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To-day, we have railroads running through the entire length of the 

 State, and from the sea-board penetrating back into the interior coun- 

 ties. We have the telegraph, the telephone and the daily paper. 

 Thousands of industries have sprung up in all parts of the State. 

 Resources have been developed that were never dreamed of forty years 

 ago. Mills and factories have been built on all our streams and 

 rivers. Savings banks have grown up in all parts of the State in 

 which to store the savings of the people. The farmer of to-day is 

 armed with modern improvements, and, with the markets of the world 

 at his command, is not the scrimped-up man of olden times. 



The great heart of the State is moved with the spirit of enterprise. 

 The man of Maine sits down to his evening paper and learns 

 through the "signal service" of the country that a blizzard is on its 

 way east, carrying death and destruction in its path, and he congratu- 

 lates himself that before it reaches Maine it will have spent its force. 

 He reads perhaps in the same paper that yesterday the mercury was 

 fifteen degrees below zero at St. Louis, and twenty below at Chicago, 

 and thirl}- below at Minneapolis, and sixty below in Manitoba, and 

 he is better satisfied with his own State than ever before. He reads 

 of earthquakes in the "sunny South" but it creates no fear that his 

 own walls are in danger of tumbling down overhisown head. He reads 

 of thousands of people in the soutli-west on the verge of starvation 

 and he turns with thankfulness to the well-supplied homes of Maine. 

 He reads of thousands of cattle perishing on western plains for want 

 of shelter, and he rejoices in the knowledge that his own sleek 

 horses and fat cattle and sheep are comfortably housed. 



The man of Maine on the whole feels that our State is not only a 

 good State to live in, but a good State to emigrate to. Maine, instead 

 of being abandoned as formerh', is now sought by thousands of 

 people from all over the country for her healthy climate, for her 

 splendid scenery and for her glorious summers. From Old Or- 

 chard to Bar Harbor, yea, from Kittery to Calais, and from the 

 mountains down to the sea, Maine is a vast summer pleasure ground. 



Maine has her representatives in every State in the Union, and 

 perhaps in every country in the world, and however honorable, and 

 wealthy, and useful they ma}' have become, and however happy they 

 may be in their new homes, I doubt if there are many among all 

 these sons and daughters who do not at some time have a longing 

 to look once more upon these hills and valleys, these mountains and 

 rivers, these school-houses and churches, and these homes and faces 

 in dear old Maine. 



