The Republican journal., 1897-05-27
A Noble Record.


With the mental vision l see a tall,
noble looking man as he stood in the
choir of a Dixmont church on a beautiful
Sunday morning, in the ''long ago. BY
his side stood his youthful bride; they
both belonged to families who were
musically inclined. A short time previ,
Gus, Mr.. David York and Miss Sarah
Ninal were united in marriage. MI
York was an intelligent, upright man,
and quite a thrifty farmer. His wife WIS
a mild, pleasant woman, who carried sun
shine wherever she went. As the wheels
of time rolled round, a son and daughter
gladdened their hearts. The son was
rather delicate and gave but little promise
of what he would be in after years, until
he was fourteen years of age: after that
time he took great interest in books and
attended all the high schools that he
could, and made rapid progress in his
studies. He taught not only district
schools, but high schools also.
He read law in Bangor, and was adj
mitted to the bar and opened an office in
the city. Judge Appleton advised him to
go West, where lawyers were not as plenti-
full as in Maine. When about twenty six
years of age he went West and practiced
law in Seattle, Washington State. 1t was
not long before he was judge of Probate.
He soon made the acquaintance of a
clergyman's family and married the eld-
est daughter, who was very refined
Christian woman, member of Presby-
terrain church. After remaining there
four or five years, he settled in California,
where he has been very successful. He
was appointed by the Governor to a
vacancy on the supreme bench; when the
term expired he was appointed. His
wife is now an invalid. They have son
and daughter who have reached mature
years. The son is reading law. After an
absence Of twelve years, Judge y ork came
to Maine to visit at his early home. His
mother had passed to the golden shore.
He told his father that while absent, he
had not drank a glass Of liquor, or used
had not stained his lips. A noble record,
truly. He is now fifty years Of age, and a
very fine looking man. His father still
survives and has already reached the four
score limit of human life. His sister mar
ried a Mr.. Mudgett of Dixmont, a well-to
do farmer. They reside on the old
ed the first trees, hundred years
ago. Mr.. Mudgett's mother has home
in his family, and his wife's father
resides there also-two aged people who
are looked after with loving care, no
doubt. The man who was murdered the
past season on California ranch was Mr..
Mudgett's only brother How hard it
was for the mother, when the sad news
reached her that her youngest born had
met his death at the hands of an assassin
in that far off land, away from all his
kindred. The death angel came for two
of the three daughters sometime ago.
While Judge York was visiting at his
early home, he wrote the following stanzas
THE SPRING IN THE HILLSIDE OF DIxMoNT.
80 spring in the hillside of Dixmont, Maine ,
Crystal spring III the hillside, come again
From my home in the west; the r,tar, west
l stoop again, again to drink at thlrstS be-
hest.
But | start, for l see you rehectI stare
AT an Old old face. at gray. hair
When | drank of this spring in the long ago
saw face with its youth all aglow
hopeful face, face lively with joy
The spring said, sold man, you came then
boy,
And years have flown with pleasure, pain,
Since you drank at this spring in Dixmont
Maine,
But spring in the hillside, you are the same,
Your brooklet sings the same refrain
You are as youthful as when | first
Knelt beside you to quench my thirst.
"Ah, said the spring, you judge of life
By the changes you see, by mutations of
strife:
Your soul is as young as when first you came
And drank at this spring in Dixmont,
Maine!'
"My YOUTH" said the spring is youth of
the world
: Into chaos sometime all earth will be hurled
And then, as spring, I'll no longer remain
To flow from the hillside in Dixmont, Maine !.
But that spirit of yours from all matter then
flee,
Undimmed by it's age in triumph shall be;
And if it shall search again and again,
1t will find neither spring nor Dixmont,
Maine"
JULIA G. MUDGETT
Stockton Springs.
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