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Atlantic Telegraph (Newspaper) - August 28, 1878, Atlantic, Iowa Atlantic published Evert weonbsd1t editor us proprietor at the steal Prid Tini oses 1kbxs of one copy one x one copy six 1 u one copy three 5h the Atlantic volume Cass August number 30 printing House Job printing neatly and cheaply have two recently do Woik at tvs Low orders by promptly business will attend traits i of inv Patt Ntuli Lul Jusimi and Ito Jei nil having had experience in sunk Kim and a jute ii will attend to rails in any Jarl of or i the Ivil motion attorneys i Autmy at and notary in hit Anil ail joining flue in kill Orff Louin if the Drax i attorneys at Ollivi in Sharps Iii Money to loan at Tho lowest Kcal Cuta bought and Clistis attorneys at will in the Conru of Cass and adjoining also in the supreme Ollivi 4 Tom to North of court East fide Chestnut justices of the Justice or tic of face Over Conrads All collections entrusted to me will re civic prompt made it two Side by Side Rose the two Errata alar on uie travellers Lelit blast with Trio Dutt of solemnly still and and yet they Are Nachel in a d inc but a River a Laws Between and Uio Namo unit Yot yet tic child May Din at Midnight on i in iuuthtr9 Molnr so Elise come the two great with Only the a Tver Between Ami the pros in one is but tic grass in the other la the Hills with uncovered the do triples while Ever the flowing water is a shunt Thror hallowed and out on the Galaty the sails in tic Gulden Bloom a Kim to me but moving so Taguwa it the from the hut and the irom Early till they Rich and poor asking alms at thy Beautiful and never had lire a Guidon so Welcome to All i in the land where the living arc As Pic land where Uio dead Uia o silent City or the retune on the Way to the City overhead the gleam or thy Marble milestones tells the distance we Are from the dead full or but a City full or but a City full or strangers who know not even that their Lecup Lien there Sellu they know not the Tomb Flora the Uliey dream not they Ever have died god be they never will know 1c till they live on the other Side Frum the Ducois that death shut coldly on the race or their last loin1 wow they come to thy glides for shelter Naa nowhere to s wires Yon pop n woman herself on Ono kicking Tio wildly out behind a till skill icily swooping up in her butt no r dont to Aln mod int Poinier to have a is uncut to n Inch g a oses in in co Teeth extracted with Little or no pain Llumi curium int a Iii or Cus Liin a a proved twelve year null rills oxide for extracting its 7 1s land Isaac lamp w heal estate Anil tax Pavina Vii if will give Ial attention to of women and Ottine Corner of Aud Chest nut Atlantic a vhf dec Ifcic and of fice in special a Tver Sun cry and All chronic hka1way and office on month of 4ih 7lf attend promptly to ail Cain Day or office it Iasi Ducc in Victora Caas l0ai Occidental Atlantic Liis House is new Anil All by Sample rooms Carriage Harding Carriage Unicy and made to and Leavy always on All repairing pro reply at tended shop first door South of Needles 49 w mid Council Plain and fancy All work warranted to Sivo orders left at the Post Vilice will receive prompt alien v Jacobi auctioneer in doll the English and Ger Man entire satisfaction wherever lie has charges reason for further particulars address him at Wiota Sii Miles Southeast of Justn map Hebrox attorneys at red prompt attention Given to Smith Mapu Brisos Blanks Blanks the other Legal be round on Sale at the Telegraph steam printing warranty quitclaim Ken estate chattel Bonert Lor Powers of release no original of teachers Gamut be notice of District township Notke of Lioard of directors receipt Lor Load Ordinary notes suit Aliv notes humid in of 100 or 50 each notes if chips Lor Tiivi Islip Larder books for Amriet draft Hooks Lor tankers or notices of Piu Trai Lor alive we have other in All ii out fifty All kinds of Blanks made to order on Short notice and at Low orders Liy mail full aril Lake 2tf to Tuo Lin runs Licon Rudrud of that ten Ltd Ivy fimple u unix Ionia to Tkv known to his i mow the Means of to nil Ului Diiro will Wenj a copy of Tiu Wilu the Dir Clinnis for preparing and the Liry ill film fail Tab curb air Hiu nit sorption Wil ase and Druks 194 menu new t 4u school 1 speaking of Tho presidents Rogers bought them of a livery stable keeper in As is was imposed they Wero ill and were a disgrace to the a Hundred Hacks in Washington Wero drawn by better last after suffering much the president authorized the pure Huso i of another an educated horse f Man procured them for him in Ken they Are Well match East Veling i president As almost everybody i used to drive a four Hnud to j fore a and it was a familiar i sight to see him sitting on Tho with his habitual driving them into Tho Grant was averse to making himself to drove for the pleasure of it and not for and was i ii Ever found on the fashionable streets i his Bat always took n Bock Street until to Canin to to Well travelled country Grants skill As a horseman is and it required on accomplished Driver to Lauago his senator Conkling drives n Fine Large Black which to Calls before n narrow brew Star and generally goes Tho Senate Douglass a generally waiting for his master at to cant srput of Tho and likes a stretch of Sis or eight Miles before Excenator Robertson of South Caro Hua Lias a spanking pair of which he drives to a Dogcart with a Palmetto tree painted on the senator Lurn Sido drives a handsome pair of Large and to a sort of Irish haunting and in fond of having a Yonng lady by Bis senator Cameron Bas quite n stud of and Good taste in matters of his favorite outfit is n dog a pair of fast Bays be and his daughter by Hill 3iiss of Riveron is an accomplished As is mis3 Banyard congressman Townsend of Cleveland Boa to fastest and handsomest pair of horses in to brought them from treats them Asil they were his and when to gives the word they will pass anything on the Senor Tho Spanish has the swell equipage of a pair of clipped with banged harness of polished heavily mounted with and reins of White his Coachmen and outsiders Aro Spanish negroes from and Wear a livery of Blue Aud yellow Tho Escutcheon on Tho door of Bis Coupon is As Large a your Madame Plau like lady reclines on the Pearl coloured Satin cushions with an air of queenly the russian minister bos a Mammoth pair of with a great lumbering Chariot on which Ore spread Tho Coats of his own and his wife to and Madame Chi Chine Aro very unassuming and put on less style than any other of the ire to be seen walking every plainly and Ebo stops to kiss Little children that she meets in to having kissed them Sho runs after her and jabber russian at him till be and looks Back at the child Bis wide has they have a family of Little ones of their and to their use the Carriage is mostly the foreign ministers All have stylish sir Edward Thornton has a handsome pair of clipped which he drives before an elegant a but to generally prefers walk and is one of the most inveterate pedestrians in Secretary Sherman takes his daily drive in an open drawn by two Ordinary looking every Day about 4 if it int too Yon can see Sherman waiting for her husband at Ono of the entrances to Tho Treasury and Asho is very Bis appearance at that door is As regular As Uio clock strikes Dick a assistant Secretary of Tho used to drive a White animal that could make very Good John Jay comptroller of Tho has a Bay which be speeds that can Trot in to a wag Tho banker and Phil Anthro drives a pair of jogging Bays before a comfortable swinging very Low to Tho which was made at Bis because his rheumatic limbs refuse to enter a High senator Morton old Coupe is missed from Tho every Day of his life in Washington it could be seen standing either at the Ebbitt or at the White or the Capitol or Ono of Tho and it earned him faithfully for Many it was to Box reaching Down to within an Inch or so of Tho Aud was made expressly for it waa scratched and battered and and the horse a drove before it was one of Tho forlorn St specimens of animal life that was Ever tint Boris Row was old and Ami the repairs it itty undergone were Morton Hud a Peculiar anti Pithy for pretentious Iii almost Alti caution with As As it was with no one could Ever induce him to got his Congo or Trade Bis old Crow bait off fur a Ono Day Bis Driver left and to ii Kawod a now Tho first time Tho new Man made his appear Ance to wore n livery to had brought from his former but Morton would not outer Carriage until the negro bad taken or the Rosette from his and put on a trait of Ordinary Ito nod to say that livery was a badge of Fernando Wood drives a Mammoth pair of Bay with a Goldmon nod liar Ness covered All Over with his Mono Uig Carriage is a lumbering Evi Dence of and Bis Coachman and Footman Wear Tho map of Ireland on their senator Pony has Tho handsomest team and Tho handsomest wife of aug red a California fort niner who is living in Washington and spend ing Tho Money to dug out of to has the most conspicuous turnout in Tho Grant made him minister to aus and while lie was Over there scale got what to Civili a hungarian vehicle of Odd made of some Lii it sort of swinging on Leathern Springs Huo a to drives a pair of Bobtail Bays tandem before in commercial Kishiko of the grand methods employed by United states fishermen for to capture of says Julac Trooda Aro the Ordinary Hook and and the the former is Well but Tho latter May be described As a net in Tho shape of a pudding bag or supported on corks at to it is payed Oul from Tho vessel in a circular so if to Enci Roie a school of Mackerel it is provided with strings it Tho lower beneath the so tint won Vuoso Are drawn tight Tho fish or entirely and nothing to but to draw in Tho net and scoop Tho Lisa on no doubt Tho Large catches which have been made with this a Eliauro have induced Many fishermen to believe it to to essential to Cut it is a waste Ful and Uncertain Modo of do Ecru Otic to a Largo Quantity of fish which Rannit to taken on and expensive in outlay and repairs for it no great attractions for Specula Tive if attended with Suo a vessel May Cath a full fore in a few hours but Many of Tho most experienced fishermen still prefer Tho Hook and As a slower but rarer moans of making a Good average catch from season to to illustrate to manner of outfitting axe England and paying Tho let us take Tho Case of vessels making a trip to grand the owner provides the and provisions for the who Aro not paid but go on in the Fol lowing manner Tho owner and Crow share equally Between them the cup onto of what Ore culled Stock including port and Light Tho total Cross weight of Tho on her return from the after deducting Tho Stock is divided into two equal Ono which goes to the and the other to the suppose a Schooner to soil for the grand and to absent four her account would to made in the following manner for the Banks july l returned october Lanc cod at 3 Small at 2 cents w Ila inapt at 1 to la etched halibut an rent a Gallons Oil at y us grow made out in a separate Soo set f half of or goes to the and half to the from Tho share of Tho latter is also deducted certain extra expenses incurred by them on Tho such As wages of Tho fish is usually bought by the owner at Tho Market rate of the enabling him sometimes to Moke a profit by although loss May sometimes re sult by a fall in Tho profits to the owner consist in Tho difference Between the net Stock Shore received by him As Tho proceeds of n voyage and Tho expense of providing and equipping Tho a certain profit is also made by Tho handling of the which Ore usually sup plied by Tho the above is the system when a vessel goes on a trip using the or bal purse Seine but where the Bondino is used a somewhat differ ent plan is sometimes the men go on shares with Tho owner in the same but each hand takes half the proceeds of Tho fish actually caught by Stock being ratable deducted from Tho amount paid to in each on catching a cuts ont the Tongue and throws it into his own bucket these Are and on Tho conclusion of to voyage so Many irrespective of Ore credited to each who receives a ending proportion of the not vary to much in ranging from 25 to 250 in that each Man pets his own private Mark on Tho halibut caught by which is subsequently specially credited to Tho above system May be called going on ones own the Mackerel fishery is carried on on both these when on the Sbare Andisha realize Tho Gross Stock is equally divided Between owner and Crew when going on their own each hand is credited with so Many barrels of 2 and 3 Mackerel As he May have caught the value of less Stock charges to Tho Mackerel is and classed 2 and 3 by government inspectors at the Tho share system Between owner and in one or the other of these is almost universally Practised it a Only in very rare instances that wage Are except to the who often a share of Tho it certain that oar civilization is yet it a not question of whether there shall to n multitude of Puoplo that a but shall Tho now be Tho guide and lawgiver of All nations As having clearly and firmly to simplest society to buy and import much from England and Europe does not make a better every town has Ita Ita its from America a provincial it a an immense Xang Tor and our threaten and her manners threaten oar tendency is to make men All and extinguish Tho Indi the builders of London gave you your and to Bishops of London your thus we find that often Tho passion for Europe casts out Tho passion for America for whom London and Foris have spoiled their own can Well be spared to return to these i can not Only see room for Mora Gonzini than to Havu but for More than to have in Tho on Young men Hick Ideal a to to a must not to a pro but to must have to does not want to to sunday led or but to must have Glimmer enough to keep him from knocking his head against the Wall to want men of with his ideas wider than their and taking in Tho interests of Tho race and of to need men of moral Aud elastic who con live in Tho moment Aud take a Stop Columbus was not n backward feeling nor was Martin nor John nor Patrick Cor Thomas Tho Genius and destiny of America a not but is an incessant like to hand on Tho dials Foo and the heavenly bodies by which it a Tho Flower of civilization is to finished Man Tho Man of of accomplish of social what hinders that to be born hero 1 the now times need Tho new the comple Montal whom plainly this country must bring morality a the object of government to want a state of things in which crime Mil not which allows every Man Tho largest Liberty compatible with Tho Liberty of every other i Hope America will come to have Ita Pride in having a nation of servants and not a nation of served where every Man can i Servo i apply my faculty to the whole extent of my Power to to service of Mankind in my Especial he thereby shows t reason for being in Tho and that in is not an 3ut Tho Helm is Given to a better guid Ance than our seeing How that has rested on this Union thus i have Good Confidence for the in i feel that in All directions Tho ight is breaking that Trade and government will not Loso by to overthrow of Tho enemies of Mankind that the useful and Tho elegant arts will to exorcised within us As a nation that the the noblest affections and the rarest religion will find their abiding Lomo in our loud a Cou Tiko to her Tho Brunswick they courting under it was a room through which members of Tho family wore continually passing to and rear he i cannot longer labor under Tho bus the old Man pension of Banks is duo to the unwise i was going to my dear that i Hope you will prom Ixo to be and name on Early Day for Tho Bonds old woman happens Novor be paid in Gold exit old girl Namo Tho Happy Day when i May Call Yon my for i cannot Yon will think it old Man slides in cannot be so soon a Tho intruder i say i cant Beli ovo Yon Are entirely indifferent to but you will soon Grant to Tho privilege of calling Yon old lady on giving Tho financial question much old lady slides if Yon love me just nod your ton nod Ono Sweet kiss to Seal it prospective to eminent a a a they were again left the old folks conclude that Alice a Yafo enough in the company of a Young Man who can talk nothing but finance and and to Rolax their Vigi Thi Road by of the the Gonna Charles with a wit and invention that Migut to expected from Iii Lefor Mancos in imaginative Las discovered a new which he links it certain to coming Man and woman will what is remarkable that Tho though suggested y Tho brain which is above All s a severely practical to says that to human phenomenon of to future will to an or both tying d bringing Tho whole Force of Lis Brilliant rhetoric to Bear upon this limeade arraign Tho Dis inaction Between to right and Tho left and As a relic of Remote o to that Tho left hand is is to subscribe to a Heathen it was a tradition of the juvenile As he Colls what to commonly know As ancient the according of distinction and Superior kill to the right band bus no Ither in the Structure of the r Evon in human instinct it is a mater of custom by a Long array of very Rich historical Loarn be shows How in time and the custom bos we find in the Jacob was the son of taches right according to Moses t waa the lords right Bond that gave he Solomon seated Bis Mother on his right As a Mark of Homer and the greek Virgil and the Jatin closely follow the tradition Al use and symbolism of the two dexterous came from the latin word meaning right and sinister rom that meaning Tho left even in Modem tongues Tho same superstition a fixed deep the French use troit to English for a moral Attri me As Well a for a physical locality Tho French or Means loft the same significant be Ulio Rity is to be found in Spanish and always it a seen that words do ipod from right Are those rom the loft uncomplimentary and sometimes Beado in Ooka All this store of learning to prove hat Tho distinction a and of instinctive and Bourges the world o hasten Tho coming of y beginning now to teach children to use each band with there no to great advantage n this but to fear that Ilca Doi in exposition shows Mankind to be toe closely wedded to o make the Reform a rapid or cosy n inboards give the streets of a russian City a particularly Gay at almost Over Corner you come upon a byzantine looking shrine of Tho with a number of russians in front of crossing ton meet Tho Virgin in various other unexpected railway in with a Little Oil lamp Flicker no at her in the drowsy whore Tipsy Muj iks con to Icard Yelling nil Day and night the sch Savior of the Puoplo in the streets a quiet and civil if a russian knocks against to bogs your Pardon with a sincere show of contrition if to sees Ron nose turning White in Tho cold to picks up a handful of Snow did rubs it with a brotherly of scions toss till Tho circulation Iball Long the populous Etro cts paddlers Selling dried cot ton religious White and fritters but few of them shout pigeons infest Tho Road ways with for they Ore held even if a russian wore Satorv it would not occur to him to Knock one of to Birds on Tho Hood nov look it dancing bears Aro also to be been in though not ire great Aud always draw who laugh at their antics like for Bua Siaus Are very Watfy Man who Bas says the Edinburgh ladies Baa a bettor Opportunity of selecting a wife than the Man who Baa but be a in nine cases out of ten much More difficult to in daily Contact with members of the other who display All their Little foibles be fore be is Apt to judge his Sisters friends by the same Standard wherewith be daily judges his very logical method of but i thick not an unnatural Cou Htut or the did Pettib Oft Tho Pandita of to few in writes correspondent of the Cleveland a the mental com ment a one Boob Tho Many o Peoples foolishness am bin Pidiry which Are displayed at the dead letter of Floe arranged in Glass cases on Tho four sides of the room Aro All those waifs of Dis played with View to their respective and suggestive of the Treach Ery of postage Tampa and the Advent Fate which sometimes Evon there a everything to the useful and ornamental every thing not smaller than a thimble or larger than a stovepipe Bat such a pathetic array of might have so eloquent of disappointments and blighted Hopes locks of there Are whole switches of a for to Aro told thai there Are forty bushels of them in the basement of Tho but fancy yourself the recipient of Nice parcel from the Bonds of Tho postman some which upon being opened Dis closes a live Snake 1 whether one would go into or hysterics at such a treasure would be a matter of 1 people to Send makes through the and som Limea tiny come Back to the dead letter office for want of a and we tee them leading a serenely spiritual existence in gloss Jar among other stray postal it a a fact that a postmaster once found a Small live Alli Gator distorting among the letters and papers in a mail Thore was also a bouquet of fresh flow which had slipped out of Ita Box a couple of empty very Simi Lar in size and and both addressed to left the poor Man in doubt a to which the Alligator and to which to imagine the fair recipient of Tho Flowers finding a monster in her instead of Tho delicate offer ing which aha had expected but the postmaster Mode no Blunder to put the Flowers into one the Alligator into the other notified Tho ladies of the slight confusion of property which had taken and directed each to Exchange with the other if she should receive the wrong but to was gratified to Leom shortly that there had Boon no mistake jewelry is Ono of the articles most commonly entrusted to letters and postal one can hardly realize that there a daily average of or dead or about a Al lowing Ono person to a there Are persons every month who under take to Send letters either without without or with cancelled insufficient or illegible or incorrect Many of them Aro without either stamp or and often with no signature which gives the slightest clue to Persona sending there Aro a month received that either Lack postage or or else me insufficient or cancelled Stamps strange As it May these Are sometimes the most valuable often containing currency or drafts for Arco amounts of it is Esti mated that there a about in drafts and in cosh received yearly through dead this a All if to persons sending it but if any portion of it foils to find a it is turned Over to the Post office very Little difficulty a experienced in restoring the checks and drafts to the rightful but the Money goner ally comes in Small and is usually int in the Roost haphazard and the loss of these Small Suma and Tho ignorance or carelessness with which they Are launched upon a journey represents a Deal of suffering and Digap some hardworking Man nay Bend the savings of a months to Bis wife and Little whom in Bas had to leave behind him alas to is one of forty thousand who rust to without stamp or or else his writing or orthography Aro beyond mortal and so the poor wife never gets Tho which a her Oil it is very amusing to see letters opened and guess it their contents before hey Aro brought to Light three out of five from a bundle of unaddressed lot ars contained Ono of them a 85 then there Are such quantities of dress samples in Ono would Magine that All womankind bad Dis covered a language in the interchange of these scraps of dress one Milf show their Prosperity in bits of Silks and and the other half in its of six Penny and it a Only in Tho dead letter office that they meet on common certainly every fifth Otter contains a and i dont imagine that any great Coreia taken to return lost photographs but any to bereaved has the privilege of Ruma no among the forty bushels of human which have acum Uund got what re Len Smiths tavern at Waltham used to in Days gone a favorite Stop Ping place for Farmers who from further in the Road were accustomed to bring heir track to Boston for a Market some of the knowing ones who were a Little near would manage to get around just about the time breakfast or dinner was nearly and calling or a cold would be seated at Tho table and for half the Price of a dinner would get As Square a meal a those who came Early and paid full one old who had got Bis dinners in his manner for several and who was never known to spend an unnecessary cent in the was marked by be Jolly landlord for a on a certain Day in when he was known o to a boiled dinner was pre Laro Handset ont the night before to Cool punctually the next Day Barkis rat in on appearance and called for a cold a goodly plate full of Roren waa act be Bro him the first dab at a potato with Bis Fork sent that article flying a robs the and a turnip shied rom under his knife quite a feeling that he Hod been he worried thoughtfully and having finished Bis meal he walked up to the bar behind which waa the smiling landlord to and thus a Bosomed himself look a Foo been stopping at your tavern to odder for the last three and 111 m banged if today aint the first time Ive got what i called toe the wrent went into the parlor to look for Lis newspaper to came suddenly upon Bis daughter and her Young Man with heir faces to tightly glued to each other hat they didst notice his ahem 1 to the Twain and came to the Light with faces that bore every appear Ance of having just been drawn ont of a anything the matter grimly asked the old i think to must have avoid Humph what Mode you faint he this waa anon a Poser that Abe Bank ack leaving her imm onion awful wrench at his faculties to gulped i think must be Poison a the ii i the old gentleman a strange Story of a no one Ever thought of doubting father marshals and when to told a this one Chilly night hut sep we believed and we believe it without pretending to under stand it this a Tho Story when i was a began Tho old and was learning my Trade m new i bed with old major Belvidere waa a queer Little country Village with very few Good ecu again and the major lived in the beat it waa a Large Square Frame with a Hall extending through the and two great like rooms on each Over Tho Sec Ond floor waa an immense Attio the size of Tho this or was my Bleep ing the bed was placed close against the old fashioned which waa in the Center of the spacious Cham and the other shared it with Ono night we went to bed rather earlier than Ond being very tired to waa a year or two younger than waa Boon font i was thinking of my and of and a feeling of homesick Ness made me Wakeful i too fell into a bound towards Midnight i had an unpleasant and was so thoroughly aroused that it seemed As if i should never go to sleep i Lay there with closed eyes listening to the heavy breathing of my when something i dont know prompted me to Opan my eyes and look i did and there directly above my at distance of about an arms i saw a Caudle burning with a dim Blue steadily and but very the Candle was in a tall Bronze can a Sliko any i had Over seen used by the Tho Bottom was and on each Side wore pieces of brass As Bright As if they had just been near Tho top of Tho Bronze column wore two Angels with Brans and Between them was shining Yon will wonder Low i can describe it so but wonder took the place of and i gazed with curious eyes until the image was impressed faithfully upon my Mem i had never seen a candlestick anywhere that bore any likeness to this at it occurred to me that i might bring this mysterious Light nearer to to by reaching up my for it Ros Only o Little Way from to and i lid but just As i was about to grasp it Rose slowly Ond a if drawn by unseen an arms length nearer Tho i withdrew my and watched Tho some Iii no and then determined to pursue my i know that by sitting up in bed and ranching up my hand i could touch the Trango thing if there was anything to and immediately did As the Effort was again it a ceded slowly an arms length Bis time almost reaching Tho i Ell Back on my Pillow discouraged and and o Little not but this occurred on tuesday night and Oil the week i was very restless nud so much that Tho boys and ecu in the shop ridiculed to and asked t i haunt broken away from my mothers apron strings i could not summon courage to Tell them what Iron Trio for i Hod Boon rather Ond regarded uis strange Light As a Ond i Ould not boar to h Tho notion Ridi besides i As no one Iso saw it must have been intended or me and for this reason i kept i could scarcely for Satur a to anxious was i to reach ome Aud see if All were Well saturday at i started in my walk having for company Sci and a Young both of whom ived in Tho Little Village near my fathers it was a Long but we know to could reach our Homes by Hal past Lino Oclock if we walked and Lom flick boys Aro generally Good walk we noon left the Little town of Bel video behind us and reached Tho River a pleasant Highway in lie Day but enough at night there was no Moon and the sky was somewhat the dry leaves were blown hither and thither by the Chilly autumn winds Tho River looked Ark and and it seemed to my mind being filled with dismal that an evil spirit was walk ing with we followed the Road for about two then to Rod into a Hilly one leading to the at the and of this which was two Miles stretched a Long piece of by going through a portion of in to could shorten our walk a Milo of there was a path through and we entered it with no though am said encouragingly Tomt a Man was murder cd there and no Ono Ever Nond ont who did tie to walked single i Bong ahead of my who talked together whistling a merry one now and then and joking me on my gloomy Whin about half through the Wooda i saw the Flicker of a Light in the and on my right it waa Only a dim not much More than Bat made by a glow but it Awak ened my curiosity and i a solved to what it so i left the boys and started for the Bushes where it seemed to when i reached the Luahna where i thought it i could not son but just beyond about three it ppm Rod in a Damp of jolting to my who Sci of borne distance from that i would join them in at that moment an impulse 1 could not resist Ond for which i after cards thanked prompted me to Ollow the mysterious Light on and on lied around Over fallen past o Clearing and through a just As i reached on open Road that i knew led it disappear Early next morning word came that Man had been murdered near the Vil it waa Tho Young Sam escaped with an ugly wound habits of John Lubbock Antinnes to give his observations on the Tabita of he confirms Al let Teon Laid of their attachment to friends and of their bitter hostility to iut he not give a very High Opin on of their he placed porno Honey within a narrow Circle of Lucenne Over which be threw a Bridge f the ants readily crossed to bed on the Honey but when the Ridgeway removed the Glycerine was n insuperable obstacle to of Hong a few grains of Earth would Lave made them a the commencement of ant nests is still a mis ants avoid and As Bey prefer and show a marked version to Blue or violent they live to Molimea five lives in delightful retirement at and doily takes Long walks about the pretty ones and wide sundays and and on the 9th of each she visits the Catholic Church where lie Ler husbands she no Ler mornings to her correspondence and to breakfasts at Ashe Haa a Royal memory Ond much Viva makes Tho Dej Euner a charming occasion teas at 5 usually receiving neighbors and friends at that and dines Enfa Mille at she Haa a income of Roll the Twentyfive Yean ago there were very few in new England that her Fame had not perhaps disturbed and her alike astounding to the vulgar or perplexing to the were the theme of Many a Midnight watch or forecastle she was not the decrepit and toothless Crone of Spenser or Otway wrinkled with age grown but a woman who lived in the fall gaze and gossip of the which Only accepted her claim to foreknowledge upon to unequivocal testimony of a thousand do Yon contend that her reputation waa due solely to the shrewd penetration and ready wit with which she waa undoubtedly and in remarkable degree gifted will you explain of the future made ten and Twenty Yean before the events predicted took place when Sho waa in the Meridian of her Fame and life the Ordinary applicant Law a woman of medium having an unusually huge a Pale thin face shaded by masses of Dork Brown who waa a thoroughly self possessed a to was ill at and whose comprehensive Lonco measured his mental capacity before he could utter a people of better who re collect aay that her face Hod none of the wildness of the traditional but waa clouded with a habitual 98 of a mind overburdened with being the depository of to Many perhaps she bad a Capa Cious eyes that read the secret thoughts of a a nose inclined to to Long and thin physiognomy wholly unlike the popular but rather that of a modern Egeria in abort the Witch of the nineteenth during the fifty Yean that she Pur sued her Trade of in what was then a lonely and Little frequented Quarter of the not Only waa she consulted by the poor and but by the Rich and intelligent lore the discovery of commercial ventures and the More common contingencies of Fortune May Well Tho Staple of her predictions but her most valued clients came from the opulent seaports within sight of High Tho com Mon Bailor and Tho the Cabin Joy and Tho equally resorted to Ler Humble abode to know the Luck of a it a asserted that Many a Tea Sel Boa been deserted when on the eve of in consequence of Molly in icky she waa also much sought by rather numerous class in her whole unit digging along the coast of new eng and if usefully have reclaimed for cultivation no inconsiderable area of Virgin soil for such applicants the Witch hot abort and Sharp a Sre would if i Mew where Money waa do Yon Bink i would part with the secret t Moll Pitcher died in at the Alf of grand opening of new Spring goods at Childs Keinigs we Are now prepared to offer for Cash a Complete assortment of t1ie Kat Foci in great wore the doings in old time ironed Tho for which the tall est tree was it was drawn to to place by As Many a thirty or forty oko of their horns decorated with followed by All the lads and Las sies of Tho the pole waa wound or painted with Gay and trimmed with Bright handler and ribbon from top o with great and shouts of it was lifted to its place by ropes and and sat up firmly in Tho round and then the people joined ands and danced around the whole a was Given up to every no dressed in Holiday doors and windows were adorned with Green toughs and the Bells pro Cessions of Puoplo in grotesque dresses were and the famous Morris lances in this dance the people assumed cer Ain there was always Bob n the great hero of the rustics Laid the with Gilt Crown on her head Friar tuck a with Lis foolscap and Bells above the this animal was made painted a sort of Pink and propelled by a Man who made him perform various tricks not common to such As threading a Needle and holding a ladle in his month for the various characters Laboured to sep kit their the Friar gave solemn the Queen imitated Ladylike the fool joked and made and the horse pranced in True Horsey this Morris dance is supposed to have been brought in Early times from where Tho moors danced and Whan t still survives As the in other wreaths were made on with a gayly dressed doll in the Middle of and carried about by the Little owners singing a Ballad thick had been Sung since the time of Queen expecting a Shower of of All this mayday merriment Cane to in end when on grim Puritan fathers iad Power in dancing around to maypole looked to them like Hea then adoration of an idol but lament made a Law against and All the May Loles in the Island Wero Laid in the the common people had their a few years under a new Tho prohibitory Law waa a new the highest Ever in England one Hundred and thirty four was set up in Tho with great but the English peo ple were fast outgrowing the and Tho customs have been dying ont Ever a very few maypole n obscure villages Are All that can by Licholat about to admin ister an if there a any confusion in he courtroom the vie Chancellor always causes absolute and constantly rebukes he lawyers for the flippancy of their con duct during the administration of an oath absolute silence and this Man is now about to stand of Ore his maker to take a solemn to the truth of which he Calls upon the almighty be that he May mow and feel the full import of what be is about to he then in the most solemn manner slowly and distinctly gives the Ineater Southey tween John n Richard Boedeken Jantab a Post eff Tbs ried next i he remarked a shipping a Good Yong Man of Burlington in a congratulatory Way on the Rich girl up from Dav i hear said the Young stifling a Little things Are All but Ive kind Ohad to put the wedding off a Little like it might whats wrong asked the Friend in sympathetic old folks Down on the match not exactly be she has no and area her own like girl didst throw did aha didst go Back on you said the Young lot be two of bar Hus bands kind of happened to find her and coma in on her of unexpected and Ive just sort of thought wed kind of put it like it might and the subject of conversation was delicately in every department that my Allih Low special bargains in Browband bleached special bargains in Gingham Cambric and special bargains in Cotton dress goods in and special bargains in and special b i gains in and striped special bargains in Wool and Shetland special bargains in White goods and special bargains in gloves and special bargains in Gallons and fancy special bargains in silk ties and special bargains in Collar ettes and special bargain is we also have a very Large Stock of which we intend to sell at a very Small on Stock of cloths Abed is and we Are prepared to make and warrant them to we Are determined to sell goods at a smaller profit than they were Ever before sold for in Cass Childs Atlantic and 10tf Robert major successor to dealer in pm of Mihm Pii wagons and carriages and dealer in and All leading Corner 3d and Chestnut keeps a general top att 50tt gaps clothing and no 6 Chestnut Atlantic 6

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