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The Rockland Gazette. Gazette Job Printing FLBEISHED EVERY THURSDAY A1TERNOOK l»Y ESTABLISHMENT. Having every facility in Presses, Type aod Materials VOSE & PORTER, to which we are constantly making addlUoug, we are prepared to execute with promptness aid food stjHe 2 I O M a in S t r e e t . every variety of Job Printing, including Town Reports, Catalogue*, By-Law TERMS: Po ters, Shop Bills, Hand Bills, Pro If paid strictly in advance—per niiuuiu, $2.00. grammes, Circulars, BUI Heads, If pnyw ent i» delayed 0 iihinLliH, 2.25. Letter Heads, Law and Corpor If not paid till the clone of the ation Blanks, Receipts, Hills « « • N e w nubneribem are e xpet of Lading, Business, Ad payment in advance dress and Wedding < * “ N o p a p er wil Cards, Tags,]* Labels, C « r Single copies La—for »ale at the office an ROCKLAND, MAINE, THURSDAY AFTEROON, NOVEMBER 4, 1875- N O . 48 A c . at the Bookstores. V O L U M E 30. PRINTING IN COLORS AND BROMUXOJ J. II. POltTEH. will receive prompt attention. Z. PO l’K VOJsE. change the subject rose and examined the matter,” I said. “ If this disease is heredi There were deprecating exclamations. You have nothing to fear, you have only to kinds, persimmons, the few vegtablea ’oretvn. pictures, and so led the conversation to ta ry ----- ” “ W hat!” exclaimed Pomfret starting to be happy when I am gone. that his own family did not need, and in other matters; hut I was far from*being at “ It is—it is!” he interrupted, eagerly. his feet, “ do you wonder I gave that toast? “ If I am violently insane for years, fact all the odds and ends that are so well You think, then, that 1 am a happy man?” u n g ease in a false position, and took advantage “ My father died insane—my grandfather, place me in an asylum at my ejyxmse. I Brief article*, HUg^esiioiin, atul result* of experu known to the farmer’s boys every where. of the first opportunity to ask Mr. Pomfret also.” He tossed oil' the wine, motioning the have arranged for lliis cuiiiu :-;nev. But I dating to Farm, Garden or Household managed These were regularly added to his stock of others to do the same; hut we all sat mo SOUVENIRS. if his sister supposed me to be recovering •• The tendency is on your fathers side have not great physical end a .nice; I do re invited from our readers interested in such mat butter and eggs at very little cost and sold from a fever. of the family, then?” tionless, looking at him. llis manner was not think 1 shall suffer long. And then upon the market stall, while the prowling “ Yes.” he answered, “ and :is 1 thought “ Yes; my mother was singularly health excited—almost frenzied. come rest and peace. Good-bye, my population of the neighborhood appropria ------OF------ it might he necessary I intimated the pos ful in mind and body. Not robust, but “ You think so-? Ila, ha? ” laughing wild darling sister; make me, at last, a peaceful TIIE CANKER WORM. ted these little outside luxuries from the less r h a n d ; will ’ sibility of your remaining with us for a sound and even-tempered.” ly. “ Why, the beggar at my door is more grave and come there sometimes, remem provident farmer’s domain. Both were when parted? little time. Will it he jxissible? ” She was a blonde?” to he envied than I, for there is a curse up bering me not as a lunatic, but as the In those sections that are liable to the successful in life, but the one who paid at “ I think not. 1 have patients in town Yes.” on me? A skeleton sits at my daily board brother you played with in childhood, and depredation of the canker worm, now is tention to the little items, was eminently Fall & W inter the time to begin to far the trees to pro who require my daily attendance.” Yonr father was dark-complexioned —is here among us now! Do you not see who loved you with his. last calm thought. so, and could gratify as he went along very 1 “ But I will have you taken in every day and of a iu is temporal it? No.no: you are blind! Iieavens! the RALPH POMFRET.” tect them. It was formely supposed that many desires for the luxuries of life, that by the carriage,” he replied eagerly. He was air is full of invisible demons, dancing for the moths of the eanker worm came out ol the other felt to lie beyond his means The epistle was dated on the very day the ground only in the spring, but it is now I The servant had brought in tea, and Miss Is th at .rtra it o f Id joy. 'They gloat upon me in my misery!” his fearful malady overtook him. Take care of tho cents and the dollars will •e have pa At that moment the truth flashed upon well known that many rise in the late fall Olig the G. Pomfret had been giving him some direc in the room ieupie.1 bust I took the weeping girl in my arms. take care of themselves, is truejin farming. DRESS GOODS I. lie r..,,lie, 1 in 1 me. I left my seat and drew near to Pom and early winter. In a mild open winter [Poor Richard. tions; but now she glanced toward us, nor- As I e x p w ould ha “ Emma, he trusted; cannot you? Will you can find them in every month from re. I h: ilready not iced fret, whispering a word to the butler, who FANd a iu w intry weatliei | vously, I thought, as she announced tea. you let me try to make you happy? ” October to March, but usually it is chiefly wlu.lii a|.| was an intelligent and powerful man. Pom . We seated ourselves at the table. Miss hlance in She elung to me with sobbing breath, from the middle or 20th of October to Experience Teaeheth. you n g m an 'In- ............ 1 fretstiMMl g az in g fixedly into th e air. th e Pomfret drank her tea composedly; her but I felt that it was not physical weakness about the first of December, and then again figure: tin* empty glass in his extended hand. • bro th er ordered iee<l sh erb et an d partook of nor even desolation which made bier mine. from about the first to the middle of March. I am an old man, upwards of three score face. •• Mr. Pomfret, ” I said gently, trying to IIE NINETY AND NINI | little else. • I felt that she knew how 1 loved her for If the frost holds off well and the weather years, during two scores of which I have Carpetings. i “ The. hot weather takes away my taste, It is a ghtful catch his eye for ma>terv, ‘‘you have for her goodness and purity—that she recog been a tiller of the soil. I cannot say that family,” he id, tren blii gotten yourself; you have takeu too much is warm, they will not apjMiar until the Tlie following is ii j and 1 don’t think it is good for you to drink nized the integrity I had striven to ntain- end of October, but if there are early hard I am rich now, but I have been rich and ful livmii* o f the r« valti 1 that hot tea, Emma,” said Pomfret. “ Yen H e was lookii •d th e 1b Let me accompany you to your tain. and loved me in return. frosts, as tliere have lieen this f ill, it is best do not owe a dollar ; have given my chil had much better have a glass of this,” and his glance wandered to one of the upper, room h ild : Rai’s grave is peaceful. Willows shade to be on the lookout for them softn after dren a good education, and when I am rerc ninety and nine tha ‘ he passed her n goblet of the sherbet. w indow s. “ Forget! I cannot—forget?” he said in t, mignonette blooms upon it, bees buzz pathetic despair. “ Aly skeleton is before the middle of this month. They begin to tailed away, will leave them enough to r sh e lte r o f th e fold; I As she took it I saw that her little white “That window is barred on the inside,” iabove, and the sunahiu® lingers 1 ingest t)ie. 'There she sits—my sister. You see make their appearance soon after the first keep the wolf away from the door. My was out on the lulls av hand trembled. A moment later he ob he said, in a low tone. there upon the hilltops. We love to go experience has taught me that : •• For what reason? ” her fair hair, her blue eyes, like my moth hard frosts, and if these come early the IT from th e gates o f gold served that she did not drink it. there and think tlie sufl'ering is |wist for canker worm will come early, if late then 1. One acre of land, well prepared, ma “ My father died there,” he almost whis er’s. Sllti thinks she will escape it so; but him . m the m ountains w ild ai •• Isn’t it sweetenough? ” he asked. Then the pests will delay the later.