Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-01-31
HOME COMING

Like strong men newly risen
Oh, the South is soft and merry, but
she touches lighter strings
Than the fury of the battle when the
North wind pipes and sings.
AS / neared home, as l neared home.
My heart was like a lovers.
heard across the windy gloam
The harsh voice of the plovers.
Oh, the South is wide and kindly, but
it's heart is warm and bright,
But the North born needs the welcome
of IA rough and windy night.
AS ! rode in as l rode in
The wind royed wide of prison.
] was a free man, near of kin
TO strong winds newly risen.
Oh. the South is soft and merry, and
the South is good to see,
But the stubborn lands and thrifty are
the garden soil for me.
-HALLIWELL SUTCLIFFE in West
minister Gazette.
Dear NJ. b. Friends:
1t is "a rough and windy night"
in which | am gathering material to-
gether for the next M. B. column,
and that is why | am making use OF
the poem above, that l just read in a
late paper l wonder if these fierce
north winds are not good for us and
make our minds strong to Withstand
any influence from them which would
have tendency to depress one.
They are too bracing to be depress-
ing, even If we keep under shelter.
The jewellers in temperate zones.
with the variety of temperature
which they experience in the course
of year, are accredited with being
the most efficient. intelligent. and
active people in the world. Do the
strong north winds blow the fog and
the cobwebs from their brains, so
stronger physique, a keener con-
ception of ideals worthy of being
wrought into actual life than those in
warmer and colder chimes?
That must have been telephone
message l just heard? Did some one
of you ask Haven't you any snow
drifts around Mountain View"
Sure, we have. Why it has BECOME a
great rivalry as to who can claim the
title to the deepest drift! l felt
quite self-satisHed when l could an
nounce to my friends, by telephone,
that we had drift back of the house.
and within three or four feet of it,
fifteen feet high. Uncle Madge said
it was.
A personal letter contains so many
nice things l am sure Fl. H. will be
willing for me to share some OF them
with the others:
Funny isn't it, how much we care
for folks we know. yet seldom find the
long year through. the time to tell
them so: Till Christmas with it's
magic sway turns life into a holiday,
and lifts us on it's tide of cheer. to
greet the ones we hold most dear?"
This was the greeting with a gift
from Miss Clio Chilcott. daughter of a
former editor of The American, and
seems to put the whole blessed season
into expression. When l automobile
through Bluehin, l always think, some
where here lives Aunt Madge.'
think it is a very interesting way to
know people from their written words,
and guess at their personality. Aunt
Maria" was just as l imagined she
would be--a kindly motherly, we'll
poised gentlewoman,' of whom every
body is fond who comes in touch with
her,
1t certainly is a task to keep my
plants from freezing these days, but
every morning | rejoice in going the
rounds. The bulbs are not up so high
but l can cover them over with wraps
and leave in the kitchen when there is
neither coal nor furnace fire. Some
day very soon they, too, will have to
be moved at night.
l found the following record of a
school meeting among some old
papers in my possession, and it may
Column:
Bluehill. March 6, 1874.
District No. 4 met agreeable to
notice. Agent acted as moderat tor.
District acted on the following arti-
cles
l. Made choice of Franklin Wood
for clerk.
2. Voted that Catherine II. Wood
have the first offer of the summer
school.
3. Voted Maria A. Pillsbury have
the second offer.
4. Voted to expend one-third of the
money of said district in summer
school.
5. Voted the summer school com
mence the middle of May.
6. Voted the mistress board round.
7. Voted William Norton have thu
first offer of the winter school.
g. Voted to give not over sixteeI
dollars per month
g. Voted the board of the master b.
set up at auction and knocked off t.
the lowest bidder. Franklin Woo
board the master for $112k per week
10, Voted the winter school com
mence the first of November.
H. Voted the wood be set up a
auction aud knocked off to lowest bid
der John Wood furnish the wood fol
three dollars and fifty cents to be pu
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