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Tweedles. Author Tarkington sets the scene in an antiquity shop on the Maine coast. Julian Castlebury, summer colonist, falls in love with Winsora Tweedle, native daughter of the curious antiques who make their living from the antique curiosities. His parents object because nobody in Philadelphia has ever heard of the Tweedles; and her parents object, even more strongly, because no one in Maine has ever heard of the Castleburys. The solution of this dilemma seems tenuous to the point of ineptitude?yet still surprisingly diverting...
...mild rule-in itself an injurious thing to the shiftless settlers-was replaced by the stern government of Sir Thomas Dale. Under his guidance real properity began. With statesmanlike insight he struck at the great evil-the communistic system, which had been fostering the lazy in idleness. Every colonist was now made a small independent landholder. New and desirable immigrants began to arrive and the colony extended its limits. A very harsh code of laws was put into force. To the upright, Dale was a friend and helper; toward the depraved he was merciless. An alliance with the Indians...
...enter one, but by so doing he can find work there and later a situation. General Booth advocates very much the same plan in his "Darkest England." By planting these colonies in dreary regions, the soil has been greatly improved by the ploughing of the tramps. The number of colonists received at the twenty-two colonies up to October, 1891, is about 45,000. For the first fortnight the colonist serves for his food and lodging, and for the second fortnight he is credited with eight cents a day and later with thirteen cents...
...viceroy, no man ever showed less capacity than Columbus. While he talked a great deal in Spain about making converts of the poor souls, yet it is to him that we trace the Spanish law which allowed every colonist to exercise the vilest absolute power over as many natives as his means and rank entitled him to hold...
...hand, cannot be counted on to row for six weeks at least. Of the other three men on last year's crew, Cheney and Kidder will not row and nabbed is not at all sure. From this it is evident that probably half of the crew will colonist of new men. Of the material which has thus far presented itself it is too early to say anything positively. Young, Rankin, Johnson, Draper, Curtis, Newen, McDonald, Cromwell and Lake are strong, well-built men, but whether they will show any aptitude for rowing remains to be seen. Captain Porter, although rowing...