The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-01-13

strength. God pity the Dale when the
noseb broken and disjointed elements of
democracy get sway. 1t will be worse
than when "the Assyrians came down
like wolf ou the fold
Well, thereafter, all present not mem
bers or honorary members of the Club
were made honorary members, without
right of suffrage, of course. Then the
Presidents formal address was called.
This time, instead OF making tour
around the world, he struck six thou
sand mile tangent on Alaska and talked
gold, gold, gold, advising the young
bloods to go and get it, and the old ones
to grub stake the others on shares He
said that one dump of pay streak reported
taken out not long since was said to carry
not enough dirt with the grains and mug
gets of gold to afford easy washing, add
ing, There are white lies and black lies,
but this is evidently yellow one. -
The next on the program was a reading,
"The Star of Bethlehem by Lady Rip
ley, which was most creditably done and
ended with a round of applause. Then
Conner, the Duke, essayed the role of
Prophet, but | might as we'll state here
that it was sham from centre to circum-
ference, top to bottom, beginning to end
alpha to omega. To make it appear
= that his avac na,a din, of ,,ieio, -,
give weird appearance to his person, he
stood out under a big hanging lamp and
raised high the scroll from which he read.
Now, the President had stood under an
other such lamp when he made his open
| ing speech and felt a torrent OF heat from
it on his head, SO that he and the Scribe
were soon obliged to fall wide apart from
risk of being sun-lamp struck; but the
| Prophet was in tor effect, and seemed
! proof against being struck by anything
| except his own Importance. He began by
Illuminating on little mental processes
like and 2 are 4, 3 from leave 2, 4 and
are I, the mystic number, when the
President called him to account for tell
ing such simple primary school things.
Then he struck out holder, dropped the
| Prophet of the Quantabacook from his
wonted perch on the horn of the new
moon-of course he couldn' do anything
in this line till he had submerged beneath
the cold waters of the lake of my boy
| hood wonder and delight the only real
prophet we have-then he told the futur-
/ ity of Sir Frank Gilman. coming out of
the Klondike rich; f. F. Phillips peeling
bark in Shadagee lhe came near peelng
hide at close range on the spo); under
took to involve the good Earl of Truetown,
C. L. Randall, in a love affair, and formed
a law partnership between the Duke of
Woodman' $ Mills, c. I. Adams, and Har-
| rison Wallace Of the East Ridge. At all
events he was genuine in this respect,
that he thought lie was making ont great
case, ana will give us another instalment
next time. Meantime, ''Requiescat in
pace" How beautiful if we could now
say of him as prophet, peace to his
ashes
An attempt was made again this year to
extort a song from Duke Adams, but it
was futile. Probably there has not been
so great a dodger aud Trainer OF excuses
as this lordly gentleman since the days of
his distant namesake Adam, OF Eden, who
lodged the responsibility of the first bite
in the forbidden apple. though the marks
of his teeth were clearly i'll it. Four years
ago Adams went to Nova Scotia to dodge
singing at the Dale meeting and has franz
ed excuses three times since. He was
plainly told by the President this time
that none of the house of Prescott would
own blood relation with hi m if this should
be repeated.
Then, too, Earl Randall, the Truetown
Lord, failed us in a speech, on which we
greatly counted. He probably got his
justification for this in the non conform
ty of Adams. That sort of thing is as
catching as the measles, or haying in dog
days. But we had big thing in dia-
logue entitled ''Why | joined the Eastern
STAR" by Mrs. Sadie Adams, Rachel
Morse, Nellie Adams and Miss Bertha
Adams. They talked and acted their
parts as in real life, and judging from the
exceptional quiet that prevailed where
their husbands were located in the hail.
your correspondent is of the belief that
there was more or less Of real life mixed
up in it. The widow aud fatherless phase
of Christianity was prominent feature.
Last on the program, as heretofore, came
Canto of the Knights of Boguesdale by
the President. His subject this year was
Isaac and Joseph, two local characters of
the old time. As an introduction he swept
through ancient Israel, paying tribute to
all the great characters from Abraham to
John the baptist; then depicted a mgra-
ton led by the maritime til be, Dan, from
Palestine up the Danube river, making
out that the tribe gave the name to the
river; then across the Baltic to Denmark
Dams mark on his boats fixing on the
country this name,) thence into Britain,
, whose august Queen, Victoria, is said to
have her lineage back to the throne of
David, and thence the ancestry of Isaac