Milford chronicle., 1914-09-25
RECOLLECTIONS and
"REMINISCENCES BY KAYSIDE

Our readers will be enlightened as tC
our whereabouts when they have read
this 'Recollections and Reminiscence.
by the Mayside. ~ Who Can -hel5 6ult
mediate n Tie scenes of his youthful
DAYS Who can help but call up fond
recon- ectious of early days, particularly
whti one has the time to visit the terri
tory where these scenes were enacted.
20 sweet are the scenes of my boyhOods sunny
That bespangIe the gay valley DER.
And dear are the forms seen through memorys
fond tears
That have lived in the blest days Of yore
But sweeter, fairer, yes dearer far than these.
Whose charm when others all fair,
lie my blue-eyed bonny. bonny El0ises
The belle Of the Mohawk Vale"
We anticipate many a thing that never
materialize; we realize many things. that
in our most lucid day dreams, we never
anticipated; and SO 1t is, and ever will
be, unu the end
The distance from Milton to Frederica
by the serpentinc aud sinuous route of
public utilities is thirty-6ve miles. The
distance between the same places. as the
crow flies, is twenty miles, and by the
latest improved travelling modus oper-
audi, the distance is made in one hour,
sane travelling. This is a feature in life
that, twenty years ago, we did not anti
cipate; and 1t really makes Milton and
Frederica only sixty minutes apart This
would not have been believed years ago.
yet 1t is realistic to-day.
With many people the fear of becom-
ing old Is their great bugabOo. 1t is an
adage: All persons desire to live long,
but none wish to grow old. " We noticed
en- route, aged people on the train, or
people just beyond three score, trying to
look young, or get about sprightly; but,
in most cases, tired nature refused to be
reduced into the sprightliuess of by
gone age and the realization forced it.
self upon them, they were no longer
young. We see this action everywhere;
sud why some people take such a mel
ancholy view of advancing life is a my
stery that We cannot comprehend Rather
should we rejoice that the goal becomes
nearer with each revolution of the years
We are in Frederica again. We pro-
pose to say nothing of the towns im-
provements at this time, leaving such
communication for another issue. and
contenting ourselves at present with a
few generalizations as to people, populace
and posterity. There are but few of the
"old heads" Of fifty years ago remaining
in Frederica. Many of them have long
since taken up their last residence in Old
Barratts' Chapel Churchyard far away
from the gossip of the land, and where
they are forever immune from the SLAM /
derers' tongues of calumny seekers
Others have taken the places Of the ones
gone beyond, aud the middle-aged men
OF to-day, with a few of the younger ones, q
are the business men OF Frederica. And
they are on the down grade; their hair is
becoming silvered or whitened as the
irosts Of three score, or three score and
zen can only whiten it. Age is coming
N them apace; yet many Of them are
oily and convival, enjoying at their
,ase the days as they pass; acting, per-
iaps, on the tremendous possibility of
'oming this way no more they will get
VI the enjoyment they can while here.
The younger generation we scarcely
now. They have come up long since
re were an inhabitant Of the town, and .
re now registering their names in the I
arious voeabulasies Of learning; the arts !
nd the sciences.