VOL. 1. AUGUSTA, ME* FRIDAY MORNING. JUNE 3, 1870. NO. 132.
JUniuicc Jmtrtul.
Fublishod on Water, Foot of Court Street,
AUGUSTA. MAINE.
BY 8PBAUIE, OWEN A NASH.
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Contains the latest news by telegraph and mail,
gives reports of the Markets, and has carefully pre
pared political and local articles, and a generous
amount of fanning, home and miscellaneous read*
ng with a full compilation of state news.
Terms, $7 per annum in advance $s ii payment
s not made within the year. Single copies 4 cents,
to be had ut the bookstores and at this office.
Advertisements one inch in length, three in
sertions or less. $1.00; 25 ets. for every subsequent
insertion. Longer advertisements, or those inserted
for any considerable length of time, will be inserted
at favorable terms to the advertiser.
Special Notices 25 per cent, additional.
Amusement Notices, $2 per square per week.
<S0Mhl5 lenncbcc Journal,
Published every Wednesday morning,
Is the largest folio paper in the State, containing
nows, political articles, agricultural and scientific
matter, tales, poetry, anecdotes, household recipes,
markets, Ac., Ac.
Terms $2 per annum in advance,
Transient Advertisements, $1.50 per Inch for
first week ; 25 cents per week for each subsequent
insertion.
Special Notices, $2.00 per Inch for first week;
50 cents per week for each subsequent week.
Business Notices, in reading columns. 20 cents
per line for first insertion; 10 cents per line for each
subsequent insertion. +
All transient advertisements to be paid /or in
advance.
BATH TIBS, CUPPER BOILERS,
Water Closets, Wash Basins,
IIUA.HM * PLATED WARE,
fast Iron I*ipe,
Lead Pipe, Sheet Lead,
And every article pertaining to Plumbing kept rou*
' bluntly on hand and Tor bale at
H. R. STRATTON’S,
Corner Bridge A Water Streets.
Under Hunt’s Hat Store.
N. R. Plumbing in all ita branches done in a neat
and thorough manner.
Particular Attention Paid to Jobbing.
fl2apr*tf
RICHMOND PORTABLE RANGE
-AND
Hanging Dome Furnace!
At WII.I.IAMSOS & IKEEN WOOD'S.
Cough Candy !
At^ETOEtBriMi'S COUGH CANDY eures
COUGHS. COLDS, WHOOPING COLUHanil
all Throat troubles.
2 Doors south of Granite Block, Market Sq.
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS,
Fancy Groodai, cfcc., soid by
ianl-lyt W. WEN DEN BUBO.
PIANO TUNING.
rpHK Subscrilier wouiu mionn ine
IJ[ citizen* of Augusta and vicinity
Unit he wUl give per no mil attention to
tuning Plano*. Order* lelt at lii* rc»
iilcnce, »? Winttorop NUreet, wm re< . m- I
attention. M. ( . MlLlilKhV
febtrtf Teacher of Pi vm> and Organ_
llrcivster’s Hotel,
SKOWHECAN, ME.
npilIS large and coimnoiliou* Uolel is pituiited.it
X the head of the Falls on the Kennebec river, m
the enterprising village of t*k«m began, the teruuuu*
of the P—tlinn & Kuunebec I*. It. w
This i* one of the beat arranged Hotels for family
borders there is in the state, and a hotter place for
Summer resort, cannot be found in Muiue. The
best of water, beautiful drives on the hanks ol the
river, fUHfcig and sailing ponds in the viemily, trout
brooks, where you can catch an abundance of the
spotted brook trout any day in the year.
Price* for permanent or tranaient boarding are
very low, so onr customer* can afford to come often
and stay a good while.
We afso have a large airy stable to board horses
for the guests that wish to bring their teams with
them. Also one of the best half-mile trotlmgpaiks
in the State, ia connected with U»e Uouae, arc .or
ine guests to train their horses or drive for pleasare.
tl7jan-tt H. H BKEW8TKR, /Proprietor.
Stevens’ Condition Powders !
For Horses and Cattle.
rpHEBe.t Powder* ever discovered. Allwensk
I is one trial anil people w ill lie convinced. Price
only 4.'i cents per package. OH A*. E. STKVKVs
Mdiinfn.turer and Proprietor, 14. Bridge St., East
C Kor'silfo by"A.'0. DANA, 7 Onion Block, Au
gusta. <W*
brushes
OP EVERY DESCRIPTION AT
JOHNSON BROTHERS.
Alien, Small & Co,
machinists,
And MunulbeturerH ot
Steam Engines, Circular Haw Mills,Clap*
board Planer*, Shafting, Pulley*,
Mill Work, and nil kind* of
JOBBING
Psually done in a first-class Machine Shop. Also
Improved Excelsior Machines,
ghleh cuts two Bolts at a time as readily as one
I BOARD PleAIMERM constantly on hand.
■o. 1 Journal Block, . • Water Street,
■ 6m AUGUSTA, ME. 5jan*0
| jTw. TOWARD, Mr D.,
■ physician and surgeon.
■ AIGIMTA, MK.
I Beaidenee on Green Street, opposite the Mctho
Hist Church. ___
| WANTED!
Hi ' .YKMKKS and Hunter* having prime Mina akuis
■L on hand will Ami a cash customer at highest
Hiarket price by sending them to
K J. 11. WEI.LA Ac to.,
THE SILENT SEWING MACHINE!
AS A FAMILY ASSISTANT,
The Milleox Si Wibbs Sewing Machine!
Will be found to excel all other'*. The ease with which it runs, its ready adaptation to all
kinds of work without delay or hesitation, its quiet fidelity, its
Superior Strength and Durability of Work,
arc points that astonish and delight all who make its acquaintance. Ladies who are unfa
miliar with this Machine, do not yet know the full blessing and comfort of a Sewing Ma- 1
chine in the family, though they may possess many others and think they arc satisfied.
In proof of this assertion is the significant fact,
ihat its strongest advocates and most enthusiastic admirers are always found among
those who have used and arc most familiar with other leading machines.
From the thousands of testimonials from all parts of the country, we select the following
from the city of Augusta:
AUGUSTA, March, 1870.
Having used the Willcox & Gibbs Sowing Machine in our respective families'upon
all the various kinds of work required, some of 11s from one to six years, others for
a shorter time, some of us also being familiar with the use of othor leading machines,
wo cheerfully recopimend it as a most excellent family machine. It runs easily and
quietly, is simple and easy in its management, doos not get out of order, is always
ready, its work is strong and durable, and in all respect, gives most entire satisfaction
Mrs. S. S. Brooks, Mrs. C. I. Penney,
“ John McArthur, * “ Enoch Sampson,
“ II. M. Potter, “ S. G. C. Pullen,
“ A. M. Lyford, “ G. B. Hoyt,
“ G. W. Cross, “ A. J. lteynolda,
“ C. E. Page, “ II. G. Smiley,
“ T. <J. Hoyt, , Miss Minnie Woart,
“ C. II. Starbird, Mr. Thomas Wadsworth.
Willcox & Gibbs Sewing Machine Agency,
At Store of F. LYFOKI),
piiiar AUGUSTA.
Also, for Sale as above, A. B. HOWE, Improved!
A standard, and one of the most reliable Machines in use.
Trunks ! Trunlis 1
THE PLACE TO J1TTY
Fronch, Fugcno, Solo Lcntlicr,
Ami all kindc of common
T H A YEL Tj T IV Cl T 11 U >7 JC S !
Also, Ladies’amt Gents’ TRAVELLING A SHOPPING IIAGS, is at
HAMILTON & TURNER’S.
135 Mater Strert.
The Right Place to hnv vonr II UINLsnEv ami got the celebrated Dl'NN HAltNtss. - al
IIA.HII/ro.M A Tl'It.MEIt'*, 135 WATER STREET.
The cheapest plaec to bny WHIPS, CURRTCOMBS, BRUSHES, BLANKETS, SURCINGLES, HAL
TERS, Ac., ia at HAMILTON & TURNER’S,
135 WATER STREET.
HARNESSES!
For Business, Pleasure, Teaming, Truckiug, Curling A expressing.
Manufactured from (jOOD OAK STOCK, and by the best of workmen.
'Ve would remind the public that our 11 mies- took all the premiuma offered at the last State Fair
four in number. Also the First,premium at tin.* late New England Fair.
As our eustomera are tUiily infornietl that our Harnesses are Machine Stitched—we wonhl invito
them and the nnblic generally'to call and examine the largest stock of ready-made Harnesses ever of
fered in this city, and we wili convince them that we make the be>t HAND sTITCHEI) work to he had
lor the same amount of money, anil if \vt don’t have on hand what is wanted, can make it at short
notice Sample? of Hold Hilt, Oroide Silver, Covered, and Japanned Trimmed Flames?, mav he ?een at
our saleroom, NO. 172 MIDDI-E SCKEI T. HENBY DUNN & SON.
For Hnl© Fjy
Hamilton db Turner,
135 WATER STREET, ■ - AUGUSTA, MAINE
tliA'ii.ir OPPOSITE DEERING & HOLWAYS.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT.
A FACT WORTH KXOWIXO.
TO THE PEOPLE OP AUGUSTA,
And all having business in Augusta please bear in hiind that the place to buy
PURE AN1) RELIABLE
ID x*ulg s, Medicines,
TOILET & FANCY ARTICLES,
And APOTHECARIES’ GOODS generally is at
FRANK KINSMAN’S DRUG STORK,
lie has spared no pains in selecting Goods of the purest to he found in the best markets
of the United States, and tiie same are offered to the public at
WHOLESALE OK RETAIL, ul “Prices tliut Defy Competition.”
He also continues to make all odd change IN GOLD AND SILVER. IIis motto
Quick Sales, Small Profits, Pure and Reliable Goods!
In hut weather FRANK’S STORK is the coolest place in the city, ami the Ice Cold Soda
drawn from the 0
Famous Non-corrosive Arctic Fountain
refreshes many weary souls. Temperance Devotees can drink and not violate their pledge.
THE COLDEST AND THE BEST! THE COLDEST AND THE BEST
with rich and delicious FRUIT SYRUPS.
Physician^’ Prescriptions carefully compounded from the purest Medicines at all
hours of the day and night.
REMEMBER THE NUMBER OF FRANK KINSMAN’S DRUG STORE,
No. 142 Water Street, : : Augusta, Maine.
James H. Leigh,
DEALER IS
Foreign and Domestic
DRYGOODS
Ai.so, Agent for
Wheeler A Wilson’s
SotAcliig Macliiiioei !
>I.KIH.l.N and all Tools adapted to the Ma
chines, constantly on hand.
WaU'r St., llallowell, Me.
flaprtf
JOURNAL
JOB PRINTING
Establishment!
OUR FRIENDS are reminded that having
the Largest
Steam Job Frintinn Establishment,
On the Rnrvr, and employing
COMPETENT AND EXPERIENCED WORKMEN!
We are at all times prepared to execute in the best manner
and at low prices, all kinds of
PLAIN AND FANCY
Book tfc Job Printing
— SUCH AS
Books,
Pamphlets,
Newspapers,
Mammoth Posters,
Handbills,
Show Cards,
Circulars,
Business and
Wedding Cards,
Letter Headings,
7//// Heads,
Ball Tickets,
Programme*,
Auction Hill*,
invoices,
Bills of Lading,
Receipts,
l.aw Blanks,
PLACARDS,
SCHEDULES,
INVITATIONS,
RAILROAD and
Steamboat Printing,
Ac., Ac., Ac.
To all those who desire work Id our line, we would say
that It is our intention to
SUIT OUR CUSTOMERS
Both in regard to I'nees and Execution of Work.
rr Oidcra by mall or express will receive Die same
PROMPT ATTENTION
as though delivered personally.
ISPBAGUE, OWEN & NASH,
JOURNAL OFFICK AUGUST A,
Acousta, Oct. 16, 1*69
J. F. Nason,
Manufacturer and Dealer in
Boots, Shoes and Rubbers,
Constantly receiving from the bent manufactories, .
Work suited to the wants of the people.
Water Street,
Ilallowell, IVf rvin<*.
a3rCustom work done with neatness and dcs* !
patch. _i
HENRY HEIMS,
No. lOO Nudbury Street, - - Boston,
MANUFACTUREK OF
BILLIARD TABLES
WITH THR COMBINATION STRING CUSHION,
i New and Second-Hand Tables always on hand
and for sal.i at the lowest prices. Give me a call
apr28-6ra R. E. \VILMAKT1I, Agent.
" HENRY 0. & A. A. NICHOLS,
MASONS AND SLATERS.
A M. work in their line done promptly and in a
good, workmanlike manner, by the day or job.
Particular attention paid to repairs of elate roofs,
cementing cisterns, cellars, Ac.
Orders left at A. P. Gould’s Stove Store, first door
above Railroad Bridge, promptly attended to.
1II.NUY O. NICHOLS,
ALBERT A. NICHOLS.
Augusta, Jan. 1 I960.
KEWEBEC SAYIMjS IlV\k!
Trustees s
W. F. HALLETT, RUSSELL EATON,
i O. C. WIIITKIIOLSE, DEANE PRAY,
ORBIN' WILLIAMSON.
Deposits received at the counter of the
Freemans National Bank.
The net earnings of the Bank are dil uted
every six months.
Loans made to Depositors on Depositing
their Bank-book as security.
J. L. ADAMS, Treasurer.
April 8th, 1870. I5tf __
Crockery, China & Glass. |
prun :w ueditc ed :
The prices of Crockery, China and Glass Ware at
Xo. lot) Water Street,
Are marked down to meet the fall in Gold
may.- ii J. D. P1EB( & A SON.
Pure Drugs & Chemicals
FOR SALE
At tho Lowest Rates !
TOILET ARTICLES,
FRENCH, ENGLISH, & DOMESTIC SOAPS,
CAMPHOR ICE,
Dentifrices, Ensllsli Cold Cream,
Coudray’a Cosmetique and Pomade,
Bay Rum, German and Domestic Cologne,
Hair Oils, Dressings, Restorers and
Dyes, Perfumery, Sachet Bags, Toilet
Powders, Moth and Freckle Lotions,
Camelia Balm, Laird’s Bloom of Youth,
Hagan’s Magnolia Balm, Barnes’ Mag
nolia Water. Shaving Crfe&m and Soaps,
Shaving Brushes, Razor Strops,
Nail Files and Cleaners,
Tweezers, Hand Mirrors, Dressing Cases,
PUFF IIOXEM,
irnr.Y, tortoise shell, <f nonx
Dressing and Pocket Combs,
FINE COMBS,
Nail, Tooth, Hair, Hat, and Clothes
BnUSIIES !
Thermometer*, Work Iloxe*,'
PORTE MONNAIES,
Pocket and Bill Books!
Feather l)n>tcr«,
PAINT & WHITEWASH BRUSHES,
SPONGES & CHAMOIS SKINS!
Cigar Cases, Cigars anil Tobacco,
Humphrey's Homeopathic Specifics,
Wellcome's and Fitch's Remedies,
ami all the popular
Patent Medicines, Pure Drugs,
Chemicals & Family Meiliciues,
Fresh Pressed Ilcrljs
NEATS’ FOOT,
Lard. Sperm. Olive, and Kerosene
OILS, cfcc.. cfcc.
WCall and examine, anil you w ill find
PRICES EXTREMELY LOW.
Physician's prescriptunb carefully compounded
IVom pure Medicines at all hours of tin* ‘day and
Might.
A. C. DANA,
Dltt l (-INT 4\ l> Ai»otiie« inv,
Successor to J. 1*. Peeking, No. 7 Union Block,
Water Street, Augusta, Mo.
Iy47
nnW’T With the sticky, Jttttnr
UUn I tlnugeroua Hair Prepera
tions, Imt use Nature's,
Hair Itrutorntlvf,
which is perfectly clean
and transparent, and en
tirely free from all dan
gerous drugs. It will
positively restore Gray
Hair, prevents the Hair
from falling off. will cause
np it to grow when prema
DL turely lost, removes dand
ruff and keeps the head
in a perfectly healthy con
dition. Try a bottle and
be satisfied that it is the
greatest discovery of the
age. PROCTER PROS.,
Gloucester, Mass., Solo
Agents for the Patentee.
All the Maine Druggists
POISONED
Portland & Kennebec Railroad.
Summer Arrangement, May 23, 1870.
ON anti alter Monday, May next, the Port
land aud Kennebec, Railroad Company will out
on an additional passenger train to leave Portland
for Augusta and intermediate stations at «.10, and
will be due at Augusta at 10 A. M
Returning in tho afternoon. Leaves Augusta at
:U5 and connecting with the eveui ig express for
Boston, which leaves Portland at « P. M and ar
H",ln Bortw* UXCOLN. S„„ori„Umlc,t.
Extermination!
rpilE fumes of a powerful drug destroys bed bugs
A and their eggs. Bedding and furniture need
not be removed. Satisfaction given or money re
funded. For full particulars enclose one dollar to
M. F. NEWCOMB,
Sw2S* Manchester, Maine.
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION.
The? citizens of Mniue who rejoice in the progress
of Human Freedom and Equal Rights, achieved by
the Nation under the direction of the National
Rkitblican Party during the* past decade; who
heartily second the administration of President
Grant in its measures to secure national prosperity
by the restoration of confidence abroad and tran
quility at home; who endorse its wise policy for the
reduction of the national debt and applaud its suc
cessful endeavors to establish economy and honesty
in the administration of the Government; who ap
prove the record of the party in Maine on all
questions of public policy, including its consistent
and straight-forward efforts for the suppression of
the evils of Intemperance, are requested to send del
egates to a State Convention, to be held in
Mranltc Hall, Augusta, Wednesday, June 15th, 1870
at eleven o’clock A. M., for the purpose of nominat
ing a candidate for Governor, and to transact such
other business as may properly come before the
Convention.
The basis of representation will be as follows:
Each city, town and plantation will be entitled to
one delegate, und one additional delegate lor every
75 votes cast for the Republican candidate for Gov
ernor in 18»>S. fraction of 40 votes will be entitled
to an additional delegate. #
Delegates are required to be actual residents of
the municipality they claim to represent in the Con
vention.
The Mate Committee will be in session in the lie
ccption Room of the hall ut » o'clock on the inorniug
of the Convention for the reception of the credentials
of delegates, and to hear and determine all cases of
contested elections, subject to ratification by the
Convention.
James G. Blaine, Chairman.
Wm 1\ Frye. 1
Cyrcb M. Powers,
Frederick Kobie,
Wm. V. Lowell, Republican
Jos. II. West,
PaCL STEVENS,
S. s. Marble,
Timothy Walker. > State
Wm. P. Wingate,
Stanley T. Pullen.
J. W. Wakefield.
Hiram Knowi.ton, Committee.
S. G. TliL’ULOUGH,
< ii arles B. Paine,
Geo. 11. Knowltox, .
Congressional Convention—3d District.
The Republicans of the Third Congressional Dis
trict are inviteil to send delegates to a Convention
to be held in
GRANITE HALL. AUGUSTA. ON TUESOAY. JUNE 14,
at 11 o’clock A. M., for the purpose of nominating a
candidate for Representative to the Forty-Second
Congress.
The basis of representation in the convention will
be one delegate for each city, town and plantation,
and an additional delegate for every hundred votes
cast for the Republican candidate for Congress in
1HK8. A majority fraction will be allowed an addi
tional delegate. This basis will give delegates as
follows:
Augusta, 11 Mercer. 3
Anson, 3 Mount Vernon, 3
Albion, 3 Moscow, 1
Athens, 3 New Portland, 3
Aina, 2 Newcastle, 4
Bingham, 2 Norridgewock, 4
Belgrade, 3 Noble borough, 2
Benton, 8 Palmyra, 3
Brighton, ‘2 Pittston, 3
Boothbay, 8 Pittsfield, 4
Bremen,’ 2 Ripley, * 2
Bristol. 4 Read field, 4 3
Cambridge, 2 Rome, 2
Chelsea, 2 St. Albans, 4
China, 4 Sidney, 3
Canaan, 3 Solon, ,3
Clinton, 3 Somerville, 2
Concord, 1 Skowhegau, 8
Cushing, 1 Southport, 2
Comville, 3 Smithfleld, 2
Detroit, 2 St. George, 1
Damariscotta, 3 Starks, 2
Dresden, 3 Thomas ton,
Einbden, 2 Union, 8
Edrecomb, 2 Vassalbo rough, «
Fairfield, ft Vienna, 2
Farmingdale, 2 * Waterville, 7
Fayette, 3 Wayne, 3
Friendship, 2 West Gardiner, 3
Gardiner, 7 YVjndsor, 3
Harmon v, 3 Winslow, 3
Hallo well, ft Winthrop, ft
Hartland, 2 Waldoborough, 4
Jefferson, 3 Westport, 2
Lexington, 2 White Held,
Litchfield, 4 Wiscasset, 3
Madison, 3 Washington, 3
Manchester, 2 Warren, 3
Mav field. 1 Carratunk, 1
Monmouth, 4 Unity plantation, 1
C. It. McFadden, 1
James B Dascomh, District
C. A. Wing, >
K. W. Robinson, I Committee.
J. A. Hall, j
Mav Hth. 1870.
Republican County Convention.
The Republican voters of Kennebec county art'
requested to send delegates to a Convention to be
held at
Granite Hall, Augusta, Wednesday, August 10th,
at 11 o’clock A. M., for the purpose of nominating
three candidates for Senators, one County Commis
sioner. County Attorney, County Treasurer, sheriff,
and to transact all other business that may proper
ly come before the Convention.
The basis of representation M ill be as follows
Kach city, town and plantation will be entitled to
one delegate and an additional delegate for even
seveutv-rtvo votes east for Joshua L. Chamberlain
at the Gubernatorial electiou of 1888. A fraction of
forty votes will be entitled to an additional dele
gate. . . .
The cities, towns and olantations are entitled to
the following number of delegates:
Albion, 3 Pittston. 5
Augusta, It Readtlcld,
Belgrade, 4 Rome, 2
Ben con, 3 Sidney, 4
( hclsea, 2 Vassalboro’, 8
Clinton, 4 Vienna, 3
China. ft Waterville, 10
Farmingdale, 3 Wayne, 3
Fayette, 3 West Gardiuer, 4
Gardiner, 10 Windsor, 3
Hallowed, « Winslow, 4
Litchfield, ft Winthrop, «
Manchester, 3 Clinton Gore, 1
Monmouth, ft Unity Plantation, 1
Mt. Vernon, 4
Total 132.
Wm. II. Libby, Augusta, )
L. T. BoorilBY, Waterville. j Republican
J. L. Stoddard, Gardiner, , County
Joseph T .Woodward, suiuev, 1 Committee.
Charles Jewett, Clinton, J
May 27, 1870.
Knickerbocker
Mutual Life Insurance Company
OF NEW YORK.
ERA6TV8 LYMAN, * • • PRESIDENT
T,ins is one of the oldest, most reliable, and best
dividend paying companies in the country.
ASSETS OVER $7,200,000!
Liberal arrangement,: will be made with Agents,
and they are wanted In all parts of the statu.
Apply at AUGUSTA, MU.,
X3U Water 8treet> (up-atolr») to
CHARLES WHITE,
Manager tor Maine and New Hampshire.
Man li «. 1870. hKinar tf
ALL KINKS OF JOBBING
AND
Repairing Done at
taprl dm Williamson A Greenwood’s.
BIXBY’8 BL1CK1NU A BUKINS,
The best in the market, for sale at wholesale or re
tall by TITCOMB A l»ORK.
Wholesale and Itetail Druggist*
l«tf West Rnd keaarbec Bridge.
and Sketches.
ODER THE SEA.
They were scrambling down the rocks,
a gay, chattering procession—pretty Kate
with her Captain; Dr. Gray supporting
his invalid wife; Helen, Isabel, Tom,
and their midshipman cousin : last of all,
Esther Vane—alone. It seemed to her
morbid fancy right that it should he so.
Henceforward she must he alone—always.
The little guide trotted on in advance—
his round, ten-year old face, wearing the
vacant look so strangely common to that
part of the Maine coast, with its glorious
scenery. There the ocean is considered
simply a vast depot of herrings and
“porgy-oil,” and the mountains as un
toward obstacles in the way of a primitive
husbandry. "Blast'em I wish they was
Hat,'' the natives say, as their ploughs en
counter the boulders at the base; and if
they look aloft at all, it is to calculate the
perches of “medder land” which might
be made to occupy the same area, if they
were out of the way.
The party felt on the eve of great things.
Having arrived only the day before, Mount
Newport, with its wonderful reach of
sapphire sea. the bluffs, the lakes in their
settings of dark-blue hill, were still to
them the images of things not seen.
This their first excursion, they had dedi
cated to the “Grotto,” or “Devil's Oven,”
as the coast people term it—a sort of sub
marine cave, unveiled and accessible at
low tide only, and a great wonder in its
wav.
The path grew steeper. ('areftilly they
followed its windings, step by step, sure
footed Kate accepting the help she didn't
need, for that pleasure in being guided
and watched. And now the little guide
pauses, and with a freckled forefinger
points round a projection of rock. All
crowd to the spot. Ah 1 there it is'. The
cave of the mermaids! A shriek of min
gled surprise and enchantment bursts
from the party at the sight.
Beneath the low browned arch the rocky
floor rises, terrace after terrace, till in its
highest recess it meets the roof above. A
floor for the nercids to dance upon ; a floor
of pink coraline, gleaming here and there
through pools of emerald water left by
the retreating tide. And each of these
tiny lakelets seemed brimming with flow
ers—the flowers of ocean—green whorls,
like chestnut burs; anemones, with their
dahlia bloom; brown and rosy mosses,
among whose tendrils bright fish darted
nnd played, and snails of vivid orange
clustered; broad leaves of brilliant dye
swaying and undulating with the motion
of the pool—minnte specks of life flash
ing every iridescent hue. No earthly gar
den was ever so gorgeous. The rocky
shelves were dimpled with hollows—softly
exquisitely curved. No fancy of the old
classic days seemed too fantastic or too
fair for the spot. The imagimition in
stinctively kindled into pictures, and saw
the sea nymphs sporting in the foam; bold
tritons winding their shells; mermaids
playing at hide-and-seek; nixies and
mocking water-sprites peeping from the
basins—all dream-land and wonder-land
opening, and the common earth put aside
and far away.
With cries of delight, the party made
their way down, and scattered through the
cave, i'herc was room for an army. It
was hard to realize that the returning tide
the space must till, the gateway close, and
leave no resting-place for human foot.
"Yon said the tide was going down did'nt
you. little boy ?"
“Ye-ah.”
“You’re sure?”
“Ye-ah.”
“ lhat s nice, cried Isabel, “l hen we
can stay as long as we like. Oh ! do some
body come here and see this.”
.she was lying with her face almost
touching the allomones. Nobody respond
ed to her call—had found some other point
of interest. Tom had fished up a sea
urchin and was exhibiting it. Kate and
the Captain, in a niche ot their own, at
safe whispering distance, were absorbed
in each other. Esther had climbed to the
topmost ledge, and was sitting there alone.
For the first time in six weary months, a
sensation of pleasure had come to her, and
slut was conscious of but oue longing—that
they would all go away and leave her to
realize it. With some vague hope, she got
out color-box and portfolio, and began to
sketch. At least it kept people oil' and fur
nished an excuse for silence.
And so an hour or more passed by. She
heard, as in a dream, the chatter of the
others, their questions to the little guide,
his short, jerky replies. The pools.were
all explored; tin* urchins and anemones
had been tit kh d with parasols, and made
to shut and open and shut again ; the young
people began to sigh for further worlds to
to conquer, and Mrs. Gray to consider it
very damp.
••Little boy, is’nt there something else
near by which we should like to see ?”
“Guess so.”
“Well, what is it? Tell us please.”
“There's the Heads, 1 guess.”
“Oh! how far off is that? A mile did
you say ? That's not far. Papa, the boy
says there's a place called the Heads, only
a mile away, and we want to go and see
it. Can’t we go ? You know the way;
don't you, little boy ?”
“Ye-ah.”
“I think this place is very damp,” sighed
Mrs. Gray. "1 should really be glad to go
somewhere and feel the sunshine again.
I begin to have creeping chills. Suppose
we let the boy show us the way to the
other place, father.”
“Very well. Get Tour things together,
girls. Come, Esther, we're going,”
“Esther roused herself as from a dream.
“O Mr. Gray! must I go? I'm in the mid
dle of a sketch, you sec. Could'nt you
leave me here quietly-, and pick me up as
you come back ? I should like it so much.”
“Well— I don’t know. The tide is go
ing out, the boys say ; there woft't be any
trouble of that’kind. Are you sure you
won't be chilled or lonely?”
"Promise me that if you are, you will
go to the cottage at the bend and warm
yourself or sit on the rocks in the sun.
We'll look lor you in one place or the oth