The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1888-05-31

| CORES >pondencc of the Boston TRANSCRIPT
What an eternal clatter j, kept up in regard
to the superiority of things and conditions
they are now. over what they were in the day
of our fathers and -randfather>, our rail-
roads, tccglaph>. electric lights, telephones.
etc. are mentioued-anl in many cases lilated
| upon-in a lone of mingled >clf-congratulation
AMI brag, wherever subject affords thread
| Of connection for it. Newspaper editorials.
magazine articles. graduation exercises. teach
er>' institute papers. after-dnler >pceche>-
| especially when some journalist responds to
| The Pre~s'-arc constantly fired NJ with the
gIorie> Of our modern conyenieuce>. airl ting
ed with reproachful antithc>e> at the stupid
| ness of those who lived before Us and the I>-
| comforts Of their ways. In Fourth OF July
| and centennial orntion> such reflections come
| in for the climax IF the effort. Even the news
paper reporter feels that hi~ general under
| standing NAV not be li>ccrncl unless he som,
| times makes mention of ''the days of the slow
| going Stage coach ANA sailing tub of our fHtl1-
| ers, a reporter had it. in the New FORK
| Times. Il day or tW1 AGO. actually dragging II
| in. 1t i all true enough. and there is no in
| try img to make il ''rXtrcmely true. the
| landladv sai@ who figured in one of Lord BY
| ron> lclt r.. Material progress would 20
| lll>t a> well with Il good deal less of il. aud iii-
| man pro,rc>. ha, nothing TO do with the rel,-
| bration of ourselves
| 1t is true. YES but not overw helmiutiy true.
| Dfthe supcrai,uudancc of reading gone through
with TOO iittle is dom, in The land of books that
show something Of how true ana how untrue
| il i. old books they are. and of Il certain
| Kind only ..Well. of EuoIish,' and other ar
| tcle>. in series and >ingly, >kctching The char
acter and tone Of some ancient books, have
| cdiljed the transcripts readers: they show
| what people were thinking of in times long
| gone by. how their reasoning operated and
| how they phrasr,i their thoughts: but they do
| not show directly how they dId things and
| what ronNeniences and luAGrie- they had, in
| snort. they ITO not show how people lived.
| There are pages III "Buckle'S History of Civil
| lZatioh where he gets down so close 10 the
| people that he shows something Of their homes
ana nome HE. methods OF communication and
| travel, now they did things ana what they did
| them with. one expects GOOD deal of 1t IN
| "freehs History OF the English People,. but
| finds the volumes. on the whole. not essential
| y different reading from that found III other
| histories ef Englalid: perhaps not enough OF II
| can be discovered TO characterize work Of
| such dimensions. lhe sources of that Kind Of
| Information ar" lragnentaIN. and 90 rot lie III
| the way of general literature old books amt
| papers that do show how people lived ana
| what lhey enjoyed. even 50 lately a> III the
| daN> ol Inc >lo"-@oing stage coach and sailing
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| GENT scafch. bllt lew are lhcilned 10 that SORT
| Of reading: vet these are the best mean, we
! nave of seeing where We really stand relative
| ly. to where our fathers and @randfathef>
| stood. Sonefhlng OF such comparison vii ap-
| pear. further on. in thi- article
| Among the ordinary death notices in The
| B'>toh Evening Transcript of lSih October,
1856, was this one:
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nv nv 'ilaii al''e "HeiH toh>i''eIa'ioh ine>e
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| Ms Snes',. III III, d''fH' "heh 'eNee was put
| pool.N "'.e""e"' "'i h"' numerous p"' re-
| 'l"t
iar-Si'il'le copy o' ihe ili>' hliiilber OF we
| ~" i'.N ,"n ,''", -, c,ti wa ii 'nt'' '"
ny, .'N, @ei'e'husi .. i1o' - peIoIe me. vi rs
NIi'ous a'', ,er'i>e'llelt> l"ur are oi
>'ta"o'ts l's lll9 on 'hiii'o waters lthe irofl,
| drhce >tfaihboat OF Inc boston me Is ohtl ana
| nle are Vi ,t'i NrS>el> "'i,t'hs passengers ah'i
| iiei9ht loi Ne" olieah>' tlie Ntst ihdics ana
| european ports. ohe ol these l. mere repro
duced:
| FOR I.INERPooL--Packet of the : >ept-The
| packet snip Roscoe, j. g. pelano, master Is now
III lti'"ihcss 70 receive r''fg"- fHr ifeSl i pas
ase "ptS 70 .e 1"p,',iN pI p'a'r, '"' o, Maiden
v " ''''' '''', arg y '''' '''' i0"' =
ihe above advertisement was preil%ured
WIN ihe customary cut OF those days. ship
under fui sail. The >ea->weeplng name>ake
oi ihe men celebrated English historian and
| heheIaetor or Liverpool WAS not an English
| nui an American vessel, il sali->hp o1 course.
hall clipper III model. suppose, certainly ele-
Sahtie nhshed anu FURNISHED, giving lts pas
Stngers luNurious lare anu me most attentive
capih service hoted Tor nWiit passages. and a
grea' iaNofite win traveller, to and from Eu-
lopc ioI anoui le! years beiorc the advent OF
leSui'i ia'',. >ie'''i nav NiSalioh' anu Iof
ale" years thereafter. otier famous Ameri-
Nin Nesseis ana captains mere Were' IN the
.,eM io!h oi boston an" n.Nerpool trade con-
tenipoi Wnp.I aheous WIN lne hoseoe ana captain
itidmo' 'n! one ol ile'h lhe laNorte OF an