Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-11-21
OUR TOGUS LETTER.
Many Ingenious Articles Made by
Members of the Home.
Owen Carr Found Dead Beside Railroad
Track-0ue TO Natural Causes.

Togus, Me, Nov. 20.-( Special. The
great diversity existing in human charac-
ter is one of the conditions that makes our
lives more endurable and full of variety
than it would be surprising us all to be
of the same temperament with the same
natural characteristics
As the human family is now constituted
no two persons are exactly alike, and he,
who attempts to make the same rule ap-
ply TO all in his intercourse with his fellow
men, will make IA sad mistake In our
community here we have all kinds of tenn
peraments from the sour. morose to jovial
and gay, from the man who only thinks
and cares for self and selfish interests 10
the jolly, good fellow who will go out OF
his way to do his fellows a kindness.
Thank God men are not all alike.
And there is as great n diversity in in
genuity ana talent as there is in character
There is the man here, and there are a
number of them, who with common
pocket knife Il few pieces of thread and a
little glue will put fun rugged, miniature
ship inside any ordinary bottle. One
such regular beauty, built by Daniel
Gould late of the L. = Navy, was recent
ly sent to Mr.. Vim. +. Gould. manager of
the Kelley Institute at North Conway,
by the members of the Kelley League
here. Samuel Drake, late 9th and 9th
n H. Infy, an inmate of the hospital be
guiles the weary hours in building minia-
ture ships. and they are beautiful. He
has them from the trim racing yacht 10
the full rugged ship under full sail upon
the almost life like representation of the
blue waters of the ocean; with whales,
dolphins and other monsters of the deep
in view, while gulls and other aquatic
birds are seen floating upon the water.
Members of the crew are seen upon the
deck and in the rigging. These vessels
are marvels of symmetry and are true
representations of the white winged mes
sengers of commerce which traverse the
mighty deep.
Seth II. Bowen, Co c., 1st n. Y. Artil-
lery, has made several violins which are
beautiful in finish and fine in tone He
is the builder of all those rustic seats
scattered around in different parts of the
grounds also the wonderful bird houses
seen in the woods beside the street leading
to the cemetery.
Nicholas WeinZer, veteran of Co. f.,
11th Mass. Infy, has violin he made
here with common pocket knife. 1t is
Il good one too and gives forth music as
sweet as the best of them. Mr.. Wcinzcr
is an old musician, having played three
years in each the 1lth Massachusetts Band
the band of the lst L. :. Artillery. There
are cane makers here by the score, and
among the finest specimens made arc
those which Geo. Dilloway, gets up with
heads of animals carved out to the life
almost. John Young, n naval veteran,
has speciality which is beautiful. The
head is Il clenchcd hand with every line
and the nails in perfection finished in ex-
act imitation of ivory while the stick itself
is so close an imitation of ebony that a
careful examination is necessary to con
vince one that the cane is not real ivory
and ebony Amos Wilder or Thomas J.
Calvin can make tidy for chair or stand
that is the envy of every lady who sees one.
And even the most expert maker of
fancy articles of this kind are puzzled to
know how they are made as they are
neither knitted or crocheted. They are
certainly very delicate and beautiful.
These are a few of the many beautiful
things made by the men here to pass
away the hours that would otherwise hang
heavy on their hands.
These men here are not all machines to
be wound up in the morning to run
through the day and then packed away at
night.
They are ingenious, intelligent men.
They are men who keep their eyes and
ears open They see and hear things that
possess a living interest to them, every
day of their lives. The acts of the govern
ment and of all persons in authority re
ccive careful scrutiny and woe be to those
who are weighed in the balance and found
wanting. They have no faith in, or pa
thence with, a governmental policy that
deprives any one of what is justly due him
especially those vino gave their all to the
support of that government.
Number of patients in hospital 26i.
Number of members present en- morning
report, about 1920.
Found dead Sunday morning Nov. IS,
beside railroad track about half a mile
down from the depot, Owen Carr late of
Co. c. 10Th \. Y. Death was due TO nat
ural causes.
Jesse JAMES GANG"