The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-07-28

s'hio ans, anu 6ne Dig cnlmneys OF
neighboring farm-houses appear
through the trees and, as T write. a
breeze comes floating through the
open window laden with the fragrance
OF new mown hay and bearing the
MARBLE of robin and chickadee and
many another songster, whose notes
are unfamiliar to me.
The buzz Of bee, the prating of fowl
and the farmer calling to his cattle in
the field near by the waving grain,
the clover-ields, whose sweets are sip
ped by butterflies on painted wings, .
the scare-crow futtering in the garden
patch, are sights and sounds so de-
lightfully restful after the noise and
confusion of the great city, one feels
that it would be contentment un-
bounded just to lie upon the grass,
watching the clouds drift by and
drinking in the quiet beauty of our
surroundings = -. o@~ 4
And the king and queen of this
realm seem so in keeping with it all.
They are in the autumn of life of
more than four-score well-spent years
and their dear faces bespeak calm,
sweet content that can only come from
the consciousness of well-doing. From
childhood, they have been together,
attending the same schools and at, the
age OF eight years, they were taken
into the arms of a relative and a union
predicted and surely, this has proved
to be one of the few matches "made
in heaven" One daughter, the young
est of a family of five children, is de-
voting her life to her father and
mother and making their declining
years thrice blessed by her untiring
love and self-sacrifce.
She, with dear old "Uncle john"
took us for drive yesterday about the
town, by the cotton mills noisy with
the buzz OF machinery, by many an
Gent dwellings, one of which has re-
Gently been purchased by the Ipswich
Historical, society and is undergoing
repairs without any departure, how
ever, from the original style, and by
the site of the first church near which
spot Benedict Arnold passed, in COM
mand of the expedition against Quebec
in Sept. ITS.
Ipswich has many interesting bits of
history connected with it's settlement
and subsequent occupancy. The
original name was Agawam, and Capt.
John Smith thus mentions it in his
Prescription of North Virginia. as
New England was then called: "Here
are many rising hills, and on their
tops and descents are many corne fields
and delightful groves. In the east is
an isle of two or three leagues in
length; the one halle PLANE marish
ground, fit for pasture or salt ponds,
with many faire high groves of null
berry trees. There are also. <okes,
pines, Walnuts and other wood, to
make this place an excellent habita-
,tion.'': ..,.-.-
The town was settled in 1888, by
John Winthrop junior, and twelve
others and in 1884, the name was
changed to Ipswich. A little steamer
runs down the river to Ipswich Neck,
which is quite a summer resort, and
Gloucester, 16 miles away, is reached
by electrics from here.
To-day we have been roaming
through the pasture, down by the
river, gathering sweet fern, sweet
flag, juniper and bar-berries, with
pretty moses; plucking blue-berries,
black berries and thin BILE berries;
finding both blossom and green fruit
of the cranberry and drinking from a
crystal spring which bubbles up, clear
and cold from beneath the meadow
grasses.
We would like to sojourn weeks
among our friends in this rural retreat
but time is speeding and tomorrow
we start for Portsmouth, Aldrich's
''City by the Sea-
OF this, more anon, =
MARY S. HUSE.