Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-18
Maine Gossip
Once and Now.

| Once and Now.
When lived in the village of youth
| There were lilies in all the orchards,
| Flowers in the orange gardens
| For brides to wear in their hair:
| II was always sunshine and summer
| Roses at every lattice,
| Dreams in the eyes of maidens.
| Love in the eyes of men.
| When | lived in the village of youth
| The doors, all the doors stood open;
| We went in and out of them laughing,
| Laughing and calling each other
| To show each other our fairingS
| The new shawl. the new comb. the new
fan,
| The new rose, the new lover
| Now | live in the town of age
| Where are no orchards. no gardens.
| Here, too. all the doors stand open
/ But no one goes in or goes out
| we SIT alone by the hearthstone
| Where memories lie like ashes
| Upon hearth that is cold
| Ana they from. the village of youth
| Kun by our doorstepS laughing,
| Calling, to show each other
The new shawl. the new comb, the new
The new rose, the new lover.
| Once we had all these things
We kept them all from the old people.
| And now the young people have them
| And will not show them to us
| 10 us who are old and have nothing
| But the white still heaped up ashes
| On the hearth where the fire went
| A very long time ago.
From the Portuguese, by r; Nesbt
William Mains. aged 10 of Phipps-
burg had narrow escape from
drowning Wednesday in the Kennebec
near Bath and was saved only by the
prompt work of j. Herbert Snipe, who
lives near Spinney's Mills on the Ar
| rowsic shore. Young Mains left
Phippshurg Center Wednesday morn
ing in sailboat and sudden gust of
| wind overturned the boat. He man.
| aged to reach the boat and cling to the
bottom. shouting Justify all the while
| for help.
| dale had a needle removed from her
| hand few days ago that had been
| embodied in the flesh for II years.
| Miss Richardson was about ~ years of
| age VIXEN the needle was broken off
| in the hand but at that time it was
| supposed that all of it had been taken
| out. She had not felt the needle for a
| number of years until recently
|
| The controlling interest in the Ma
| chias Lumber co. was sold Thursday
at Bangor at public auction. The pur-
| chaser was Wilson D. Wing of Bangor.
| who bid 1886 per share for 1217 shares
of the stock of the corporation, paying
| in all $237.522. The controlling interest
| in the stock was held by the Merrill
| Trust Co. as trustee and has been the
| subject recently of considerable liti-
| CATION.
AlnIon Cyr aged IA and Eddie ST.
| Peter, a 1o-year- boy had a narrow
| escape from death at Orono a few
| mornings ago. They were sliding on
| the steep and icy lower Basin Mills
| road and crashing through a board
rail of a foot bridge dropped seven or
eight feet to the ice below. The Cyr
| boy sustained compound fracture of
one leg, while the st. Peter boy frac-
J tured one bone of the leg.
| profitable debate was held by the
| Bangor Poultry and Pet Stock Associa-
| ton at it's last meeting upon the sub
| ject. Resolved, That the Present Mag
| ntude of the Poultry Business is Due
| More to the Influence of the Fancier
| than to that of the Utility Man" The
| Judges awarded the debate to the af-
| frmati,e on points. A committee was
| appointed TO investigate the matter Of
| cooperative products.
| When the White Star Dominion liner
| Canada sailed from Portland this week
/ she had among h9r passengers four
aliens. who have been brought from
| the western part of the country, to be
deported. All of them had been living
in this country for some time. or
them Paul Twohey and Philip Galode
have been judged insane, John Dillon
was declared to have come into the
country without suitable inspection
and Elias Jabour was liable to become
public charge.
Peaks Island, Portland, is having
winter boom. Double the people are
staying there that We're last winter
| and big crowds go back and forth to
| the city on the ferryboat Swampscott.
| Indications are that the coming sum-
| mer season will be the biggest on rec
| ord. There is already a demand for
lots and cottages and the summer Wis
itors will probably begin to go down
soon after the snow is off the ground.
| Two electric ears collided at Calais
one day last week. Fortunately no.
body was injured and the cars were
| pulled apart With only n little paint
and vanished scratched off each of
| them.
| Miss Sarah Il. Garfield. who was
found dead in bed last Friday at Lew
Nearly $500 in crisp new bills was