The Washington times., 1894-10-07

covered by Boston, who took up summer
quarters along the coast the same year that
Caesar entered Great Britain, and can tell
you right now, from the accumulated wisdom
OF my own experience. that If you have any
idea that baked beans and mugWumpery
alone Will fit you for the kingdom Of Boston,
you need to learn over again the lesson of how
camel goes through the eye of needle. In
deed, you need to learn your catechi6m all
over again. Perhaps you think you know
who made you. Well, you're wrong.
IL you even were made you were done by
woman who lives on Buck Bay who wears
water waves. a green veil, and goggles. /
know. for I've seen her. She made the world
and all that in ii is and, having made the world,
it's her world and she keeps it, water paper,
and moth balls on her closet shelf, and we
can't tonch it, because without her was made
nothing that was made, aud we're nothing,
having been made without her.
If | had my life to live over again GER
tainly would begin two centuries back on
Plymouth Rock, and | never will 90 to Maine
again without at least laying in few of the
"collateral' ancestors that have been thrown
out OF the Society of the Daughters OF the
American Revolution. They would be better
than nothing among people who sit under
the shade of their genealogical trees aud
wear concealed upon their persons in a gold
locket real leaf of the true tea that was
thrown overheard in Boston harbor.
Wells Beach itself, independent of its Bos-
ton backbone, would make anybody like me
thirst for blood. You know, barring a eer-
tain red-co!ored liquid in my veins which
sustains life without bestowing upon it any
social value, have no blood. Neither have
/ any family, not so much as family skele-
ton, and while may one day, please heaven,
have husband, not this glorious promise en-
To haIia tbnt 7 Chan bo
to sign little declaration OF independence of
my own. that will enable me to hold up my
head at Wells Beach, where the chamber
maid at my boarding house, the past sum-
mer. was merely working for the pleasure of
raising enough money to pay her initiation
fee to join the Colonial Danes the coming
winter, while the old man who cleaned out
my "bo-at'' every morning was only passing
away time while he waited for his father to
die and let him in his turn become a member
of the Cincinnati Society. His father was
125 years old, but that's no occasion for
funeral preparations or planning to break
will in Maine.
Although Wells Beach was settled by Bos-
ton long before either Columbus or Mr.. Bou-
teIle invaded Maine, the original settlers
still inhapit the place. Here and there possi-
bly, one has changed his body, but that's a
mere accident to the endurance of New
England family, the opportunity for another
gravestone in the side yard and the addition
of one more silver coffin plate to the orna-
ments of the mantel-piece in the parlor. Per-
sonally, never knew any of the Wells Beach
natives TO change so much as body. How
little they change, / suspect. but will not say.
more than that couldn't find any of them
who know how to wash, and when, one day,
/ was grumbling because | couldn't get full
sized bath i'll tin basin one of the first set
tiers said she calculated couldn't git along
ppa Sha'1 IiH-ad thpra uiph
ninety years and hadn't never took a bath
yet.
There was not a thing about her appear
ance to throw doubt ON what she said, SO |
reckon it's true. B.sides, we of the statisti-
clans of the Maine Historical Society, were on
hand with figures 10 prove it. We did not
sift her to get down to first principles, but
there's mighty little dirt on Wells Beach and
the ak kjacent islands, | haven't dug and sifted
this summer. The statistician had a Yacht,
and you know how it is at the seashore,
everything goes with a man who has yacht.
Even did, after association had refined me
so that | unconsciously said lug instead of
tote" calculate" instead of reckon re-
ferred to Harvard as Cambridge. and spoke
in a colonial vernacular of going out to
England instead of running over to the
other side" But never did / secure he privi-
leges of yacht at such a price. That man
worked me in pushing his Investigations Of
the antiquities OF Wells Beach, until L feel
cold chils chase over me now every time |
think how near | came to being mixed up in
the war between Japan and China. Luckily,
l was reading Boston papers ar the time and
did not know there was war among our anti
podes so that while / was digging in the
bowels of the earth for remnants of an In
dian fort, supposed to have been on Wells
Beach before the flood. my only horror was
lest l should spade up Chinaman and get
into trouble for violating the Geary law.
Talking about law, [ don't care what the
whole A, B, C, Y, y, Z of temperance organi-
zation thinks about it, the practical working
of the prohibition law is awful. | haven't
lived in Washington all my young life, and