Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-02

. y lot OF ulliSs you might nave done.
If you have done your level best
Your yesterdays win all be sweet
Your thoughts viii never be distressed,
| You VIII not whimper at defeat.
There is no shame in failure, when
| You've nobly fought and nobly tried,
Your yesterdays are splendid then,
| You need not view them leaden-eyed
If You can look back when you've trod
And see no reason for regret,
| Then forward you may bra velyl plod:
| Your past is not a present debt,
| You need not fear your yesterdays
| Nor any future time of test.
The world must speak of You with praise
| II You have done your level best
| Detroit Free Press.
1t has been estimated that the cost
of SEN Gardeners election will reach
nearly $4,000. Wonder if that Corrupt
Practices thing applies here, anywhere.
In an old-fashioned farm house.
7anked by long string of out build
| ings and overshadoWed by an enormous
| barn. on pleasant country road about
a mile from the village OF South China,
| live MIR. and Mrs. William NJ. Crane, a
happy old couple who were married 81
| years ago Saturday, March 30. William
|
| Warren Nov. ., 1924 and was one of a.
! family of four boys. of which he is the
only survivor The family moved to
| China. Maine when MIR. Crane was six
years cid. and he received his educa
ton in the district schools and the old
| China Academy. When Mr.. Crane was
twcnty-one he Went to Warren to learn
the ship-carpenter's trade. on his WAY
| he stopped in Windsor to visit the
| Jameson family. who We're old friends.
His dinner was prepared for him by
| The daughter of the house, Mary Jane,
| Il dainty lass of nineteen years. After
| long and full experienced at his chosen
| trade. in many parts Of the world. IN
the spring of 1851. Mr. Crane decided
that it was time for him to get mar
ricd SO he quietly made known his in
tentions to Miss Jameson, who during
his absence had beer teaching school
at Windsor. Augusta ana NasSalboro
and she went t. New York ostensiblT
To visit her half-hrother. Rufus who
was sea-captain, and Ut his home.
u Orchard street. the young people
We're married on March 80. 1871. Mr..
Crane remained with the firm by which
he WAS then employed fe" IA wears and
then the young people came back 10
Maine and settled in China village
which was then a prosperous. thirty ing
town For about Il year and a half
they kept the public house" i'm that
town which was then very popular
hosiery or the road from Augusta 10
Bangor. hut they were obliged To re-
tire from this business on account of
Mr. Cranes health They remained in
China Village however until thu ninth
Of May, 1869. when they moved To
The farm where they now live. Mr.
and Mrs. Crane had four children 10
| bless their union the eldest. lEhnira
| lived only two Years. but their sons
| still survive Edwin is IN Nevada, in
! terested in mining, Alton who for
years vas an official in the House Of
Correction in South Boston and also
| the Massachusetts State Prison is now
| n shipping clerk in Boston, and oscar,
who is a widower and lives on the farm
with his parents.
John Caswell, owner of the famous
| blood hound. Hero. of Dexter, is rapid
| ~ realizing the fame of this dog has
spread throughout the country A let
ter received by Mr.. Caswell from the
| mana cement of the Washington, ID. c..
Kennel Club, asks him To send Hero
to Washington for the annual dog
show. April "a % and 2Gth. The man
| ager offers to pay Heros travelling eX-
penses both ways, and also informed
Mr. Caswell that he would try and
| interest the chief of police of Wash
ington in the dog with a view to pos
sbly acquiring him for use in the
Washington police department. Mr..
Caswell has also received letters re-
Gently from Decatur. H., containing
| inquiries concerning the dog.
The Ashland Gazette advertises a
| near panic among the people living
within % miles of De Bullie mountain.
Heavy rumbling sounds and Nbra-
ton of the earth has been reported as
increasing in violence for the past two
years. The Gazette says: 1T is said
that there are several parties being
formed to penetrate the snoW-coVer-
ed forests to this point and investigate
the mystery. There is still cOnsideTa-
BILE question as to the nature ana
source of these sounds. They have
| been heard as far west from De Buille
as the Allegash Mountains and as far
south as Oxbow. DeBullie Mountain is
| situated in Aroostook county, about 80
miles from the northernmost boundary
| of Maine and rises with sheer walls
about 500 feet from the banks of Lake
| de Bullie 1t is in the midst of the
primeval forest, the nearest clearing
| being at Chapman's sporting camps,
| four miles away, In the side of the
mountain which faces the lake is a
great cave closely resembling fire.
place i'll shape and thought by many to
| be the source of the strange sounds
| The nearest railroad station is at Port
age Lake, about % miles to the south
| Many theories have been propounded
and discredited. Some claim that eiec-
| trio currents are causing atmospheric
vibrations among the mountains Oth-
ers say that the boulders are rolllng
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