The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-08-25
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THEIR ORCHARDS

/ et L be corrected at OnCe'
My tharlon. son oi Heron, aged
about forty years. having a scar ON the
little finger OF the LETT hand, agree, that
! he has sold to Satabous, son Of Pckusts,
aged about thirty years, having d scar
on the little finger Of the LETT hand, 4
female mousc-rolureI donkey, shedding
It's first teeth, Ju-t as ii is irreyocably
and that Mysth4rlon has received from
Sa,abous the price agreed upon between
them, tfty s& drachmr OF silver. di-
rectly from hand to hand ont Of his
house, and that he will guarantee the
sale with every guarantee
Would not any man Of to-day, SINH
larry situated as Plsais was two thou
| sand years ago, pen a letter after the
fashion OF This one. which hc cy.l,nt.;
sent to a resident OF neighboring town:
"Pisais TO Hcracleus. greeting When
ever You from necessity want to borrow
anything from me, | at once give 1t to
YOU: and nov please give 10 ClcOn the
three statcrs winch Selcucus told YOU
to give me, even if you have to pawn
| with hi, father, but he has allowed me
10 remain IN arrears, and now | want
| to get receipt Seleucus has evaded
paying the money by laying that you
| have made an arrangement with him TO
| pay instead. Now, therefore, please
| consider that you are lending the money
to me. and dom keep Cleon waiting. but
60 and meet him. On no account fail
| to do this"
Here is a townsman's invitation to a
| friend that reads. except for the proper
names and the word centSIon, a7 ii it
were written to-day:
lsliorus invites you to dine with him
on the occasio OF his daughters we'd
ding, al the house OF Trtu, the centur-
ION. at nine o'clock
| he form OF making business pro-
posal BY letter has changed scarcely atT
all, except as regards the style OF adj
! dress and greeting
| To Achilles, also called Sarapammon,
through his guardian Sarapon, from
Apollonius, son Of ApoIIwou,, son Of
Sotcrchus. from the Goose farm quarter.
| wish to lease from YOU for four years.
from the thlrtieth OF the present month
Mesore. OF the oil presses owned by you
at the village Of DionysiaS, one oil press
III the Evaporation quarter, fitted with
| a wheel and containing two machines
and a cauldroc, with all the appcrtaln
ing upper rooms, and | will pay each
year IN all one metretcS six chOes of
strained olive oil. and likewise one me
tretcs six choes Of raphanous oil, pro-
vidlng every year at the harvest SIX cOty
;e OF raphanous oil etc, after the pres
ent fashion Of expressing the terms
minutcly
Finally, the Oxyrhynchus colony and
countryside, white and black alike. were
not unacquainted with the spoiled child.
Here j, the letter OF Greek youngoter,
who certainly deserved great many
; more spankings than his less petted
playmates undoubtedly got from time to
time:
"Theon, to his father Theon, greeting:
1t was fine thing Of you not to take
me with yol to the city, If YOU won't
take me with you to Alexandria | won't
write YOU a letter or speak to you or
say goOd-by to you; and if you go to
Alexandria | won't take your hand or
, ever greet you again hat is what will
/ happen if you won't take me. Mother
said TO Archclaus: 1t quite upsets him
to be left behind 1t was good of you
, to send me presents on the 18th. the
day you sailed Send me a Tyre, | i'm
. pIore you II you don't, | won't eat l
won't drink. There now
Yes, Mr.. DooIey. though we have
many things that these anclents wot not
off, though we Of city, and town and cour>
try-Side are vastly superior in many ways
to the men and women OF city and town
and country side two thousand years
ago, still we are the sons and daugh-
tiers OF our fathers and mothers, and you
: once more revealed your shrewd philos-
ophy when you said
4 see great changes going on every
day Of my life, but see no change every
I ifty years.