Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-08-28
In the Haunfs Of the Fore.
fathers.
BosroN. August Sd. 1884.

brief scrbbie from me, as pause her
and there en- route, you are not likel
to bear at all further, fear.
.sWe reached athe Hubn this after
noon fewnafnutes ago, from Concord
and while We wait for the train t
Lawrence, I write on my knee.
OF course The school of Philosoph,
is closed for the year, and the world
no doubt, feels better, since it's philoso
phic machinery is in running order fo
another year!
The interesting things that could b,
said about old Concord would fill
book, but leave them unsaid, at leas
for the present.
And here we are, in the midst of tn,
whirling impetuous life of the "a meri
can Authorsf in the atmosphere O
Cambridge, under the shadow of Bun
ker Hill .monument, of the church
steeple where Paul Revere hung on,
the signal light which flashed across
Charles River the tidings of war; o.
old kings Chapel" and Fanueil Hall
here, indeed, in the city which for tive
centuries has been the focus of the
thought, life and culture of New Eng.
land. But
LAWRENCE, Mass, August 10th.
My meditations in Boston depot were
interrupted by tho railroad gong sound
ing the departure of our train, which,
being boarded hastily, set us down in
this famous manufacturing city in an
hour and quarter, where we were
greeted by my brother, DIR. Emerson,
and his bright and sparkling little wife,
both well and full of all high hopes.
Through his acquaintance with lead
ing factory proprietors here, we were
kindly shown through the labyrinthine
mazes of Lawrence factory-wonder-
land
1 cannot stop to describe, and can
only say that, stroll through the
miles of stately brick and stone facto-
les, with their teeming life and rest
ess activities, their clanking engines,
heir rafting looms and swift twirring
pindles, is an experience never to be |
orgottena s..
Everything is done that a refined
civilization can do to advance
he social and moral interests of the
perat1ves. Good board is secured to
hem at from two to three dollars per
week, and sperdid libraries and read
ng rooms are provided, free to all.
factory girls make rom six to ten dol
ars per week, and many of the more
killed operatives, much more.
Massachusetts, as State, presents to
he observer, about this phase of ex-
'tence; its soil is but little cultivated.
lost of its previously cultivated lands
re now in meadow and pasturage, the
estand poorer growing up with young
inc and oak forests; and yet it is thick
dotted over with growing cities and
'wns, teeming with restless energy,
nd a sleepless manufacturing COM
lercial activity, all presenting every ,
ola high state of prosperity. +.
NEwBERRYPoRT, Mass, Aug. 6.
Desiring to make trip down the ..
NOUS Maramac River to the sea,
arted down this morning by steam
, and looking upon the qniet, modest
tile home of Whittier at Amesbury, :.
here he sung so sweetly:
''The Quaker of the olden time!-
How calm and firm and true,
Unspotted by its wrong and crime,
He walked the dark earth through t
ID at the other ever changing ever /
autiful landscape, l reached the j
nding hours ago, sailed ON out ,
rough the harbor to the sea-beach
thing grounds, and havejust return n
. This little city was first settled
out 1640, and hence is only very e
" years younger than the oldest set t
'ment in New England. fl
But / shall not tarry here, but take ]
e train i'm a few minutes for Ipswich, a
e place which first saw an Emerson h
this wild continent, about $780, or n
a years. after the landing of the Pill p
inns at Plymouth rock. g
IPSWICH, Mass.S August 7th. q
reached here last evening; walked
surely through the ancient little t
wn to most pleasant hotel, where g
ound number of st. Louis people. t
was out betimes this morning and O
liked upon the rock adjacent to the 's
first church, and examined curious 81
the large black track in the rock, D
,ich local tradition says was made Il
the devil jumping over the church ''
'eple, having been frightened, in one t,
his morning walks for his hea lth I D
ppose, at finding church erected in a
IS prlmeval forest.
But, waving all evidence as to the
thenticity of this tradition, recog- g
ling the track in the solid granite as n
lard fact, I shall have some break fl
It, and eat fresh mackerel, ard then, Il
we'll, will see later, what may hap o.
n. o
P. M.-After breakfast, / took the c,
amer down the river and went out
ne twenty miles to sea, and return in
after eharmingly delightful trip e
'ough air cool and inyigorating, in
ne for dinner,-a dinner of fresh Il
fish, blue-fish, hallibut. mackerel, II
ms. beef and mutton, and lamb, and ri