Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-02
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In a Thousand Years
elizabeth Powers Merrill

tEllZaDetn POWERS Merrill
Perchance in q thousand years from to-
day
We shall meet, this you and I,
Shall meet on that far off radiant shore,
Where, men say. we never die.
And over against the mountains Of blue
And down by the golden sea-
We shall talk of days when l first knew
OF days when you first knew me
perchance in a thousand years from to-
day,
Out of the garden OF God,
We shall pluck the flowers that grew
upon earth
With scent of earth's air and sod
We shall cry "ah, yes. | remember That!
And do you remember This?'
And over our hearts will come flowing
back
The past days of pain and bliss.
All. yes, in thousand years from today
We shall all know more of life
Know more of those things which deter
mine fate
Have less of life's storms and strife
And over against the mountains of blue
Down by the beautiful sea,
We shall hold in our hearts the days that
were
And dream of the days to be!
The recent disappearance of Charles
W Robinson of Corinna and his sub
sequent location while searching for
gold in the Dixmont hills brings out
the fact that traditions from the DAYS
Of 1872 brought about his theory that
sold is buried somewhere in the Dix
mont hills.
One Of these stories says that dur
ing that war the sailors in Penobscot
bay became afraid that their gold
was to be captured by the English
ships, and so started across to Au-
eusta with it. The old road led across
the top Of Signal mountain of the
DiXmont hills but now from long dis
use it has grown to grass and shrubs
According to the legend, when the
sailors had Travelled to these hills the
load of gold became so heavy that
they decided to bury it there
They did SO and marked a ledge
near by the spot to aid them in re-
covering 1t later. 1t is this cross on
the ledge that has led Robinson to
make three trips to these hills. the
last one causing so much anxiety to
his family and friends.
A very pleasant change in the order
OF proceedings was made at the clos
Ing session CT the October term of
the supreme judicial court OF South
FIi.> when the Oxford Bar assembled
IN a body and through their prec!-
dent. Hon. John P. Swasey, expressed
to the, court their appreciation Of
him as man and a judge who with
dignity, yet with due consideration
for all concerned handled the judicial
business with
Justice Cornish was taken wholly bv
surprise and at first unable to express
himself. as he remarked never before
in his experience had such a thing
happened, it was an unusual honor.
He expressed 1ttingly his appreciation
of the tribute given by the bar and
was pleased because Of the cordial
mutual relations existing between the
| Oxford Bar and the bench.-Norway
Advertiser.
Last week Mrs. George H. Perry Of
Arrowsic in two days picked AZ quarts
Of blackberries.
! Word has been received of the
death OF Colonel c. F. Jackson Of
| Rockville. Conn. Colonel Jackson was
born in Minot. He was married in
1850 to Jessie X. Anthony. a daughter
of Richard Anthony of Rhode Island
| and served in the Civil war. He was
an uncle Of DR.. w. A Anthony Of Lew
| iston.
An epidemic Of diphtheria has closed
the Corinna schools.
Miss Lillian e. Parsons. for Is years
a Lewiston public school teacher. died
at the Central Maine General hospital
at Lewiston Tuesday of this week.
She taught as usual on Wednesday Of
last week. but on Thursday went to
the hospital for an operation.