Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-08-07
Maine Gossip

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"PsddIe Your. Own Canoe"
rye travelled about bit in my time,
But found it better in every cline
To paddle your own canoe.
IL my wants are small / caro- not at all.
IL my debts are paid when due;
l drive away strife In the ocean of life
While I paddle my own canoe.
CHORUS
Then love your neighbor as yourself
AS this world you go travelling through
And never sit down with a tear or
But paddle your own canoe.
have no wife to bother my life,
No lover to prove untrue;
But the whole day long, with laugh
and song,
paddle my own canoe.
rise with the lark. and from daylight
Il do what l have to do;
I'm careless Of wealth IL I've only got
To paddle my own canoe.
That is, If you have proved him true:
the end
To paddle your own canoe.
10 borrow is dearer by far than to
A maxim, though old, still true;
You never will sigh If you only will try
To paddle your own canoe.
If a hurricane rise in the midday skies
And the sun is lost to view.
Move steadily by with steadfast eye,
And paddle your own canoe.
The daisies that grow in the bright
green fields
g. Are blooming so sweet for you;
So never sit down with a tear or frown,
But paddle your own canoe.
The host of friends of Capt. John
Simpson, pilot on the steamer Gov
Cobb of the Eastern Steamship Cor
poration will regret to learn that he is
very i'll. He arrived at Eastport Tues
day on the regular trip from Boston
and was removed to his home at ST.
Andrews, N B. The captain is seri-
ously i'll and 1t is not expected he will
be able to go on duty again, for he is
past rs years of age and has been en-
gagged in steamboat service for the past
80 years. Capt. Simpson was born in
Eastport and began life on the salt
water at an early age. being harbor
pilot for a number of years before he
became captain.
John L. Goss has just erected on his
quarry at Stonington what is said to be
the largest derrick in the world. The
mast is 11s feet long, of oregon pine,
and the castings are of mammoth pro-
portions. The stick itself cost Mr..
Goss, in Boston, $685.. The derrick is
capable of lifting 100 tons.
A few weeks ago. w H. Gray of
Pretty Marsh found among his eggs
when he gathered them an enormous
egg, its largest circumference being
nearly nine inches and its smallest cir
conference seven and one-half inches.
This. of course, was an immense egg,
but the surprise was yet to come, for,
upon the shell being broken, it was
found to contain a fluid like the white
of an egg and a hens egg of ordinary
size with a good strong she'll.
Names oldest twins, Mrs. Mary ].
Durham and Leonard j. Maddocks.
both of Ellsworth Falls, celebrated
their eighty-seventh birthday at the
home of Mr.. Maddocks, Monday, July
27. Mrs. Durham is in excellent health,
and while at her brothers took hold
with the younger women of the family
in doing the homework. Mr.. Maddocks
has not been as we'll as usual the past
few months, but is better now, and
able to be out of doors. The twins
were in excellent spirits on their birth
day, and entered into the enjoyment
of the occasion.
Read Nichols still young at 80 was
down to his Office this afternoon, said
Wednesdays Bath Times. He is busy
this summer with his fine garden at his
home.
In building the big piazza ou the
south side of Mayor Duntons residence
on Washington street hill top. says the
Bath Times, Contractor James Bates
had to cut through q wall and from
the dado of the interior of the wall
he cut out a panel, all one piece of
white pine that measures 20 inches
across in width. free of cap and with
out knot. That was some board!
Collector W. It. Emmons of the
Portland customs district. comprising
Maine and New Hampshire, Wednes-
day received orders from the secretary
of the treasury requesting him to per-
nit no clearance of foreign vessels I'M
til he received further instructions.
The telegram read as follows: Permit
no clearance of foreign vessels until
you receive further instructions. Noti-
fly all steamship companies and mas
tiers Immediately that no vessel will
be permitted to clear from your port
until they have filed their full mani
fest, and also that all foreign outgoing
vessels will be subject TO inspection of