Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-21
Maine Gossip
The Road to Yesterday.

We dreamed alone my heart and J..
OF summers lost and vanished springs;
little wind went singing by,
With breath of roses on its wings:
Come outi" he beckoned. come away,
l know the road to Yesterday
We ran together down the way,
\ pleasant path of sun and shade.
We found the homestead, old and gray,
The garden where the children played
Before their feet had learned to stray
Beyond the realm of Yesterday
The roses bossomed, white and red;
The plum trees dropped their fragrant
snow
A joyous bird sang overhead
The very song of long ago;
And sunbeams, through the open door,
Wove webs of gold along the floor.
But from the window one should look
With tender longing in her face
And one. above a holy book
Sit musing by TIE fireside place
Sweet soulsl that changed to food divine
Life's bitter bread, and meager wine.
And all the empty rooms should fill
With children's voices clear and sweet;
And on the silent starways still
Sound the light tread of ehildren's
20 heart" ! sighed. what need to stay?
There Is no road to Yesterday
Emily Huntington Miller.
ne ldlI vi TIE htHueDCS
County Agricultural Society will be
held at Augusta, on the 16, II, and Is
of September, of this year. and not in
Readfield as has been announced.
Miss Louise Haskell, formerly of
this city, was one of the successful
candidates who passed the examina-
ton recently held in London, before
the Incorporated Society of Trained
Mausseus. There were 300 candidates
and she was second on the list who
passed with distinction. Miss Haskell
passed her childhood in this city,
Bath Times.
Deacon Norwood, who directs the
dsetinies of the Biddeford Journal, de-
clares that the man who sends his only
shirt To the laundry and gets back
corset cover has some idea how our
Obadiah feels after having neglected
his own senatorial fences to help his
friend Wilson and then getting an in
vitation to a barmecides feast as the
reward for his disinterestedness.
nC bidutiolu iktNpiu tiets
there may be two Pollys but only one
Hiram-the latter schooner built in
Biddeford originally and visitor
there this week with cargo of lum-
Der. The Express adds that, if the
Polly be proved an imposter, it looks
as if the laurels for the oldest schoon-
er on the Atlantic coast may yet fall
to the Hiram.
The Biddeford journal appears f.
| nally to have laid the lie about that
city's druggist who so mysteriously
disappeared several months ago. SAYS
the Journal:
"A representative of the Biddeford
Journal has returned from northern New
Hampshire, where he made thorough
Investigation of the report that the mis-
sing Biddeford druggist, Wallace j.. Per-
! cival, had worked in a lumber camp in
that region during the winter of 1928.
The journal is now in "A position to say
positively that there is absolutely no
. basis for the report. The incident which
. gave rise to the rumor occurred year
lago last winter, months before Percival
| disappeared, and the story i'm its passage
from the source of origin to the Journal
l had grown from conjecture to alleged
fact. There is no particle of evidence
to show that the missing man was ever
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