Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-03

Is like amy other Celt,
| And ye'd know him in minute
| BY his club and jeweed belt;
| For there's nothin' in the sky
Loike Organ strutin' by.
Arrah. he's a daisy foishter.
| And he raises oop his shield
Sure his powerful shillelah
Takes an Irishman to WELD:
With chip upon his shoulder,
Big as CaSey's wdther trough,
| Friend Organ with a shwagSer,
.Dares the bull to knock it of,
| Bets thot he can lick i'm. too
There's an Irishman for you.
Chicago News.
Returning to her home port the day
before Christmas after a unique trip,
the Sea Coast Missionary yacht Sun
beam, under the charge of the Rev.
Alexander p. Macdonald. finished up
her Santa Claus trip" which Mr.. Mac
Donald has been taking during the
| month of December, almost ever since
the mission was established. The So
ciety, which does ITS missionary work
along the small harbors and islands
of the Maine coast. plays Santa Claus
on a wholesale scale. and during the
month of December has distributed
load after load of Christmas gifts To
many homes on the lonely islands or
tiny harbors of the miles of coastline
which Maine possesses. Were it not
for the visit OF the missionary yacht,
many of these homes would be totally
destitute of the Christmas spirit alto
gether, and Mr.. Macdonald counts this
the happiest part of his cold and often
times lonely work. With the new boat
the Sunbeam. the gift OF Mrs. John 5.
Kennedy. it has been possible to extend
the work greatly this year. and MIR.
Macdonald plays the role OF Santa
Claus to the manner born. A generous
quantity of gifts have been given to
the mission by ali classes from more
fortunate towns for distribution. and so
far as possible all the lonely island and
harbor folks have been remembered.
Although you can no longer shoot
deer, or moose, you may shoot foxes
if they are in range of your gun. And
down in South Durham fox-huntipg
seems to be pretty good these days
according to a correspondent of the
Lewiston Sun who says Norman and
Aubrey Sylvester and Leonard Jones
each shot a fox last week and Leonard
Jones was out with Merit Mcintosh the
next day and got another
The East Bowdon Free Baptist
church, which was built T. years ago.
but which was never dedicated, was
dedicated with appropriate exercises.
Wednesday afternoon. Rev. Samuel
| Evans of Richmond gave an address
on THE Importance of Education
Rev. W. C. Beedy of Bowdoinharn read
| from the Scriptures and Rev. F.. M.
Swift of Bowdoinham gave the dedi-
eatory prayer. The dedicatory sermon
was delivered by Rev. Maurice Dunbar.
of Topsham.
H. E. Genthner of Glendon. is one
owner of a remarkable pair of horses
of which he is as proud as he is fond.
| The elder horse. Kate by name, is 80
years Of age and has been owned by
| Mr.. Genthner for 20 years. She is an
| inbred Matchmaker. smooth and per-
| feet as the day she was two, and with
eyes as bright as a diamond. She is as
high lifed at the present time as colt,
| despite her age, and has always been
kind and gentle and pet of the entire
| household. IN speaking of her to the
| Lewiston Journal Mr.. Genthner says,
| THAT horse never did a wrong thing,
| knowingly in her life" which is more
| than can be said of most people. Her
| mate and daughter, who. is called Kit,
| is IS years of age, and siuce old enough
| has worked beside her mother, up to
| the present time. The two are insep-
| arabic companions and are meyer at
ease without the other. A few weeks
| ago the pair plowed an acre of ground
| in ahout six hours and not hair was
turned on either of them, They came
| to the stable in as sprigbtly q manner
as when they left it and apparently felt
as though they had been INDUCING IN
| a little exhiliarating sport.
| Ellsworth boasts the youngest store
| detecrive in Maine, says the American.
During the Christmas rush last week,
| this Young man, not yet 9 years OF age,
| showed up at the store of F. Il. Aiken,
Il where many articles tempting to
| youthful fingers were displayed, and
| informed Miss Aiken that he was 60
| ing to keep watch of the boys VINO
came into the store, to see that they
didn't take anything. Armed with a
long, wooden pistol of the cork stopper
variety, this self-appointed detective
kept watch during two long and busy
| days preceding Christmas. Whether De-
cause of his watchfulness, or because
of the honesty of the Ellsworth small
boy, nothing was stolen. The value
of this little story lies in the fact that
it illustrates the wellknown stick to-
if ivaness" of this Ellsworth boy-a