The semi-weekly messenger., 1902-08-29

Ellsworth, Me, August 27.-The pres
ident's second day in the pine tree state
was full of interest. Starting from the
governors residence at an early hour
he was taken for a short drive about
the city of Augusta and at $50 left for
Bangor where the principal speech OF
the day was delivered at the fair
grounds in the presence of an immense
audience which listened with marked
attention to his address. The same
close attention was given him at Wa
terville, where from far and near came
hundreds to see and hear the first pres
ident who has visited Maine in many
years.
Just before leaving Augusta the pres
| ident heard that his old guide, Bill
SeWall, of Island Falls, Me, who had
accompanied him on many hunting ex-
petitions and who had for a time been
| employed on his ranch in Dakota, was
| at Bangor. He Immediately wired Con-
| gressman Powers at Bangor to corral"
| him and hold on to him until he reach
| carried out those instructions was fully
proven when he produced the tall, raw
| Doned, red WhiSkered hunter upon the
presidents arrival
Il am glad to see you BILL said the
| president, whereupon Bill replied, You
| amt no Sladder than be-
| Then il was that the president tod
| the story OF his friendship OF many
years with the old guide and hunter,
| and how many years ago while Oh a
| hunting trip through Maine, owing to
| the shortage in the meat supply, they
| had eaten musk rat together, which the
| president said was the last meat he had,
| eaten in Maine before this trip. The
| president seemed to delight in tiie rura.
| simplicity of the man, insisting that he
| should sit down to dinner with him.
| Bill therefore had the distinction that
| comes to but few of dining with the
| chief executive of the nation and the
| governor OF his state at the sst---= time.
| While at the fair grounds some one
| suggested to SeWail who AaS seated -
| the platform vita the president, that
| he should so To Washington and secure
| an appointment as p,..>:--,,stc", out Bill
| had already received tl:S honor ana
said to his inquisitCr = Oe postmaster
| already"
Before beginning to speak at ne ~
| grounds in Bangor the president, motto
| ing the jamming and pushing OF the
| CrOWu III 1IOuC Ol the SISilu SldLlNL, eau
| toned the people to be careful OF the
women and children and asked them to
| show their capacity to manage them
| selves, which immediat tely had the de-
| sired effect. The platform from VIM
| the president spoke was directly IN
| front of the grand stand, which was
| packed with humanity. Behind him
| was another dense crowd. He humor-
| ously informed his audiences that he
| did not think he faced both ways but
| that on that occasion he would have
to. In his speech the president said:
During the century that has closed,
| the growth of industrialism has neces-
| sarily meant that cities and IOWns haNA
| increased in population more rapidly
| than the country districts. And yet X
| remains true now as it has always been
| that in the last resort the country
| districts are those in which we are sur
| est to find the old American spirit, the
old American habits of thought and
| ways of living. Conditions have chang
| ed in the country far less than they
| have changed in the city and in con-
| sequence there has been little breaking
| away from the anethodS of life which
| have produced the great majority %
| the leaders of the republic in the past
1t must not be understood from this
| that there has been no change in farm
| ing and farm life. The contrary is the
| case There has been much change,
| much progress. The granger and SINH
| lar organizations, the farmers institutes
| and all the alliances which promote In
| telligent cooperation finding opportuni-
| ty for social and intelligent intercourse
| among the farmers, have played a large
| part in raising the level of life and work
| in the country districts. In the domain
| of government, the department OF as-
| riculture since it's foundation has ac-
| complished results as striking as those
| obtained under another branch of the
| national administration. By Scientinc
| study of all matters connected with the
| advancement Of farm life; by expert
| mental stations, by the use of trained
| agents, sent to the uttermost countries
| of the globe, by the practical applica-
| ton of anything which in the ordinary
| has been demonstrated to be efficient,
| in these ways and in many others,
| great good has been accomplished In
! raising the standard Of productivenesS
| in farm work throughout the country.
| "Bpt after all this has been said 1t re-
| mains true that the countryman, the
| man on the farm more than any other
/ Of our citizens today is called upon con-
/ tinually to exercise the qualities which
| We like to think Of as typical Of the
| the qualities OF rugged independence,
| masterful resolution and individual
| energy and resourcefulness. He works
| hard (for which no man is to De pittied)
| and often he lives hard (which may
| not be pleasantly; but his life is passed
in healthy surroundings: surroundings
| which tend to develop a fine type OF
citizenship. In the country, moreover,
the conditions are fortunately such as
to allow closer touch between man
] and man than too often, we find to be