Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1883-06-12

SPARED of but hear he is likely to recov-
er.
Charles Ryerson, the proprietor of the
Lake House at Upton has six boarders and
next week will have twenty more. The
hotel is in pleasant place and pleasure
parties will find Mr.. Ryerson and wife
pleasant people to stop with.
Fishermen are plenty and trout are
frightened. The streams are quite low,
Just water enough for spotsmen to wade
nicely.
Mr.. Lane has put daily on his route so
we have mail every day in our town now.
The stage carries lots of passengers every
trip, and today an Indian occupied a seat,
with his bow and arrow ready to shoot the
first deer that made his appearance. Mr..
L. is alwas ready TO convey passengers to
and from the Lakes.
Mr.. Geo. Lapham has moved from Mi
not and will carry on the Llewellyn Grow
er farm.
A fire in the woods recently destroyed
the camps built by ]. Larry, last winter,
and occupied this spring by the river driv-
ers. The drivers lost some clothing. One
man lost whole suit Of clothes. For q
time it was feared the fire would burn the
buildings of Gilbert Taylor.
DoLLIE DART.
HARTFORD, May 2S.-While teaching
school on Severely Hill, Dixaeld. taught
anevening once week TO hear pupils spell,
and read their compositions, upon subjects
given them, and Tucker did the same
with his pupils, and we often met together
IN each others school room with some OF
our pupils. Having received letter from
him dated East Weymouth, Mass, on my
10Th birthday, send extracts from
it: What busy life yours has been
What labor, care and responsibility, in
teaching flty-flve schools, and how much
influence for good, you have exerted on
the minds and character OF the children
and youth, and the men and maidens, who
have been your scholsrs in these many
happy years gone by. Since receiving
your cordial, fraternal greeting by the pos
tai, have in pleasant recollections lived
over those happiest brightest days OF my
life, when you and | were fellow teachers.
How pleasant were those evenings when
our schools met in your school house and
then in mine to engage in the pleasant and
profitable exercises of the spelling school,
and OF reading the compositions. We had
more of the rudimentary, solid practical
instruction, which qualified our pupils for
successfully transacting the great business
of life. Ny thorough study of the rudi-
mentary branches and my earnest work in
the eleven schools have taught, were OF
priceless service TO me in fitting me for
the work OF my life. have visited Eu-
rope twice. On my FIRST visit in 1873, Wis
iting England, Scotland, Switzerland, It.
ally and Austria, France, Belgium. Ger
many, have for years been n reader OF
the OXFORD DEMOCRAT. IL has afforded
me great pleasure 10 read the commurica-
ton of Hartford am glad that like
Moses OF old, your eye is not dim, your
strength not abated. We have had the
pleasure OF entertaining at our house, Prof.
L. W. Mason, the music teacher whom
YOU know, and is so successfully teaching
in Japan On Prof. Mason's return from
Europe this spring, where he had been TO
procure material for his Forthcoming mus
ical books and charts he presented me
with beautiful book relating TO the min
eral springs of Germany, Austria and
Switzerland. On the lily leaf notice the
following: To William Bicknell esq.
From L. W. Mason. Bought in Karlsbad,
Bohemia, Austria, November, lSS2."
HARTFORD.