Tarry at home travels . ARRY AT HOME TRAVELS six reporters at their table eagerly taking itbetter than you could. And I laid my pencilby. Alas and alas! there was some footballmatch at Princeton or at Harlem that blue pencil of all editorial offices struck outMr. Blaines address for the more importantdetails of a touchdown l^y Smith when Joneshad dropped the ball in the gravel, and so thatspeech was lost. Before the week was over had died, and I have been left with thewish that on a great occasion I had done whatI wanted to do and could do. Moral. — It is always better to do
Tarry at home travels . ARRY AT HOME TRAVELS six reporters at their table eagerly taking itbetter than you could. And I laid my pencilby. Alas and alas! there was some footballmatch at Princeton or at Harlem that blue pencil of all editorial offices struck outMr. Blaines address for the more importantdetails of a touchdown l^y Smith when Joneshad dropped the ball in the gravel, and so thatspeech was lost. Before the week was over had died, and I have been left with thewish that on a great occasion I had done whatI wanted to do and could do. Moral. — It is always better to do a thingthan not to do it, if you remember duly theTwelve Commandments. Yes, if there were room to talk of people,there are many, many men who won their laurelsin Maine who deserve a place in any Hall ofFame: Champlain, whose monument is his ownlake; Baron Castine, whose life is a romance;Knox, who created all the stores of war andhas left behind him men and women for whomwe are all grateful (he went down to Maine and. General Henry Knox. From the painting by Charles Willson Peale in the Old State House, Philadelphia. 61 THE STATE OF MAINE 63 opened up Knox County after his last shottedcannon had been fired at Yorktown); Lincoln,Washingtons friend and sometimes his adviser;or, in these later days, Evans, Fessenden, JamesG. Blaine, and my own chief. Senator Frye, thePresident to-day of the United States Senate/There is an excellent story which I can re-peat nearly correctly, though I was not on thespot where the speech was made. Our SenatorFrye was to address the assembly which metwhen a stone library building was consecrated,which had been erected to the memory of in Livermore by her sons. Beforethe address Mr. Frye had been in the old Wash-burne mansion house. This gave him a chanceto say that he had seen that day the cradle inwhich she had rocked three governors, fourmembers of the House of Representatives, twosenators in the United States Senate, twoministers
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