The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-09-03
THE REPUBLICAN, JOURNAL THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER g. 1908

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country, but that, fortunately, a politi-
cal Elijah, quite as certain of working
out desired results and more feiicitous
in manner and method, will succeed
him. Coming still closer home to
Maine, his native State, he joyed in
her natural resources, wondrously
picturesque shores, rivers, wales and
mountains, destined to be the summer
home of all America, and quoted Mr..
Littlefield in that the Dale with its
circle of hills is not surpassed for
truly beautiful scenery by any spot on
this continent and Mr.. Nealley that 1t
is not surpassed by any spot in Europe.
He gave the grange one small dig, be-
ing soured little, it may be, because
he did not speak at the Waldo county
annual picnic in Centennial Grove on
the same day. He was invited and
urged to speak there at 10 a. NJ, but by
somebody's default, 1 won't undertake
to say whose, he was delivered at the
grove at II a. M, and was too KEEN
scented to venture to pit his spoutlng,
spellbinding power against the power
of the dinner pail that was beginning
to be in evidence. Had he spoken, it
is hinted he would have mentioned
what Maine has to learn from Oregon
in raising apples; for the Garden of
Hesperides with its golden apples is in
our day surely being found in the
course of the sun. The fact is, the old
chief of the clan was brought up to
work like Trojan on a farm, and
though leading busy life in other pur-
suits, usually owns one or two farms
for experiment or for playthings, and
for long time has probably been
spelling to get at the grange and tell
what he knows about farming. He
called attention to the fact that the
meeting was being held but a few rods
north of the spot where the first white
settlers at South Montville, his grand
sire Stephen Prescott with his grand
| father Edmund, then in his teens, fell
ed trees and built log house; and but
few rods south of the site of his great
uncle Jacob Prescott's house, in the
days when he was a gallant young cap
tain of militia. He related, as asso-
ciated with the said log house, a Won
derful telepathic communication to
said Stephen Prescott one autumn
night, when his little child died in its
mothers arms in the New Hampshire
home from which the family was soon
to migrate to the new wilderness home
on South Ridge (Montyille) Me-, re.
Winding his hearers that some of the
best scientific minds of England are
now engaged in Investigations, hoping
to give the world some light on the
nature and source of telepathic COM
munications He closed his address
with touching tributes to the memory
of the late lamented Mrs. Ann Peavey
and Mrs. John Prescott, the latter
having fallen sick the day after the
marriage of her daughter last April
and died a few days thereafter.
There followed a select reading by
Mrs. Newhall, which was done with
most excellent taste and skill, and in.
deed to their lordship's satisfaction; fol
! they are slowly but surely coming to
see that woman's day of true rights
and fair chance has dawned.
Then Sir Charles Adams, the Duke
of the Dale, by agreement had the
| a hold
four and half on "Why youths court,
ships are so charming and later married
life so prosy," when the president
the true philosophy thereof. He did it
verse. Note parts one and two:
THE DARING ONE.
| He stole kiss. So quick twas done
She did not know what he was at;
He never stole another one
She gave them to him after that.
philadelphia Public Ledger.
SEEN AT NIGHT.
"Your teeth are like the stars, "he said,
| And pressed her hand so white,
And he spoke true; for like the stars
| Her teeth came out at night.
Cornell Widow.
No comments seem necessary, but
the president continued with the fol
lowing question:
| WHY NOT?
| The verse you write you say is written;
All rules despite, but not despitten,
The gas you light is never litten.
The things you drank were doubtless
drunk;
The boy you spank is never spunk.
| A friend YOU thank but never thunk.
Suppose you speak, then you have spoken
But if you sneak, you have not SnOken.
The shoes that squeak have never squoken
A dog will bite, likewise be bitten
With all his might but not his mitten.
You fly your kite but not your kitten.
-Harper's Monthly.
Then he opened his puzzle and riddle
box, to test the intellectual acumen OF
his auditors, and the young folks spoke
right out in meeting with correct an
SWerS.
EIGHT PUZZLES.
Feet have they, but they walk not
| stoves.
Eyes have they, but they see not-pota-
| toes.
Teeth Lave they, but they chew not
saws.
Noses have they, but they smell not-tea.
pots.
Mouths have they, but they taste not