Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-03
Maine Gossip

Name Gossip
Splash!
washington Starr
| Jes' a little splash-thats all
| When you let a pebble fall
| In the lake The waters close
| An in dignified repose
Picture back the hills and sun
| Jes' as they have always done;
| Everything seems as before;
| Jes' a splash, an nothin' more.
Mighty men an, small ones. too.
| Shadows of forgetfulness
Soon surround them more or less;
Like the glistening waves they fade
| Those slight ripples that they MADE.
Recollection kin recall
Jes' a little splash-thats all
| The Journals correspondence at
| Bowdoin, writes of peculiar occur
renee Of last Friday morningsand no.
ticed by several people of that section.
About o'clock the sky was suddenly
Illuminated by flashes of light, very
much of the same appearance of what
| is called heat lightning. No sound OF
| thunder was heard and no explanation
Of the affair can be made unless II
| was brilliant flashes of Northern
lights. The phenomena lasted until
about 4 o'clock.
The Maine Central Railroad has just
issued handsome 63-page booklet en-
titled Fish and Game in Maine"
booklet for the sportsmen, the camper
Of either sex. the canoe cruiser and
the lover of the wild places 1t is full
to the brim of facts about Maine and
its hunting and fishing places, hand
somely illustrated by the author and
others. The author is James A.
Cruikshank and he has presented the
attractions of the Pine Tree State in
a manner that shows he himself has
enjoyed them. The booklet also in
cludes a short article on the Maine
guides, as well as giving the features
OF the game laws of the State. 1t is
well worth having.
United States Marshal Wilson and
Chief Deputy Marshal Charles F.
Morse of the Massachusetts district,
who have been on board the German
steamer Kronprinzessin Cecilie at Bar
Harbor for more than week, return
ed to Portland Saturday to await
further developments. Capt. Polack at
last accounts refused to have bis
steamer moved until the government
furnished a stronger convoy than the
one torpedo boat that has been keep
ing him company at Bar HaTbor, put
as the French and English ministers
at Washington have both guaranteed
that the Cecilie will not be molested
there does not seem to be any reason
for further delay.
The semi-annuai inspection or
watches for the Maine Central en-
ployees is now on and those who
have to have standard watches are
busily engaged in visiting the inspec-
tors.
Down in Phippsburg and in George
town also many hunters may possibly
find some bobcats to shoot, as the past
week these animals of the big woods
have been seen in both those towns.
Friday afternoon one bobcat was seen
crossing the Hosmer field in Ashdale
by H S. Hosmer, and this or another
bobcat was seen by Frenchman on
Morse's Mountain. The animal killed
cat in that section last week and is
liable to kill sheep and hens, II not
killed or driven away. In Georgetown
about a mile away from Harmon's
Harbor. a party including r. NJ Sis
by, Harry Wiltshire. E. w. Brigham
and DIR. e. J. Fitzgerald of Bath were
motoring along the road when they
noticed across an open field along the
edge Of the wood a bobcat, light in
color and apparently weighing from
40 to SO pounds. AS they looked the
bobcat made a spring and as he
Jumped a partridge few up and has
tened out of the clutches of the cat.
1t was an extra, free Of charge for
the boys from Bath and would have
been a good moving picture subject.
1t will be recalled that year or two
ago large bobcat was killed in West
port or Woolwich woods and hung on
exhibition for time in Bath store.
The Georgetown bobcat seemed about
the size of that.
So far as The Ellsworth American
has been able to ascertain, the last
bear killed in Ellsworth, previous to
the one shot on Oct. IL by Arthur
Moran, was killed in the same vi
cinity. but on the south side of the
Bucksport road, in the early sixties.
B. H. Meader of West Ellsworth. says
this bear was startled by his Grand
father Copp. and after being chased
several days by hunters, crossing the
Bucksport road several times. was
finally killed by Benjamin Higgins of
West Ellsworth and Warren Clay Of
Bluehill. The bear weighed about
800 pounds. The carcass was brought