The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-04-30
Our George at the Hub.

pin In the front drapery of springs new garment
which winter sat down on causing him to get up
! very suddeny,-and go away with one hand be-
hind him, gently rubbing the region of his pistol
! pocket At any rate winter handed in his resig-
nation last week, and it was Immediately accepted.
The day left home the thermometer registered 10
| deg. which is full warm enough for me to be com
| Portable boil at very low temperature. | i'm
| mediately "clum" up on the hurricane deck Of the
| Penobscot and sat there without overcoat till
! after we left Camden when | was as cool as the
! Presidents reception of Office seeker. found
the "boys" all on the boat ready to wreste with the
summer travel, when it begins. Purser Woods
/ and Joe Patterson in the Office, and Fred Pote in
| the stewards department, with my old friend
! Capt. RoN in charge, which makes one feel safe
and contented, and takes all the responsibility off
| the travellers shoulders The Penobscot is gain
ing in favor with the public and is showing good
deal better speed than ever before, and she s GER
tany a very easy boat The "katy" was not run
ming with her regular officers. Capt. Homer has
been sick, and Capt. Inglaham was in charge, with
Billy Eaton and Hanscomb in the Office and stew
ard Smith running the victualing department. The
Cambridge is in Boston having new boilers put in,
| and being generally ovel hauled. She is also to
have new surface condenser. l haven't the
|
notion that it is to boiler, what a codciI is to
will; it sort of takes care of and covers whatever
has been omitted heretofore. If this explanation il
not satisfactory I'll get Fred Hathun to explain it
to me more clearly the next time see him. There
| isn't much fun travelling on this line now az
there used to be under the old .Indepcndent'' adj
ministration. You could go aboard the boats then
! and find fault and jaw about your treatment and
meals and everything else, and he right nine times
in ten, and there is nothing that 50 comforts and
| pleases man when he is travelling As to get a
chance to jaw Now the officers are polite and at.
tentlve, and the stewards department well admin
1stered and the rooms are clean and well cared for,
and it just breaks man all up to see everything
moving along all right and no chance to jaw-but
such is life.
| have about made up my mind that much sea
sickness in grown up people is all nonsense. Pas
sengers 90 aboard boat and seem determined to
he sick, instead of not being sick. They will heayc
and reich and seriously impair their constitution,
and sometimes their bylaws too, when there Is no
more motion than there is to sti legged walter.
stewards and stewardesses will tell you that babies
and very small children seldom Sick, even if II
is rough, but l don't mean then, l refer to such
terrific weather as one experiences in going up the
river to Bangor OF down to Camden, when a glass
of water will set on table and not drop be spill
ed don't believe that on such occasions there is
any need of turning oneself wrong side out simply
because one Is on boat, but presume that grown
people will continue to do it, notwithstanding tell
| them that there is need Of it, Ii sometimes
seems strange to me that am not more implicitly
| believed.
Boston is not looking very green. The grass about
the state House has been cut but that is an eNcep-
| tionaily early place, for besides the suns ravs
there is all the briliancy that flashes from the nun.
dreds of intelects that attend the "ginera COURT
on Beacon Hill. which together with the dressing
that is put the ground, gives the grass in that
locality early start. The leaves are lust starting
but probably when this is read. the trees Will he
| quite green, for you must remember am writing
! this letter last week.
/ To look about the streets and in The stores, to
gentleman from the country, like myself, should
say that business pretty good but let the trader
tell it, and they will say ii is duh. remember that
ali through the rebellion ami ever since can re-
member, and l 90 back to somewhere in the
vicinity of the of 1872, the same complaint has
been going on and the same cry made. A salesman
in one of the large dry goods houses said to me al
was with this house ten years ago and they then
/ said times were hard, and that they were losing
/ money. | left them and recently came back. ]
I find them doing much larger business than ever
but they still say that trade is dun, and they are
| losing money, and have come to tile conclusion
that they must have had al immense can't l. to
/ keep losing money for ten years" Sometimes
think If every would Away tell tile strict truth
as do, that there would be less complaint about
hard times and all that. The Is, there il more
and mere competition in doing business ana il Is
harder work doing it, and it makes 4 man tired to
keep up with the procession, but that there Is more
or less business being done in our glorous-tiyil.
service democratic mugwumpcountry is fact that
/ am willing to stake my reputation on, for if am
wrong don't lose much which is some comfort In
gambling.
1 went into the Park Theatre one night to see
new ahsur'lity, entitled "Parlor Match The
author, c, B. IIoyt, is a Boston newspaper man.
There is no plot to the play and no attempt at
thing but fun, and i'll that it Is certainly
The two principal parts a typical tramp AMI
book agent, and are taken by Messrs Iocy and
Evans The dialogue is witty, and there is singing
and dancing interspersed through the three acts
The fun begins at the start and ovs not let up till
I the end Miss Jennie Yeamans as little l3 year
Old Innocent is bright and entertaining and dances
Jig, handling her feet though they had received
:,
that some people may think that the title has moth
ing to ito with the play. which he admits but still
asserts that it is good title for the entertainments
lie further says, that the play sis divided into three
acts, and it is the authors belief that the bcholdcr
will feel the need of stimuants, at least twice dur
/ ing the evening" | mention this, because under
the present shut-up the -rumshop craze in Maine
play that needs artificial stimuants would he poor
! Y
the way is the angel of prohibition going 10 hold
/ her grip on the throat of the Demon Rum? Don't
you believe that gradually fingers will relax
their grip before the Demons life is extinct? |
cannot help thinking that in years to come, when
my grandchildren take their old centennial grant
pa out for walk in Belfast, and lead him through
/ the business Streets that ever and anon His nose
Will catch Whit of an odor that is waited on the
| breeze that the cid man will connect with the ia.
miliar smell o. the new rum of his childhood. Will
he ever live to the time when
"Therc'll he 10 more rum sold there"
/ No, no, not If he beats Old Methuselas record
\ One of my few weak i. an admiration of a
| pretty boot for the feminine foot whether on or
OF. In walking down Washington st. near the
Globe Theatre, my eye caught sight Of six pairs Of
ladies' boots in a window. There was a card with
them stating that they made to Or,ler, for
| mother and her five daughters, near Nashville
Tenn. always battered myself that our Eastern
girls could stand on less ground than those Of the
West or South and glanced at this array of boots
very jealousy, and must admit that they were the
! daisiest pieces of feminine foot wear ever saw
They We're goat skin, laced in front. The lapes had
| been wearing No. l3 mems brogans but as they
| pinched them they had these made to order They
were five inches wide, fifteen inches around the an.
kle, and thirteen inches in length Think of it,
nearly half the length of a column in the journal!
/ Great Scott fancy fellow going to see his girl
and having her lift one of those feet into his lap
and be asked to button her boot! Talk about the
/ Solid SOUTH should say Solid South
| took drive out through Forrest Hill Cemetery
| 1t is beautiful place, if cemetery can be called
beautiful. | was told that it contained some twen.
| ty thousand bodies-truly a city of the dead. |
hardly see how poor man can afford to die. 1t is
more expensive than to live. A lot 20N40 costs
from $500 upwards and besides that the purchaser
has topay extra for what is called perpetual care"
about as much more. That amount goes into a
fund, the interest of which is used in taking care
of the lot perpetually. large force of men are
! at work all the time, and no private grounds can
be more thoroughly kept. | sensible to the
| fact that ought to have bump of reverence on
my head SO large that it would bother me to get a
hat big enough for my head, but haven't. 1t does
not make me sad or gloomy, any of that sort of