Casco Bay breeze. [volume] (South Harpswell, Me.) 1901-1917, 1905-08-24

or those who are gone. Mary Jean
nette. Mrs. Nichols OF Providence, r.
l., passed on at the age of "a. The
other four. Alfred, Roswell, Harriet
and Elvira went to their reward at a
somewhat younger age
rather Eastman was q veteran OF
the War of 1912, and his son Henry
was q baby when, nearly q century
ago. the Enterprise and Boxer can.
nonaded each other OF Chebeague
II Is worthy of note that the pater.
nal Eastman married the day he was
Tree. having attained 81, and on his
wedding day his betrothed was also,
In the old parlance. Free" being just
Is. This three-year sequence singu-
iarly followed them until death. he
dying at 81, just three years before
MS faithful life-partner passed on,
likewise at 81.
II was always a source of much dis
appointment to this dear mother that
she never saw her eleven children all
together. But in the certainty of faith
we know that some day the sweet
privilege will be hers. Her daughter
Julia now counts into the fourth gen.
Grafton of her own Individual of
spring. and this is also true of others
of the family.
IL was regretfully that we prepared
TO leave the hospitable roof of Aunt
Sarah. but time had flown under the
glamour OF chronicles, far too lengthy
to set down here. and there vet re.
manned visit to the home of Mrs.
Weber. the most venerable of all the
Chebeague islanders. and the Oldest
daughter of the Eastman family.
AS Aunt Sarah picked a bouquet of
oleanders, sweet with their pink pet.
ais. and bestowed them upon me with
her kindly nod. I thought with keen
appreciation of her practical religion
winch she had so simply expressed
10 me an hour ago. II have but one
doctrine" said she. land that is to
treat others as would be treated by
them. And often when this or that
man comes and knocks at my door.
and SO many would slam the door in
MS lace. l always think-suppose he
were my own boy. coming to some
strange door far away. perhaps only
for drink of water-and I lust go
open the door in that spirit"
DO you wonder that people love
Aunt Sarah. or that We all find some
thing to admire in those of her blood /?
For she knows the simple. yet grand
Christ principle-free from ostenta-
tion. unencumbered with form and
dogma. Her religion is of the heart
and so she grows old gracefully. a Iiv-
ing example of the great law that
even as our inner thought is. so is
our life.
And so. bordering thus. we walk
across the road and down the field to
the home of the oldest woman of Che
beague. Mrs. Louisa Weber. Mrs.
Weber is at present staying with her
married daughter. and 1t was there
your reporter found her, seated by
the window. sewing. One could hard.
ly believe that here before him sat a
woman who was breathing the piny
air of New Hampshire. while Ma
poleon. Emperor of the French. was
pacing the deck of the 'BelIopheron s.
ever nearing the scene of his death.
exile at st. uelena. Truly. the span
NJ human life is tremendous. though
wany murmur at it's shortness. hut to
I'VE nearly century Is TO participate.
"ether consciously or unconscious
W.. in constructive deeds. and to live
in the teeming thought atmospheres
OF great souls which have carved an