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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-13

that is also the way they work even to
this day. So hard have they labored
and SO successful have they been that
today there are more than LOO Swedes
in the colony, which now extends over
seven townships They have more than
700 buildings and-S0 miles of turnpike
roads. They own about $50, 900 worth
of live stock, and in. 1894 their farm
products were valued at $173;730. That
same year the total value of buildings,
clearings, tools, stock factories, mills
and farm and mill products reached
nearly $S00,000 When one considers
that a quarter of a century ago this
territory did not produce a dollar,
these figures are eloquent. Today there
are upward of 1000 Swedes in Maine,
who are the direct result of this enter.
prise.
This is all New Sweden continued
the driver, checking his team to give
time to observation. We were at the
top of Landgrins hill, and from where
we stood the land sloped in every di-
rection to the thick underground that
betokened a water course and rose
again, and thus on as far as the eye
could reach, rising and falling gently,
peacefully. From the crest of the hill,
down 500 feet runs the road, then up
again to the horizon. In winter the
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DEwEY,s ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Expresses Thanks to the Chicago
Board of Education.


Chicago, Nov 12-Admiral Dewey
has Acknowledged the compliment paid
to him by the board of education in
having one of the new school buildings
named after him. Trustee Sherwood
wished to have a large portrait of the
hero of Manila adorn the school and
asked the admiral to send his photo
graph The admiraPs reply is as fol-
lows:
Manila, Oct 4
Dear Sir:-The board of education
has done me much honor in naming the
new school THE George Dewey School,
and in putting aside a day to be known
as Dewey day
Twill you have the kindness to ex-
tend to the board of education my
heartfelt thanks for such an honor, and
say that I shall ever appreciate it.
81 greatly regret that it is not in my
power to comply with the request of a
large-s sized photograph of myself, as
have not one single photograph left.
But. shall have some taken on my re-
turn to the United States, if not ear
lier, and it will afford me much pleas
ure to send one to the Dewey school.
Sincerely,
GEORGE DEWEY"
The Dewey school is in the course Of
erection at Fifty-fOurth street and
Union avenue. By a resolution intro
duced by Trustee Sherwood, the first
school day in May is set apart FOR
Dewey day
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The Modern Farm house, Creation of Sweden

here about u years and has made
almost as much money out of his farm
as his business His wife and the
younger children live here all the year,
but he and his eldest son, who is a ris-
ing yound dentist of New York, make
the metropolis their winter home.
At the foot of the hill there is a saw
mill; deserted now while the mill hands
help harvest, which is set in a heavy
hardwood thicket. a short ten feet
away there is a row of dead trees a
quarter of a mile wide and ten miles
long. 1t is the line of the forest fire
that nearly burned the mill and threat
ened the best part of the settlement
1t came three years ago, and the coll
onists worked for three days to save
the mill. There were a hundred of
them, and they divided themselves
into squads and worked increasingly,
drenching the lumber piles with water
from the spring.
A COLONY TRAGEDY.
cover yonder is the tree where little
Christine Svensson was found" said
Ole.
Little Christine Svensson?''
Then the driver related the loss of
child from her fathers home the third
year of the colony. She was in the
swamp after water, when a bear and
!
the path and was lost. For three days
she was sought, and when she was
found she was insane through fright
The story was told by Founder Thomas
at the quarter-centennial. It is the
only tragedy this peaceful colony has
ever known, and Ole, the driver, stops
his horses for tourists before the his
toric tree. From the Svensson tree the
road back to Caribou takes in about
all there is left to be seen. There are
half q dozen white schoolhouses, with
/ their patriotic fiag-staffs, and dozen
! or more SaWmillS and starch factories
/ The latter is the greatest of all manu-
! featuring industries in this region,
which turns out $1,000 tons of starch
! annually. New mills are going up
! yearly. / stopped at one of these mills
"a simple affair, with many odd make
shifts in a mechanical line, such as a
homemade pump and an electric plant
designed and made by two youngsters
who never saw a dynamo, except the
one at Caribou, and never saw that
until their own was set up. They built
1t from descriptions in a book. The
machinery clanked and clamored
noisily as the potatoes bounded down
the chutes into the bins, wherein they
! become pulp, then paste, and at last
| starch The latter transformation
| however, takes place in a great drying
house, which smells as sweet as new
mown clover.
The twilight brought out the vivid
colors of the autumn foliage in start
| ling contrast to the greens, which
| deepened in the darkness to almost
/ black. A cool wave arose from the
earth as we dipped into valley The
setting sun had left golden haze in
the west that gilded the hilltops with
such gold as no palette ever held. Up
| the road, toward the horizon. there
hared rose-fame cloud of Pharoah's
pillar of fire by night" which covered
/ the trees on either side with crimson.
"Gorgeous~
Dust" said Ole. "and a ray of the
sun through Landgrin's grove G'lang,
Betsy! were almost home"
BENJAMIN NORTHROP.
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have four; breakfast at 4:5O, lunch at
Il dinner at and supper at 6. At
lights are out and the tired laborers
are enjoying a rest that the city man
reads about, but never experiences.
PREACHERS WHO FARM
The First Lutheran church is built on
the Landgrin farm. 1t is plain, white
structure, bare and simple, quite diff
ferent from the rather gaudy Baptist
meeting house down the road, where We
saw the parson and his pretty wife in
the family potato patch with their little
ones, harvesting their crop, the same
as the rest of the people do. The
preachers of New Sweden all combine
farming with their ministerial labors.
Money goes a long way in this far
away nook, but even here $500 year is
not enough to rear and educate q fam
lily, unless II is Dieced out with some
kind Of labor Thefeatures of the Luth-
eran, as of all other churches here
abouts, is the horsesheds, large enough
to shelter regiment Of cavalry, and in
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young Swedes slide down this hill on
their skis, and a glorious sport it is.
But now it is shaded on either side
with northern pine and hardwood, en-
towering it in a latticed framework,
through which the Landgrin farm, with
its busy family of toilers, the old
church and the pastors home, could be
seen in glimpses.
ENORMOUS POTATO CROPS.
On every side were neat farm houses,
some of them bright with paint, and all
of them tidy and warmly built, with
barns three and four times their size.
Around them We're pasture lands and
groves, orchards and meadows and vast
potato fields. Aroostook county raises
more potatoes than the entire balance
of the state. II Is one of the great po-
tato raising regions of the world. One
farmer can raise as many as 143 bush
els to the acre, and the average yield is
more than 200 bushels.
Among these farms we drove.
This is Gabriel Gabrielson's farm, !"
explained Ole, the driver, as we stopped
before a field that reached from the
roadside to the hills, a full quarter of a
mile beyond.
Good day, Gabriel he called in
Good day. oler' and tall faxen-
haired man came up to the wagon.
How are your potatoes coming
on?''
Fine" answered the farmer in fair
English; about 300 to the acre"
lizard work."
The farmer shrugged his broad Shout
ders. At the lower end of the field,
drawn by two horses, rolled the potato
digging machine, which looks like a
harrow, and left a double row of pink
tubers in it's wake, which were being
literally shoveled into baskets by the
farm hands. The farm hands consisted
OF Mrs. Gabrielson and q string of little
Gabrielsons of all sizes. II pays. to raise
large families in New Sweden There
would be very little profit in farming,
especially at this busy season, if there
We're not plenty of children to load the
baskets in the potato fields. a young
ster can pick up as many potatoes as
erown-up person, and this is the great
harvest among the Aroostook Swedes.
But it is hard work, and there is plen-
" of it. They get up at in the morn
/ ing, at they are at work, and they
keep it uD until it is too dark to dis
tinguish q potato from an earth ball.
They only stop for meals, of which they
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shock of wavy hair, a head held
rather high, with certain suggestion
of audacity in the poise; a slender,
1.-the figure, and a pleasant, cultivated
voice., with rather an English accent,
one and all give you very fair token
OF the man. His look and his ordinary
way and speech are those of the fam
tastic humorist that his published work
dlscloseS. 1t was HEREFORD who, on ac-
cepting a. second helping to some par
ticularly fine honey, said: I'm very
fond Of honey. l have often dreamed
of going to live in the country and
keeping bee Of my own" And such
speeches are so frequent with him that
he now has q fame for them among
his acquaintance. and his last good
thing" is apt to be caught UP and much
repeated.
HEREFORD is the son of Rev. Brooke
Herford, who came over from England
some years ago to become rector of an
important Episcopal church in Boston.
but who is now living in England
again. There is talent all through the
family. Miss HEREFORD, sister of Oil
yer, has made much reputation within
the last three years as an impersonator
and reader, and is much in request for
the Darlor entertainments with which
fashionable people now embellish their
social gatherings. 1t is chiefly in his
work as an illustrative artist that Her
ford is employed. His pictures are seen
more or less in all the magazines, but
more frequently than elsewhere in st.
Nicholas. Juvenile verse and stories
are the matter he is especially happy
in the illustration of. An Uncle Remus
story, for example, is just to his hand
and he has illustrated several of Joel
Chandler Harris books very happily.
Writing is rather an occasional interest
with him, and, clever as he often is, he
shows a less sure hand in it than in
his drawing.
Thomas Nelson Pages successful con-
| clusion of his first novel, RED Rock, ."
in the current number of Scribner's
magazine, is a literary event worth
noting. L have no opinion to offer on
the book itself because, to my regret,
1 have not yet found time to read it.
But it interests me as marking the sure
| progress of one of the most honestly
pursued literary careers that 1 know
of. 1t is now nearly Is years since Mr.
Page published his first story, "Marsa
Chan" securing by It, though it was
but short story. instant recognition
of his fine apprehension and power of
| portrayal. Proceeding from this begin
ming. in the most modest, undeclama-
tory way, he has added year by year
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which the worshipers leave their teams
during. services. The Swede is merci-
full man to his beasts.
A COLONY SORROW.
E 1--WE stop here" said Ole, and he
turned the team off to the side OF the
road Around the bend there came a
procession. First here was a spring
wagon, in which lay a, coffin, plain
pine coffin, whose single coat of white
paint only emphasized it's plainness
1t was a homemade coffin. On the
front seat sat two Swedes, both OF
whom bowed politely to Ole, While one
raised his hat to me.
when ar det?'' asked Ole.
carl Martensen,' whispered one OF
the men on the front seat.
rs that SOP
ole's informant nodded his head,
gravely.
The dead man was farmers son.
The parents and family mourners came
after the hearse in buggies and DUCK
boards. The men Wore black; but Ior
that matter, so did most everyone else,
as black as the Sunday color in New
Sweden clothing. f'he only exception
was the handsome Lutheran parson,
who looked like Siegfried, so yellow
and bearded was he. He wore faSh-
ionable top coat, light brown and velvet
eoilared. After the family, came the
friends It was a very long procession,
and it took fully quarter of an hour
to pass, though the horses trotted
briskly. 1t kept Ole busy holding his
own frisky horses, who disiked stand
ing still, and keeping his hat raised in
reply to the greetings of his friends.
The men of New Sweden all know one
another, but not so well that they ever
forget to be polite. This kind of &C
quaintanceship is confined to older and
more civilized communities.
"a New York man owns that farm
house."
A BUSINESS ROMANCE.
Ole pointed out by far the prettiest
and tidiest farmhouse on the road. 1t
is painted red, and even the mammoth
barns are warm with color. 1t is the
summer home of j. B. Hallgrin, a we'll
known caterer of the metropolis. His
story reads like romance. Here 1T is;
He came to New York from Sweden
a poor boy, and began life as a caterer.
After he had become well-to-do he met
and married a young girl from New
Sweden, who was living in New York.
For awhile they spent their summers
near New York, but the heart of the
New Sweden girl yearned for the hills
and valleys of her home, and at last
she persuaded her husband to come up
here and buy a farm. He has been
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something worthy to the volume of his
writings, and come into surer and surer
acceptance as an author. For some
years he still held on to the practice of
law, his first chosen profession. Then
he parted enough from it to joiu with
Hopkinson Smith, through several win
tiers, in a circuit of public readings and
lectures This was a very interesting
exhibition, not so much because of
what the performers designedfy gave,
as because of the contrast that ap-
peared between them. Smith you found
to be a man of studied, artful address,
who could by sheer fC,ce of skill in the
telling give point to a rather common
place anecdote. Page, on the other
hand. was the simplest of men. count
ing nothing on an acquired skill to
make things go, and venturing to give
you only of his best. The contrast
was the more interesting because both
men are southerners, and both, despite
the difference between them. showed
this in their lectures. :. was at Rich
mond Va, that Mr.. Page paid his de-
votions to the law, but he is not a ma
tive of that city as many people sup
pose. He was born in the town of Oak
land, Hanover county, Va, in 1858. He
married a few years ago. and since his
marriage he has lived in Washington,
where he has a very charming home.
The law now knows him no more: he
is wholly and exclusively an author.
1t is rather remarkable how young
men and women whose special desire is
to write go about seeking editorial po-
sitions, in the belief that they will in
such positions be forwarding them
selves on their literary careers. Writ
ing and editing are almost as distinct
vocations as writing and bookkeeping;
and I think most persons in editorial
positions find that, except for a certain
what I might call commercial sense
in literary production which editorial
experience develops, are of no help
whatever to one as a writer. A man
in whom the bent toward writing is
strong is not apt to make a good editor,
and sometimes what might have been
a really good author has been lost COM
pletely in editorship. 1t is the same in
regard to the relation between writing
and publishing. 1 suppose a good half
of the persons who apply to publishers
for situations desire especially to
write, but so far as satisfaction to that
desire is concerned, they might almost
as we'll seek a connection with bankers
or merchants. e. e. MARTIN.
Bamberger Coal Co., 161 Main.
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AN AMERICAN SWEDEN.
Glmpses Of the Mos Famous Colony Ever Planted In This
Country.

Caribou, Ne, Nov. S.-'From here on
it's all Sweden
The driver Indicated by a sweep of
his arm all the farms 10 be seer. ahead
of us. From Caribou, it was eight miles
over a road as smooth and hard as as
phalt, and now we We're on the edge of
New Sweden, the most fourishing colo
ny ever planted on American soil A
king fostered it. Because of it, its
protector was subsequently made min
lister to Sweden by our government, and
its remarkable success is recognized by
the social economists Of two hemi-
spheres.
From the low waters OF the Penob-
scot 1t is a weary climb OF 200 miles on
the Bangor & Aroostook railroad, out
through the great pine woods of central
and northern Maine, to the uplands of
Aroostook county. The train carries
you through the home of the deer, past
the runways of the Moose and Caribou,
by lakes and trout streams, always up
hill; by the doors of hunting camps.
specimens hotels, bare and most at
tractively desolate. and around the
foothills Of hoary old Katahdin. whose
peak may be seen in shadowy outline
through riffs in the forest. Then, when
least expected, the primeval woods give
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tons not given in the various churches,
are held.
# was hard work, but every one
aided. In the fields the men and women
worked side by side, and the potato
field was the playground Of the young
sfers. They rose with the sun and went
10 bed at dusk. Founder Thomas is
fond Of relating the following incident,
showing the indefatigable industry Of
Il met once" he says, "a Swede wo-
man afoot, carrying on her back a
What have you got in there@
asked.
Four nice pigs
Where did you get them"
1.-TWO miles below Caribou
.'That made a 20-mile walk, and the
good wife was smiling to herself to
think what nice pigs they were"
RESULTS OF A YEARS TOLL.
That is the way they worked and
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Story of a Slave.

To be bound hand and foot for years
by the chains of disease is the worst
form of slavery. George D. Williams
of Manchester, Mich, tells how such
slave was made free. He says: MY
wife has been so helpless for five years
that she could not turn over in bed
alone. After using two bottles of Elec-
trio Bitters she is wonderfully i'm
proved and able to do her own work"
This supreme remedy for female dis
eases quickly cures nervousness, Sleep
Iessness, melancholy, headache. bach
ache. fainting and dizzy spells This
miracle-working medicine is a godsend
to weak, sickly, run down people. Every
bottle guaranteed. Only 80 cents. Sold
by z. c.. NJ 1. drug department.
U. S. Baking Powder is pure and
strong and only costs 25c per pound.
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elHdnIIhsnlaArmilya .EzlsAIisa..IMIlILn7.-.a
al5fgIfF1sJ'f'~'-
Log House Furnished By the State
For the First Colonists.

place to man-made groves Of second
growth, orchards and plowed fields. In
stead of log camps, farm houses come
into view. The railway station, water
tank and solitary tavern develop into
villages with railroad. avenues and
Main street. and at length the tourist
steps from the car at Caribou-the gar
den SPOT of the great northeast
FOUNDING THE COLONY.
Hon. William Wigerly Thomas, ex-
minister TO Sweden, founded New SWe-
den In 1870. He had been appointed a
war consul to that country in 1863, and
then the idea of bringing the hardy
and frugal Norsemen to Maine occurred
TO him. He aroused the interest of
both the Swedish and the Maine state
authorities and. after some years OF oe-
lay, he secured a grant of 1OO acres OF
land in Aroostook county to the head
of each family, and aid until his first
crop could be harvested. Mr.. Thomas
was also appointed commissioner of I'M
migration by the state of Maine ana
had personal charge Of the colony until,
in 1873 the settlers voluntarily relln-
quished state aid.
On June %, 1870, under his guidance,
81 Swedes sailed from Gutenberg to
America. The colony was composed OF
= men. II women and is children. All
the men were farmers, and many OF
them were also skilled in other trades
and professions. Among them was q
Law pastor a blacksmith, q civil en-
Eineer, two carpenters, basket-maker,
Il WheelWright. q baker, tailor ana a
maker of wooden shoes. It was stur-
dy. stalwart party Of picked applicants.
There was not a physical blemish on
one of them. and no one had been ac-
CeDted whose character had not been
properly vouched for. They came from
nearly every province in Sweden and
were provided with money enough TO
pay their passages to their new home
After an uneVentful journey, the immi-
grants reached the borders OF Maine on
Tulv %. AS they crossed the line from
New Brunswick, the American flag was
unfurled and the party was greeted by
a salute Of cannon by the citizens Of
Fort Fairfield.
BEGAN WORK THE NEXT DAY.
The day after reaching their destina-
ton the Swede began converting the
wilderness into homes. To put them in
the way of earning their living by their
own labor, Mr.. Thomas set them to
work telling trees, cutting out roads
and building houses, paying them 81 a
dav in provisions and tools from the
state fund provided for that purpose
AT the close of the year, through births
and additional immigration, the colony
had increased in number to ID; seven
miles of road had been cut, IS dwell
ings built, and about 500 acres Of land
cleared and partly sowed in grain. A
number Of the dwellings were erected
by the state and were paid Tor in Ia
Dor. These buildings were of peeled
logs. and contained three rooms each.
They were also furnished with cooking
stoves. The same year . public build
inc called to this day The CaDitOl -
was erected, wherein all public func-
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There is more Catarrh in this section
of the country than all other diseases
put together, and until the last few
years was supposed to be incurabIe
For a great many years doctors pro-
nounced it local disease, and pre-
scribed local remedies, and by con-
stantly failing to cure with local treat
ment, pronounced it incurable Science
has proven catarrh to be a constitu-
tional disease. and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Halls Ca
tarrh Cure manufactured by F. J. Che
ney & Co, Toledo, Ohio, is the only
constitutional cure on the market. It
is taken internally in doses from 10
drops to a teaspoonful. 1t acts direct
ly on the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system. They offer one hundred
dollars for any case it fails to cure.
Send for circulars and testimonials. Adj
dress T. j. CHENEY & CO.,
Toledo, o.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
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Embarrassing.

Detroit Free Press.)
"How in the world" inquired the older
physician of his youthful partner. did
you happen to leave that patient without
first giving her prescription?"
i know it was unDrofessional, but.
try as l would I found it impossible tn
recall the Latin for boneset tea.
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The M. & M. is the oldest prepared
tea in Japan. It positively retains
its natural flavor. Hewlett Bros. Co.,
sole agents.
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oliver HEREFORD gives further proof of
his unfailing jollity in verse and pic
ture in his new book, 1.-THE l3ashful
Earthquake" But he is an author who
is quite as good out of his books as in
them. and to those who know him no
nonsense picture or nonsense verse that
he might publish could be more enliv-
ening than the man himself. In aspect
and bearing he is rather of the devil .
may-care type. A rosy, youthful face,
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Bamberger Coal Co., 161 Main.
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Sold by druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.