The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-09-15

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Russo-J Japanese war, making out that
the little brown Japs, both by sea and
by land, are giving some examples of
fighting such as the world has never
| before seen, stating that the sacrifice
of life in said war makes it the world
tragedy of a century, that the deSpotic
attitude of the Russian government
| towards Finland and the Jews is the
crime of two centuries, that both Rus
STA and Japan want to be the exclusive
schoolmasters of China, but that Meth
er should be so allowed by the powers.
He turned to local history in closing,
stating that his native Georges river
and the Georges Islands at its mouth
| have the honor of first visit by the
English explorers, George Weymouth
and his crew, on their first voyage to
| this continent, having sailed from Eng
land March 81, 1905, landed at Monte
gan early in June that year, anchored
their vessel back of the Georges Is
| lands, probably in the present harbor
OF Port Clyde, visited the islands, set
| ting up cross there, where the next
year the first Protestant service was
held; visited the Indians on the main
land, who were very peaceful, very
skillful in handicraft and in canoeing,
| bought many valuable furs of them for
lot of comparatively valueless trlnk-
cts, and found growing on the sunny
! side OF the wooded shores a profusion
of wild roses and peas, gooseberrles,
/ straw berries and angelica; that Wey-
mouth, though declining to go with the
Indians to the seat OF their great BIAS
, haba" somewhere on the PenobScOt),
, went in the ships boat up the river,
seemingly above the present site of
Thomaston. They called the river Pen
/ tecost, built pinnace "a small boat on
shore, felled trees and dug a well, and
sowed peas and barley to test the fer
tility of the soil. In his peroration the
| President expressed his great love of
the Dale, stating that there is no spot
on earth he so much delights to visit.
: The next Oh the program was reading
| by Mrs. Sadie Adams, but she failed of
/ course, so as to throw on the President
again the burden of another effort. He
gave them a little scrap OF verse on
vacation, The Same Old Thing" 1t
! actually set their lordships laughing.
! The part of C. Y. Martin, the Prophet,
! came next. He let out one little dash
of prediction on the President. Rub
bish, He should never be honored with
the role of prophet again.
The closing part was the Presidents
18th Canto; subject, THE Illus King
The prologue was a pastoral picture OF
the clearing of the prlmeval forests
! from South Ridge and the Dale by
stephen and Edmund Prescott, who
came there from Gilmanton, n. H., in
1901, and by Ezekiel True and Paul
Over, who came there from Centre
Harbor. \. H., in 1900 Here is a peep
at it from one point of view:
| "Go where once their habitation
On South Ridges slope was seen,
The estates of both Duke Ripley
And Duke Prescott just between,
/ Where the brow turns to the eastward
! And looks on the lower vale,
Then more beauteOuS in spring verQure
Than beneath v bite winter hail;
A its foot Dead river winding
Out INTO st. Georges food,
/ Seemed ii sprght O! nameless beauty
In wild meadows of the wood"
! The hermits. as many as five having
taken up their solitary abodeS about
the ponds in this region in those early
days, give al aspect of curiosity to the
! picture. Barrett, who lived III a hollow
tree for thirty-fve years, graces the
! rhyme. Then the mysterious appear
, ance of Bogue is sung thus:
''Stil another herElit ventnred
| To their cheerful open door,
!iut he named no cause of leaving
! Kindred, home and eoodly store,
0nly telling that he journeyed
For Wilderness retreat,
/ " here his heart in slow IepInlng,
! In Gods time might cease to beat
! 1t was he Who cut the opening
At Duke tUnnerS in the SWalp:
| Hence the name of Engue is given
/ To the clearing and the Dale
The IIusking" is depicted at George
! Prescotts near the site of the anceS-
tral Prescott home. The genial and
generous traits OF George are set forth
without stint, but to those who have
known him through a long life the set
I ting is not uverdraWn. A winter of un-
wonted rigor has passed, season of
fair trultage and abundant crops has
followed, and then
1.-TWO ponderouS rows of corr in husk
! Ranged through the long barn-oOr at dusk
Lights hung from forks stuck in the mows,
Glared at the MIXED ard foddered COWS,
/ And all awaited those to come,
OF whom | fain would mention some
Gifted in wit and song and dance,
/ The festive hour to enhance
The finding of red ears of corn and
IAe pay lHeuI Oh pdWllS are lllulS penSa.
Bile features, and
AS when whirlwind rudely sweeps.
The corn soon lay in yellow heaps;
The stalks and husks were tossed away
For feed and bed till sunny May
Again should call the t1ocks and herds
To pastures charmed by song of birds
Then to the mansion all repaired,
And bountieS of the board were shared,
And cheer redounded by the hearth,
| a nd ms 10 do
of flame up the great chimney's tiue
Unto the stars in heavens blue"
All good things have an end husk.
ings included. The merry company
have to go home. One has to start
first:
mot far was he upon the road
When in the darkness gan to bode
A storm with semblance unto hell,
| AS unseen missiles round him FELL
For the mischievous boys had opened
mock battle from behind wall, an
other case of ''the embattled farmers. -
He beat a retreat Thus is it told:
Across the Prescott fields he veered,
Stone walls and fences leaped and cleared,
While rain of stones thumped frozen sod,
| Like meteor-heads from skies of God
Ger cradle-knolls tufted with brakes,
Where denned ALTERNATING snakes,
sMong trees decayed and pecked with holes,
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