Martha Golding Pratt

The friends aud neighbors of the late Martha Golding Pratt, the beloved and efficiënt postmaster of Deerfield, Mass., f or 24 years, propose to tnake public recogDition of her fldolity. From Misa Pratt, 's iferiors thure was never anything bnt apprnval. It was a pretty say, ing of her chief that her initials stood for Mighty Good Postmaster, and once it is said he so addressed to hev au official comurauication. ïhetown folk had etichfaiih iu her ability fhat ouce, wheu ; au assistunt was teiuporarily on duty, a foreigiier who did not receive an cxpected letter, thinking it the fault of the straiige clerk, said cheerfully : "Oh, niver you naoiud. I' 11 come wheii Miss Pratt is here." The memorial will take the forra of a suitable building för the ! accommodation of smal] gatheriugs. j Miss Jane Pratt, uiece of the late postmistress, is a worthy suecessor of the public sprvant who is to be honored in so sensible a way.