Litchfield enquirer., 1865-03-23

than he. did. But we thiuts they. s1d m lfke them might be sensibly bene6ted 5y the pub- lie febdkefof drunkenness implied in kis im- peachment. -Hartford Prsss.
 .2Sta .eN 70 STEPHEN GERARD.
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 Within the 'msmotpya Of many persons ssill alive. old Gisard, Las thes tameus banker was usually styled, short, stouto bFisky kyplA gentle. man, used to walk in bis swift, awkward wsy, the streets of the lower part of Philadelphia.-. Though ieverything abodt Ihim indicated that he had very little in common with his fellow. citizens. he was the marked man sf ths city for CT insignificant and quite 'unprepossessinR. Ills dress wasold fashioned and shabby; sua he wore the pig tail, the white neck cloth. the wide-brimmed hat, and the large shifted coat of the last century--- He was blind in one eye |; and though his Ibnfsy eyebrows gave soms character to his counteuance, it was curiously devoid of ofexprsssions sHs had also the absent look of man who either had no thoughts G was absorbed in thought; and hs sh6l3Sd Slone on hisgenormous feet, looking neitbsf tp the right nor to the left There was alNaysa csr. stainslaek of the old mariner. aboae him, 1lIeugk he had been fifty years an ihhabitant fths town. When he rode it was in the plainest. least comfortable gig in Philadelphia, drawn by an ancient and Informed horse driven q. ways by the, masters own hand at good pses He chose still to lire where he had lived for fifty yours, in Water Street, close to. tho wiatsesi in a srnaA and iuconvenisnt h0use, darkeped by tall store-houses, amid therbastls, the noise and the odors of cemmsrcs. issis
 His sole pleasure was to vislt once day . little farm which he possessed few miles out of town, where he was won't to take o6 his coat. roll up his shirt sleeves, and personally labor in the field and in the barn, bosing corn, pruning trees, tossing hay, and not disdainin9 Ieven toassist in butcbering the animals whick be raised for market It was ne tners urua. mental or experimental farm. He made t pay. All of its produce was carefully, nay scrapui. ously .husbanded, sold. recorded, and accounted for. He loved his grapes, his plums his pigs, and especially his rare breed of cansry hirds l; bat the people of Philadelphia, had the full benefit of their increase 4at the highest mar ket rates, q Many feared,o many served, but none, loved this singulsr and lonely old tnan.-- If there was among the very few who habitual. ly conversed with him. there was but enc and kheOwas a man of such abounding charity, that, like Uncle Toby, if he had heard that tho
 
 I am sorry for it. Never was there persou
 more destitute than Girard of the qualities (which win the affection of others. His tsthpsI
 was violent. his presence forbidding. his ubual manner ungracious, his will inAexible. his hsat, 1 untender, his. imagination dead. He wal odious to many of his fellow.citisehs. who con
 sidered him the hardest and meausse of msn.-.
 He had lived among them for half csutury l hut he was no more PhiladelphiaA in. .lesl 1than in lf76. He still spoke with ( French accent. and accompanied his words Wish (
 French shrug, and French gesticulatiou. Sur rounded with Chi istian churches which, hs fhelped to build he remained . sturdy unbslisser and possessed the complete works of only onl l man.. Voltaire. glll ga sg. oi hgs54a 5no
 He made it point of duty to labor on aun- I day, as Q good example to others. He mndS no secret oftlie fact that he considered thl idleness of Sunday an injury 70 the reople, nor al and economical. Q He would, have opened I his bank on, Sundays. il, any one would havo come to it. For his part he required no Fsss and would have none.al Jasn G0omoH9V sH He never travelled. He never attended bus,, lie assemblies or amusements. He had no af- factions to gratify, no friends to visit, roscuri- osity to appease,no tastes to 0indulge.. What he once saidsof himself appeared to bs true, that he rose in the morning with but . single object, and that was to labor so hard all dsy as to be ableto sleep all night. The wotld iwss absolutely nothing to him but | working placs. He scorned and secuted the idea that old amsn should cease to labor, and should spend the evening of their days in tranquility. No, he would say, 'IabOr is the price Of life, its happil iness, it's everything;1 to rest is to rust; every man should labor to the last hour of his ahilts.' Such was Stephen Girard, the richest man who lever lived ih Pennsylvania. ''n''s. This is an unplsasing picture ofa eitiEen o5 polite and amiable Philadelphia. ltwersin. deed grim and dreary world, wherein shopld prevail the principles Of Girard. But see what this man has done for. the city that loved him not Vast. and imposing structures fisS on the banks of tue Schuylkill, wherein, ,at this ilour six hundred poor orphan boys are fed, of the enormous estate which he won bythis ting property In the ample grounds of 0irard ediGces, strolling in it's shady walks Of bS lts verdant play grounds, or listening to the c6ssr. | full cries of the boys at play, the most sympa- thetic and imaginative of men must pause Do. fibre censuring the sterile and auhlovels life of its founder. ? And if he should inquire closely iipto the character and career of the man who iswilisd this great institution into being, he wodld aperhaps, be willing to admit that there was room in the world fer.onel Girard, thoagh lit were a pity there should eyer be- aHother. I Such an inquiry would, perhaps. disclese that Stephen Girard was endowed by nature wilhs algreat heart as'well as . powerful mind. and that circumstances alone cloeed and har- dened the, one,o cramped and perverted the other. It is not improbable that he vas ole Fof those unfortunate beings who desire 70 pe loved, but whose temper and appearance cona- bine to rebel it, i The marble statue oi 9nimi which adorns the entrance to the1F principal fbufIding, iisit could speak, might ssy to as, .LisiueS you eoald not understand nor love ne; l.leudt Il compel, at least, your respect. th In- Edeed he usei to say when, questioned to hia career. e Wait till I nm dead my deeds wiil Eshow WhatI waass4N Norsh Anesican Rsvisss. b sd1 ,sysi!sa q. .gIas. .slas..z.a. bs'saoz D fsdFsufr dxsDEs. xsDEs K FOR < MAsca3.zzsT .3 sTh. advantages of having the fruit garden have separate from tht kitchen garden have bsen 9ften insisted nppn. Wherever there is sutfi eieft space thg trees and shrubs should have ( bpiacsito ahpinseisess and not bs sobjecEelc Eaaraslseir rootsfd disturbed by the frsansntspa dulg necessary to prepare tbs ground for ysg