Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-21

and were able to put by the greater
part of the salary Of s651 a month which
the government has paid Amos for
protecting commerce against disaster
upon the shoals. A few weeks ago
Mrs. Rice peacefully terminated long
and lonesome life and went to join the
choir Invisible. Amoa had to keep her
body four days before he could fulfill
| his promise to bury her with her
folks" at Winter Harbor, for the sea
was high. 1t is no easy Job for a man
lunaided to remove a body from tower
| like that into row boat that is tossing
furiously upon the waves, but Amos
| finally did 1t. The first quiet morning
| he left his bereaved home the very
| minute 1t was lawful to put his light
out, rowed over rough sea, and upon
his arrival at Winter Herbor, called up
! the sexton and minister and what
| friends could be summoned, and after
brief and impressive service the body
| of Mrs. Rice was committed to the
| dust and her soul to God who gave it.
After they came from the cemetery one
of the neighbors asked Amos and the
friends to have a little refreshment.
OF course they all accepted and among
others likely widow. whose hus-
band had been dead for two
years and who was "boardin' round
among her relatives for want of q
home and income. Amos grief was not
greater than his sense of loneliness,
and, finding a sympathetic chord in the
presence of the whole company, and.
the parson being present. they were
mn a1i q talU mo t-yjnd Tho bride hl1r-
ried over to her sisters to put up her
Things" while Amos continued to re-
ceive the mingled condolences and con-
gratulations. 1T was O'Clock in the
afternoon when he started back to his
watery eyrie with his bride. with miles
of rowing before him. If any ships
were out that night they must have
wondered why, for the first time in a
quarter of a century the CLEANS of Tit
Nan" light were not visible for more
than two hours after sunset Amos
reached home at last. after performing
what he considers a good days work
for man who is more than SO. He
rowed many miles in a dory, buried
one wife and married another, and, as
in the case of the King of Denmark.
the funeral baked meats set forth the
wedding dinner.
Strangers visiting Bangor should not
leave the city without visit to the
quarters of Chief of Police Gilman and
his officers. They will find Mr.. Gilman
and his able corps of assistants as
gentlemanly as are found anywhere.
and for a finer looking set of men
person would have to travel a long
distance. The quarters are the incest
in the State and they are kept so neat
that it is real pleasure to go through
them. Mr.. Gflman's office is quite
curiosity shop as he has some very in
teresting pictures there. One in par
ticular attracts attention as it was
taken in 1S4S and is the old city watch
in that year which consisted of five
men, several of whom Won dis
tinction during the Civil War. The
guard room is model of neatness and
here the men gather and pass a part of
their time reading before going on
duty. The cells are all whitewashed
and the brick walls are kept remark
ably clean The offensive odor so often
found in police stations is here con-
spicuous by its absence. Bangor should
certainly be proud of the police force,
and it's clean homelike quarters.