The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1885-07-23
"A Bad Penny Soon Returns. +"
BELFAST, June, 1885.

w atertOWn ~ OgdensburS X. X. This road Is
the most direct route to the falls and west, for
the travel from northern n. Y. and Canada. 1t
connects with eastern roads SO that it has
direct line from the White Mountains. by the
Portland and Ogdensburg, and the Ogdensburg
and Lake Champlain roads to Ogdensburg,
and thence to Niagara and west to Chicago and
st. Louis. ] do not know pleasanter route, if
one cares for beautiful scenery, or wishes to
stop along at different points and enjoy it, and
| it is constantly growing i'll favor and will COM
mand a liberal share of patronage as it becomes
better known to the travelling public. The
rolling stock and coaches are first class the at
PENDANTS are polite and gentlemanly, and the
boy who goes through the cars has as many
different things to sell and exhibits as much en-
terprise in selling them, as is shown on the
biggest road in America. The man who can
not find some humorous incidents while riding
in the cars, must be as devoid of humor as a
patient who has Just gotten over the small pox
or 2 hired mourner at a funeral. At Charlotte
| was greatly amused at an incident which the
| conductor assured me was regular occurrence
on the road. This place is at junction, short
]
a large city, everybody on the line of the rail
road for miles goes there shopping. and comes
home With their purchases. Our train passed
through Charlotte in the afternoon, just as the
shoppers We're coming home and about thirty
people, all women, got into our car. Each
woman was loaded to the muzzle with pack
ages. They brought everything into that car
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II acre farm. Packages that would not go
| through the car door were stood up on the
] platform, others We're ended in aud leaned up
against tile end of the cars. ana then the wo-
men took the balance in their arms. | took AN
inventory of what one woman brought in. She
/ bad nine package, that saw the contents Of
besides a job lot that She had in her hand bag
She was fine looking lady, dressed ia silk and
wore fashionable iewelry All she had was
/ bundle Of dress goods, roll of rhubarb stalks
barn shovel, few pounds of beck steak a
hoe, summer bonnet, Webster's dictionary
package of coffee and Il paper bag of onions f!
Now there was a woman that you could trust
/ to do crrands. and the other - Were just AS
/ capable and hardy She was. They were A
jolly set and Were all laughing. and evidently
considered it fun. They piled the racks and
] the seats with bundles, and filed the aisles
with packages and pals and bas kets and the
conductor climbed over them, perfectly cool As
if ii was AN every day occurrence, as he sand it
was.
/ From Charlotte-with the accent on lotte-
to O>wcgo. the road runs very near Lake
Ontario. at times lust skirtng the shore. and
all along we saw cottages and hotels and
/ pleasure boats, showing that the shores Of the
lake were quite a summer resort. AT Oswego
we stopped over night. All knew of Oswego
was that somebody made Corn Starch there,
| but | found a nice looking city of some $4,000
\ Inhabitants. Every city is the healthest in the
union. but oswcgo Is modest. and only LAYS
claim 10 the third position, which is the same
/ the Providence base ball team holds in the
league, ut the time of writing The land is
/ tipped up edgeWi~C Just enough so that the
water will run off readily, without having to
/ push it, The OSwego river runs through the
I city and into the Lake, and was rs fun of Canal
boats a. our hay fields are of white weed
I There are three railroads center here. which
/ with the nav gation make Oswtgo a place of
considerable commercial importance, and
1 found that something was done here beside
| making Corn Starch. There is an ineNhaust-
/ able supply of fish in the waters. and strange
rs it may seem, they will very often bite. so
that the majority of SUNDAY fishermen can
7 come back from their excursions. and say they
caught good string of fish, without having to
/ lie about it, That fact cannot be given 100
great Importance. | should fish more myself
/ if it didn't require much lying to get a good
I string. There are two fine hotels, the boo
\ little House and the Lake Shore House. OF
the former | speak from experience. There
are l. churches. newspapers. an Opera House,
| and public Library, containing twenty thous-
ana volumes, and they talk of adding "Not4s
\ .ifm4 He Uoy." which will make one more
i No public library is now complete without it,
and no copy genuine unless "Our George" Is
blown in the cover. oar next stop was at
Malone n, | cot from thc cars | saw three
\ lily white hands extended toward us, and
4 found the owners standing behind them in
the persons of Maurice Ilervey, Ed. knowl-
ton and Frank Conant. 1t seemed like getting
! home was soon seated in Eds store reading
| the journal, and you always find it wherever
/ you lind Belfaster, and | soon posted nv
/ mental ledger up to date. | found the bows
| we'll and happy, and doing a nice business and
| the firm of knoWlton x COnant enjoying the
/ respect and confidence of the community To
/ them we We're indebted for a very enjoyable
visit, and ride out through the farming dis
I trict outside the limits of Malone. | guess that
I there was some trouble with Ed knowlton's
eyes while we We're ut Malone. | know he re-
marked that : twas good for sore eyes to see
/ us, and he bid his store farewell, and appoint
| ed himself our guardian while we were there
! | wouldn't mind being an orphan all the time if
| could have such an attentive guardian. He
| did all he could for u single handed and alone,
and then borrowed us some of his friends and
they did the rest. After pleasant day at Ma
lone we again took the cars. for Lawrence.
| From st. Adams. VT, we happened to travel
! on Il most uncomtortably hot day. and hot
| day on the ears seems hotter than anywhere
| else. If You open the windows the cuders blow
/ in and cover you, and the smoke chokes you,
and if you keep them closed, it seems as if you
would sutfocate. The plush seats feel to be red
/ hot, instead of being colored red and the ice
water in the tank appears to be rer>pirlng
/ Even the train boy becomes listless, and the
/ time between holding package of caramel and
| giving that W i'll exchange for late novel that
YOU have read six months before, grows longer.
\ The conductor does not wake YOU up to punch
your ticket at every station. and YOU turn and
1 twist in Your seat, and slide down and hold on
! by simply hooking the back of your head over
/ the top of the seat, and you run your fingers
around your collar to loosen it, and you unbut-
\ ton your vest, and pull up your pant legs and
coat sleeves and fan yourself with your hat 4,
and keep diligently at work doing something,
when every eXertion only increases the heat
and makes you more uncomfortable. | could
not but notice the difference between the ladies
and gentlemen in the car. When there is moth
| ing to worry about "A woman will give man
odds and double discount him, but when ii gets
/ down 10 business. and something disagree
able or terrible happens, then woman stands
out as Il shining example to man as picture of
Y endurance and patience. There sat the ladies,
either gently waving fan OF lying back in a
| comfortable position, taking matters rs cooly as
| though it was refrigerator car instead of a
| through express from Shcol. (lsn't that word
Just daisy? Children can play with it, and
speak it without burning their mouthS.) But if
4 mouse had happened to run through the car,
every lady would have turned backspring
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