The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-08-31
THE DALE MEETING.

SOilPiiSiiSO law oOHlC 0id lIot OOAOSC
it would be held when it was held, nor
where it was held, but incredulity settles
nothing and clearly ought to settle moth
ing. This particular matter was settled
by the clansmen, who decreed that it
should be held Monday evening, August
18th, at Grange hall, South Montville,
washday though it was. Urgent reasons
are solemnly alleged, but no particulars
leaked out. Whose business was it,
anyway, but that of our worthy Dukes
and Lords? The success of the occasion
was assured so far as attendance was
concerned from the moment the Chief
announced that he would help any of the
ladies do their washing on Monday a. m. :,
if on having that job out of the way
their attendance at the meeting was de-
pendent. The flower of chivalry, be it
known, can bloom as beautifully round a
wash-tub as round castle or tomb.
The chieftain, Franklin F. Phillips,
left his summer home at Murray Hill,
Me-, for the Dale event Friday, the 18th,
accompanied by Rue Chez Kuai, as
beautiful young Chinese nobleman as
ever left the gates of Pekin and the
bloom Of the Fowery Kingdom to learn
the ways of China's great and good
friend in the Occident, Uncle Sam, the
United States of America. They Jour-
neyed via the Damariscotta river by
steamer, thence by rail to Union, and
thence by special team to the Dale. The
day was delightful, the sights, were
charming. Let those who in imagination
see nothing but sand and the tracks of
wooden shoes, half of them on pinched
female feet. with here and there the
stub OF palm tree sticking out of the
crater of an extinct volcano, With a
patch Of yellow flowers here and there
cultivated in mud or wood pot, as the
marks of central eastern Asia, pause a
moment and consider that Mr.. Kuai en-
route was often giving expression to the
fact that. not only shores, hills and dales
suggested the topography of his native
land, but the trees and shrubs and grass
ard fruit and flowers looked about the
same. The wonderfully beautiful valley
Of my little Georges had many fea-
lures that strikingly brought to his mind
points ard places on shores of his
''1 antse, the greatest river Of China.
Same summer, same winter in the Flow
cry Kingdom, the 'Cathay' of Marco
Polo. That great natural barrier. the
Himalaya Mountains, loftiest in the
world, separates northern and central
Asia from southern Asia, and demarks
the north temperate from the tropic
Orient. North Of the mountains all of
China has the extremes from 102 deg. F.
above to 70 deg. F. below zero, and on
temperatures is worse off than are we.
In the province of Manchuria the WIN
ter winds frost-bite all noses not pro-
tected and blow so strongly as to literal
ly blow the frozen noses away, and ones
Nose is like rose
In the SHOWS
So that it becomes a pertinent ques-
ton Of causation in the evolution of fiat
faces. To Mr.. Kuai our farm houses
looked much more substantial and better
in all ways, the walls of theirs being in
many cases made of mud that dries hard
beyond much rain-wash, matched with
straw. The many noble water powers
there run idly down to the bosom of the
Pacific ocean, while they whipsaw their
lumber by hand, but old China is surely
passing away, and new China will sing
to the tune Of the buzz-saw as we'll as
70 many other new industrial tunes. The
Caucasian sat at the Mongolian's feet
and learned some things ages ago. The
law Of reciprocity holds, and the Mon
golar has now come to learn of the
Caucasian. The return to Murray Hill
was via Moody Mountain and Camden.
the chief and Mr.. Kuai at Lake Merlln-
ticook being guests of Mr. Orrin Fuller
in his summer cottage, where delightful
sails were had in both the launch and
the canoe. all repairing the latter part
of the evening to Mr.. Fuller's Camden
residence. Mr.. Kuai often remarked on
the mountain and lake scenery about
Camden as striking in beauty and sug-
gestive of other scenes in distant Asia. |
At Thomaston the State prison was visit
ed, and Mr.. Kuai thought the appoint
ment" and discipline of that penitentiary
to be excellent, remarking that in his
own country reforms are being made,
but that many prisons and prison exac-
tons are Anticipated and need better
conditions for penal life.
Saturday, August 18th, the Prescott
reunion at the home Of Rev. E. A. Dins- |
low, South Montville, was attended, the
Chief sounding a bugle note for the cause
Of prohibition, and Mr.. kuai speaking
in well chosen English his thanks for so
many expressions of kindness and good
will to him and his country, regarding
the American Republic as Chinas best
national friend in the world
Sunday afternoon, August 18th, Mr.
Phillips, at memorial service in the
South Montvllle church, delivered brief
eulogy on the life of his late uncle. John