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Show THE HUNTINGTON ELECTION On the morning of election a dense fog enveloped our little town, and the townsmen seemed to partake of the same chilly atmosphere, but as the morning wore away and the sun began to shine, thus touching earth and peo- j pie alike, life and excitement were ! brought but the clay as a whole passed j off very peacefully. And we are going to bear in mind all our next president has offered us and if he fails to come through with all of these things, we will be as disappointed as all the ' little Johns are when they look into their little stockings on Christmas morn and find naught but emptiness. Right here we are reminded of our friend Charles Dickens and just a few of his little sayings in his book "The Tale of Two Cities" (England and France) of the prevailing conditions there at that time ; and it seems very applicable to oar own fair nation. He wrote thus "It : was the best of times, it was the worst , times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief; l was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of light; it was the season of darkness; the spring of hopo--the winter of despair; de-spair; we had everything before us, we ; have nothing before us; we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way. In short , the present period is so much like the i past period that some of its noisiest authorities insist on its being received for goud or for evil in the superlative degree of championship only." If we only had a mod tin Dickens to day with all our brilliant minds. With all the cultured and educated minds, we lack that of Charles Dickens, to-bring to-bring before our minds the atom reali ties of life. His keen preception, his q lick understanding his noble way of l icking at things and fair mind to judge made him a man among men and there wili never be a time, worlds without with-out end, that the name Charles Dijk-ens Dijk-ens will be forgotten. Now we have a little news both of our election and our Friend Dickens all under the same heading but we can well blend them together. Mrs. V. M. Howard. |