Identifier: newenglandmagazi1900bost (find matches)
Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
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are ready togive your life to helping those poorwretches in Greenbush Alley. Am Iso much more hopeless a case? A sudden sense of relief swept overMyra. After all, her problem was noproblem at all. But at least I cangive him an uncomfortable hour ortwo before I yield, she said to her-self. And in spite of her philanthropicprinciples, she did. A RUMOR GOES. By Jay Lincoln. ENGLAND, a rumor goes that lust of ore,The pride of power, the trumpets fanfaronadeDeform your March of Progress to a raid,And with Injustice marching on beforeYou usher Justice in. Our hearts are sore;For we have loved your shining cavalcade,Your girdle round the earth, that scatters shadeLike the suns self. Restore our faith, restore! But be it truth the whispering peoples tell, Then lose your battles. Though your arteries spill Earths richest blood, Oh, what shall parallelOur poverty if good confounds with illAnd right with wrong,—if your own stroke should kill That great world-conscience you have fostered well?
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NEW IPSWICH IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. By Pauline Carrington Bouve. JOURNEYING from the seaboardtowards the Connecticut River,upon or near the line betweenMassachusetts and New Hampshire,three isolated mountain peaks formconspicuous landmarks to the traveller—Watatic, Monadnock and Wachu-sett. About halfway between thetwo latter lies the little village of NewIpswich, whose records make an in-teresting page of New England his-tory. In the year 1621 King Jamesgranted to one John Mason a tract ofland that lay between the Piscataquaand Naumkeag (i. e., between Ports-mouth and Salem), and extendedabout sixty miles into the interior.Two years later Mason and those as-sociated with him took possession ofthis grant; and this was the germ ofthe Province of New Hampshire.Mason died soon after, and his deathwas followed by the revolution inEngland. The claim, during thisperiod, was neglected, and it was notuntil after the Restoration that it was revived. In 1745 it was decided thatJohn Tufton Mason, a

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