Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-03

most or her life. Since her husbands s
| death she has made her home with
her daughter, Mrs. Hiram Eddy, Lamb
/ street, Cumberland Mills. She was the
Oldest OF IL children, six of whom are
now living, three boys and three girls,
also one brother in California. two in
| Bangor; one sister in Providence, r.
l., and one in Bangor. The youngest
sister, Mrs. Marietta Fairbanks, is So
years old. Mrs. Cheney was united in
marriage when 10 years of age to
| Hiram Gray of Ccrinth. One child
was born to them, George H. Gray.
Mr.. Gray lived only two years. She
then married Waite Cheney of Corinth
! and by this union there We're seven
! children, three sons and four daugh
| ters. -Four of these are now living,
two sons, III. w. Cheney of Sioux City,
Iowa; F.. S. Cheney of Augusta, and
| two daughters, Mrs. Daniel Noyes of
Randolph and Mrs. Hiram Eddy, of
Cumberland Mills. She has IA grand
children and IA great grandchildren,
and has spun and woven many yards
of cloth for her family. also made but
ter and cheese from to IL cows for
many years. Since her husbands
children. She is always busy, sewing
or knitting, having knit several sweat
ers. stockings and mittens the past ten
years Within the past sear she has
made IA sofa pillows and l3 quilts and
has also helped around the house with
little things.
Small, Maynard & Co., Boston pub
fishers, have just sent to the kenne-
bee Journal for review what they
label Joseph knowles Own Book,
Alone in the Wilderness" The price
they state as s1.2o net or $l.35 by
mail In the sample review enclosed
the company says:
Joseph Knowles, the Boston artist, en-
tered the wilderness of Maine on august
l. 1918, naked, without firearms, matches,
or even a knife, and lived for two
months as primitive man. reiying
wholly on his own resources. In THIS
book he tells what he did and now ne
did it. The book brings the reader INTO
closest touch with Nature. 1t SHOWS
primitive man in modern times ierclhs
Nature to be his ally; it shows Nature
in turn, stretching out her hand to man
as she did to the aborigines OF thousands
of years ago. 1t shows every art oI the tle
hunter and the trapper, but without the
use of a single modern implemeht-suh'
match, trap, string, or knife
All of which sounds very nice and
may furnish a thrill for the reader
who has never been in the woods or
known pleasure of hunting trip. The
birch bark" illustrations are good,
but the SAVIOR of the story soon falis
to fatness when a man with any claim
to forest lore reads of bear caught IN
A. four-fcot pit and a deer caught ny
fore-les with no other trap than naked
hands. Even so, the book probably
will prove a "best seller
Mariners are beginning to have an
uncanny feeling when the name OF the
five-masted schooner, Samuel J.
Goucher. is mentioned. The schooner
while coal laden struck on the Isle OF
Shoals more than two years ago, out
afterwards fioated off badly stove up.
She was picked up by the revenue cut
ter Androscosgin which after a mest
difficult tow beached her on the mats
below Portsmouth. She was purchased
by the Rowe Brothers of Portland,
who after stripping her and saving
ouite a lot of her coal left her on the
beach. It has been reported that the
hulk was blown up by the government,
but if so a poor job was made OF II,
as during the high tide of last week a
large piece of the wreck got away ana
brought up on the north Jetty al the
mouth of the Merrimac river. Inc
wreck threatens at any minute TO
leave that position, and as it floats
lust avash would prove grave dam
ger to shipping if it got adrift again.
II is probable a revenue cutter VIII
blow her up.