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Thus inconsistent is the man But, joyful news! two Temperance bands Who daily goes to take his dream; With fervent hearts, united hands Expects his friends consistencies Cooperating with each other To atone for his deficiencies. As brother kindly helps his brother,
Of Alchohol I'gan my song,- Have risen, and with mighty zeal,
For him I might my verse prolong; Are laboring for the common weal; But that were needless - every day And soon we hope to see reclaimed We all may witness some affray, Those, who degraded and ashamed, Or else, perhaps, some mischief done, Have caused to us for many years, Occasioned by the monster, Rum. Such store of sorrows griefs & tears.
Milo for ill was long renowned,- Praying that heaven will kindly aid,
Since drunkenness did hear abound And bless these efforts which are made To such degree that good men kept With an abundant power & might- Aloof, and oft in secret wept. I'll wish you all a kind good night.
Now brother, if you presume to say that I can't fabricate "Sager Poetry" I will positively affirm that you are no judge.
Monday Mar. 17th After school in the "School 'us" Charles came after me Friday night, so I went home. Joseph had another Fracus with the S.S.C. the Saturday after you went away, (or rather with Mr. Theoph. Sargent). You know Mitchell told him to keep 14 weeks & Mr. S. was determined he should not keep but 12. Well that day (Sat), the day before town meeting when a new Com. would be chosen, Mr. S. went to the Com. & got them into the school with him, and he talked, and they talked, & inquired of all the scholars about the school but got no word of complaint. Chadbourn asked Angella Frost if she thought the school as profitable, & if she could learn as much as last Winter, (he kept last Winter you know) & she replied unequivocably in the affirmative! The Com. found no fault with the school, but for the sake of peace, they all three rather advised him to leave. But Jo. had no notion of pleasing Uncle Theoph. so much, so he kept on. As might he expected. Mssrs Sargent, Stineford, Fruman & John Philbrooks have taken their children away. Mr. Henry Sargent is very bitter against Theoph. Mr. Stineford refused to furnish any more wood & Aron Hill supplied the school with wood from his own pile, till he & Billington could have a load. You see Mr. Sargent has always ruled the District & it seems hard to him that he cannot continue to do it. He concluded that he should not probably be chosen Agent, thinking, probably that there would be Stinefords, Philbrooks etc. enough to put him in; but Billington told him to his face the other day, that he might set his heart at rest about it, for he could not come it this year. One morning when Jo. went to school he found the back of the stove, & the door, carried off. Mr. John Livermore sent down to Mr. Freeman's to get some mortar to fasten it up with brick; The boy came back saying he could'nt get any. Livermore said he would go down & if he did not give him some, would cut this throat from ear to ear! He got some & with the help of Daniel Holman A. Cook etc. fixed it up nicely.
Eliab closes his school Sat. March 15th, having kept fourteen weeks. He has had quite a seige of it for the first time. Has grown poor the last two or three weeks considerable, having had a bad cold. Mssrs. Kimball, Hartwell, and Tolman were chosen S.S.C. - Very good ones, I think. Joseph (ever our Jo.) had a good many votes for 2nd & 3rd Com.- lacked only one or two votes I believe. Chabourn, Macomber & Kittredge had no office whatever. Turner, Day & Tolman Select men. Be it known unto you, the Select Men have laid out a Town road from Alder Station to the south bank of the Piscataquis at Sargent's, (on the top of the County road, remember) and there from the north bank of Piscataquis to Rich's corner, so called, leaving out the width of the river; - hoping you see that will induce the Commissioners to discontinue the Ferry. Wasn't they mighty