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JOHN MCGAW FOSTER, Bangor...
Miss Jackson had come to England to visit her aunt, Salvation Rogers. Aunt Salvation - called Salvy by her intimate friends - had had the misfortune to be born in Bangor. No one, however, was more ashamed of this fact than she herself. At the age of ten she had come to England, and had lived there ever since. She had never married; she had tried hard to become an English-woman, and had succeeded to a certain extent; but her birth was against...
...Aunt Salvy's Miss Tommie became acquainted with the Earl of London. The earl was no slouch; he had his ideas. He was an extreme Liberal and he loved Americans. He was very curious about the United States, particularly Boston, Cambridgeport, - where Harvard College is situated, - and Bangor. He one day asked our heroine if the Boston Poncas had not yet been removed to any reservation, and if Carl Schurz were not the governor of Massachusetts. He wanted to know if Roscoe Conkling had not been elected President, and if the Concord poet were not to be Secretary of State...
Until last summer I had failed to find my ideal; but, while travelling from Portland to Bangor, I met her. The train had just stopped at a small way station; but, as I was deeply interested in "Troublesome Daughters," I paid no attention to the passengers who got in, except that I was dimly conscious of some one asking me if the seat next me was engaged. I replied "No without raising my eyes from my book. A female sat down beside me. A few minutes passed by in silence, when the woman sighed heavily. Now if there...
...name of Rev. Joseph Cook is mentioned in connection with a vacancy in the Faculty of the Bangor Theological Seminary...