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The Portland daily press., 1873-06-26

WE have before us a letter from young
gentlemen of one of tie graduating classes
of one of our Maine colleges who does not
deign to spell common English words after
the method insisted on by Webster and Wor-
cester Some one should see to it that lib
orally educated young man should not spell
the imperfect tense of the verb make,
''maid," even if his thoughts run to that in
teresting subject.
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Attention, SpOrtsmen {!
New York State Sportsmen's Association.

Extracts from sReport of Committee ON
Standard for Shot.o
Gan manufacturers will We eventully to conform
when sportsmen require that their shot shall ,om,
pare with the standard Of excellence which YOUR
committee has fixed
"Upon the most critical examination your conn
mittee have determined to adopt as the "AMERIcAN
STANDARD the scale presented to us by Messrs.
Thos. OF LIE Roy g. Co., of New York"
r. NEWELL, Chairman,
N. M. SMITH,
+. G. SKINNER.
Sportsmen and dealers DESTROYS of having the
above SCALE, or any information relative thereto.
can promptly obtain the same by applying to THOS.
OTIS LIE ROY s. CO., New York. jn26eod3m
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Direct from tI,e Nuauufactnrv

The subscriber is unpacking Chamber Suits daily
at 100 Middle Street Opposite Woodman & True's),
which we will sell to everybody at wholesale prices
GEO. H. MERRIAM, Manufacturers Agent.
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Cumulative Exercise or Health Life.
The subscriber is prepared to give instruction
in Cumulative Exercise at his Rooms, Nos. s and 6
Fluent's Block. Strength doubles in three months
daily exercise of fifteen minutes per day.
Separate Room for Ladies.
Apparatus sold at manufacturers prices.
Visitors and Inquirers always welcome.
Hours from to II and from 2to5.
jun19sntf J.H. GAUBERT.
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Howard Association, Philadelphia, Pa.
An Institution having high reputation for honor
able conduct and professional skill Acting Surgeon
u 5. HOUGHTON, M. D, Essays for Young Men
sent free OF charge. Address, HOWARD ASSOCIA-'
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DESPITE the assurances Of the Govern
ment of the Dominion, of the success of Sir
Hugh Allan in securing the means for building
the Canadian Pacific Railway, the London cor
respondent of the Toronto Globe, persists in
declaring that all the attempts of that gentle
man have resulted in failure. This CORE
spondent declares that the Grand Trunk
stockholders and officers, have been most as
siduous in their efforts to clog the negotia-
tions of Sir Hugh. He farther states, that
President Potter in behalf of the Grand
Trunk interest offered to give their influence
to aid the Pacific enterprise if Sir Hugh would
abandon the Northern Colonization, Ontario,
Quebec and other railways. He agreed to 10
this, but the Grand Trunk authorities con-
tinued their opposition to the Canadian Pa
cifc all the same 1t is said that the CORE
spoudence will soon be published which will
be verv entertaining to the Dominion people.
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MARINE NEWS.
PORT OF PORTLAND.

Wednesday, June rs.
ARRIVED.
Steamer Franconia, Bragg, New York-passengers
and mdse to Henry Fox.
Brig Isaac Carver. Williams, Philadelpha-coal to
VIM Deunison. Vessel to Ryan & Kelsey.
Sch VIM Wilson, Jones. Philadelphia-coal to order
Sch p Reynard, (of Fall River) Hall, Pictou-S7S
tons coal to Grand Trunk X r.
Sch Eyelina, Squirting, Mt Desert
Sch Fleetwing, Crossman. Undergraduates to
Curtis & Davis.
Sch Medora, Farnham, Bristol-fsh to Curtis s.
Davis.
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Sch Utica, Thorndike, Rockland-lime to
Morse & Co.
Sch Velocity, Foss, Sullivan for Boston.
CLEARED.
Barque Samuel Hale, Matthews, Montevideo-R
Lewis q Co.
Brig VIM r Sawyer, Mitchell, New York-Bunker
Bros.
Sch G Willard, Wallace, Philadelphia-E Will
lard.
Sch Mahaska, Blake. New York-Bunker Bros
Sch Leocadia, Deland. Boston-Bunker Bros.
Sch Ada, (Br) Gale, st John, NB-master.
Sch Wild Rover, Prince, Camden.
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BACHELORS HAIR DYE.

This splendid Hair Dye is the best In the ,rorld.
The only True and Perfect Dye. Harmless Reliable
tins unpleasant odor Remedies the Ill fleets If
bad dyes washes. Produces IMMEDIATELY a superb
BLACK OR NATURAL BROWN, and leaves the hair
clean, soft and beautiful. The Genuine. signed w :
s,chelor. Sold by all Druggists
CHAs. BACHELOR, Prop, n. z.
1d&w lYrs
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EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS.

The annual examination of candidates for positions
as teachers in the public Schools of Portland will be
held in the Girls Room, High School Building on
THURSDAY, July 8, 1873. at o'clock, P. M.
W. H. SMALLER,
GEO. W. TRUE,
STANLEY T. PULLEN,
CHARLES F. LIBBY,
CHARLES j. CHAPMAN,
Examining Board.
Portland, June 10, 1873 ju12sndtd
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS



TVHE following list of Taxes Real Estate of nom
Il resident owners in the town of Cumberland for
the year 1872, in bills committed to CHARLES M.
FAREWELL, Collector of said Town, on the twenty
fifth day of June, 1872 has been returned by him to
me remaining unpaid the 10th day of April 1873
by his certificate of that date, and remain un-
paid and notice is hereby given that If the said tax
es interest and charges not paid into the Treas
ury of the said Town within eighteen months from
the date of the commitment of the said bills SO much
Of the Real Estate taxed will be sufficient to pay
the amount due therefor including interest and
charges will without further notice be sold at pub
lie auction at the Store of Reuben Rideout q Son,
in said Town on the goth day of January, 1874, at
two O'Clock, p. M:
Names. Description. No. acres. Value. Tax.
Merriam j. s., house and lot
part of j. Hamiltoa estate. $500 SO75
Cobb James, Bates Island,
Eastern part, 100 1856
Osgood Abram number Of
acres land northeast end
of Little Chebeague, 3 so 97&
Brooks j., part of lot No. 2, 80 600 II. 10
Wilson Henry H., house,
barn and lot part of NJ.
Stubb's farm county
road from Cumberland
Centre to Portland, $50 6,s2&
True w. d. & j. s., 11Sacres
land in lot No. IS & 26, 1lS 2900
Southeast of M. c. r. R.,
house, barn and out-build-
ings on the above farm, 400 64.35
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$500 REWARD !
LOST

A SMALL italian Greyhound about four months
"A old, Of mouse color, with white on neck and
forehead. Any one returning same to NJ. L. GRA-
HAM, % Hanover St., or NJ. A. BOSwORTH, Flu
ent's Block. will receive the above reward. jn26f
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MARRIED..

In this city, June "a. by Rev. M. H. Williams Mel
vile c. Watts and Miss Addie M. Winchester, both Of
Portland.
In this city, June 25 at the residence of Capt Benz
Larrabee, by Rev. w. H. Fem, DIR. Frank A. Morgan
OF Gray and Miss Susie A. Larrabee, daughter Of the
late DIR. Albion Larrabee of Scarboro
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

REMOVAL.
CHARLES M. HAWKES.,
DEALER IN
western CT y and County BONDS.
Office removed to
90 MIDDLE STREET.
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10 c. R E A = M
T. s. H A TIC H,
&c e C II e A M!
ofsuperior quality. in any quantity, to Families Pic
mics and parties. Spoons and Plates furnished with
out chaige. Orders may be left at Hatch's Oyster
House, 307 Congress, or at the mandatory, ITO
Pearl, below Oxford st. ju2Osnd1m
Piano Tuning.
Orders attended to personally by
ED. b. ROBINSON,
Piano Rooms, Caheon Block.
Opposite City Hall) mar2s-d3m.
DR.. Bicknell's Syrup
Cures Bowel or Summer Complaints,
Dyseutery, Diarrhea, Cholera Morbus
Cholera, Collie, Sick or Sour Stomach,
Indigestion sc. Contains no opiate and does no
produce Ccstiveness Druggists sell it.
ju20 sn3m
sPORTSNIAN'S FRIEND
GU Elk IFU E.
sure preventative from Mosquitoes black Flies, &c.
WHOLESALE Sc RETAIL,
At the Fishing Tackle Store of
CHAS. DAY, JR, & CO.,
Cd EXCHANGE STREET.
EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS.
The annual examination of candidates for positions
as teachers in tha public Schools of Portland will be
held in the Girls Room, High School Building. on
THURSDAY, July 3, 1873. at o'clock, P. M.
W. H. SMALLER,
GEO. W. TRUE,
STANLEY T. PULLEN,
CHARLES F. LIBBY,
CHARLES j. CHAPMAN,
Examining Board
Portland, June 10, 1873. ju12sndtd
SUMMER SUITINGS,
JUST RECEIVED AT
COLLINS & OND'S,
NO. 90 MIDDLE STREET..
wCALL AND SEE THEM-A
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FOR PIMPLES ON THE FACE,
81 B aaS. and F1sshworm PERRYs lmproy-
medicine. Prepared only by DE- b. C. PERRY.
Deyma.olosist 40 Bond st., n Z: sold Sy Druggists
CIGARS! CIGARS! CIGARS .
Tobacco,
Tobacco.
PIPES, PIPES, PIPES.
Cheroots, eleven dollars per 1000.
Tobacco from Is cents per pound to
$3.50, and Pipes from one cent
each to 800 each.
Ali the above can be had at
SIEDD1N y O1Ukh SIUhE,
$50 Congress Street, Portland.
HOLES SALE.
Cigars very good for SIT per 1000.
Now Times,
Old Tines,
s'Havana Gems,o
And: And many other Brands Of our make. am in
facturer or Jobber in the State.
r. NATHAN,
Gate C. H sTEBBINsJ
$50 Congress Street, Portland.
E. t. ELDEN &c co.
OFFER THIS WEEK,
At One Price and no Vari-
alton
100 Pieces Spanish Linens for lsc
yd., worth csc.
100 Piecs Mosquito Nets, all colors,
for 75c. piece.
n Pieces New Styles Grenadines,
worth soc. yd., for csc.
Is Pieces more Fancy Silks $40
yd.. all new Patterns and worth
$l.25.
One Case assorted Black Silks at
LESS THAN IMPORTERS PRICES.
Prices Sl.OO, Sl.25, $3.50, sl.75
and $500.
~ Pieces Black Hernanies at as
tOnisning Low Prices.
MOURNING GOODS!
OF Every Description at Popular
Prices,
10 Pieces CORTLAND Black Grapes
AT AGENTS Prices.
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SPOKEN,

SPOKEN.
June 10, lat ~, lon SO 20, barque Hancock, from
Pictou for Cienfuegos.
June II, lat 40 2s, lon 50 80, brig Cove, from
Swansea for Providence
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KID GLOVES FOR THE MILLION
The Cheapest In the World.
100 DOZ. KID GLOVES
Just received and for sale at rs cents to SLIPS.
ALWAYS
THE LARGEST STOCK.
THE BEST GOODS.
THE LOWEST PRICES.
l. E A @ H
"a MIDDLE STREET.
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BANK OF PORTLAND.
On, and after this date the under sgned will carry
on STRICTLY Banking business, at the Banking
in Portland Maine, under the style of the "BANK
OF PORTLAND and as such, will receive Deposits
and make Discounts, in the regular course of the
Banking Business.
WIN. GOOLD.
Portland June oath, 1872.
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DIR. Bicknell's Syrup
Cures Bowel or Summer Complaints,
Dyseutery, Diarrhea, Cholera Morbus
Cholera, Collie, Sick or Sour Stomach,
Indigestion &c. Contains no opiate and does no
produce Ccstiveness. Druggists sell it.
ju20 sn3m
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HOME SECURITIES
State of Maine Bonds, 6,s
City Of Portland, Municipal IS
Z. g Railroad 6,s
Portland & Ogdensburg, Portland
Division, Gold 6's
Portland & Ogdensburg, Vermont
Division, Gold, 6's
Maine Central C0nsO1s, rs
Portland & Kennebec Cousols, 6,s
Androscogg & Kennebec. SIS
Leeds & Pennington, 6's
Portland & Kennebec Railroad
Stock. (xuaranteedD, IS
FOR SALE BY
J. B. BROWN & SONS,
BANKERS,
40 EXCHANGE STREE.
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FOR PIMPLES ON THE FACE,
Blackhead and Fleshworm, use PERRY'S lmprov-
ed Gomedone and Pimple Remedy, the great skin
medicine. Prepared only by Dr. B. C. PERRY
Dermatologist, 40 Bond St., N. r Sold by Druggists
verywhere. mar22d SwsnsS91
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-06-12
Duty OF Rest.

THERE is false idea prevalent about
resting enough in the few weeks of the
summer to last the year. However full of
delight and peace the lazy hours in the
country, however freighted with rest and
strength the long days by the sea- we can
not hoard and carry away enough of the
precious store. Every twenty-four hours
is circle of its own in which to tear
down and build up, and whatever is spent
between bne shutdown and another must be
made good from food, recreation and rest,
and whoever commences the morning al
ready tired is spending too much some
where and will find that a system Of paying
natures past debts by drawing on the flu
ture will make him a bankrupt. But we
do not need to wait till i'm the fullncss of
time we can join the throng at watering
places. To any one unless shut up be-
tween four brick walls, if there belong a
green spot somewhere around the house,
if he can sit at least under one vine and
fig tree Of his own, there is at hand a per-
RENAL spring, if he but knows how to
drink of it. Perhaps you will say II can
not stop TO rest; have no time: / will
by and by, but now | must do my work"
All but are you sure of your by and by
the one this side of eternity mean? Are
you not doing the very thing now that
may lose it for you, or if entered upon,
will it not, instead of being spent in rest,
as you fondly hope, be spent rather in
vain regrets for the strength so unwisely
and hopelessly lostg Moreover what is
this work you must be always doing? If
to do good is your ruling motive have
you not learned that it is what you are as
well as what you do that blesses the
world? and though the toll Of your hands
is worth much, beautiful spirit of good
cheer surrounding you is worth more,
and you are not becoming the best you
might be If you have no time to entertain
this spirit Of rest and strength which can
not live with weariness.-HeraM Of
UMlth.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-06-12
How to Grow Old.

IT is difficult to evolve out Of ones own
interior consciousness the fact that he is
growing old. The period Of middle life
or ones prime, is very indefinite. Luck
iH it cannot be defined by figures, for one
man is older at forty than another at sixty
The mild suggestion that we are getting
older than we were, may be facetiously
permitted, tut the plain, unvarnished
statement that we have actually got there,
and are really an elderly person" CON-
monty comes home like shock. 1t is a
new sensation, making one feel queerly all
over. 1t would be nice game for several
old parties to play at while the youngsters
have adjourned for the German or blind
mans buff, to tell all around when and
how it was that they first discovered that
they were old folks. We have venerable
and grizzly-looking friend somewhere
about sixty, who looks ten years older
than he is, but who is fifteen or twenty
years younger than the family Bible rec
ord signifies, who had been preaching all
day in the pulpit of a stranger congrega-
ton with a venerable pastor Emeritus sit
ting behind him. When the social eve
ming service came, our friend, whose every
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-06-12
Don't Box the ChiIdren's Ears.

CHILDREN's ears ought never to be
boxed We have seen that the passage OF
the ear is closed by thin membrane,
especially adapted to be influenced by
every impulse Of the air, and with nothing
but the air to support it internally. What,
then, can be more likely to injurc this
membrane than sudden and fOrcible com
preston of the air in front of it? If any
one designed to break or overstrctch the
membrane, he could scarcely devise a
more effective means than TO bring the
hand suddenly and forciby down upon
the passage of the ear, thus driving the air
violently before it, with no possibility for
its escape but by the membrane giving
way. And far too often it does give way,
especially if, from any previous disease,
it has been weakened. Many children are
made deaf by boxes on the ear in this way.
Nor is this the only way; if there is one
thing which does the nerve Of hearing
more harm than almost any other, it is a
sudden lar or shock. Children and grown
persons alike may be entirely deafened by
falls or heavy blows upon the head. And
boxing the ears produces similar effect,
though more slowly and in less degree. 1t
tends to dull the sensibility of the nerve,
even if it did not hurt the membrane. /
knew pitiful case, once, OF poor youth
who died from terrible disease Of the
ear He had discharge from it since he
was child. OF course his hearing had
been dull; and what had happened
was that his father had often boxed
his ear for inattention! Most likely that
boxing on the car, diseased as it was, had
much to do with his dying. And this
brings me to the second point. Children
should never be blamed for being inatten-
tive, until it has been found out whether
they are little deaf. This is easily done
by placing them at few yards distance,
and trying whether they can understand
what is said to them in rather low tone
Of voice. Each ear should be tried,
while the other is stopped by the finger.
/ do not say that children are never guilty
of inattention, especially to that which
they do not particularly wish to hear; but
/ do say that very many children are
blamed and punished for inattention when
they really do not hear. And there is
nothing at once more cruel and more hurt
full to the character Of children than to be
found fault with for what is really their
misfortune. Three things should be re-
membered here: 1. That slight degrees
of deafness, often lasting only for time,
are very common among children, es-
pecially during or after colds. O. That
slight deafness, which does not prevent
person from hearing when he is expect.
ing to be spoken TO, will make him very
dull to what he is not expecting; and, 8,
That there is kind of deafness In which
person can hear pretty well while lis.
tening, but is really very hard of hearing
when not listening.-Popul0r Science
Monthly.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-06-12
Jtemizing.

WHO that regularly reads the ncwspa-
pers, says Philadelphia journal, has not
been struck with those many-named col
umns into which the news of all the world
is compressed? Variously styled in various
newspapers, they aim to grasp and focalize
the news OF everything and everybody,
everywhere, and to present it in as small
and telling space as possible. They
carry the reader in breath from Indus to
the Pole, and hurry him along from SEN
tcnce TO sentence, 10 conduct him in a
trice to antipodes of thought. The reader
never thinks, as his eyes take their rapid
journey down the columns, of the care
the pains, the taste, the skill, the patience
necessary to reduce those items to attract
i've shape. The scissors and the paste do
a great deal of the work, it is true, but
the brain helps more than it is given
credit for. Fancy and imagination and
judgment have to play their part. The
scissors dart instnctively at n good
item, and the brains step in and decide
whether its publication would be judi
cious. Is the item old? Has it ever ap-
pcared before? Is it nice and fresh and
crisp and sparkling? What position shall
it hold with regard to the other items?
Has another on the same subject been al
ready clipped out? light not the phrase
ology be changed, so as TO bestow point
and pith? Could piquant joke be tag
ged on? Again, when the selection is
done, and the items-pcrsonal, miscel-
laneous, religious, theatrical and what not
are all arranged in order, will they
make glittering and systematic whole,
over which the eye will delight to rove,
like bird from flower to flower All
these things have TO be considered in at
tending to the 'itcm" department of a
newspaper. The tastes of every possible
reader must be anticipated. Since it takes
all sorts of people to make "A world--a
truism Of profounder meaning than is
generally apprecated-it takes all sorts
of items to make a newspaper.-Daiky
Gzaphic.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-06-12
An Eccentric Englishman's Will

AN extraordinary will case was recently
tried in London. The plaintiffs are the
children OF an eccentric testator, who be-
queathed his family estate away from his
own children to an utter stranger. The
children endeavored to show that the
father was insane, and testified to his
strange conduct during his lifetime. One
OF the sons could remember on two occa-
sions being tied by the feet to the han
die of the door and thrashed. On another
occasion his father tied rope round his
neck, held the end of it, made him run
around the room, and thrashed him as he
went round. When living at Brussels he
had known his father walk up and down
the front OF the house all night with load
ed pistols, and one evening while the ser
wants were at church his father insisted
that there were robbers in the house and
took his blunderbuss to shoot them. 1t
was all delusion. There was no noise
whatever about the place. On another
occasion he insisted that he heard people
whlstling outside the house and went out
with loaded blunderbuss On one occa-
sion during the six weeks he was referring
to his brother and himself went with
some ladies to the theater, and, out of
spite or some motive or other, his father
dressed the housemaid up as a first-class
lady of fashion and sent her to occupy the
next box to them. They had to change
their seats in consequence His father
always kept a lot of firearms in the house,
generally loaded. He always kept a
loaded blunderbuss in his sitting-room
There was also needle gun, several revol-
vers, and a number of bayoncts This
testimony being corroboratcd by other
members of the family, the will was
broken, and the children become heirs to
estates valued at $780, 000--HalJar (N. 81
Citizen
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-06-12

BILE for my own use. Shall 1 buy or hire
one?"
what farm have you in view?" asked
Rowland.
'Southold's-fifty acres at one hundred
dollars per acre, or one-half for working"
answered Matthew.
LET it alone" CURLY said the Deacon.
"Why SOP" asked Matthew.
"Take mine on halves, and do twice as
well as the whole of that"
~ will take it," and the verbal agree
ment was finished as the parties separated.
The first of April--three years from the
time he came there, an idiot in agricul-
tural matters-found Matthew to all intent
the master ruling spirit of the place, com
prising 100 acres of as fertile land as could
be found in the country about. Subsoil-
ing, draining and skilliul feeding the soil
for two years more, enabled him to meet
his friend Harry Thomas.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-06-12
IEFT ALONE AT EIGHTY.
BY ALICE ROBBINS.

BY ALICE ROBBINS.
wu.r did YOU say. dear, breakfast?
Somehow I've slept too late;
Won are very kind, dear Ellie,
Co tell them not TO wall.
III dress as quick as ever can,
Nv old hands tremble sore
And Polly who used 10 nelp dear neart!
Lies t'other side O the door.
Put up the old pipe. deary,
couldn't smoke to-day;
I'm, sort o. dazed and frightened,
And don't know what to say.
IT'S lonesome in tn house here,
And lonesome ont O. door
never knew what Lonesome meant,
In all my life, before.
The bees 90 humming, the whole day long,
And the first June rose has blown,
And am eighty, dear Lord, to-day,
Too old TO be left alone!
n heart of Lowell so still and cold,
n precions lips so white
FOR The first sad hours in sixty years,
You were out of my reach, last night
you,ye cut the flower. You're very kind.
She rooted it, last May,
was only a slip; pulled the rose,
And threw the stem away;
Rnt She sweet thrifty soul, bent down,
And planted it where she stood;
aDear maybe the flowers are living" she said,
s.Asleep in this bit of wood"
can't rest, deary-I cannot rest;
Let the old man have his will.
And wander from porch to garden post
The house is SO deathly still;
Wander. and long for a sight OF the gate
She has left ajar for nc
We had got 80 used to each other, dear,
So used to each other you see.
Sixty years, and so wise and good,
She made me q better man,
From the moment kissed her fair young face,
And our lovers life began.
And seven fine boys she has given me,
And out Of the seven, not one
But the noblest father in all the land
Would be proud to call his son.
o. well, dear Lord, I'll be patient,
But feel sore broken up;
At eighty years, it's an awesome thing
To drain such bitter cup.
I know there's Joseph and John and Hal,
And four good men beside,
But hundred sons couldn't be to me
Like the woman made my bride.
Nv little Polly-so bright and fair
So winsOme and good and sweet!
She had roses twined in her sunny hair,
White shoes on her dainty feet;
And held her hand-was it yesterday
That we stood up to be wed?
And-No remember, I'm eighty to-day,
And my dear wife, Polly, is dead!