Rockland Gazette The Largest Rockland Tribune Circulation Union Times In Eastern Maine Consolidated March 17, 1897 T he Courier-Gazette. TWICE-A-WEEK . TUESDAY AND SATURDAY. Two Dollars a Year Rockland Maine Saturday December 4 1X97 Vol. 52.. No. 86 WITH ROD AND BUN any season except in Ihe Autumn. Then COMMENT ON CURRENT EVENTS the words of inspiration no surprise would be IN A CORNER OF THE LIBRARY they bang up against the side o f a house like excited. But when the busy, matter-of-fact the blow of a hammer, or perhaps dash and reverent editor of so good a paper ss the Notes >»f Forest nn«l Stream From the Sk ir m is h W it h a Pe t — In few respects “The Changeling” is the title of Sir Walter through a pane of glass into the houie itself. Times announces: “ Paul and I differ,” I Hook of a Local Sportsman. da people of generally good judgment show Beriant's new story. AN OPEN LETTER Oftentimes they are killed in this adventure, feel anxious to find some explanation of the so great variety of taste as in the animals they C. F. Richards states in this paper that for they fly with g»eat velocity. I f you wish disagreement that will reconcile these con­ Gilbert Parker’s new novel, ” A Hundred select ss pets. W hile some brutes more or barn swallows were seen in Rockport on Nov. to know thecflect, start say thirty feet from a flicting opinions but will diminish nothing Years Ago,” is almost finished, and ita aerial less dumb, the dumber the better, are fairly To MOTHERS. 21 st and the previous week. house, close your eyes, and walking rapidly, from the credit of either oracle. I have publication will soon begin. worthy of the food and affection of which their I have noticed every year for a good many whack up against a building. Then imagine not undertaken to prove the inerrancy of the WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE owners have an excessive amount to dispose, Stanley J. Weyman’s forthcoming novel ia years that scarcely* swallow can be seen later your speed multiplied by twenty, ard you will Scriptures ss a general proposition, still I others are naturally unappreciative. O f af­ to be called “ The Castle In n .” The scene is EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “ C A S TO R IA ,” AND than the seventeenth day ol September, in understand the way the paitridge takes it, have not met with the particular instance that fection they seem to have no idea whatever, laid in the England of the eighteenth cen­ “ P IT C H E R ’S C A STO RIA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK. fact the great flight of these bird* is over in many times. They are usually killed, hut is plain evidence that Paul made such rash and they have an innate and indestructible August, and I have wondered many a time sometimes they recover and fly again— as one statements that newspapers of our day are tury. desire to get their food for themselves after a DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, why they should take their departure while did that flew against the house of Frank L. obliged to flatly deny them. H ad the Times Mrs. Julia Ward Howe will contribute to I, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, furtive and expensive manner. The family of the weather was yet warm and there were Weeks thi- fall, startling the family. He was consulted the Revised Version or the Greek early numbers of the Atlantic on reminis- was ihe originator of "PITCHER'S CASTORIA,” the same John Vincent of Alden, Kansas, for the sake plenty.of insects in the air for them to feed seen by M r. W eeks to fly away again. Some Testament it would not have rashly charged ences and recollections of notable men and of the novelty of the thing, kept a pet wolf upon. Rut tbe fact ia as I state it. few years ago a partridge dashed through a St. Paul with error. women. that has borne and does now - S / P ’'’ S on everV chained in the door ya*d As is invariably tbe A ll swallows live on insects, which they window into the Leander Weeks house, shiv case, after awhile the pet got loose, and then bear the fac-similo signature of wrapper. catch while on the wing. Although 1 never ering the glass and afterwards disporting Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the negro writer, forgot that he was a pet, simply remembered W e a l t h ok a N a t io n its M o r a l W o r t h . saw the experiment tried, I verv much doubt, about in tbe parlor. I don’t remember what has completed his novel of Onio life, “ The This ia the original "PITCHER’S CASTORIA” which has been that be was a wolf. H e visited the chicken — At this season of the year recurs the temp were a swallow caged and fed with dead flies, end he made, but I think he went into the Uncalled.” His lately gnnted position in the coop first and killed twelve chickens. This tation to value our citizenship according to used in the homes of the mothers of Amerioa for over thirty that he would eat them. I hardly think a soup kettle. Congressional Library will probably give him seemed to get up an appetite that nothing the statistics of material wealth. M ulhall say« swallow would survive more than forty-eight The first partridge I ever owned was many ample opportunities for study and wilting. years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it ia but pork could satisfy, lie began to stick the that “the internal trade of a nation is the best hours without food, as all small birds are years ago. H on. A . F. Crockett picked it up pigs, which aroused Mrs. Vincent’s attention. gauge of national progress because it re ­ Sarah G rand’s new hook has not been the kind you have always bought, 7 - on the delicate, much more so than animals. on his father’s veranda, took him to Mis. Fur* She took a big stick for her tin t weapon, but flects the power, energy and resources of a favorably received by the critics, many of W e have had a very mild Autum n, bu( bi&h’s and left him for me. I put tbe bird in the pet made for her so fiercely that she re­ people,” Our foreign trade averages about whom seem to hold the opinion— in nine and has the signature o f w rap- there was some cold weather and two snow a nice large cage, and 1 remember that he treated to the m ilk house and locked herself $5 000.000 daily, but our internal trade is words— prononneed by “ Ih e Academy” : storms— enough to hill all the insects which used to make some very lonesome sounds per. No one has authority from me to use my name ex- in; Ihe wolf tried to get at her but found it $48,000,000. W ith these figures in mind, if “One half is intolerably tedious, the other half inhabit the air and furnish the swallow’s sole such as I never beard before nor since. The any mind is capable of taking them in, we unpleasant.” oept The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher ia food. tones were 00—boo—hoo, corresponding to impossible and returned to make pork of the pigs. Mrs. Vincent watched her opportunity may realize that even in apparently dull times This inclines me very much to doubt that the A, A flu and n-flzt in the middle of the The Marquis of Lom e is, as a writer, even President. to escape to the house hut the wolf bounded there is a mighty throb of business life pul­ there were swallows in any New England state treble clef of a piano— though the middle more industrious than is his father, and quite sating along the arteries of trade from sea to March 8, 1897. so late as the 21st of Noveinbrr, but I may be tone was about quarter way between b flat after her and nearly caught her. She took n sa dull. Tbe latest addition to the list of rifle and fired through the window first, then sea. But It is of vastly more importance to TMI OKNTAUN COMPANY. TT MURRAY ■TRKCT, NIWYORR OITV. wrong. and ^ natural. Anyone can find these notes “ works” emitted by the Queen's son-in-law it opened the door. The wolf, being wounded reflect that all the freights on the highways People frequently send me descriptions of on a piano, and by singing the b flat a quar­ a collection of tales of tbe West Highlands, and very savage by this time, jumped for her. of commerce, all the dazzling yield of Colo­ birds they have seen, or perhaps a dead ter low it will be seen that my bird sang a to be entitled “Adventures in Legend.” She shut the screen door and he lunged nearly rado and California mines, is the poorest ex bird, or the wing of a bird, asking very lonesome and lugubrious tune. Poor hibit of the true wealth ol the country. It is Dodd, Mead & Co. have in press the letters me to identify it. I am always glad to fellow, 1 suppose he felt homesick.