Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-02-12

be possible to have a real ScOttisn heiu
day, with all the old time Scottish
games.
Bath Times: This is one Of the busy
years for Maine voters. City elections
in March. State elections in September
and national election in November.
The municipalities could save money
II all the voting were done in one day.
as it could easily have been arranged
but it IS for the interest of good gov
eminent that municipal. state ana
national politics should be ASSOCIATED
50 far as possible. Unfortunately, they
cannot be entirely so.
The death Of Rev. Joshua Young, u.
D.. one Of the many men who have
gone out from Kennebec county to win
honors and wide distinction. occurred
in Winchester, Mass. last sunday.
He was one of the most noted and eio-
quent preachers of the old school and
clergy. a firm abolitionist. station
keeper for the underground railroad
for slaves at the time Of the
Civil War. and the minister VINO
performed the last rites over
the body OF John Brown OF
Harper's Ferry fame. DR.. Young was
born in Pittston, now Randolph. Sept.
%. 1928. He graduated from Bowdoin
in 1S45 and at the Harvard Divinity
school in 1913. His first pastorate was
at the Unitarian North church on Han
over street. Boston. which had the
cognomen of the cockerel church from
the rooster as its weather vane- Sub
Iequently he had pastorates at Burling-
ton. VT. at Fall River, at bingham and
Grotor. Mass. While at Burlington he
hurried across Lake Champlain and
offlciated at the funeral at North Elba.
n. T.. OF John Brown. executed in
Virginia for his Harper's Ferry
fanatical anti-slavery raid. In the ex-
cited feeling of the time this action re-
suited in social ostracism and the loss
Of his paStorate and in making him
widely famous. Time that sets all
things even has justified his action.
His last pastorate was in Groton. from
which he retired IN 1907. after q years
service there. and over so years in the
ministry. He was held in high esteem
and affection. Ex-Gov. Boutwell, was
one of his most intimate friends and
parishioners, though on one matter
there was a wide difference between
them, for while the former is an out
and-oIt anti-imperialist, his pastor, Of
broader and optimistic view. did not
believe III a nation Of eighty millions
taking a back seat among the nations
Of the globe. DR.. Young was Mason.
Of high moral qualities which in later
life developed into intellectual indepen-
denotes and strong convictions.
At meeting OF the executive COM
mittee Of the Maine Audubon society
recently held at Good Will Farm. it
vas decided in the name of the
Audubon society to offer prizes for the
best essays on Bird Life in Maine"
There are two prizes the first $40. and
the second, IS. These prizes may be
competed for by any pupil of public
school in Maine; the essay to be as far
as possible the. result of personal OBJ
Servation: to consist of not less than
$50 words nor more than 5000 words;
each contestant to be member OF the
Maine Audubon Society. The decision
will turn in part upon the literary
form; but chiefly upon the accuracy OF
the knowledge Of bird life, gained by
the writer, through personal know
ledge. .H-