The Republican journal., 1892-09-29
The Republican Journal Thursday Morning. September 49, 1892


the dark sleeping waters of the Quantaba-
cook and spying the new loon creeping
along the horizon directly over the lake
he climbed upon the horn of it and drop
ped a line with hook, bob and sinker into
the voiceless depths of the sleeping waters.
Suddenly there was a strong pull on the
line and his oracle was landed. Mr.. w.
A. Cushman, genteel boarder at the Dyer
House and expert fisherman OF the Guam
tabacook, thinks he has located the exact
spot where Warren dropped his line, and
believes it to be the best hole for suckers
that can be found anywhere i'll the lake.
The inference is plain According to Cush-
man, Warren caught 4 ''Sucker. 1t is
safe to say, however, that the Cushman
idea is not accepted by the Club. We hold
that our prophet oracle was no sucker.
but a land animal of more than ordinary
intelligence. no matter where he was
caught.
Closely following on the trail of agony
attending the Seer $ unfolding of our fut-
ure. Maj" Phillips, acting poet scout
of our battalion. arose and disclosed the
interesting fact that he had evolved post
lude or addendum to his great poem.
1.-The knights of Boguesdale, which
he called, ''Canto "" and he asked a
show of hands to see how many were will
ING to suffer further martyrdum. The
response was prompt and general Nearly
every person in the audience lifted one
hand, the more enthusiastic put up two,
and at the same time moist eyes and Wild
ly beating stomachs We're clamorlng Tor
the delayed banquet. The martyrdom
was real at first but when the major
warmed up to his work and the humorous
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we forgot the all consuming physical
hunger while the mind revelled with the
picture which the genius of the poet had
created. We saw again the old fashioned
wedding serenade executed with tremen-
dous energy and with all the nerve split
ting clangor and thunderous boom which
youthful wind and Drawn could extract
from bass drums, tin pans, triangle, dim
ner horns and other instruments of noise
and torture. We saw the wild parade
along the village street, the niyht-capped
heads thrust from windows along the line
of march. the halt before the domicile of
the bride and groom, where the hurricane
of wind and roar reached its climax and
the final scene of a wedding feast Of
doughnuts, sour apples and hard cider.
The pointer on the dial of time has
moved forward nearly quarter of a CEN
fury since the event which our poet has
immortalizcd TRANSFERRED. The boys have
had ample time and opportunity to sober
off, and most of them are now respected
members of the South Montvile Club of
80. Feasting is always pleasant. and es-
pecally SO after prolonged mental or
physical effort. that s.-if the digestive
organs are i'll tune and up to concert pitch.
\ bad organ of any kind is sure to make
discords When the banquet tables We're
spread our eyes fairly glowed with emo
ton. Such display OF dyspepsia breed
ing germs and appetite ticSlers as We're
set before us by the thrifty maids and ma
irons OF our club beggars all description,
I will not attempt it. should fail if | did.
\ pretty good idea Of the situation is gain
ed by the remark, that we had almost
everything that is good. nothing that was
bad, ate it all. and paid the penalty in the
usual way, We Went to those tables with
good organs, in perfect repair. we lett
them with ''broken reeds which ''smok-
INK flax or a stomach pump alone could
cure | said we had nothing bad at that
banquet: an aftel thought leads me to
correct that impression. We had numer-
Gus cases of bad judgment.
The committee Oh exercises for the
lIlttllllS III ''.p ItpoIl WY lpiloN1llC 'lo-
gram: LIST Address, ~ the President,
f. f. Phillips: -. Essay south Mont
Vile, past. present and future, by q. f.
Randall; 3D.. Recitation, by Mrs. Eva
Ripley: 18th Disquisition on Cranks, by
one OF them. Alvin Phillips 9th. Proph-
ecy. by G. ). Adams: 18th. knights OF
Boguesdale Canto 18th, +. +. Phillips; It'll.
Banquet.
ALylN PHILLIp~, CoKKh~roNDEST
West Somewille. sept. II. l>92
From the Widow of Chaplain Bowker.
The following letter was read at the re-
cent reunion Of the 18TH Maine in Liberty,
but was not received TN Us III time to ar
pear in the report OF tAt meeting. 1t Will
be read hy the ''h0ys' with sympathetic
interest:
I;EADING. MASS Au4 ~. 9-
My Dear Sir: Your kind letter t. my
husband was duly received by myself
supposed the members III the 10Th Maine
Y OILS. knew OF his removal from this earth
ly life To the heavenly. as | believe. He
died the 10th day of last September. after
months of feebleness and extreme weak
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