Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-26
Maine Gossip
Sweet CyriIIa

Sweet CyriIIa
(By Elizabeth Powers MERRILL
Sweet Cyrilla, with this springtime
Come the springs of long ago,
Bringing rosemary and sweet thyme
From those gardens we did know.
Bringing apple bloom and pansy,
Meadows with the daisies white,
Just the same spring that we greeted.
Shining morn and dusky night
Sweet Cyrilla, thee still see
Through the crystal glass of years.
Still thy blue eyes look up to me,
Gay with laughter-wet with tears.
Float thy curls of brown toward me
AS the West wind softly blows
And kiss thy lips. all redder!
Than the reddest rose!
Sweet Cyrilla wrinkled am L
You have never older grown!
Fair are you though months and years
fly,
Fair as in those days long flown!
Had you lived. o sweet Cyrilla,
Would your beauty have been lost?
Would times heart have changed you,
AS you paid to life, LIES cost?
Sweet Cyrilla sleep in beauty!
Happy those who miss lifes pain!
All it's turmoil. struggle, duty,
Would have touched you with their stain!
Gay are you and young and lovely
Through my heart the long years creep;
But the springtime brings you nearer
In our hearts, the dead we keep.
The U. S. A. uniform, every gar
ment Of it, in the eyes of the regu-
lars, is held as sacred as the flag al
most which caused a regular officer
to remark that the soldier who al
lowed woman to walk down
Brunswick street with his overcoat
on, deserved to be given six months
in the guard house, says the Bath
Times The militiaman was probably
merry and thoughtless in this esca-
pade, which might be overlooked in
time Of peace but is serious in time of
| war.
| A smooth appearing stranger, giving
the name of F. G. Howe, has victim
lied a number of Brunswick people
| during the past week. He claimed to
have been delegated by Topsham
| grange to secure advertisements to be
placed on a board to be erected by the
! grange at the hall in Topsham. Sew
| eral advertisements We're secured and
the money for the same paid to the
man, who has since disappeared.
Albion l.. Buck Of Brown, Buck Co.
is raising a pig in the rear Of James
Favor's harness store, reports the
| Norway Advertiser Albion was reared
on a farm, so has some inside informa-
ton on the subject. His original pork
! y, o,i,, dc schn no ted
with due respect and given thoughtful
| consideration. Undoubtedly the key to
! his system is Aqueous protection"
During the rain Wednesday he
dropped all business cares, rushed
! home and sneaked out the best family
umbrella. This was spread over the
| pen so the little porker's bristles
wouldn't swell; during the shower and
retard the growth of valuable tissue.
Work at the Douglass copper mine in
Bluehill progressing rapidly. The shafts
are now nearly clear of water. The lat
est modern machinery will be installed,
including a 10-horse power double tube
| compressor of 1000 cubic feet capacity for
operating the air drill. The Lake fiota-
ton process will be employed for re-
claiming the tailings. This is a new in
vention and has been successfully used
in the West. A boarding house to oc-
commodate 80 men is in the course Of con-
struction 1t will be equipped with show
err baths, steam heat and electric lights.
Work on the general administration
building and houses for the superintend-
ent and foremen will begin soon. The
motive power for the mill will be cleo
tricity, steam being used for the hoisting
engines only The capacity will be about
go tons Of ore a day.
The Stroller tells a particularly good
one in the Portland Express about a
teacher and a bright history pupil. 1t
Was back in the days when dates md
facts we're fixed by means Of SUCH as the
following: I'm fourteen hundred and
ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean
blue" The star pupil, to the teachers
amazement and horror, had stated that
America was discovered in 1893 and to
assist the bright one to recover asked ii
the little verse had been forgotten. The
pupil said no and to the still further
amazement and horror Of the teacher,
slowly and distinctly recited: I'm four
teen hundred and ninety-three Columbus
sailed the bright blue sea-"
A recent meeting held at Round
Pond was largely attended by repre-
sentative people from that vicinity
many from Bristol participating and
the women being as prominent as the
men in the exercises.
The proposition is to get Govern
ment contract to build one or more
ships in one or more of the yards at
Round Pond. Investigation has shown
that good crew Of skilled men
can be obtained for this purpose
and Round Pond has been, in the
past, a shipbuilding center. The
younger generation do not realize this
There has been no less than forty
(40) sail vessels built at Round Pond.
Col. Kinds has built nineteen Q9) OF
which the following is list of their
| names.