Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-12
,eturn other important meetings are

held.
The Youths Companion has diseov-
cred the Ben Kinds story product
of Round Pend, where everyone is re-
lated to every one else. And the story
is told so we'll by a former associate
editor of the kennebec Journal that
we are glad to give it space:
Some 20 years ago daughter of the
place visiting in Seattle where she
met and married fur-trader from the
island of st. Michael off the coast OF
Alaska. They had few guests at his
lonely home but one day their neigh
Dor" a Russian from the island OF st
Paul, 600 miles southwest in the BerinS
Sea. came over to pay them Visit
Much impressed by the Improvement "A
wife had made in his friends household
he determined to Obtain a heipmeel lof
himself.
Nothing but the best would suit him.
however; he would not seek native of
his own country or maid from san
Francisco; he must take a year off and
go to Round Pond, and to Round Pond
he went. With his advent began joy
Gus time for the girls of the village. For
year he waited on them diligently. and
when his year was passed he took one OF
them with him to st. Paul.
Now 1t came about not long afterward
that a New York newspaper man got or
ders from his physician to go on sea
voyage. He crossed the continent and
took passage on one of the vesselst hat go
northward to collect furS. In the course
of the journey. while he ana the captain
, were talking politics, the eminent men of
Maine came under ruscusSion Il happen
to be from Maine" remarked the captain
not without pride.
! Il never knew but one man from
Maine said the other. he came from
a little bit of a place way down the coast
| Its Round Pond.
The captain gave an involuntary ex-
| clamation.
| His name was Ben Kinds.
Ben Hinds,' cried the captain, grasp
ing the others arm why, l know Ben
! Kinds! | played with him when l was SO
! high, and his brother married my sister"
| With this bond to unite them they be-
! came good friends, and when the vessel
| stopped for cargo at st Michael, the
| captain and the newspaper man went
! together to have supper with the fur
trader The conversation turned to
| Maine but before the visitors had time
| to tell the Round Pond incident the
traders wife declared, Il came from
| Maine"
us that SOP, asked the journalist.
I'm sorry to say | never TX, knew wv but
little place down the coast caiied Round
| Pond
WAY. 50 did r. cried f1,d the woman
Ben Kinds! Why. | know Ben Kinds,
| | played with him when was so high
and his sister married. my brother.
Infa day or two the vessel sailed on
and presently anchored off 81. t'aui. The
newspaper man and the captain went VI
to spend the evening with the Russian
and his wife. The wife did not look lik,
a Slav. so the New York man said to her
You not a Russian
No" she replied.
You're from the States?" he asked
and as she nodded, he took courage
In fact. you're from the East-fron
Maine"
How could you tell | came from
Maine?" she asked. in wonder.
You're from little place down alon'
the coast" he continued. "YOu cam
from Round Pond"
How on earth did you know that?
she exclaimed.
Again he took no notice. "And yo'
played with Ben Kinds when YOU were 81
high, and his brother married your sis
| ter
well, no. she said. Not quite that
| His uncle married my aunt