The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-13
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 How could the world get along without the sea-serpent? Man could live without the horse or the COW. the dog or the cat, or without any other one animal. even the donkey, but to try te live without the familiar and recurrent stories of the sea-serpent would be a dull business. When the glad spring time has passed and the sultry summer comes on us with his torrid heat and mosQuitoeN then fash ionabie man and woman flock to the seaside to cool of. Then is the time that each proprietor of fashionable watering place has his sea-serpent story ready and all the visitors spend part of their spare time watching for the monsters appearance.
 Nor do they always watch in vain. for the creature is pretty sure to put in an appearance at some one or more of the resorts. even if he doesn't visit all of them during the season. He may be . fake manufactured for the occasion. or he may be the genuine arr LlCite b0 IdE 6S tnS pChOAdOAb G6A Jh06 Ss but 1t amounts to the samo thing. They have seen the creature and can testify to the truth of the stories that have been told about 1t. Even if he entire ly fails to come forward and be viewed there will be an explanation ready and the disappointed visitors will console themselves with the reflection that they can sec him next season.
 The biggest story of these monsters comes from old Orchard, Maine. a town on the southern coast of the State. but this case differs from most others. in that the monster was a dead one. and was stranded on the coast. and was found there one morning when the tide went out. To copy the sequel as The New York Times words 1t:
 Then six yoke of straining oxen at. tached to a ships anchor cable hauled !yertesrs vert bra from the shore to the village; length. the forty-five tons of beefy flesh extracted from the carcass its feet latitude. the erstwhile green wa termelon eyes. the vertebrae rolling like butchers chopping blocks and walks the burning mari, and the fine these in juxtaposition. too, with the facts that its age Is aGiS"asly S"n sines it found a frozen death in the arctic deep. and that the monster is now mounted and on exhibftfon-after sucn Ps,nsh think ai tsere oUshs to be Brighter prospects for an increment of summer residents upon a particular strip Of the Maine coast, at q time when the not
 The efforts of some matter -of-fact scientists to create the impression that the wonderful ophidean was nothing but a whale will hardly go down with the Maine folks. They believe that 1t was frozen into an iceberg a million years ago. more or less, and that it had lately been released by the melting of the ice when the berg reached warm latitude, and was then washed ashore on their coast by a special dispensatfon of the rulers of the great deep. sci- ence and scientists may go to grass for all these people care. and they'll hang on to their snake. or as much Of 1t as they have in possession. s5se4
 It would bring up e lot of interesting questions if 1t could be proven that this specimen Is actually genuine. even though 1t may have lived in prehistoric days. If such things once lived why may not some have survived? We have reason to believe that whales were among the earliest creations of the an- imal Kingdom, and as whales are yet with us, why not sea-serpents? We don't propose to have our faith in them knocked out by any book-learned sci enlist. Sea-serpents are necessary in our business and we shall not go back on them.