The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-02-10

year-OlQ QduSnuef OF CndfleS Adlef Ol
Centreville. She does the cooking for
the logging crew in her fathers camp,
and ''totes'' their dinner one and a half
miles through the forest. Unless the
crew is very small one, this would al
most seem bad thing to boast about
and the example one hardly worth fol-
lowing.
Fishing parties returning from the va
rious eastern Maine lakes and ponds re-
port that an unusually large number of
loupcerviers are holding star sessions in
the woods this winter. They have not
been hunted much during the past few
years and have multiplied very fast. One
man saw four on a single days trip near
Shirley not long ago. A good-siZed and
ugly Canada lynx can make it rather dis
agreeable for man. while the animal
is good match for deer.
The Colby glee club, of some II or Is
members, is preparing for quite an ex-
tended tour through the state during the
coming vacation. The club is under the
direction of W. G. Philbrook, who is a
thorough musician, and during his col
lege life was leader in all movements
like that in which the boys are now en-
gagged. Mr.. Philbrook states that the
club is making good progress, and will
compare favorably with similar organiza-
tions sent out from any college Of New
England.
The Bangor Wing tells this: Six years
ago, a Bangor lady, while shopping in a
millinery store, laid her purse on the
counter for few moments while gazing
at the cloves of bonnets,' and when she
started to leave the purse had mysteri-
ously disappeared, and from that time
until yesterday nothing had been seen of
it by the owner. Yesterday the purse
was returned to the owner by mail, no
note of explanation accompanying it, In
the purse was the silver which was in it
at the time it disappeared, together with
some bills and papers which bore the
owners name, but some notes were gone.
The person who took the article men
toned must have had hard struggle in
the past six years with conscience.
A good story is told of two old ladies,
Mrs. E., who resides in Indian Rfyer,
and Mrs. W., who lives part of the Time
in the above place and part in Columbia
Falls. Mrs. Els son married Mrs. WIS
granddaughter, and they reside close by
Mrs. K. IS, only small piece of woods
separating them, but enough so they
cannot see each others house. Now this
had troubled Mrs e. considerably, and
she tried, times without number, to get
her husband to cut down those trees so
they could see their sons house; but he,
being very busy could never seem to get
time to do it. AT last one day he hap
pened to be gone, and these old ladies,
aged respectively IS and GA years, know
ing he would be gone some time and hav-
ing their old time ire aroused, should
cred their axes and went for those trees
in such way as would have done credit
to the young men of the place, and put a
thousand Chilians to flight. There were
ii trees a foot in diameter, SO one of
these old ladies asserts, and alders in
Vulnerable. But they cut them down,
and now they can see each others house.
Mr.. L. returned home, and if you could
have seen the ook of blank amazement
ON his good old face it would have done
YOU good. But all he could say was
''It will take me longer to clear that
piece of wood out now than if | had done
it myself" Mrs. E. would reply; when
[ ask YOU to do anything again, you had
better do it, And Mr.. E. thinks so to.
An officer of Conner plantation is re-
ported to be the latest victim of the
green goods sharpers. He took $1,000 to
New York expecting to exchange it for a
large sum in counterfeit money. He got
package of white paper instead.
Before Aaron Dudley, of Mt. Vernon,
died, about year ago, he told his family
that he had buried $1700 under the barn.
Search failed to find the money and since
then the friends of the dead man have
sought the aid of those who claim power
to locate hidden treasurer. They have
so located it several times but thus far
the gold has been found only in the
minds of the mediums although several
holes have been dug in fields and other
places pointed out by them.