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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19,1907.
NO. 9
As through Dover town in the chill, Though the flinty slopes be hard.
JOHN G. WHITTIER
Stubble-speared the new-known sward,
grmy dawn,
tiie
cart-tail
Every
morn shall lead thee through
Three
women
pasted,
s
t
Tb« One Hundrefth Anniversary
Fresh
baptisms
of the dewy L
drawn!
of His Birth.
Every
evening
from
thy fe*A
Bared to the waist, for the north wind's Shall the cool winds kiss
thekeat;
grip
John Greenlief Whittier, one of And kaener
AU
too
soon
these
feet
m
sting of the constable’s In the prison cells of pride, ast hide
the greatest ot Amrrican poets,
whip,
the freedom of the sod.
v aa born at Haverhill, Massa- The blood
that followed each hissing Lose
Like
s
colt’s for work be shod,
<r usetts, December 17,1807, and
blow
Made
to
tread the mills of toil, ‘ \
'iy tesday of this week was the Prose ae it sprinkled the winter snow. Up and down in cosaaleaa moil:
« > hundredth anniversary of his George R. Carpenter in his Happy if their track be found v
b th. He was a Quaker by sketch of the life of Whittier says: Never on forbidden ground;
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Happy if they sink not in
birth. The Whittiers were small “Here the progress of the century Quick
JO' S
treacherous sands of sin.
farmers, and pearly his whole has worked as plainly for the Ah! that and thou
couldst
know
thy
joy.
/
life was spent in the county in permanence of his fame as it has Ere it paaaaa, barefoot boy!
y
which he was born. His mother worked against that of his polit-
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fine type of Quaker ma­ ical verse. His political verse
• Early Morning Fare.
—*-
tron, “whose religion found ex tended to perpetuate differences On last i FrMdy
* 'i A
H
morning
at
prcasion in an ideally beautiful of opinion that were soon settled hour of 3:40 the sound of the
forever. His religions verse, on bell followed by the shriek of
character.”
i
Until he was nearly twenty, the other hand, steadily pre­ fire
w
Whittle aroused people from
Whittier had po educational ad­ figured a unity of feeling to which sound
slumber to apprise theqt
vantages besides those afforded gentle souls of all creeds aspire. of the fact
that the heavens were
by the ordinary district school. For many decides all the Prot­ being lighted
by a burning
In 1827 and 1828, however, he estant sects in America have building, which up proved
be the
attended the Haverhill Academy. been moving slowly toward the store building vacated by to George
For a year he was in the em- Quaker standpoint—tending to Hardwick only a few days be­
TH E
, ploy of a Boston printiag-bonse, acknowledge that always, by fore,
E V E R Y T H IN G FOR X M A S
he having removed his stock
where he edited a Protectionist the mouths of prophets, poets, of second
to tiie Front of all Competitors we
I’**—“* N—
hand furniture to the
paper and a temperance journal. priests and philosophers, God old hotel building
oq the corner
For another year he was the edi­ hath revealed himself; and that ot Firs« and Majn streets.
to r of the New England Weekly the living spirit of God, acting The fire was well under way
Review in Hertford, in which he upon the hearts ot men, is the
it was discovered by the
succeeded George D. Prentice. great guide in matters of con­ •when
Shirer
family who have the con­
In 1833 he signed the National duct and belief."
fectionery
adjoining, and
Anti-Slavery Declaration as one The following is one of Whit­ by the time store
writable gift» for old and “young. .A thoroughly First-class Stock, co tbining
the fire companies
•of the delegates from Massachu­ tiers best child life poems:
arrived the building was gutted,
Novelty, Quality, and Elegance, with prices VERY LOW. Everybody
setts; in 1835 he was a member
THE BAREFOOT BOY.
but
good
work
was
done
how­
of the Massachusetts Legisla­ Blessings on thee, little man,
ever in subduing the flames and
boy, with kheek of tan!
ture; in 1837 he was for a few Barefoot
saving adjoining buildings from
With thy tumed-up pantaloons,
months in New York as one of And
thy
merry
whistled
tones;
injury.
The bnilding burned was
the secretaries of the American W ith thy red lips, redder still
N
O S .
first
erected
on Main street near
Anti-Slavery Society; and from Kissed by strawberries on the hill; the present location
of the Com­
1837 to 1840 he was editor of W ith the sunshine on thy face.
mercial
hotel
and
was
afterward
the Pennsylvania Freeman, a Through thy torn brim’s jaunty grace removed to the location
of the
my heart I give thee joy,—
Philadelphia abolitionist jour­ I From
was
once
a
barefoot
boy!
ruins,
just
west
of
the
railroad
nal. With the exception of the Prince thou a rt—the grown-up man switch by N. C. Christenson and
absences occasioned by these
is republican. ~
J. C. Sawyer who used it as an
dunes, Whittier’s long life was Only
Let the million-dollarad ride!
implement store. Later it has
almost entirely spent in Essex Barefoot, trudging at his side.
served as bicycle store and vari­
more than be can bey
•ebuaty, Massachusetts; cither m In Thou the best
reech
of
ear
and
eye,—
ous other purposes, the small
Haverhill, Amesbury, or Dan­ Outward sunshine, inward joy;
room
on the corner serving as a
vers. Hedied in Hampton Falls, sings on thee, barefoot boy!
shooting
gallery ,.when the fire
New Hampshire, September 8th, 0 for boyhood’s painless play.
occurred. Some months ago it
1892.
Sleep that wakes in laughing day,
was sold to Mr. Gregory who
Whittier’s spirit was that of Health that mocks the doctor’s rules, removed
to Newberg from Linn
Knowledge never learned of schools,
the reformer. As a boy he wrote Of
the wild bee’s morning chase,
county and he had begun mak­
th at he would rather have “the Of the
wild-flower^
time
and
place,
.
ing some changes about the 26 Piece Set bf Table Silver Reg­
memory of a Howard, a Wilber- Flight ot fowl ana habitude
bnilding only a day or two be­ ular $10 set for $7.50.
force, or a Clarkson, than the Of the tenants of the wood; \ -
the fire, expecting to pnt it Toilet Set of Comb, Brush and
mndying fame of a Byron." He How the tortoise bears his shell, v in fore better
condition for occu­ Mirror, Quadruple Silver, $8.00
How the woodchuck digs his cell,
was always on the side of the And
the
ground-mole
sinks
his
well;
'
pancy.
It
was
for $1000
•oppressed and had a perfect ha­ How the robin feeds her young, 0 in favor of Mr. insured
Seely,
of
Wilaon- CLOCKS-Special Mantel Clock,
tred of slavery. Hts poems writ­ How the oriole’s neat is hung;
ville, who holds a mortgage on Black Ebony Case, 8-day and
ten during the troublous tjmes Where the whitest lilies blow,
it.
The origin of the fire is not strike, special price, $5.50
•of the anti-slavery movement Where the freshest berries grow.
known.
the groundnut trails its vine.
(fired the hearts of his country­ Where
Toilet Sets in Sterling Silver,
the wood-grape’s dusters shine; In connection with a fire there Special, $2.00 to $8.00
men and helped to hasten the Where
Goods Delivered Free
Of the blade wasp's cunning way.
J
are
nearly
always
some
incidents
ending of slavery.
Mason of his walls of ^lay,
worth mentioning and here is All goods engraved free
During the early settlement of And
Both Phones
the architectural plans
6ne or two in connection with
the Colonies in America the Of gray hornet artisans!—
this one. With the first tap of x
Charge
For, eschewing books end tasks,
‘ Quakers were whipped and other­ Nature
the
bell
Curt
Parker’s
bull
pup
answers
ell
he
asks;
wise subjected to all manner of Hand in hand with her he walks,
“Ned” set up an unearthly howl A Complete Line of Rogers’ Sil
indignities. The following is a Face
to face with her he talks,
and
bounded up stairs to awaken verware at Lowest Possible
copy of the warrant issued by Part and parcel of her joy,—
Major Waldron, ot Dover, in Blessings on the barefoot boy! ' /*• the boys, repeating the yowHng
Prices
as
he
landed
at
the
top
and
when
1662:
0 for boyhood’s time of June,
To the constables of Dover, Crowding ysal's in one brief moon,' . the door was opened he streaked RINGS
it up town and arrived in time
Hampton, Salisbury, Newbury, When all things I heard or saw,
BRACELETS
to help yank the bell cord and
Me,
their
m
aster
waited
for.
\
Rowley, Ip sw ich, Wenham, 1 was rich in flowers and trees.
then
did
his
best
to
lend
assist­
Lynn, Rostov; /Koxbury, Ded­ Humming birds and honey-bees;
JEWELRY
ance
at
the
fire.
Whosays“Ned’’
ham, and until these vagabond For
my sport the squirrel played,
in profusion
should not be employed as watch­
Quakers are carried out ot this Plied the snouted mole his spade;
man about the gates of the city?
For my taste the blackberry tone
Jurisdiction.
Purpled
over
hedge
and
stone;
-Dan Gilbert, a member of the Cut Glass Chafing Dishea
You and every one of you, are Laughed the brook for my delight
required, in the King’s Majesty’s Through the day and through the night, hose company on hearing the
danger signal jumped from a
name, to tkke these vagabond Whispering a t the garden wall,
Watch Sale
warm
bed and reached for his Gentlemens
• 'Quakers, Anne Coleman, Mary Talked With me from fall to fall;
Elgin or DRUGS « MEDICINES.
shirt in order to appear in Waltham Watch Size
Tomkins, #and Alice Ambrose, Mine the sand-rimmed pickerel pond, red
in
Nickel
Case,
regulation uniform, and after
the waluut slopes beyond,
and make them fast to the cart’s Mine
PRESCRIPTION WORK A Our line o f Christmas goods
tagging in vain at the garment While They Last $4.44
in bending orthaTd trees.
tail, and driving the cart through Mina,
for several minutes he made the
is larger and more com­
Apples
of
Hesperidest
SPECIALTY.
Jo n r several towns, to whip Still as my horison grew,
discovery that what he was Sterling Silverware is
plete than ever before.
wrestling with in his mad haste
them upon their naked backs not Larger grew my riches too,
early and get first
was red flannel all right but that t for Christmas Gifts
Books, Stationery, Fancy and Come
•exceeding ten stripes apiece on All the world I saw or knew
choice.
it properly belonged on the other Make your selections early be­ Toilet Artielee. Camara and
a complex Chinese toy,
•each of them, in each town; and Seemed
extremities of the bod^-and
Fashioned
for
a
barefoot
boy!
Kodaks and all kinds o f Camera
ao to convey them from consta­
fore
the
best
pieces
are
gone
possibly
it
was
not
Dana
gar­
Supplies.
festal dainties spread. "
ble to constable till they are out 0 Like for my
ment either. However Dan was
NASH & FINLEY
LESSONS GIVEN IN KODAK'
bowl of milk and bread,—
on
hand
at
¿he
fire
in
good
sea­
•of this jurisdiction, as you will Pewter spoon
We
engrave
all
goods
pur­
and bowl of wood.
son—in fact in time to get the
answer it at your peril; and this On the door-stone,
gray and rude!
first
charge of water from a not chased of us free of charge
«hall be your warrant. + '
O’er me like a regal tent,
properly
manned nozzle square
while you wait
W ar W ith Japan.
R ichard W aldron . Cloudy-ribbed, the sunset bent,
tn
the
hack,
accompanied
with
a
fringed with gold,
Dated at Dover, December, 22, Purple-curtained,
The New
“don’t that jar von" sensation.
Could not possibly make so many
Looped in many a wind-swung fold;
home
way
Then
while
on
nia
qripples
as
rheumatism
does
every
1662.
BAKERY
for music came the play
after the fire was out a live wire
year. And yet there is no reason Is now HOME
The reading of this inhuman While
Of the pied frogs’ orchestra;
in
operation
will be
that haa been broken by the fire
why this disease should cripple pleased to wait upon all and who we would
treatment of women inspired And, to light the noisy choir.
Hk#
struck him on one arm und he
anyone, if all sufferers will rub the to try our home made breed, pian»
Whittier to write “How the Wo­ Lit the fly his lamp of fire,
was
told
by
the
electricians
that
affected
parts
night
and
morning
monarch; pomp and joy
men Went from Dover,’, and here 1 W was
the wonder was that he was not
with Ballard’s Snow Liniment. cakes, etc.
Newberg Jeweler
aited
bn the barefoot boy!
killed outright. They should
•ae« the first twoytanzaa:
Cures
all aches and pains. Sold by
G. F. Herriott
Next to Pwtofflce.
•Cheerily; than, my Uttle man,
remember, however, that he is
Moon’s
drag
store.
D m tossing spray of Cochtco’a fall
First
sad Edwards 8L
U ve and laugh, aa boyhood can!
the ke man.
Hardened to ko on. its rocky **11
ERKYi
APPY
Christmas
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