Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-26
Maine Gossip
A Hundred Years to Come.

Who'll press for gold this crowded street
A hundred years to come?
Who'll tread yon church with Wiling
feet,
hundred years to come?
Pale, trembling age, and fiery youth.
And childhood with its brow OF truth
The rich; the poor: on land and sea,
Where will the mighty millions be
| A hundred years to come?
We all within our graves shall sleep,
A hundred years to come.
No living soul for us will weep,
A hundred years to come,
But other men our land Will uiL
And other men our streets Will MI,
And other birds will sing as gay,
AS bright the sunshine as today,
A hundred years to come.
Is not this old poem "A Hundred Years
| to Come" the one wanted? In news
paper dated Feb. 9, 1929, the poem was
| found, but the authors name was not
given. In a newspaper dated NOV. 40,
| 1868. It. NJ. Snowden was gwen as 'he
author.
Mrs. Holman Day Of this city re-
ceived yesterday a Christmas gift OF
which she is very proud. 1t consisted
of an especially printed and bound
edition of Mr.. Days works that nave
been printed for her by Harper q
Bros. of New York. There are -FOUR
volumes in all, bound in green halr
morocco, of a rich and peautlful de-
sign. Accompanying the gift was
letter from Ripley Hitchcock, the lit
erary critic of the Harpers, rendering
the gift in behalf of himself and the
firm and expressing their high appre-
citation of Mr.. Day personally and as
an author. The letter was exceeding
Nv complimentary to the Portland au-
thor and naturally both the letter
and the volumes are greatly cherished
by Mrs. Day.-Portland Press, Dec "a.
The new Mt. Zircon reservoir of the
Rumford & Mexico Water District
seems to be giving good satisfaction
judging by the fiattering notice given
by last weeks oxford County Demo-
crat. Some people seem to nave peen
skeptical as to the ability of the new
source of supply to furnish the ne
cessary water, but the report says
that not only enough is being
found but that a surplus Of about
10000 gallons day Is being
stored in the reservoir. Tne
water now stands 271a feet in the
reservoir, gain OF S " feet since the
water was turned on for public use
last November. The average daily
flow of the Mt. Zircon stream Is now
about 100000 gallons. The quality OF
the water is said to be all that could
be asked.
The two big clam factories at East
mort are now doing a rushing business.
with scores of diggers at work wher-
ever the clam is to be found, digging
them for the boatmen for IL per par
rel. The factories will run until
March unless the supply OF CLAIMS
should give out, which does not yet
worry the packers.
How much better for Patrick GearS
II would have been had he remem-
bered that old saying about keeping
your shoes tied up and your nose
clean" You see, Pat lost shoe Whiie
on an early Wednesday morning eau
at a Portland drug store and by tiis''
was located and arrested by the ponce
who also allege that they found MS
cap along with the shoe.
About 5000 barrels Of Maine apples
were put aboard the steamer man
chester Miller, which called in AT
Portland Wednesday en- route from
pbiladelnhia to Manchester. Eng,
stopping but a few hours. What d
pitv so MANY farmers lost courage ana
failed to gather their apple crops VITA
the fruit bringing good prices no"
both here and in England.
December %, 1864--It was reported
that the exchange of prisoners wnich
had been going on for some time nav
ing been completed for the present
the bombardment of Charleston >. u,
-,,o,,,a ba resumed. General
Howard with two army corps was re-
ported moving down the oseechee
river to open communication with Gen.
Foster.
The hundreds Of friends OF Col.
frederick H. Parkhurst or Bangor
will extend sympathy in his great loss
nv the death Of his mother, Mrs. susan
Haskell wife of the late Jonathan I.
parkhurst. which occurred last SUNDAY
morning at the Parkhurst residence
No. 44s Hammond street, Bangor Her
age was rs years. Beside the son. TWO
daughters Mrs. A. B. Noyes OF Bangor
and Mrs. Harold E. Benedict OF All
ington, N. j., and a brother, cyrus "
Haskell Of Washington. d. C., sur
vive. The funeral was held at r. M
Tuesday at the residence.
The smelt fishing industry, which
assumes large proportions at this sea-
san in Arrowsic section, is beginning
to boom. Shipments sent this week to
New York brought % cents per pound
The fish are larger than usual, some
of them being las large as an aie-
wiye," as one fisherman expressed IT,
More camps are daily being taken 10
the fishing grounds, which, when the
season Is at it's height, presents
scene similar to a soldiers winter
camp.
The following sporting. fishing, hunt-