People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1894 — GONE TO SEE A WHALK IN THE RIVER. [ARTICLE]
GONE TO SEE A WHALK IN THE RIVER.
Several whales-had been seen in the harbor before that. Diligence did not characterize the public servants Their minds inclined to holidays, and the local inhabitants who had no voice in affairs had no alternative but to acquiesce, the king ’s will prevailing, and a majority of the employes of the government officers being the younger sons of aristocratic Englishmen, who had infiueAce enough at court to have them billeted upon the people of the colonies. It need hardlj be added that no contemporaneous re former had the hardihood to propose that these English functionaries should work “on time.” The American government put an end to wholesale holidays as it did to alien officials ic New York.—N. Y. Sun.
