Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-06
Maine Gossip


In Lilac Time.
Through orchards of old apple trees
That spring makes musical with bees;
BY garden ways of vines and flowers,
Where twittering sweet. the bird box
towers
And swallows sun their plumes--
The path leads winding To the gate,
Hung with its rusty chain and weight,
That opens on lilac walk
Where dreams of love and memories talk,
Born of the dim perfumes.
The old house stands with porches wide
And locust trees on either side
Its windows, kindly as tine eyes.
OF friendship. smiling a the skies,
Again he meets her. brown of hair,
Beside its steps May lilies lift
Bell'd sprays of snow in drift on drift,
And in the door. lily, too.
Again she stands, the one he knew
In days that are no more.
Again he meets her, brown of hair,
Among the clustered lilacs there,
The sun is set: the blue dusk falls;
A nesting bird another calls
\ star leaps in the sky.
Again he breathes the lilac scent
And rose again her head is bent,
And OH again, beside the gate.
To see the round moon rise they wait,
Before they kiss good-bv
Long years have passed; the times, since
Have changed-and customs. too. and
But She has never. changed to him.
Nor has that house, SO old aud dim,
Where once they said good-bY
That place, which spring keeps ever fair
Through memories of her face and hair
Unchanged. like some immortal rin1e.
Where evefmore It's lilac time,
And love can never die,
Gardeners city marshal announces
that the anti-spitting law is to be en-
forced.
The report Of the Maine state prison
advocates a change from the method
OF feeding prisoners in the cells TO a
common dining room. A new. eommo-
dius, well-lighted and ventilated room
fer this purpose is urgently requested
5v tie, inspectors.
The lobster ilaunch, sheldrake. re-
ports an unusually busy season. hay
ing distributed about e5oo large lob
sfers along the Maine coast Seed
Holsters and lobster frs make UP the
most of her dispensatiea. Petit Man
an. Winter Harbor and vicinity We're
the sections favored last Week.
Fairfield correspondent SAYS: Things
are beginning To boom AT shawmut ard
it is busy place once more. About
i've years ago two saw mills were run
ming, day and night. but since then
there has not heen much going ON and
Il number of business places either
closed up or went out Of business. Now
al the old places are getting ready
once more for business. The stores
have been adding hundreds of dollars
worth of merchandise to their stock
and a new barber shop has opened up
The Italian bosses have arrived and
they are having shaeks constructed
that will take care of about three huns
Ired of their country fhe old saw
nil has been torn down and the men
are at work tearing down The pulp
mil. A steam derrick is being used in
removing the machinery and other
things. The J. l.. Parkin & Son and
the II. X. Purinton companies are hay
ing an Office constructed which will al
50 be used for a Stock room. II is
thirty feet long and Is located between
the Office of the Sfawmut Manufacrur-
ing Co. and the old barn where the
mill horses used TO be kept About 81
men are now at work and it is expect
ed that by the first of next week this
amount viii be more than doubled