The Springdale news., 1888-12-21

time in deep sleep -and racks his brain with spcculations as 10 how they con trIye to make q living. Business Is ap- parently at Il staudstill The streets are empty and tAc inns are deserted; no life IS in the market-place, and not q soul Is seen in the shops or banks, while two or three gray old churches appear to be as cold and dead as the M0idcring bodies buried years before in the graveyards which surround them. Then, again, if the same stranger should happen to visit that veritable town on the seventh day. the day set apart for the weekly market. his wonder would the rather be that so many people and vehicles of all descriptions could possibly be gathered together in so modest q country town. Yet dear old places, under any and all circumstances, they arc to those who live in them and know them well; and Peterborough, in the grand and glorious sH4re eff York, Is d falr sample of them all Too many of us. in these nineteenth century days. are natives of huge towns of modern bricks and mortar. We are born at some every day, sort of house in Ga Un5ntcrcsting street; bY the time We go to sedgal We are living in another house on street equal ' as duli and monotonous as the previous one; we are married from a third house of the same character. and by the time We cone to tie .hall have probably lived in more of these houses than we could count on tHc fingers of both hands. What memories can men and women have of the snrrGundia9s of their earlier life whose existence Las been divided into such mo- nQtnnous sections! Few and poor, indeed, as compared with those of folk who lived until they marred. (. .perchanee all their days in an old home i'll some country hamlet, or such a town as NGrthbor0ugh.
 Northborough was celebrated for nothing but good North country ale. It was not d cathedral city; it was not country town and yet tGere were few indeed of it's inhab- itaHts. young or old. but felt la personal in- terest in alI its belongings and took par denablc pride in all that concerned its welfare To them it's spacious and uneven narket-place. with the old church of St Mehael's set quaintly iH The center, was the heart of the wide world The dull. solid-looking stone build Ing, with tho heavy doors set off by brass plate bearing tie single word Bank" was to them ycrItablc symbol of wealth and prosperity, with d meaning far deeper than the names of RuthschiId or Vanderbilt could have conveyed.
 They could purchase at the unostenta- tious shops i'll the High Gate (no streets in Peterborough and Low Gate all the neces- S3fleS ana most or the luNuf1cS or He, and iftacy over gave thought of such places a~ Oxford street or Regent street, it was oufr To regard them IS entirely superfuous and unnecessary. Marlborough was ..oura town and we were Marlborough. The qaaant country town and its inhabitants were usrpardblc in the minds of the latter Among tie boasts Of the worthy North burghcra was that of the hotels and inns Good, substantial ancient and comfortable kasteTlcs with the very best of aecomm0- dation for man and beast" None of your modern tire-traps built chcapy To accommo- date hundreds of guests, nor yet your mod err gin-palaee or UncleanIy ''dram-shOp''- bat venerable and prosperous institutions eorductcd i'll highly respectable and ''Yorkshlre style by landlords of enviable reputation throughout the rdings IS cater CTS to ones internal and external comfort.
 There was tHc Talbot, d masslxe stone hu.id,ug of i!sl"nins appearances patron