Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-12
Maine Gossip
Why Was Il So?

| Did you not come.
TA a. asS your mortal lips were dumb
Ere You were piloted on high?
Who led you there.
Who met you there.
| In that new land without a care
| Q tell me was IL one you knew
! but Yesterday, whose heart was true:
Do you miss me.
! Do you need me,
Midst all the glories that you see?
How fares It with me- here below:
When night doth fall,
| Like great pail.
| Do you not hear. me softly call
Do You not say in accents mild.
'Hush-she remembers me, her child: -
When will 1t be-
| Over what sea,
Shall l saA joyously to thee?
| cannot say; God does not tell
| l know but this-aN will be well.
| Mrs. Isaiah S,etson. whose fine resi-
dence in Union street. Bangor, opposite
the Theological Seminary has been closed
for number Of years except for brief
! intervals, since the marriage OF her
! daughters and her consequent residence
! abroad with them. is now in Steitin.
Germany, with her daughter, the wife OF
| General Won Buttlar OF the German
army, reports the News. Gen. Won But
thar who has been decorated Nith the
Iron Cross by the Kaiser. is engaged or
! the west front OF the German line op-
posed to the Allies. He has visited in
| Bangor number OF times and won many
friends there by his splendid personality.
! Mrs StetsonS other daughter Nrs.
Foore. resides in England. Her husband
who has been connected with the Eng
/ lish government engineering service for
| many years, stationed q Carlo for a con-
| siderable period is not in the English
army bG, several members of his family
| have entered the service of their country.
| Mr.. Foote is also well known in Bangor
| having visited there several times.
| Bangor contractors report that seve-a
of the neighboring towns have plans for
quite extensive building operations in the
spring. The city itself does not expect
an unusual amount OF building, but will
benefit by the nearby work.
The good ship Aryan. built in 1898 by
c. V. Minot at Phippsburg and the LAST
/ wooden ship built in the United States. is
having her troubles, owing to the Euro
pear war. She Is al Sydney, y. S. W.
partly loaded with cotton for the United
States and tied up by the British en-
barge on that commodity. The author
tiles at Washington have been asked 10
in,ercede and il is hoped that the ship
may be soon released and allowed 10
complete loading and sail.
Who would believe that a man could
be found so ignorant as 10 carry a reve-
nue. tax stamp TO court and claim that
having paid for II ne had a right 10 sell
liquor In Maine: And Yet that was done
/ last Saturday in Belfast, and the judge
being satisfied that the ignorance was
genuine. imposed sentence. which he
did no, announce nut did SUSPEND while
the defendant kept out OF the rum bust
ness. which the latter promised would
te forever.
Hammond street hill in Bangor had a
real mystery Sunday. when dead fish
lay for several hours in the street. caus-
ing no end o. speculation as to how il
came there Along came d well-known
man. after many scores had worried and
trs.ted over the matter. He gave one
glance ard was heard TO murnur 10 him.
self: Great Scott, what & high tide We
must have had last night to wash tAa;
fish away up here. The c-owd-in the
words OF a late weil-known Ausustan-
then "Blemished.
That gentle breeze OF last Thursday
played havoc with the sn2elt fishermen :
colony on the Arrowsic fishing grounds.
OF the ls3 tents or camps all but y are
said to have been blown away, most OF
them bringing up on the dyke, and many
,luiicrous scenes as we'll as several near.
tragedies was the result.
So many requests from parents OF the
South End district OF Bath last wednes-
day were received by the teachers ask
ing that children be excused so that they
might witness the launching CT ike
schooner Earl Cressey that it was
thought best to excuse them all-and a
good, sensible idea il was too.
The Bath Times has heard or imagined
the best sea serpent story We have heard
for many a moon. Read 4:
The other evening around the ire,
the member of the Big Stove Club who
in his youth went fishing, was telling OF
his experiences with a sea serpent in
Long Island Sound, while returning one
dark night in his little fishing schooner
from a trip to sea. being towed up the
Sound. He was at the wheel and kept
hearing a peculiar swishing sound behind
the vessel and peering out over the stern
he could make out the long sinuous bod V
OF sea serpent with an enormous head
and pair Of flashing eyes. Now and
then the serpent would dive down and
disappear. but soon it would reappear.
He informed the captain OF the queer
fish following on behind and the captain
took look. He, too, decided that i, was
a sea serpent without the shadow OF a
doubt. The serpent, however. kept its
distance all the way. neither gaining MOI
losing in its pursuit of the schooner
When the gray of the morning came and
the Bath boy could see more plainly, he
discovered that a rope from the schooner
had. in some way. beome entangled in