Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-06-07

What's this? A volcano at Great
Pondi That's the story John r. Shu-
man, postmaster and plantation clerk
at Great Pond, brought down river
last week when he came to Ellsworth
to attend the Republican county con-
vention. Mr.. Shunan is man whose
word is not to be questioned. He says
lie did not see the volcano in action
himself. but he saw the man who says
he did, and he believes he iS.a tfuthful
man. The mountain in question is
known locally as King Jackson's noun
taill-sometimes called Pine mountain.
1t lies between the county road ana
Long pond, just north of the line be-
tween plantations 81 and 3S. The man
who saws he saw signs of volcanic
activity about the mountain, says that
about the time of the Martinique erup-
ton, deep rumblings We're heard in the
mountain. and looking toward it he saw
smoke issuing from near the peak The
rumbling noise was so loud and alarm
ing that his little daughter ran into the
house crying in fright. The sky was
clear, and the roise could not nave
been thunder. In connection with this
story it is recalled that last fall a man
who was hunting in the vicinity of the
mountain reported that he heard
rumbling noises. and saw smoke is
suing from the peak of the mountain.
AS yet. citizens of the locality have
| made no preparations for moving out
of the vicinity.
| President Hyde Of BoWdOin College
spoke twice before students of Yale
University at New Haven ON Sunday
| last. In the forenoon he preached in
| Battcll chapel on the subject of the Tel
| commandments; and on Sunday eve
ming addressed the students in Dwight
hall on the choice of n profession. lr
| this address, which was received wifi
| great favor by the students, DIR. Hyde
| gave e somewhat new listing Of the
| occupations which offer fair openings
for college men-Or perhaps We Snoulc
say that he placed these occupations IL
new relations with each other. This Is
the way the president of BoWdoin ar
ranged them beginning with what he
termed the lowest and ascending il
vision of manual labor, business, law
=, medicine, teaching, Journalism, litera-
ture, the ministry. the missionary:
life. This arrangement is somewhat
novel, but it is one each college presi-
dent and every intelligent person car
make for himself. There have beer
great educators who have placed tht
| supervision of manual labor, such a:
| the construction of great engineering
feats, the building of immense bridges
vast machinery, war vessels, triumph;
of mining, etc, well up in the list ol
successful business openings for college
men. Then to place the profession o
law and medicine below teaching vii
| ne regarded by some as a new order
By putting journalism well up toward
the top Dr. Hyde recognizes the i'm
portance of the newspaper and the
press, especially as he puts literature
which is akin to journalism, next t.
the work of the ministry and but three
removes from the top of his list of oc-
cupations. DR.. Hyde said he regarded
| the pursuit of literature as really one OIL
| the grcateSt because he believed thai
the highest gift of God to man is the
power to create new or TO work over
thoughts in such a way that they shall
have an influence on the worlds work
The work Of the ministry ana the mis-
sionarys life crown this list of occupa-
tions because they demand so great al
| amount of self-sacrifice ana because
those who devote their life work t
| them must give that life work to the
benefit and good of humanity.