. In fair Aroostook, where Acadia and Scandinavia's subtle touch turned a wilderness into a land of plenty; . wintersnows, but there are no such dis-tances now to travel to the school-house as there were then. We didnot visit an\- of the mills—but thereare grist and lumber and starch mills in the town ; and, aboveall, shingle mills where shingles are sawed out by machiner\instead of being shaved into shape by hand as they were in theearly days of the settlement. The Swedes made famous shavedshingles and many of them, then, as the\- well might, whenbundles of shingles were their only currenc_v
. In fair Aroostook, where Acadia and Scandinavia's subtle touch turned a wilderness into a land of plenty; . wintersnows, but there are no such dis-tances now to travel to the school-house as there were then. We didnot visit an\- of the mills—but thereare grist and lumber and starch mills in the town ; and, aboveall, shingle mills where shingles are sawed out by machiner\instead of being shaved into shape by hand as they were in theearly days of the settlement. The Swedes made famous shavedshingles and many of them, then, as the\- well might, whenbundles of shingles were their only currenc_v with which to Imygoods of the American traders. The village of New Sweden, with house;? and stores in appear-ance quite like those of most other Aroostook villages of its size,runs largely to churches, of which there are four—a Baptist, a. A SWEDK IN FAIR AROOSTOOK. 73 Coiigregationalist, an Advent and a Lutheran church. A fea-ture of ever} church, suggestive of the distances the peoplehave to travel to attend divine worship, and also of their carefor dumb animals, is the great horse shed in its rear—a long,low, frame stable in which, even in the coldest days of winter,the horses stand warm and comfortable in the long double rowof stalls, while their masters worship within the church. That is the capitol, said Mr. Fogelin, pointing to a build-ing that stood at the cross-roads in the center of the village. Itwas a two-story, frame building, about 45 feet long by 30 feetwide. It is the oldest public building in New Sweden. Itwas built in the first year of the colony as a sort of generalheadquarters and it has served since for many purposes—aschurch, schoolhouse, town house and general meeting place forthe colony. It used to have a tower but that went long ago. It is the central point, this old building, of th
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