreage
will be sOwn to wheat than usual. But few po-
tatoc> We're planted until after May 10Th The
plant will be fully up to that of last year Stock
has wntered well. and Aroostook county is full
of hay.
Business of all kinds started slowly this
spring. and at no time has been very active, but
there is firm feeling that speaks well for the
summer and fall trade. and from present ndi-
cations if will be a year of average prosperity.
The wooden manufacturers have frequently
found prices ruling against them, but the shoe
manufacturers, who are about closing up their
orders for summer, have nothing to complain
of, and look for prosperous season ahead.
The summer visitor, who has become no unim-
portant factor in the prosperity of Maine will
soon be here in goodly numbers, with his sisters
his cousins and his aunts and should have Il
hearty welcome. Witha good harvest we shall
be ready to face the blasts of next winter, and
when the books are closed at the end of the
year we have no doubt but that the result will
be satisfactory on the whole to those who
dwell in the good old Pine Tree State.
The team selected by the National Rife Asso-
citation, New York, to take part in the Interna-
tional Rifle match at Wimbledon is not regard
ed as at all satisfactory. The New York Herald
reminds the directors that this is public af
fair, implying that the directors have been i'll
fuenced by private considerations. The Brook
Ign Eagle says of the throwing out of W. NJ.
FaIToW, of the Newport Artillery. The snub
given to the State of Rhode Island in the rejec-
ton of Farrow is likely to be resented and it is
be considerably altered before the date named
forts sailing for Wimbledon--the 10Th of June
Forest and Stream discusses the matter at length
and makes :; spirited defence of our former
toWn,man, Mr.. Farrow We quote the opening
paragraphs of its editorial on the subject:
The theme of all talk in rifle circles and
among the outside public as well is the action
of the directors of the National Rife Associa-
lion in shutting W. NJ. Farrow from the roll of
members of the team of 1888. There is much to
be said. pro and con- in regard to the act, but
after all the bald fact remains that one of the
best marksmen i'll America. if not the very best
al-round shooter we have, has been shut out
from chance of adding his strength to the
team, and only because some of those in power
have personal spites which they wish to work
out III this petty fashion.
The facts of the case are simple and all the
muddle of explanation which may be thrown
about them will not change the general impress
sion that gross act of injustice has been done,
and the American motto of fair play and the
best man to the front SET at naught. Mr.. Far
row has been for years member of the New
port Artillery. an organization of the Rhode
Island militia. He competed IA year ago at
Creedmoor for place on the team of last year.
and at other matches under the control of these
directors. has appeared in the uniform of his
corps and won prizes. 1t is nonsense then TO
claim that he was not well known to the Creed
moor officials as a National Guardsman. Yet he
was shut out from lending his valuable aid to
retrieve the defeat of 1882 on the tlimsy preteXt
that the directors had not been made officially
aware of the fact that he was a member of the
citizen soldiery.