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ELIOT EPWORTHIAN. VOL.1.[Left aligned] ELIOT, MAINE, JANUARY 1893. [Center aligned] No. 3. [Right aligned]

[Column One] GO, WINTER! BY JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY.

Go, Winter! Go thy ways! We want again The twitter of the bluebird and the wren, Leaves ever greener growing and the shine Of Summer’s sun—not thine—

The sun which mocks our need of warmth and love And all the heartening fervencies thereof. It scarce hath heat enough to warm our thin Pathetic yearnings in.

So, get thee from us! We are cold. God wot, Even as thou art. We remember not How blithe we hailed thy coming. That was, O, Too long—too long ago!

Get from as utterly. Ho! summer then Shall spread her grasses where thy snows have been. And thy last icy footprint melt and mold In her first marigold. —“Green Fields and Running Brooks.’’

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From the German. Translated for the Eliot Epworthian. By A. B. I. Das Herz. The heart has chambers twain ; In one dwells joy. And in the other pain,

While joy a watchful eye Is keeping, Pain slumbers slyly nigh.

O joy, ne'er cease, good care to take Speak low ! That pain may not awake. — Neumann.

II Shepherd's Sunday-song.

This is the day of the Lord, I am alone by the mere : Only a morning bell sounds; Silence is far and near.

And, as I bow, a painless fear, A secret sympathy, steals o’er me As if many here, unseen, Were praying, on bended knee.

By the nearness of the sky, And its beauty I am awed, All is so solemn and true Upon this day of the Lord. — Uhland.

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LOCALS.

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All true success is to be found in working with God.

W. H. Moore, Dover, N. H. has taken the agency for the celebrated standard patterns the best and most re-liable pattern made. Send me a postal and I will mail you a catalogue free. W. H. Moore, Cabinet Ave., National Block.

The fourth quarterly conference of our church will be held at the Vestry, Saturday Jan. 28. Rev. Geo. R. Pal-mer will preside, also will preach on Sunday a. m. of the 29th inst.. and administer the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper.

Dr. J. L. M. Willis has recently lost his father, Dr. L. M. Willis of Charles-town, Mass. He was once a resident of Eliot and practiced medicine here in 1849.

[Column Two] What Books shall We Buy?

What shall we put in our library? This is a delightful question. There are some questions that are so soon answered that they hardly seem worth the asking, and there are others that have to take time and that give one the privilege of turning over and over in one's mind all the possible and pleasant ways of meeting the problem.

This question cannot be answered in a word. One thing can be said, nothing should be put in the library without due consideration. Of course this word due is not so very long a word and it will not be wise to spend so long a time considering that one has no books to read and no time in which to read them. But when their is so little time for reading, as in the case with the most of us it is of great importance that we read that which is great or substantial value. I do not mean by this to exclude what we call light literature, that may be of substantial value as in the crust of a pie which is also supposed to be light. I believe.

It is therefore wise to talk over books, to send for the catalogues of such publishers as our book concerns, Harper & Bros., Houghton, Miffins & Co., the Scribners & Co., and read over their list and mark the names of the books that you think you would like. Books that you have heard of, books whose very titles are alluring, will thus be brought to your attention and you will say. 'We must have this one and this one.'

Now do not be in a hurry. I have read somewhere, that a house should never be furnished wholesale; that it is very unwise to start a great furniture store and in one day order all the sofas and chairs and tables and stoves and china and get them as most do under such circumstances, by installment. A house should be furnished one piece at a time, so this writer thus suggestsed. I have no doubt he would permit the purchase at once of two or three necessary articles, just as I would advise you to buy right away a dictionary and concordance to the Bible and an atlas and such books that are necessary to any library. But the idea is a good one. You get a chair today, you try it before the fire, you see its strong points and the weak ones and the next time you are in town you get another to match it on the other side of the fireplace or you get one a little lower for sewing &c. In like manner you buy “Green's History of English people.” You get the new Harper’s edition, all full of illustrations and when you have read it, you say I ought to know something about my own land and so you order “Fiskes Beginnings of New England” and that interests you so much that you buy his "Discovery of America” to get a start as it were with the fossil remains of those Americans who flourished here in early times. Now may be someone will want Mr. Dawsons | “Story of the Earth and Man” to post

[Column Three] him on Geologic times and others will get weary of these prehistoric periods and ask for Seudder's Washington or the Life of the First President by the Senator from Massachusetts. Henry Cabot Lodge. May be a story will be demanded by this time either one of Jane Austea’s or better perhaps Hawthorne's tales of the colonial days.

You are getting now into the region of pure literature and tales, essays, poems, &c. are before you.

I would advise you to have in your library “Winchester Short Courses of Reading” Published by Ginn & Co. of Boston, as a guide to what to buy and what to read in the realm of English literature. There is nothing quite so suggestive out on American literature. But. you will want some of the best of our own authors on your shelves. By all means get a good edition of Whittier and Longfellow and Lowell—learn to love them if you do not already. For poetry helps to enrich the soul life. It strengthens the imagination and quickens insight. You will want “Pal-grave’s Golden Treasury” to give yon the master pieces of English Lyric poe-