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cipally and first of all I give my 
precious and Immortal soul into the 
frends of “God. ** *° *~ . and like- 
wise my body to the Earth from 
whence it was originally taken to be 
Decently buried * * * | and also 
that worly estate which it hath pleased 
God to bless me with in this life — I 
give, dismiss and dispose of the same 
in the following manner and form : 
I do hereby order my executors 
hereafter named after paying my 
funeral charges to pay all my just and 
Bae Jcbte. Fo. ee, RE. tem, 
I give and bequeath to Mary, my true 
and ever beloved wive, the east room 
in my new dwelling house with priv- 
ilege in the Chamber and Garrit — 
also in the sink room and cellar her 
life time, with liberty to pass and re- 
pass to and from each as she shall 
have Occation. I give also to my 
wife twenty bushels of corn and grain 
yearly her life time, four of wheat and 
tour of rie and Indian Corn, all to be 
ground into meale and brought to her 
dwelling; also one hundred wait of 
Pork and one hundred wt. of Beef 
with other fresh meat yearly as she 
shall choose. The pork and beef to 
be salted, and also fifty wt. of butter 
and fifty wt. of good cheese yearly 
her life time, and also the use of one 
of my cows her lifetime. The cow at 
the decease of my wife is to be my 
son Daniel’s; and alsoa sufficiency of 
good fire wood yearly her life time 
brought to her dwelling cut ready for 
the fire, with a privilege in the garden, 
ge sne-siidilsiave occation, * * * 
I give also to my present wife three 
barrills of Cyder yearly her life time, 
and apples yearly her life time as she 
may have occasion to want them. I 
give also to my present wife twenty 
pounds of flax and six pounds of 
sheeps wool yearly her life time. I 
give also to my present wife the use 
and improvement of all my household 
goods and furniture her life time and 
likewise I give and bequeath to my 
wife the sum of thirty pounds lawful 
money to be paid to her equally by 
my executors at my decease and if 
she don’t want the principal it is to be 
returned equally to my executors at 
herdecesse, ~ * * ™ I give and 
bequeath all my wareing apparell to 
my three sons, Jonathan, Daniel and 
Asa equally to be divided between 
them. I give and bequeath to my 
son Jonathan Herrick the piece of 
land which is about fifty acres lay- 
ing in Manchester, in the county of 
VEL Sie welche ei gdimataddliaal 
Miss Josephine Rand of Portsmouth 
arrived here Wednesday for a short 
visit with Mr. and Mrs. F. Clifford 
Rand, Union street, Manchester. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
“SLE FOYER.” 
Continued from page one. 
With what delight we gather around 
the sputtering and crackling logs, and 
with a curly head ducked under my 
arm, what joy to sit dreamily gazing 
into the fire and whiling the twilight 
hour away. 
The lamps must not be lighted and 
the shades must not be drawn, because 
half the charm is in seeing the dancing 
fire-light reflected in the snow and 
darkness outside. And a cheery, 
piping voice from my ‘curly head ”’ 
repeats, or 
“Whispers the old rhyme under the tree, 
When the fire outside burns merrily, 
There the two witches are making tea.” 
I wonder if there would be half-as 
much discontent and unhappiness on 
earth if each family had its wood lot 
and could afford the openfire. ‘here 
is something indescribably softening 
and humanizing about it. 
How could we have had the “ Cot- 
ter’s Saturday Night” without ‘ His 
wee bit ingle blinkin bonnily?”’ AI- 
ways the association creeps in with 
dreams of cheer and home lfe in 
Iter 
Next to our fireplace is the dear, 
despised old airtight stove. Into that 
I can crowd a generous log, and 
through the front door chinks catch 
the dancing shadows on wall and 
carpet. One can never be lonely with 
the cheer and the glow of it. I sup- 
pose combustion is life, and the visible 
fire is as truly a picture of life as 
anything unconscious can be. There 
are some curious lines from Cornelius 
Agrippa’s “ Occult Philosophy.” 
‘ As evil spirits be stronger in darkness, 
So good spirits, which be angels of light, 
Are augmented not only by the divine light 
of the sun, 
But, also, by our common wood fire. 
And, as the Celestial fire hath forever to 
dispel evil spirits, 
So this, our fire of wood, hath the same.” 
That was the notion of the old 
wizard, who, believing in the existence 
of good and evil spirits, must perforce 
find the fire a protecting charm. What 
would he think to be on the scene 
today, when so many of earth’s great- 
est minds are busily at work studying 
into the laws that underlie spiritual 
life, and testing in every way the 
claim for a spiritual entity in man? 
Many persons who, through Scriptural 
revelation, have long professed a belief 
in the power of the human being to 
exist after the death of the body, ex- 
press surprise and indignation at the 
claim of our great scientists and re- 
ligious leaders, that this condition, if 
real, should be susceptible of proof 
like all other truths in nature’s realm. 
Superstition and the religious fetich, 
which teaches that whatever concerns 
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our future existence is God’s particu- 
lar province and no business of man’s, 
is responsible ‘en parti’ for the 
meagre knowledge existihg in this 
department of human thought. Rob- 
ert Ingersoll quoted of. his friend, 
‘‘He has gone where reason cannot 
go,’’ and sans doute, this has too long 
been our stumbling block. 
All honor to those pioneer souls, 
who, through the talk of ghosts, 
wraiths and plagues of darkness, will 
‘leave no stone unturned ’”’ in their 
efforts to discover the truth about 
this human mechanism of ours, and 
in so doing to prove to man his capa- 
bility of continued existence. 
Gail Hamilton said: ‘The Al- 
mighty has no secrets from us if we 
can discover them. What is reserved 
from us is reserved by our own limita- 
tions and ignorance, and judging from 
the past, will be opened to us as soon 
as we discover the laws of approach.” 
Credulity has long been the stigma 
of spiritualism, and science is now 
taking up the torch that shall illumine 
a broader way. Yet, I say, “All 
honor to those pioneer souls, who, 
through spiritual insight, first essayed 
to lift the veil that hides from our 
flesh-bound vision the light of a com- 
ing day.” 
PRIDE’S CROSSING. 
Many North Shore people are inter- 
ested in the forthcoming marriage of 
Miss Catherine Morgan Dix, daughter 
of Rev. and Mrs. Morgan Dix of New 
York, to William H. Wheelock, The 
Dixes had the John L. Gardner cot- 
tage, near Mingo beach, the seasons 
of 1902 and 1903, and were quite prom- 
inent in all the social events of the 
season while here. The marriage is 
set for January 17, in New York. 
Work will soon be started on re- 
modelling the old school house at 
Beverly Farms, recently sold to Ar- 
thur Little, the Boston architect and 
a summer resident here, by John H. 
Linehan. The amount paid for the 
place was $25,000. 
Frank Trowt, who attends a school 
in Northampton, arrived home for the 
holidays, yesterday. 
Work onthe Frick and Judge Moore 
estates has been impeded somewhat 
the past week because of the snow and 
cold. 
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Pratt McKean, 
who closed their house here last week, 
are to give a cotillion at the Bellevue- 
Stratford, in Philadelphia, on Friday 
night, Jan. 13, on which occasion Miss 
Elizabeth Sturgis Potter will be the 
guest of honor. Miss Potter visited 
Miss Eleanor Sears last summer and 
met many of the younger set here. 
