Note A — The Quincy Homestead

I am told by Mr. George Stephenson, of the Transcript, that the bulk of special subscription to the genealogical issues comes from the Middle West. Again brutal statistics blunder in to shatter a pleasant theory. I repeat this to a Boston beldame; she says, “Why of course—those subscribers are from families who migrated west to make money, and now, of course—” and leaves me to fill out the sentence. My theory stands, and defies the lightnings.