The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-03-30
YESTERDAYS STORM.
Viewed From Various Standpoints-some
Moral and More Local.

When Martineau wrote 1.-THE possible
always is, no matter how long it is COM
Ing "a great truth beautifully adopted to
the state of things existing yesterday,
and well calculated to comfort those who
waited for the Cape clectrics was GER
tainly we'll stated.
The wet snow simply chung to the
track. The wind did it's best to pile it
into drifts, hut with no adequate meas
ure of success. The wheels moved, but
in many cases that was all it amounted
to. They recalled what Rowland Hill
said when he saw child on a rocking
horse, "That is good tpye of the Chris
tlan life OF some people. effort without
progress" The men did their best, and
the plows were kept effectively busy,
but the historic observation made by
| the governor of South Carolina to the
Governor of North Carolina, with the
change of single word described the
situation completely.
Of course to greater or less degree the
same trouble existed all over the city, but
the Cape Electrics seemed to suffer the
most.
Beside keeping people from church the
storm made it hard for all who were
forced to be out. A man had to watch as
well as to pray, and it might be that
feeling of unwillingness to undertake
the performance of double duty kept
any indoors. Only the truly good ven
tured out and they served merely to en-
phasize the TACT that "The wicked stand
on slippery places by failing to accom-
plished that feat themselves. The wicked
had a temporary advantage over the
righteous yesterday but they will loose in
the long run.
Perhaps the storm helped to make the
day quiet one by making it unpleasant.
With the streets as deserted as the Senate
chamber during a speech by Senator
PETER, the station was deserted also.
The storm obstructed wiokedness, just
as the Senator does legisl alton, and the
fact that all through the day and evening
not single arrest was made illustrated
once more the fact that the American
habit Of "treating' is the worst enumy
to continued sobriety. emo man nveth,
and no man dieth unto himself" and
the individuals are few indeed who
will get drunk alone.
And yet there was here and there scat
tered grains of comfort. A fisherman
was asked, Wasn't it hard day for
your" and he replied eyes. but the wind
brought us straight in and the cook laid
himself out on the dinner A possible
personal disappointment in some cases
was limited at by the veteran John NJ.
the weather and politics, as he wendell
his way homeward. "This sort of wealth
er if it holds on long enough will keep
delegates away from the Populist Nation
al convention" said Mr.. Todd. sit will
simply ruin the walking"
Last evening an Italian, a finely dressed
man wearing high hat and diamond
pin, boarded Stroudwater car at the
Union station and quietly went to the
end Of the line. He seemed to be disap-
pointed when he looked about him at
first an wanted to stand on the platform,
but was advised to go in. Then he went
out on the front platform with the motor
man and was sent back. At the end of
the route he looked confused, and the
conductor asked him "Where do you want
to goW and he replied "To Portland"
When told that he had got to go back
over the route again he eaid something
in italian, the exact purport of which
the conductor failed to catch
He judged however that the stranger
repeated verse of an Italian translation
of Longfellow's psalm of Life"