Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 285, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1912 — Library of Artemus Ward. [ARTICLE]

Library of Artemus Ward.

As we sat on the old-fashioned poroh at Waterford, Me., and talked with “Uncle Daniel” Browne, a cousin of “Artemus Ward,” he revealed many quaint glimpses of his own career as village justice of the peace. Hia daughter owns the library of “Artemus Ward.” In his will it was awarded to the brightest girl in the old Waterford schoolhouse, which he attended, and the prize was won by an own cousin. TJiereon hangs the love romance of his life. The blue-eyed girl died a few years after the remains of Charles F. Browne had been brought to the old Elm Vale cemetery in i Waterford, and thus ended the earthly love of the cousins. Today in the quiet cemetery the gravestones stand in stem military array and carry dates reaching back for more than a century. Under the granite shaft, beside his brother and mother, sleeps “Artemus Ward” under a simple slab on which the inscription reads: “Charles F. Brown, known to the world as Artemus Ward."— “Along the Androscoggin,” Maine Edition, National Magazine. j