Next day was quarterly meetin'; the deacon and I allers go; The preachin' is giner'ly powerful to raise up the hearts of the low. After this, Elisha growed old in a way it grieved me to see: Now, I do n't deny but what it's a cross to navigate straight Elizy Ann is a scholar, and she says that coffee and tea Ain't fit for the human stomach, and sugar's the worst of the three. To be satisfied with cold water, and swaller her flap-jack dry; One day when things was crossways, and words run consider'ble high, And Elizy Ann she slat round, and kicked at the dog which was lame, Next day Elisha told Si that he'd clean entirely forgot, He brought the will to Elisha, and Elisha examined it through, He folded the dockyment careful, and slung it into the fire, I felt dreadful to hear the deacon use such an unchristian word, Elizy she fell to crying, and Josiah he blustered and swore, But the deacon had got his back up, and he turned 'em all out of door. That night says Elisha to me, "I should like to see Polly at home, And I'd send her an invitation if I only thought she would come." I did n't say nothin' just then, but I writ to Polly next day, And one Saturday, just about sunset-I remember the month was May- And he a kickin' and crowin', right down on his grandfather's knee. Then he cleared his throat with a he'em! and says he, It ain't any good 1 Ever since, we've made one family, and we have n't got a son TICKNOR'S PAPER SERIES is a happy idea of the publishers, and will be very acceptable to all readers during the summer that is now so close upon us. It includes a number of the most famous and successful of the novels of the past five years.-books like Guenn, The Story of a Country Town, A Nameless Nobleman, The Story of Margaret Kent, and others of equal value and merit; and with these come brilliant new works, like De Montauban's The Cruise of a WomanHater, and the vivid and fascinating Venetian novel, The House of the Musician, by Virginia W. Townsend, whose Neptune's Vase won such great praise a few years ago. Such a group of novels as these titles indicate will be as refreshing as a sea-breeze in summer. They are handsome and shapely volumes, substantially bound in decorated heavy paper covers. The series for 1887 will include thirteen volumes, appearing one each week during May, June, and July. The retail price is fifty cents each volume, a remarkably low price for such handsomely printed and made-up copyright books. The initial number of the series is the famous and widely approved novel, "The Story of Margaret Kent." The wonderful success of this book is shown by the fact that within less than two years it has run through ten editions. It is not merely a lovestory, but also a series of character studies worthy of Thackeray or Balzac, thrilling with real life and deep feeling, and depicting with marvellous skill the trials of a young, beautiful, and bewitching woman. THE GRANITE MONTHLY. A NEW HAMPSHIRE MAGAZINE. Devoted to Literature, Biography, History, and State Progress. VOL. X. JUNE, 1887. HON. JOHN C. LINEHAN. A hundred years after the Puritans and Pilgrims made a settlement on the coast of New England, there came to this country a multitude of emigrants, mostly from the north of No. 6. Ireland, who soon became absorbed into the ranks of the first settlers, and became the very best of citizens. In the contest for independence they rendered the most efficient services to the colonies, as they had previously done in protecting the frontier from the inroads of the Indians. After another century, our doors having been opened wide for the reception of people from every country, there came to these shores a tide of emigration from central and southern Ireland, which seemed at one time as if it would depopulate the Emerald. Isle. In numbers like the countless: hosts of the Goths and Vandals who overran the Roman empire, but pacific in their intentions, they sought in America homes for themselves and their children, where, under the flag and protection of the young republic, they could enjoy that liberty which had been denied them in their old home, and secure those advantages which thrift and industry offered in the new world. When the country of their adoption was in danger from organized rebellion, none hastened to its defence with more zeal and courage than these newly made citizens. In the baptism of blood that followed, the heterogeneous mass was welded into one great people. HON. JOHN C. LINEHAN, member of the governor's council from District 2, a whole-souled, open-hearted, and always genial citizen, is a representative of the Irish American element in New Hampshire, whom his fellow-citizens delight to honor. He was born in Macroom, county of Cork, Ireland, in February, 1840, and is the second in a family of eight, five sons and three daughters, the children of John and Margaret Linehan. The head of the family, who was a finely educated man, came to this country in October, 1847, and his family came two years later. John C., like many other boys of his time in New England, was compelled to leave school at an early age. When 12 years old he was a doffer in the cotton mill of H. H. and J. S. Brown at Fisherville (now Penacook), N. H., and doing his best to keep up, on his side of the spinning frame. From 1852 to 1857 he remained in the mill, retiring as a section hand in the weaving department at the age of 17. From here he went to work for the Rolfe Brothers, sash, door, blind, and box manufacturers, and for three years, from 1858 to 1861, was foreman of the box department. For some years before the war he was a member of the Fisherville band, and when the Third Regiment of volunteers was organized, with seven of his comrades, he enlisted as a member of the Third band, in which he served up to the time of his discharge. The members of the band swore by their regiment, and the regiment swore by the band. One was confident that the regiment was the best in the Department of the South, and the others knew theirs was the best band; so this fraternal feeling was kept up, and is as warm to-day as it was twenty-five years ago. From 1864 to 1866 he worked for the firm of Caldwell, Amsden & Co., cabinet manufacturers. In April of the latter year he went into the grocery business with Henry F. Brown, the copartnership lasting three years, when the interest of the latter ceased, and from April, 1869, to the present date he has been alone-twenty-one consecutive years in the same business, as a retail grocer; which is saying a good deal for the most unstable, fortune-wrecking business in the country. A Republican politically, he has served his ward (One, of Concord) in almost every capacity, having been ward clerk, on the board of selectmen, and in both branches of the city government-council and board of aldermen. In October, 1886, he received an almost unanimous vote as candidate for councillor, but seven votes being cast against him on the first ballot. Although failing of an election at the polls, there being no choice by the people, he led his candidate for governor in 39 out of the 43 towns in the councillor district. The vote for Sawyer was 7,962, and for Linehan 8,230, or 268 ahead. His competitor, Frederick Taylor of Nelson, had 7,775, and the Prohibition ticket 661. Linehan's plurality was 455. Considering that there was no special effort made, it was a handsome run. From 1872 to 1882 he was an ac tive worker in the total abstinence cause, being president of one of the first Catholic temperance societies, and for a time one of the most flourishing in the state, at Fisherville. In company with the lamented Maj. T. B. Crowley of Nashua and Maj. P. A. Devine of Manchester, he helped to organize a state union, and was one of the first delegates to represent it in the national convention in New York in 1874. In 1875 he was one of the charter members and the first commander of W. I. Brown Post, No. 31, G. A. R., of Penacook; was elected a delegate to the national encampment in 1878, appointed assistant department inspector in 1879, served on the staff of Department Commander George Bowers in 1879 and '80, elected a member of the national council administration in 1880 and '81, chief mustering officer in 1882, elected department commander in 1883, unamiously reëlected in 1884, appointed a member of the national pension committee of the G. A. R. in 1884, reappointed in 1885-6-7, elected president of New Hampshire Veteran Association in 1885 and reëlected in 1886. While department commander he instituted twenty new posts, beginning at West Stewartstown and ending at Salisbury, from No. 64 to 84, reorganized eight posts, and increased the membership of the order from 3,000 to nearly 4,500. He was elected one of the board of directors of the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association, and placed on the Executive Committee in 1884. He was selected by the New Hampshire Veteran Association to procure from the legislature appropriations for the Gettysburg monuments, and for head-quarters at The Weirs, and was appointed by Gov. Currier agent for the expenditure of the same. From 1865 to 1879 he was a member, of what has often been called the best musical organization New Hampshire has had within its borders, "Brown's Band," well known all over New England, and led by the well known manufacturer of the Concord Axle works, D. Arthur Brown, formerly leader of the Third Regiment band. This band numbered among its members T. W. Henry of the Cadet band of Boston, and Jean Missud of the Cadet band of Salem. Of this band he was the secretary and treasurer during its existence. In 1876 it accompanied the Governor and Amoskeag Veterans to Philadelphia, and the year following to Bennington. Since the organization of the State Veteran Association he has had charge of the musical section of the annual reunion, except while he was president, and at the expiration of his term he was again elected to fill the place of musical director. He was appointed by Governor Hale one of the board of trustees of the Industrial school at Manchester, and takes an active interest in its welfare. Though but nine years of age when he left Ireland, his memory of it is clear and his love for it strong. Naturally his sympathies lead him towards any movement for its welfare. In 1865-66 he was the head of the Fenian Brotherhood in New Hampshire, and organized a company of militia composed almost wholly of veteran soldiers, and named in honor of Governor Smyth the "Smyth Guards," for the manly position taken by the governor on the imprisonment of Captain Hea |