Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-03-25

Ee-the said prominent citizen--hap-
| pened to pass over the bridge just as
the ice was going out. and as he saw
! the large cakes break up. one after the
other. and rush out to sea. memories of
| his youth came to him and getting a
| pole he began to assist the ice in start
| ing on its seward journey. as he used
! to do when boy. But just as he was
giving a vigorous thrust the ice gave
way the pole plunged into the rushing
water and he followed it. AS he is not
! over communicative. unkindly remarks
! the Times. and as he neither left hols
in the water where ne went in nor
where he came out. the area he trav-
ersed in his struggle for liberty and
d.y land will in all probability never
be known. but it is rumored that he
struggled through the bridge and was
stranded on the flats below. Fortu-
nately. he escaped injury. and came out
of his bath feeling that .'boyhood days
were more firmly impressed upon his
memory than ever
At Grand Army campfire, of
Thatcher Post. Portland, last week
there was one uncommonly good story
told out of many good stories. and
Judge Foster was the relater The
judge said he was once commanded by
q major. a regular army man. who
passed wonderfully good examina-
ton, but who was worse than useless
when it came to commanding men.
Capt. Foster was drilling his company
one day, when the major concluded he
would try his hand at the work. and
probably expected to show the green
Maine man some points. He marched
/ a squad down in the direction of the
water. the drill field sloping to the
beach. and then forgot the necessary
order. Three times the confused officer
yelled stop" but they went on. They
reached the water went in. and almost
shoulder deep halted and marked time.
The mayor was excited and couldn't
for the life of him think what to do.
At last he turned to Foster and said:
For Gods sake go down and bring the
fools back Judge Foster said that
particular major gave him very little
| trouble after that.
The bookkeeper in Portland store
! is an example of what a girl can do for
herself if she has pluck and ambition,
| Ten years ago she had to leave the
| grammar school of the city to go to
work to help her father support his
| large family. This. she did cheerfully
| and with a grim determination to- fit
herself for something better. She bor-
rowed the school-books which other
| young people were studying and. BY
studying evenings, she managed to
work her way through the grammar
school course. Since then she has mas
1 tered. wholly by home study. nearly
/ all of the high school studies to be
1 found in the English course. Many Of
/ these evenings she would find herself
nodding over her books. too, tired Win
the days work to be able to accomplish
much at her task. and then she would
rouse herself with renewed energy ana
complete the work which she mad
st;nted herself to perform before retlr-
ing A little later she took up short
hand. and a few weeks ago she had
the offer of position as bookkeeper
and stenographer in a store. Though
knowing nothing of typewriting. she
accepted the position and said she
would be ready to go to work the ioi-
lowing Monday as required. Then sne
borrowed typewriter Of friend and
worked night and day on it until shf
had become fairly familiar with II
She kept her Job and is rising step pS
: step.