Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-09-28

ganised than the M0ntauk was sent
here and they were ordered to man
her. Mr.. CLIFFORD received an appoint.
ment az lieutenant. After life on the
old ''war tub" had become monot0nous
and about everybody aboard was pin
| ing for a change OF scene, Lieutenant
CliffOrd's application for transfer
was granted and he was transferred to
the distilling ship Rainbow. which il
still in commission. Now another
streak OF luck has Overtaken him, he
being ordered to Maine to establish
headquarters OF national naval re-
serve in the first district. II the gov
eminent plans are carried through this
new Office will be a permanent one.
The salary attached to 1t Ii $500 a
year. and he will not be expected 20
give his entire time to the work.
Lieutenant Clifrord's popularity and
good luck go hand In hand.
The Bath Independent notices how
18th century United States statistics
have verified the poetry of the 18th:
When in the middle OF the last century,
pal church In Maine. wrote Of the
Kennebec river:
ITO swell whose silent. sullen tide
A thousand lesser rivers glide"
he was using poetic license but more
than a century after he wrote. 1t Is a
fact that the United States govern
ment survey found 1000 streams and
200 lakes and ponds emptying into the
lower Kennebec. "Sagadahoc," which
name means Going Out of the Waters
to the Sea-
The celebrity with which great events
eventuare nowadays is illustrated by
the experience OF the Maine merchant
skipper who left Manila is sailing
vessel for a voyage around the Cape,
stopping at st. Helena. When he
started there was no expectation Of
war: when he reached Maine the war
was over. That Is the way the whirii-
gig whirls.
The Andover correspondent of the
Rumford Falls Times, in lamenting the
departure from the town OF an ex-
man. thus expresses his disapproval Of
things that be and his theory of the
cause for them; 1T is strange thing
that when the Andover people get a
good man for their church they don't
know how to keep him. II there were
fewer circles or entertainments where
people give ten cents for a plate OF ice
cream, and men would put their hands
f..tr All
might be possible to raise sufficient
money TO support single man. Then,
too. one religious society is enough for
town like this. and If people would
all unite there might be one good sized
parish able to command and support a
first-class man. Competition is not the
life of religion. however it may he with
the business world"
A Houlton window decorator has
shown the people what he can do in
the way Of artistic work. His window
display is of Manila rope. A very good
likeness Of Admiral Dewey in full
dress uniform made of rope is the.
chief attraction. Underneath is card
with the words: "A Manila Dewey
At the meeting of the Maine Board
Of Trade at Brunswick, last week, Ma
jor Melcher, one of the Portland del
egates, scored ona9 on Bangor. The
Portland man told .this story: A Port
land clergyman was visiting the house
Of one his parishioners and the lady of
the house called into the room her lit
tie girl. The child is at the age when
she is beginning to study the alphabet
and learn to count. The clergyman
was very much interested in the pro-
gress the little girl was making along
the paths of knowledge and asked her
to count up to twelve. The little one
started off all right but the finish was
unexpected. She said. Zone two,
three, four five. six, seven. eight. nine.
ten, Jack. Queen, King, and after the
Mortified mother had recovered speech
she explained to the clergyman that
her daughter must have been taught
this early knowledge of cards by
little girl with whom she had been
playing, little girl from Bangor.
AS October 1 approaches the deer
stories grow more numerous and are
on larger scale. At Brewer the
other day, one became entangled in
wire fence and was released by kind
passer by. In Pittsfield two young
ladies climbed over an orchard wall
and stumbled into the midst of four
deer that were taking nap behind it.
A Dedham man was going to market
with a wagon load Of apples, when his
team broke down. Before he could
make repairs herd of six deer came
from the woods, surrounded his outfit,
and Toasted on the spilled apples IN
spite of his utmost efforts to drive
them away. These are samples and
there are thousands of others, all go
ing to prove that the deer are more nu-
merous than ever and just waiting tor
the sportsmen.