The Republican journal., 1905-03-23

IT it is hot, 1t is hotter somewhere else, ard
if it is cold, it is colder elsewhere. We
never have cyclones, we never have bad
drouth, except when there is an eruption in
our prohibition volcano, and just at present
there is quite a drouth in Maine. We
never have floods, and on the whole our
weather will average up we'll with any
other part of the country. Years ago We
had a citizen who was always growing
about the weather. His farm cornered in
claimed that he had paid taxes on his farm
in all three towns, when the frost had
heaved it from one town to another. He
said that the Almighty never intended
Maine for people to live in, if He had He
would have made a race of men without
ears! lie made the remark just after he
had frozen his own. He was once digging
we'll. He had gotten down some sixty
feet when passer by called to him and
asked him if he had struck water. s'Struck
WATER" he yelled back. "No! I haven't
got through the frost yet!' He was Bel,
fast's first pessamist 'Truth." it is said
''lies at the bottom of the WELL" 1t GER
never told myself. Admitting that we do
get quite a bit of winter sometimes, yet
where on the face of Gods green earth is
there more delightful spot than Maine in
summer? With her hundreds of miles of
seacOast, indented with beautiful bays and
cOves her thousands of lovely islands her
lakes, rivers and ponds; her forests filled
in their proper season. where is there a
State that can equal Maine? But Names
best production is her men, women and
children. She has furnished more govern
Ors, members of Congress and high officials
for other States than any one State in the
Union. She has furnished Vice Presi-
dent, and almost President; President of
the Senate, Speakers of the House, Chief
Justice Of the Z. S. Supreme Court, Secre-
tarieS of the Navy and Treasury, and the
names of Hamln. Blaine, Reed, Fessenden,
Fuller, Long, Frye and others are as well
known as Governor W. L. Douglas So 90
picture, and what more can l say? And
Starting with Major Jack Downing, the
first American humorist, Ethan Spike,
Artamus Ward, Bill Nye, Will Fuller, Hol-
man Day, and last but by no means least,
that greatest of all humorists, the funniest
thing in the world, known in every part of
liquor is drunk, mean the Maine Prohibi-
ton Law! The law that says you shall not
have drink, even Of cider, and then gives
you all you want. A law that can arrest a
small boy, if he seems full of spirit.
don't know what we should do without that
good old law. We should be like the
woman on whom the new minister called
course, do Take away my total deprav-
ity and what have l left?" When man
gets run down and depressed, and the doc
tors cannot help him, as ID last resort he
will get ten or fifteen volumes of the Prohi-
them over carefully, and then go down
town and wander into bar room, watch
the workings of the law, and if it doesn't
cheer him up, and make him laugh, he is
given up to die. In this connection let me
say, that notwithstanding the fact that no
wines or liquors can be bought in Maine
(as, of course, they cannOt), | have not
because it could not get its communion
wine. AS the poet truly says,
GU may break, you may shatter the bar
as you will,
Yet there's many a breath has the scent of
the STILL
In the realm of music-I think you find
music in realms, and know it is sold by the
choir or chord-What State has produced an
Annie Louise Carey, a Lillian Nordica, and
an Emma Eames? There are lots of minor
singers whom l have not mentioned. |
don't mean those who sing minor, nor those
under age, nor those who work in mines
what l mean is those whO-but of course you
all know better than l what do mean, es-
difference is this. When manager pays
Nordica or Eames he gives them certified
check, while he hands the minor singer cur
rency; its simply matter of dollars and
cents. And Belfast is justly proud of her
Her band ranks second to none
IN the State, and the compositions of A. G.
Knight, J. W. Wheeler and Robert P. Chase
are known to all musicians.
Maine authors and poets are known
wherever books and poetry are read. Long
fellow, Savage, Noah Brooks, Sarah Orne
Jewett, Blanche Willis Howard, are names
as familiar as Lydia Pinkham's picture,
and lately, Golfers Weekly offered a prize
of S.. 600 for the best short story, and who
got it? There were twelve thousand sto-
rles submitted, and young man, Rowland
Thomas, born in CaStine, Maine, won the
prize. When you understand that no less
an author than Margaret Deland took the
second prize, you will see the winner did
not have a ''cinch." In justice to myself
let me say that [ did not compete. | was
too busy with this paper to bother with
$1,000 story-but even without trying, | was
within twelve miles of it, as you are all
aware, and you can form your own opinion of
what might have happened if | had entered
the arena
1t was a Maine man who made it possible
for us to enjoy those heart to heart talks of
Ruth Ashmore, by starting the now great
l.
Journal, and it was a Maine man, Frank A.
Munsey, who gave us the ten cent magazine
so that good reading is in the reach OF the
poor as well as the rich, and vice versa.
And it is Maine man, and a Belfast man,
too, who is today acknowledged as the
equal-if not the superiOr-of any insurance
man in New England. l refer to the Presi
dent of the Belfast Club, and but for his
extreme mOdeSty / would call his name SO
you would all know whom | mean.
Having told you so many things that
Maine people have done, let me call your at
tentiOn to one thing Maine has never done
to my knowledge. No citizen of Maine has
ever invented ana introduced a cereal
breakfast food! All honor to old Maine for
this! Why they call their foods Cereal l
never could see. A serial is something that
comes in installmenS, and when you have
had one installment you want some more,
and banker for it till the next installment
comes, but when the breakfast food cereal
comes and you have your first installment,
but there don't let us talk of it any more.
What would the people of other States do
but for Maine? Whenever they take a
cooling drink or an ice cream they are prob
ably indebted to Maine for the ice. Where
ever you &c. in any part of the country and
are viewing one of the products of Maine
And those three graces, Salmon, CLANS and
HOLSTERS. Are they not natives of Maine?
Speaking of salmon, ! was in a restaurant
in Atlanta, Georgia, a few years ago, and
saw on the bill of fare "Kennebec salmon"
Calling waiter | asked him where they
got their salmon. He said it came from the
kenDebec river, Maine, and was nice and
re sh. told him that it might be nice, but