Those Days When Things Move Onward With a Livelier Tread

The pavement round about the above described edifice has enough growing in its chinks to show that it has not, of late days, been worn by any multitudinous resort of business. In some months of the year, however, there often chances a forenoon when affairs move onward with a livelier tread. Such occasions might remind the elderly citizen of that period before the last war with england, when salem was an independent port.