. In fair Aroostook, where Acadia and Scandinavia's subtle touch turned a wilderness into a land of plenty; . ^ may open. Cf)lII-n WE NOT WE U EEEL KATAHDIN S PRESENCE. 14 IN FAIR AROOSTOOK. conversation easily with his neighbor, and there is a comrade-ship among the fellow-travelers of a da}- that is characteristicrather of Kansas or Colorado than of New England. In fact,Aroostook has stood for all that the fairest western Eden boasts,and more, from the time that President Cram preached his ser-mon from a text that was a radical variation of the time-honoredGo west, young man, the application
. In fair Aroostook, where Acadia and Scandinavia's subtle touch turned a wilderness into a land of plenty; . ^ may open. Cf)lII-n WE NOT WE U EEEL KATAHDIN S PRESENCE. 14 IN FAIR AROOSTOOK. conversation easily with his neighbor, and there is a comrade-ship among the fellow-travelers of a da}- that is characteristicrather of Kansas or Colorado than of New England. In fact,Aroostook has stood for all that the fairest western Eden boasts,and more, from the time that President Cram preached his ser-mon from a text that was a radical variation of the time-honoredGo west, young man, the application of which was the open-ing up of this vast eastern garden land to traffic and settlementwith his famous Bangor and Aroostook railroad. I will not sta}^ now to speak of what this enterprise haswrought for Maine in the enlargement of her resources and theturning of the tide of emigration, which so long had taken the ^^^n^ ^ ! ..■—2fW5^ ^ ■■ . ^ i^ mSBK^KK^^^^^^^^B^^^^ii^^^^^^a^iimiM M STANDINt; KNEE-DEEl IN FRACiKANT MEADOW? westward way, to territory within her own borders. The inter-est of the scenes through
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