The Republican journal., 1906-02-22

LID 1t124 OO4lAOAN
cheering was being done in Washing
ton. Whether they intend digging the
canal there. or across the iSthmuS, do
not think has been fairly decided. 1t
NAV prove that North and South Ameri-
ca are like Catholic marriage, and that
"What God hath Joined together He
will slet no man put asunder," though
| have always thought that money
would do most anything, except eradi-
cate the smell from Limburger and
other foreign speaking cheeses. And
speaking of the canal reminds me again
of my subject, the Gulf Stream; but,
before | demonstrate its effect on the
climate of Maine, let me call your at
tention for moment to the North
Pole. Peary, Portland boy, has gone
after it, and my advice to him is to find
it this time, whether it is there or not,
and bring it back with him. He has
cinch. Nobody can dispute that the
pole he brings back is not the North
Pole, as he will probably get nearer to
it than anyone else ever has. All he
has to do is to bring back a pole, even
if he has to send to Poland after it, and
plant it in Congress Square, Portland,
Maine. and paint it with sand paint, so
it cannot be whitfield, and, if he is ques-
toned too closely about it by the U. 5.
officials as to its genuineness, let MN
adroitly turn the conversation to the
late lamented Commodore Paul Jones
remains, and the referee will call it
draw. Peary's vessel was built IN
Bucksport, Maine, her engine, rigging
and spars were made in Portland, Me-,
the sledges were made in South Paris,
Maine, and the snow shoes, sixty-tWo
pairs, were made in Norway, Name.
Nearly everything aboard was from
Maine, excepting the thermometers; as
mercury freezes, he had to carry spirit
thermometers, and as dealer Is obllg-
ed to have Z. S. license in order to
sell spirits, and, as he can te indicted
and Jailed for holding a license, 1T is
little dangerous to deal in spirit Their
mometers in Maine. Peary is bright,
level-headed man, and is acquainted up
there, and he cannot very well help
keeping cool with the thermometer at
! seventy below zero. If he fails, and
don't bring back the pole, l can name
the man who can get it, if he can be
| induced to make the attempt He is a
| Maine man, too, and is with us tonight.
refer to Frank w. Marden of Somer-
vile. From my experience with him
would be willing to bet on his success.
consider myself fortunate in being
| here ladies night" Somehow, l al
ways feel safer where there are ladies,
and the older | groW-not that | grow
old by any meanS-I notice the more
ladies there are, the safer | feel. 1t
didn't used to be SO. | can family re-
member how safe | used to feel with
only one lady, and that one merely a
| girl. 1t was astonishing what a sense
of security she gave me. She seemed
to throw IA protecting arm around me,
as it were, though, on second thought,
| guess | threw the arm around her. 1t
was so long ago that l have forgotten
| lust how it was, but | do remember
thai, once it was around her, | con-
tinued my protecting care till l saw
somebody coming. | was always a
little dif1ident, and still am, and | dis
like being brought into the glare of the
lime light. In this respect, | am not
! like an old Irish washWoman | knew
! of. She was very poor when her huS-
band died, but in due time she married
again, we'll to do man. A few weeks
after this event, lady who knew her
well, met her on the street dressed IN
deep mourning, with widows veil
down over her face. Stepping up to
her, she said, "Why, Bridget, | didn't
know your husband was deadn' Throw
! ing back her veil, Bridget looked up with
smile and said, ooh, Pats not dead,
| but when my first husband died l was
that poor that couldn't put on mourn
| ing, and l said thin, if ever | could L
would, and now | am
! I hal M VI
daughters were afraid that would not
| occasion. Always at my home, when |
! tending d social function-I think those
are what l attend, my daughters
check me off the same way packer
does bill of goods, to see if | am all
| there, and if forget to put on my col
! lar or cuffs, don't check up right, and
they hunt up the missing articles and
adjust them properly; then, after Civ
! ing me directions how to behave, l am
allowed to depart. But on this occa-
sion they We're obliged to trust me to
dress myself, and, if you notice any
discrepancies in my attire, kindly over
look them. AS my daughter was CIV
ing me her last few commands and In
structions before | left home. she said
that she particularly wanted me to
look well on this occasion, and it made
me recall how my stock of good looks
had been shattered some nineteen
years ago, after she was born. My
wife and | had been south the previous
year, visiting her sister, and after the
birth of our daughter, this sister in
formed her old darkey cook that we
had little girl baby up in Maine. 'My
goodness, me, is dat so? Well, now, |
hope she won't favor her farder for
sho'!" Since them l have tried to see
myself as others see me, and have not
banked on my beauty; but my clothes
should be all right and correct, as they
are from the celebrated Belfast loan
collection.
This brings me to the final sum-
ming up of my subject, and you must
have seen from my careful analysis of
the subject that the Gulf Stream pre-
sents certain phenomena, which l will
now explain; but, first let me say that
think it is a duty we owe to our ma
tive State to try to convince the rest of
the country, SO far as we can, that
Maine is not play ground and sum
mer resort entirely. In other words,
that it is not her business, and she does
not get her living that way. She is a
summer resort from the fact that her
coast and inland lakes are SO beautiful