Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-25
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Dance 1t Down.
Does the cold world give frown?-
Dance 1t down!
Storm sweep over heid an toWh!-
Dance 'em down ~
That's the very way to 60 .kg ~
iitin' hheS nom the SNOW;
You'll lose trouble fore you know
lance it down!
Meetin' sorrow just halfway.
Dance it down!
TT,0rrh the fiddler is to pay
Dance it down! ,
n. An round the world must roll:
Don't let shadows hide yer soul!
IL s.p old trouble III control
Atlanta Constitution.
The first of the big fairs comes this
week and all roads lead to Bangor.
Only three weeks now before the
State election and everything indicates
q rousing Republican victory.
The Sanford yacht Kingdom.
which fits about the world so mys-
tericusly, has been in Eastport harbor
for a week.
The 1900 pound sea turtle, captured
at See,1in and on exhibition at Bath
last week has been taken over to the
Bangor fair.
To the school boy and the school girl
the long vacation is beginning to look
decidedly short as August draws to
close
Bath Anvil: A vote for Gardner
will be a vote for Bryant fact which
the Democratic editors are seeking to
keep in the background.
The Piscataquis Observer says that
bears are reported plentiful in the
vicinity of Milestone Pond. Mr.. F. H.
Spearing and c. M. Drew while at their
cottage iast week were chased over
a mile by a large one which made their
hair rise on end and turn gray. They
had been fishing on small brook and
were started for home, when they met
this jolly companion. Their journey
home is a romance in itself and their
many experiences would fill book, but
fortunate for two good pair of legs
they reached the shore of the pond and
tumbled into their canoe safe and
sound. Several other parties have
seen bears and experienced trouble
with them.
Not very long after school opens in
Bath this fall strong effort IS to be
made to have the school boys, especi-
ally those in the Morse High school.
formed into companies of cadets and
armed with suitable guns SO that
they may become versed in military
tactics. 1t is also expected that an
arrangement will be made by which
the boys will be provided with an in
doors rifle range where they can
learn to use the rifle intelligently
and become good marksmen There
Is no doubt but what they can have
free instruction from the State and as
the range would cost but little there
movement will not be successful. A
number of Bath men who are inter-
ested in military matters and who be-
lieve that all boys should know how
to handle guns are enthusiastic over
this idea and will try to carry it out.
They had the first big blow of the
summer out at Monhegan last Satur-
day and 1t was SO rough that the
steamer May Archer could not make
its landing at the wharf. There We're
half a hundred summer people anxious
to get to the mainland but they had
to remain where they were. except six
more venturesome persons who were
taken out to the steamer in dOrieS and
pulled aboard at the end of ropes
Long before Roothbay Harbor was
reached these six wished they had re-
manned with the others for the big
waves had no end of sport with the
steamer. However, she kept afloat
ard they suffered no worse fate than
scasickness. Monhegan has hundreds
Of visitors this summer and the three
hotels are oil filed.
Rath Anvil: The Olympia is the
deepest draught vessel which ever
called at Bath. Her keel is about Is
feet under water. To satisfy the fears
of her commander, who is responsible
for the eighteen hundred thousand
dollars Uncle Sam has invested in the
ship, and to make assurance doubly
sure. Capt. Charles w. Dingey. who
acted as chief pilot, brought her up
ami took her out on the high water.
But Capt Dingley. who knows the
KennCbec river from Augusta to the
sea as most of us know our own hall
ways, tells the Anvil that if neces-
ssary he could have brought the fleet
in and taken it out again at low tide,
which is to say about eight feet near
er the bottom than the kcels actually
went. The ships did not touch any
thing coming in or going out. With
Dingley on the bridge, they would not
had the tide been out instead of in.
After this experiment has been re-
peated q sufficient number Of times.
perhaps the naval captains will be con-