The Press., 1891-01-08
(Contributed.) PLEASaNTRY.
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0ouLu NoVcntTy, Spuus
 Like the song of the Maryland lark,
 Like flush of returning health,
 Came Christmas tokens that made me as rich
 As any girl in the commonwealth.
 Doggerel contains much truth and less grace, and in order to polish the above eshafl have to resort to homely prose to find thankful xpression for the salntary eff ct ot the ''glad tidings" packages from Santa Claus An, the tidings glad may be con- ing at snail pace, but the herald bells are ringing evermore.
 Happy b. lls-shrill qu .rtettes and full choirs -mingle their paradoxical notes with those of your very wild and mistaken sis ter flying northward, mingle also their ortbod Dxical soprano with the tenor of the raspy reciprocat1ons of the iceman's see- saw and tongs, but the iceman himself isn't raspy, for has not the king of the glacial court decreed that he shouldn't back water in the arid morning of '9l? Nothing gives such buoyancy of spirit as financial prosperity in the not over-facili- tated schemes of agriculture, and the writer would enhance every remedial step to re- vive this depressed and toilsome industry. i The lecturer of the Furmer's National League says that to enumerate all the good things the grange has done for the farmer would fill volume, and quotes the reason why more farmers will not unite e-shyness partition walls between neighbors, and so mighty an individuality as to overshad ow the necessity of working for common interest. know a woman in town off. cially connected with this society, who tells me that even her weak mental grasp upon all these things enables her to see the fal. lacy of such excuses. She also asserts its | o1- ly adding that her influence will not much fit ct the state legislation, but she has $ family whom she c.n influence. Then We were referring to the fact of Rev. J. P Ills. association with the grange, anG thought that speech he might make up on tie topic of associated dairying woulc tickle the heart of any R. of H.
 Come to think it oyer how many art .'the boys" of Auld Lang Syne who llks to get hold of the local paper which is regular glad tidings letter from home Have just received letter from ''one o 1 them" who has been absent23 years, Dan' W. Dimock, M. D., of B.ockton, Mass He makes special inquiry about the Bootf place. We rather think t'Dan" would chew his toothpick refisctively were he tt take general survey ofsthe Dimock- -Bootf property as it appears today under ths rule of the king dollar and the manage ment of Messrs. Stewart and Sears.
 1 Riding through the south part of tn. town recently my attention was distracted from the contemplation of my tailor made suit and smart hat to take retrospective glanees along this ledSy bit of country that years ago was falapus for spooks there was sure to be ghost, prisoner 1T hiding, and scared girl.
 Inoticed Mr. Nathans Potter improving the symmetric angles ofsiis lawn, and Mrs Newell displayed her "colors"in worthy cause. The woodman, who spared not the fores trees, but let the sunshine down into tha aquatic miasmatic valley where we mad' our first soggy bread, should be peltet with rice the rest of his days. I will giv. the rice. Talk about valleys Have yo, ever halted upon the summit of Mulberry Hill, near where the Csttaneo nursery fur nished the ready" that bought the girls