Litchfield enquirer., 1877-11-01

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 While they talked and netted. they c0aI1 see the painted pleasurs-B8AfB fld& tsElng aEognd Che landing plAcss of tfle while Hh1Ea m. the distance. Afie a1leSEs belk0k Mnadlnnd f0TeEes changing from dark co light, from blue-black to hay gnyssRqt enly etnight jR herdeamadidI the Ht8e giH behQi& thg geRgeons qfctuz6 vinao8 snd th8 pfiest~ who tefd her in bis aEms and vet her forehead with the @yS@ce4 waIex. q sssffszEx W ' .=l5 nj hsss
 1hea xnIlowed days of rain, when taefe was no sound but that of water beating, on the cap6lR overhead. and aater beaf1 ing aQainsf the piles below, and no world o1Eside Uf the lighthouse walls; close. 9Poz cane ths eooI Ssptepber morn-I
 HQQdRa one Ut lhsss1khmsa her bMHkb Hfsksb- eE said he knsw the lake meant mischief. and the wind scanned to want to help if; adays sHhsa5 5the tide poured in fuller than ever iron the Gulf and the rangEy gasfs dAshsd isz sprzy high al,oye fhs pier heads aday when tAs ripple vas exchahg- cd for foam-crested waves. and the lake v@. whlhe sakak nn the eye cppld lfeael1- that htsls - coming to ioin her tAthr wAere shs stood witK folded arms, fAcing thN furTous wind. and watchina a. scAoonek come beating upa the lake, lost her f0gesDg on Che vet and slippery pier. s1d fslI ovsrboard into the freacherous wzkeEs Hes fAthet, who could not swim. aaw her afnk into the water. and then he m@w her DO mora .ssazas ,..ags5s sl..ls ,s e9az
 In the instant of her fall. it was a small tang o remember. he thought sof her o1e uaGEakI8ed wish. There flashed across h1s and the swift recollection 4pf the week wAen Meeua vas iH,-ssthe happy week. abe had called if, and how the suc- ceedMg 8unday was Co have been sbhe 6@Esnnfng nf better things .as ...s.gsssgs.s9,.
 Hs w1Eo knew what he meant when neawsring into her presence he sobbed in kruksa ssssns9. 70 Aesna, Megna. shds
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 ne schooner that vas beating up to. w1rd kAo hght-hoase at the instant when kMkAeRn fell, lowered a boat at once. vns2 the men saw what had happened. The s@1lnm rOwr1 roand and Sround Che, apot szA eers tseh to give eup Che seafei; e1f tke boar did not rise even once, sthat they &uMzd Mka SfuE u za Gms a8H8re1 ,H
 Bat thres aays astsf. far of from homeg 0a tAa whIt1 beach seven miles away. the. IAd1Ga mS4 eAfldren who rode in the shade Ot the oakn near the shore checked lfEaeif k0Rsea and dzsmOunted o gather grou,,d tAs body cf a little girl. which had been Iz12 eazt up by the waves They knew at c1es kh2t 6 had drifted there from the hghG-hoases for the people at the village Bad nGMEu of the accident, and were wAAcAing f0r the body. The ladies she sse1 ss efsen m fancy were elose 10 her no~- 1helr long riding habits swept. Sc<oa8 the sand on which she lay. their sereamlng xeils dOated back and forth above her. as they bent dOEn. -tos look at. her face She had touclIed thes .shininn, sAors ak last. By dainty fingers her sAro1a Sasuad4 and her edrls Ssfe clip ped OE far her mother. @@-'@s
 When next her parents saw little KaSh era If vas n the church Ehere they had Arsa GlEnn hsF to God. while she @as vet an unconscious infant Unconscious nOw., she wss given to. him again, her parents 1Oo1ng thslr last upon her as she lay n the IAght of the picture-window, with It's D2rSasozs glory every where about her the cross k4aa tiM4 OA her breast, instead Ot oa AG faEensd where heE hands Nefe
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 OUK KALAsEA AIKvEsrlSksE--Ade decade has s1Apsea nnce the double crested eagle lev iron the dFeary length and breadth od Alaska. and during that time thes in. , tf4EaEa x1f Fl 1sas hnse been keenIy scrutinizinpts the R1gged A@nd. the timber thickets. the fur T 6eastA and finny visitants that are purely and essentially Alaskan, with the andl-gulsed determination to strike in, ef once where lt would pay. They have str1ck thus far once, and only once.
 Few andeKstAnd, or understood. the unoeryIpg motives which prompted the Purchas9 of zBnsian Ameries, for the, truta s that the idea as a suggestion at nrss on the part of Seward to divert tLe general feeling of expedition arising over
 my policy, indorsed and advocated so energetically by his- chief, and the pur-s pose arose Witfina the distin9dished Sec retagys mihd by a sudden cognizance of the follqNiBg facts. The charter of the old Ruzzlan American Company expired m lS62 The company was deeply in debt, and the government was hesitating. oyer the adVIsability of renewing the lease to the same company eand under the, same terms; and whils hesitating in this way trOn year to year. Q companyIo American merchants m San Franciscof fmade through me h0sslan eOnsul there.s otertures for. the parchasa4 Of the exclusive right of trade Tn Alaska for q stated term of years. Baron StOeckel, Russian minister at REfuwn hnA SevardS attention to this matter and then the idea entered the Secretary's mind of purchasing the country out and ont. for, he reasoned, If few of ourA traders hDd the enterprise of nracticaIIy owning and cOntrOlling that vast area one so siua
 ple and profitable, why should not the United States government at once possess itself ot K0ssian ssAmerica :. since it .eyi. deatiy begs tor an owner2 And, actinQ on tnls logic. Mr.. Seward moved promptly wIth negotiatiOn, and found a willing coAdlutor m the form of the Russian mn. Hster; and we all know how, in q storm of mingled appr0bation and lively -opposi. ton. the treaty was finally ratified.
 And so We took Alaska ten years ago. just as big boy takes a. strange tov..fuli of great satisfaction, and fired with an intense desire to investigate it's inner vorklngs, and, like the boy, we have made the ssxamination, and we have lid the toy ssida Haw we pstied the igno- rance of our Russian friends who declar. ed, m response to our call for informa. tIOn regarding it's natural resources, that they had Rseags engrossed in fthsr one, Idea of gsfhn& kars thak they really l' '.aid not know of anything else;" and after ten seasons of careful lnqulry, we find. too. that we ''don's know of arlythine elsa"
 However. though we have lost ti1e aili apples at Sitka, and have failed to see the shimmer of Golden fields of corn at Kodiak. yet we have idnch to please and far more to interest us in Alaska. It is a paradise for the naturalist, happy hunt. lnR groand for the Rthnologist, a new and boandless field for the geologlst, and the physical phenomena of it's climate are something wonderful to contemplate. !t IS. and will be for years to come, a per. feet treasure-tro for these gentleman: e0ts alasl it bids fair, from what we now kRrur# S~.A A-.