The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-01
AaUAlNT NlLLaGE.
fhero Is No Caste, and Almost Perfect
Equality Exists-Far From the Busy,
Busting World and Free From Its Many
Disagreeable Features.


Disagreeable Features.
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NOBODY soaryes 10 oeatn IA our village,
pu' some OF our mountain lolk VINO i've
far away Oh pyroads' IN places "hloh are
olten inaccessible IN WINTER are very poor
III hourlsheo ana III ciotnea. however,
cne prevssiiing tone III ASHER Dill s1ofe
ana IN uhe village generaliy Is humorous
one oone Oh irony ana Oh goou natureo
SARCASM. A!nost everybody cultiVages
hne sense OF humor-in Iact' 10 Do humor-
GUS, ana espeolaliy TO De gooa al repartee,
Is Che one inteiiectual amplulon OF the COM
MUMMY. we 40 not care muoh for learn
ing OF any sor1. our ietters, Whlch we
put OH writing Till about SIX months after
they are que 40 nos eXcel IN grammar or
pennanshlp. ana IL is really astonishing
even 10 ourselves, now ilttle we care lor
What goes on IN the OUTSIDE world. we
reaa tne papers WIN only langullsu lnter
esq., pelng more concerned about the triviai
events IN tne next Town, duly9 chronloiea
IN tne county paper, IMAM we are yapou6
WnaG is saiu OF Done IN washington. ia
LONDON OF IN Fafls' buO the sense Oh hu-
NOR is developed among US IN chlldhood
ana Is never iosg' even IN moments OF dlih-
cuIoy VI VI uanSer.
Last foufon OF July desperate cnarac-
ter VINO llves on mountain road IN the
outsnirus .. Ihe Town oroVe lnco inc VII
!age III HtIie rickety carO' waving over
lis nee'u Woinan proheh anu oae1ereu
euhhnaue, WHICH ne hau picheu up SOME
Where. ne was very drunk, ana peIore
lung one cafo was upset. Ills morse, a nall
proheii coi0' hickeo anu piungeu ana Urled
10 run away. line 1eilow plucklly chung
10 inc reins anu was dragged apoue on tne
ground niUner ana thlther, pelng nnally
ex1rlcaGeu from tne ruins OF MS cart. But
1nrough IL an ne kepc ohe sunsnade IN MS
manu-. uoh care any bhlng apou1 my
SSH, no saiu' as ho was assisted 70 MS
Ieee' 1ne piooa streaming rom MS lace,
nor aoouo 0he moss NOE apouG ohe cart, put
Wuz oeterhineu 10 save tnis peaultIul
parasol.
10 discuss wfy this humorous spirit
snouia Dc Ghe preValllng splri5 IN an An
glo-Saxon community OF puritan descent
would pc ol1ncul6 thougn pleasant task,
but must content myself here with the
obvious remark that IL couid not exist ex-
cepb IN connect1on WIN an ample back
ground OF leisure. Our ylilage-perhaps
tnls cardinal IacG ough1 10 nave been stated
at phe outset-en1oys plessed immunity
from railroads. The nearest station is ten
miles OH, ana the mails come by stage,
winch arrives anywhere between a. m.
ana mldnight-except on some nights in
winner, when 1t does not arrive at all, be-
ing prevented by snow storms. Our man
ners, though little brusque, are good, as
manners Always are ia community which
mas no social superlors' Every man IN
ene village VINO is noe speolaiiy marked
out by vice or poverty reels himself to be
cne equal, IN an essen,lal matters, OF every
ouner man IN the World ana this feeling
goes long way toward producing that
equality winch IL assumes. There is abb
soluteiy no steanng among us; ltwould be
perfectly pc safe to leave all ny your yaluables
th;s snn p,asA ar az resn1t anu perhaps
Gnls immunity Is one result OF equality.
10 steal Is a confession Oh lnferiority, in
S solerapie among eq ps ,,nI loneating IN
morse trade STANDS, OF course on different
Iooting, ana may De pract,cea without en-
Glr6 loss OF Sell T6SDocU. MT. HOVal1S has