Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-16
Maine Gossip
To the Hillside.

elizabeth Powers Merrill)
When the flowers come to the hillside
My heart will be filed with pain
Remembering the days that were, dear,
, That never can come again.
When you and / in the sunshine,
! (Your clinging hand in mine)
Wandered among the violets,
Violets with dew ashine.
When the flowers come to the hillside
shall think of you. older grown,
Running and leaping and laughing.
Your hair by the spring winds blown:
And how the first flowers OF springtime
You always brought to me
With your eyes aglow with wonder
At magic of earth and sea.
when the flowers come to the hillside.
l shall see you, grown a man,
Keeping the heart of your childhood
AS only good man can.
With mind that knew all the wild ways
or squirrel and bird and bee.
The names Of the trees of the forests,
The life Of all you could see!
When the flowers come to the hillside
All, you are cold and still;
And my heart Is cold and helpless
AS kneel by your grave on the hill
And l would give all / have, dear,
To look just once in your eyes
But Memory is all that is left me
On this side of Paradise!
When the flowers come to the hillside
In a spring that is to be
/ shall wear a beautiful garment
Woven by God for me,
And when l gaze in your eyes, dear,
Earth's days will come back again,
When the flowers come to the hillside
shall forget my pain.
Past Department Commander Eph-
rain Wight Of Reading, Mass, who
was instantly killed Monday by a
train at Reading. was a native of
Maine, having been born IS years ago
In Giiead, but having for the past so
years lived in Reading. He was a
Civil War veteran. serving two years
and witnessing the surrender of Lee
Two daughters and two sons survive.
Fitting honors will be conferred up
on Will c. Macfarlane, municipal or
ganist of Portland, at Bates college on
June g. He will then be awarded the
degree OF bachelor Of arts. says the
Portland Press. What Mr.. Macfar-
lane has done for the musicians Of
Portland as well as for the whole
State, to say nothing of what he has
done for the music lovers. is too we'll
known to require extended mention.
1t is gratifying to his friends-and
they are legion-to know that Bates
college has seen fit to honor him with
degree.
1t has been found that the charges
that Capt. Charles E. Demmons and
his mate, Oliver Houston, both Of
Rockland, deliberately run down with
a power boat a canoe, resulting in
the death OF one Of the occupants at
Bridgeport, Ct, are absolutely false
and the men were at once set at lib
erty az soon as the coroner had COM
pleted his investigation. He decided
and reported that Capt. Demmons and
his mate did all in the power of two
competent and sober men to do and
that tho death Of Mr.. Bartlett was
purely accidental. A friend Of the
men writes to the Courier-Gazette:
This disposes completely Of the
charges made in certain daily news
papers that Capt. Demmons and his
mate deliberately ran down the canoe
containing Mr.. Bartlett and Mr.. Pull
lon. These unfounded charges have
done Capt. Demmons and Mate Hous-
ton great. and perhaps irreparable,
injustice and am sure you will well
como the opportunity Of informing the
public Of their innocence and will en-
deavor so far as possible, to remove
the false impression that was gained
from the earlier reports of the case,
and to restore the good name of the
two Rockiand men who have been so
cruelty misrepresented by certain
daily Newspapers"
The Watts block, the town buildings
OF Thomaston, which were destroyed
in the recent fire, were insured and
the deed Of gift when the buildings
were presented to the town by the late
Capt. Samuel Watts, provided that
such insurance money shall be used
In rebuilding. A special town meeting
will be held in the near future to ar
range for building a set Of town build
ings which win be a credit to the
place. The rebuilding of the Knox
house. Thomaston's only hotel, is not
30 well assured and private enterprise
will have to care for the travelling pub
lie or the travelling public will have
to skip the town.
The Boston Post says: "Silas W.