Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-04-26
Boston Letter.
DIR. + E. HALE-LIQUoR DEALERS ORGANI-
zATIoN-THE MIKADo AND OLD Folks
CONCERT

BosroN, April %, sc.
To Editor Kennebee Journal
DIR. Il. E. Hale who celebrated the 9th an
niversary of his birthday this month is a
man as universally beloved for amiable quail
tiles as he is admired for intellectual great
ness. With a humanity that seems fairly
limitless. and widely comprehensive philan-
thropy, he is DANES to the contrary notwith.
standng) typical Bostonian. His life and
labors are the development of an essentially
Boston training, and it is impossible to con-
ceive of him as not intimately CONNECT
with the circle of those Influences which have
made Boston famous in literature and in lite.
To see this great man swinging along the
streets in careless dress and SLOUGH hat, one
might take him for some backwoodsman do
ing the Hub for the first time but glance at
the deep lines of the face, show a wonderful
tenderness and benignity, deep brooding
over the trials and sufferings of humanity
When DIR. Hale was born April 3, 1922, Bos-
ton was somewhat rural town, with COM
Portable oldfashionel houses many of which
were of wood. The tides came in over the
south and west ends. There were no railroads
but the stage-coach rumbled along to quaint
old hostelries past where are now the
public gardens. SO the wheels of time and
progress move on bearing on their swift rev
olutions the lives of those noble men which
the world would gladly retain in the flesh for
a thousand years.
The strongest point made against
the whiskey element, lately, has been
made by the liquor dealers them
selves, and proves pretty effectuallv that
tho lthu m orip tho
tionists has had a beneficial effect. The
liquor dealers, in a fit of desperation. pro-
posed to form an organization for selt-pro.
| lection, whereby they proposed to defy the
law in places where "no license" rules, by
furnishing the best counsel and paying all
| lawyers fees,and furthermore to blackmail
and boycott every dealer in their line to Sc
cure his forced cooperation. That the whis-
key element has been indirectly against law
and order, the prison statistics pretty clearly
indicate; but hitherto it has made some pre-
tense of going in with more respectable pro-
tessors, especially the would-be congressman
and that sort of person. Elusive and uncer-
tain, the whiskey man was apparently one
with the butcher. the baker and the candle
stick maker, but be has now united in an ar
my for war against the prohibitionists, and
few respectable men will openly espouse his
cause.
heard q very funny thing on the divorce
question the other day. Boston is, YOU
know, divided into two classes those who
aspire to matrimonial honors and those
anxious to dispose of their stock in trade of
connubial felicity. To the latter
class belongs an old Dutchmap
who lives few miles out of
town. This worthy came to certain Boston
minister with his Katrina and asked that the
marriage ceremony be performed, land request
ed the preacher to take a pig by way of fee.
III marry you, but never mind about the hog =
| replied the clergy man with princely generos.
lty. The knot WAS tied, and not great while
after, the dutchman again appeared upon the
ministerial horizon. "Meister Preacher" he
said, Il don'd vas habby mid mine Katrina ,
she vip me mid der proom aroundt. Ven you
marry me | offer you Won pig If YOU will
make me vat you call unmarried gif YOU
my shty-iull of hogs, and don'd YOU forged
i'd" That scores one for bachelors doesn't
ut? The Miksdo is still drawing crowds in the
spring tra-la, and speaking CT music re-
minds me of an Old Folks concert given in
Cambridge not long since. The programme
was very amusing and certainly showed great
deal of ingenuity; and by the way at this con-
cert new piano was brought out. person
would naturally infer that every sort of
an instrument had been invented in that
line that could be, but like hospital or
an omnibus there ia always room for
one more. This piano made bv an
old time organ company seems to be giving
great satisfaction on account of its cost anu
the peculiarly sympathetic quality of its tone.
The firm is the old and reliable one of Estey
4 Co, and has been known for years from
It's organ mandatory. Mr. Estey, who is a
Baptist deacon, was good deal surprised at
the old folks concert to hear the following
techin' lines sung to the tune of Aud Lang
Syne:
1e deacons instruments are known
To be karect and fine;
He started forty years ago.
In We days of Aud Lang syne."
The whole effect, especially the man at the
instrument, was simply delicious. But to re-.
turn TO the Mikado. 1t is having tremsn.
dros run and the entire Globe Theatre looks
like "Jap's" bric-a-brac shop.
General Arnatrong of Hampton. Va, lee