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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-05-23
1871 1871 1871

lOlI IOll IOlI
SHE LDON g. co.
Will keep constantly on hand and for sale at low
est CASH PRICES,
A Full and Fresh Stock of
Goods of every variety of quality and kind, EN-
bracing choice selection of
STAPLE DRY GOODS,
Black Alpaccas, Rep Goods Deanes Ginghams
Prints, Cambrics (all colors), Jeans, Brown and
Bleached Cottons, Stripes, Denims drown and
blue), Tickings (Amoskeag, York, &C., Flan-
nels, Cotton Flannels, &c, &c, &c.
Ready Made lOthing,
Manufactured expressly for New England trade,
and warranted to suit, in prices as follows: Over
coats from $3.50 to $2l.00; Coats from $500 to
$1,000; Pants and Vests from 5000 to Sll09;
0veralls (home maae) at Sl.20; also choice lot
Of single pants (all wool) at S. 90 per pair, and
vests from SIPS to Sl.50.
Gents Furnishing Goods,
Comprising Knit Jackets, Shirts and drawers IVA
risty), White Shirts Flannel Shirts (all wool and
union) Scarfs, Hosiery and Gloves.
HATS AND GAPS,
Embracing the choicest varieties IN the market
BOOTS AND Shoes,
Hand and machine made, suited to ladies and
gents wear; also Ladies and Gents Arctics and
imitation Sandals.
Groceries and Provisions.
Teas, Coffees (raw, burnt and ground), Spices,
Sugars, -Pork, Fish, Lard, Butter, Cheese, Ap.
Piles (green and dried), Flour pastry, Spring,
Graham and Buckwheat), Salt ashton, dairy and
rocky, in sacks or in bulk
Patent Medicines.
complete assortment of all the popular medi-
cines Of the day, as low they be sold in the
County. Call and examine
Drugs and Dye-Stuffs.
Turkey Opium, P 4 WIS Morphine, Sal Soda, Bah.
bits Potash, Potash for making soap (haad or
soft)-Reeds Eastman's liquid dyes Of every va
riety Of color.
Paints and OILS.
Paints and Oils. White Lead in oil or dry Um-
Der, raw and burnt, in oil or dry, Black Paint in
oil or dry, Green for blinds, variety, Chrome
Green, dry, Chrome Yellow, dry. Bennington
boiled oil, Sperm, Whale and Meats, Sweet and
Salad, Kerosene, etc., etc.
Varnishes and Dryer.
shelac. White, Carriage, Furniture, Iron, etc, at
low prices.
BRUSHES
whitewash, yarnish and Paint, full assortment
Clothes, Boot and Shoe Hair and Nail, Tooth and
Scrub.
Sheldon's Preparations,
No. l1,-none genuine except prepared by us.
Hair Dye. .Warranted to color black with
out injury 20 the hair or scalp.
Hair Wash,..A beautiful dressing at half
the price of patent hair preparations.
Owners of Foot Rot Sheep
viii find remedy in Butter of Anthony, Blue
and White Vitrol, Foot Rot Cure Nitric Acid and
White Vitrol mixture,
| For sale at SHELDON cos.
Middlebury, Vt, jan LIST, 1871. 80
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MAMBRINO PATCHEN

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Rose wood bay Stallion. l6A hands high
weighing 1900 pounds. By Geo. NJ. Patchen-
by Cassius NJ. Clay-by Henry Clay-by Andrew
Jackson-by young Bashaw-by Imported Grand
Bashaw.
Dam, Betsey, a fast mare by Messenger Eclipse
by Messenger-by Mambrino-by Imported
Messenger.
This horse as George H. Patchen trotted at
years old in 2.34 ito wagon, 2.3s =. lie
served over seventy mares last season, and has
high reputation for getting large fast trottng
bay colts as any horse in the world.
Victor Patchen trotted last season In 2.34 to
wagon) He unites the blood
ON sIRE's SIDE.
Of Geo. M. Patchen, record Of 2.14
Of Patchen Chief, 2.26
Of American Girl 2.l9
OF Lucy, 2.2l
Of Danvers Boy, A" 2.2s
ON DAMS SIDE.
With Lady Thorn, record of 2.ls
/" Bay Chief, y mile, yrs old, LOG
!" Mambrino Pilot, record of 2.27
Mambrino BERTHE, years old, record 2,42A
" Ericsson, 4 yrs. old, record, 2.301s
Terms, $25 the season; S35 to warrant. Club
rates as last year.
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There is Beauty IN the Country.

There is beauty in the country!
OF the country let Inc sing,
With its fields Of brilliant flowers,
with its birds upon the wing
When the trees put on their glory,
And array themselves in green
When the woodlands ring with singing,
And the clover leaves are seem
When the orchards are in blossom,
And the lilacs crowned with blue,
OH love the blooming country,
When the flowers are sweet and new.
There Is beauty in the country,
When the Spring has crossed the vale,
And q wreath Of flowers and garands
Leave their breath upon the gale
When the summer, crowned with brightness,
Leaves her treasures on the plain,
And the waving golden hsrvests
Wake our gratitude again
When the Autumn, scar and yellow,
Comes the chilly, frosty morn,
Aud brisk, and busy hands are husking,
Pile the bright and yellow corn
There is beauty in the country,
When the skies are bright above,
And ten thousand beauties tell us
That the world IL ruled by love-
Even Winter, with her mantle
of the purest brilliant white,
Is crown Of crystal glory,
And a season of delight.
Yes, love the glorious country,
For there's living brightness there,
With its sunshine, trees and blooming
With its beauty everywhere.
There is beauty in the country
Every leaf and every flower,
Is constant living onder-
Is miracle Of power;
Every tree with grand proportions
Every happy singing bird
Every bramble by the way-side-
The contentcd grazing herd
These are tokens of His goodness,
Bright unfolding of His might;
So love the glorious country,
With its scenes of pure delight.
There is beauty in the country,
There is health and vgor there;
There is purity of feeling
There is less Of gilded care
For the purest social pleasures,
There is full and ample means
There is pure and sweet contentment,
In the midst of rural scenes
There is more to cheer and gladden.,
There is less to mar and blight
Oh, love the glorious country
With its scenes of pure delight.
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Money is said to be the root Of ALL evils.
10. I'D. mUNGER.
stands ready to exchange any quantity OF goods
mutual benefit of nil parties concerned.
y. u. munger would say that the unprecedented
end;n \" sa,es ,na,sa.s ,nss peopie a,e ,as.
at a bargain.
hotoro an,rio s.aoi s 'e'' "''eu '''s''' " "''
Gold and Silver Watches,
which he is selling mt verv small advance from
cost FOR CASH,
CSs.. ,'iH, a se,ohu s'e"i "''oe'' W. 'o''
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nDEDA CIIATNS
a new pattern they are beautiful and cheap
Chain Tassels.
Everything IN the line OF CLOCKS, from 81 TO s4U
each. Pocket alarms, &c.
T. D. Munger receives new goods every week
nave you seen those new solio setts Just reeeiNe9
solid setts.
New lot of Black Sets.
we" 'o' o' oraee'e's'
New lot Of Shot Chains.
we" 'O' Vi ''0e' O'"''s'
New lot of Rubber Chains.
a., nj, 10 =. d.
at pr Iss that Ss defy competition n s 'A
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- na,'e;,, &c xoods ouon,, ,rT;oI 40 . c;I,.e
Taa Sst,a desrah,e notorn apd warran,oa 70 ~
No. / goods. Cali and examine. No charg
Showing Goods.
Now is your time to buy Knives and Forks, o
every description, Spoons, Spoon-holders, Flower
vases silver, oias , &C., ac lake uaske. castor y.
Beautiful Ice Pitchers,
-,.., -. 4. ,. o.,,... Gill;.
Cuns for children. Berry and Baking dishes. Nan
kin Rings from 20 cts to $40 each Gold Thimbles
Silver Thimbles and everything else in my line
from Finger ring to a gold tooth pick.
+. ID. Munger is agent for
Aiken e. Lamberts
Gold Pens the most durablo nan. made and svsr
| non worronted Wo Leen No othor
+ d Manager ia agent for Lazarus 4 Norr;.
PERFECTED SpeCtaCles,
40 no, .lre .he eyes, ana are cheap O"h III IN
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-05-23

Made of Poor Rum, whisky, Proof Spirits,
and Refuse LIQUORS doctored, spiced and sweet
ened TO please the taste called "Tonics" "Appetlz-
ers" Restores" &c, that lead the tippler on to
drunkenness and ruin, but true Medicine, made
from the Native Roots and Herbs Of California, free
from all Alcoholic stimuiants. They are the
GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER and LIFE
GIVING PRINCIPLE, perfect Renovator and
Invgorator Of the system carrying on all poisonous
matter and restoring the blood TO healthy condi-
ton. No person take these Bitters according TO
direction and remain long unwell provided the bones
not destroyed by mineral poison or other means,
and the vital organs wasted beyond the point of
repair.
For Innammatory and Chronic Rheuma-
tism and Gout, Dyspepsia, or Indigestion,
Bilious. Remittent and Intermittent Fee
vers, Diseases ofthe Blood. Liver, Kidneys
and Bladder, these Bitters have been most sue
cessful such Diseases are caused by vitiated
Blood, which is generally produced by arrangement
Of the Digestive Organs.
DYSPEPSIA OR INDIGESTION, Head
ache. Pain In the Coughs Tghtness Of the
Chest Dizziness, Sour Eructatons Of the Stomach,
Bad taste In the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Paptation
OF the Heart Inflammation of the Lungs Pain In the
regions OF the Kidneys and hundred other painful
symptoms, the offspring Of Dyspepsia.
They invgorate the stomach and stimulate the tor
pid liver and bow els which render them OF unequal
ed efficacy in cleansing the blood Of all impurities and
impartlng new life and vigor to the whole system.
FOR SKIN DISEASES, Eruptions, letter, Salt
Rheum, Blotches, Spots, Pimples, Pustules. Boils,
| Carbunces Ring Worms, Scald Head, Sore Eyes,
Erysipeas, Itch, scurfs, Dscoloratons of the Skin,
Humors and Diseases OF the Skin, Of whatever name
literally dug up and carried out of the
system In short time by the use of these Bltters
One Bottle In such cases will convince the most In
| credulous of their curative effect.
| Cleanse the vitiated Blood whenever you ind Its
impurities bursting through the skin In Pimples
Eruptions sores cleanse II when you ind 1t OBJ
strueted and sluggish in the veins, cleanse II when
iii foul and Your feelings will tell you when. KeeI
| the blood pure and the health OF the system will
| follow.
PIN, TAPE and other WORMS. lurking In the
system of So many thousands, enectuGly destroy
ed and removed. For full directions read CAREFUL,
the circular around each bottle printed In four Ian
guages-English, German, French and Spanish.
WALKER, Proprietor. Il. H. MCDONALD co.
Druggists md General AGENTS. san Francisco, Cad.
| and ~ and "a Commerce street. New-york.
I1-soLD BY All DnrGaIsrs AND DEALERS
42;yl.
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TOM LAMBERT.

Bay Stallion-by Lambert. Dam, the famou1
Killmsr Road mare-by Col Parishes Colonel
Terms $40 to warrant.
Mares from 4 distance provided with
good pasture. Accidents and escapes at the
risk Of the owners. L. ;. ST0WELL,
AIMS Cornwall, Addison Co., Vt.
May LIST 1871.
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Ayers Sarsaparilla,
ron PURIFYING THE BLOOD.

The reputation this eH-
cellent medicine enjoys,
Ia derived from lite cures,
many Of which are truly
marvellous. Inveterate
cases Of Scrofulous dis
ease, whore the system
seemed saturated with
corruption, have been
purified and cured by II.
Scrofulous affections and
disorders which were a.
gravated by the scrof1.
Iona Contamination until
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-05-23
PATCHELTONIAN,

Rich bay brown Stallion. Foaled May 1868,
1874 hands high. By Mambrino Patchen.
Dam, Sister Sue-by Rysdikes Hambletonian
by Abdallah-by Mambrino-by Messenger.
Dam Of Sister Sue by Long Island Black Hawk
"A Bashaw - and Trotter.
Terma-&l5 the season. $50 To Marrant
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they were painfully afhcting, have been radically
cured in such great numbers In almost every sec
ton Of the country that the public scarcely need to
be informed of Its virtues or uses.
Scrofulous poison is one Of the most destructive
enemies of our race. Often, this unseen and unfelt
tenant of the organism undermines the constitution
and invites the attack Of embedding or fatal Diseases
without exciting suspicion Of Its presence. Again,
seems to breed infection throughout the body, and
then, on some favorable occasion, rapidly develop
into one or other Of Its hdeous FORMS either the
surface or among the vitals. In the latter, tuber
Giles may be suddenly deposited In the lungs or
heart, or tumors formed in the liver, or It shows
Its presence by eruptions the skim or foul ulcer
atoms on some part Of the body. Hence the ocos-
sional use of bottle of this Sdrsaparttla is ad.
visable even when no active symptoms Of disease
appear. Persons aflicted with the following com.
plants generally find immediate relief and, ct
length, cure, by the use of this SARSAPARtL-
La: 81. A,ithony's FIRE, Rose or EsystpslOs.
letter, Salt Rhe"ns, Scafd Head, Rtngscos ~,
Sore Eyes, Sore Ears, and other eruptons or
visible forms of Scroftious disease. Also In the
more concealed forms, as Dyspepsfo, Dropsv,
Heart Disease, F3ts, Epilepsy, Neuralgia,
and the various UIcerous affections of the muscp.
lar and nervous systems.
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Having bought these goods with cash, We are
enabled to offer Mt lower rates, that ever before
sold in this market. We are determined to sell
better articles, at lower prices than ever offered
before in Addison County.
Middlebury, January 2, 1871. 4l;u
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A FEW bushels of Breese's Peerless Potatos
~ for sale at AINSW0RTH DODdES
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-04

In the uncertainty still attending the fate
of DIR. Livingstone, one of the last letters of
the great traveller to Sir Thomas Maclear of
Cape Town will not be unintcresting, rs it
contains striking passage in which the
Doctor expresses presentiment of his death.
1t reads: Dr. Kirk, am sorry to say, will
soon leave us. and 1 suppose shall die in
these uplands, and somebody else will carry
out the plans have longed to put into prac-
tice. have been thinking great deal since
the departure of my beloved one about the
region whittier she has gone, and imagine,
from the manner the Bible describes it, we
have got too much mockery in our ideas.
There will be work there as well rs here,
and possibly not such vast difference in our
being as is expected; but short time there
will give more insight than n thousand mus
ings. We shall see Him by whose inexpres-
sible love and mercy we got there, and all
whom we loved and all the loveable. / can
sympathize with you more fully than did
before. l work with rs much vigor rs can,
and mean to do so till the change comes but
the prospect of home is all dispelled."
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-04

ORCHARDS. Product S9,001.
BUTTER. 4l2.O92 pounds.
CHEESE. 4l6,655 pounds.
MILK. Sold lO7, 1876 gallons.
HAY. 35,542 tons.
SEEDS. Grass las bushels; flax seed 436
bushels.
FLAX. $4,000 pounds.
SUGAR. Maple, l7O,26s pounds; molasses
"a gallons.
BEES. Honey, 445 pounds wax 40.
FOREST PRODUCT. S23,332
ANIMALS. Slaughtered or sold for slaugh-
ter, Sss,5l4.
VALUE. AS estimated, of all farm pro-
ductions, 81, ,l6O,545.
The Banner says: 1--WE think some of the
items are manifestly too low. Among which
are farm products. That should be
more than doubled. Maple molasses ought
to count more than "a gallons surely. If the
census was to be taken this year, instead of
last, the item of milk sold would be greatly
increased, also as the result OF large quanti-
ties now sent to New York city,"
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-04

Hon. James Brooks writes from Japan -
thought once, when on the Nile, that the
Egyptians, who could turn sands into gar
dens, were the great farmers of the world ;
but the Egyptians could make no such farm
ing gardens as these. Proud as am of the
arts, sciences, and marvellous doings of my
own country, l blush when l compare
American farming with this! Here are the
rice fields artificially created, luxuriant in
beauty now, terraced from hillside, up and
down, and watered by the hill streams, or
not watered, as the husbandman Wills
There are barley fields, and bean fields and
fields of all sorts of Japan agricultural pro-
ductions. Forests cap all the hill-tops.
Two crops are raised in Japan in one year,
even on the rice fields, where the first crop
is grain. The grain harvest is over in April
or May. The rains come on in June and
July, and now the new crops are up, and
the whole country is one beautiful landscape
of green.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-04
THE ART OF LIVING TOGETHER.

l. If people are to live happily together
they must not fancy, because they are
thrown together now. that I'll their lives
have been exactly similar up to the present
time, that they started exactly alike, and
that they are to be for the future exactly Of
the same mind
2. Avoid having stock subjects of disputa-
ton.
g. Do not hold too much to logic, and sup
pose that everything is to be settled by suf-
ficient reason.
4. If you would be loved MS companion,
avoid unnecessary criticism upon those
with whom you live.
S. Let not familiarity swallow up all cour-
tesy.
g. We must not expect more from the
society of our friends and companions than
it can give; and especially must not expect
contrary things.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-04
NEWPORT, SATURDAY, NOV. 4, 1871.
{ VOL. I, No. 4s.
Terms, S1.O0 per Annum.

developemnt without becoming bleached
or prematurcly dwarfed. 1t is also shown
by the experiments that while only these
eight bodies are necessary elements of our
culture-plants, others, found in ashes, such
as silicc acid, manganese, copper, fuorine
and soda, are to be considered, if not essen
tlal, at any rate useful. Finally, the expert
ments appear to show that a plant is capa-
BILE of deriving the whole of the carbon
necessary for its growth, for the increase of
its foliage. for the formation of sugar, starch,
&C., from the atmospheric air, in the form of
carbonc acid, by means of the stomata of
its leaves. This novel method of prosecut-
ing investigations upon the growth of plants
and the formation of their tissues and COM
ponents. it is believed, tends much towards
securing exact results in such researches,
and in time may enable us to acquire q
thorough knowledge of the phenomena in
volved.-Report Department agriculture.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-04

An Illinois correspondent of the Depart
ment of Agriculture complains of the prac-
tice of buyers in his region, who, in their
dealings with farmers, cOntrive to obtain 60
pounds of shelled corn to the bushel, CT 70
pounds in the ear, dry, selling the same in
the Chicago market at the legal rate Of So
pounds of shelled corn to the bushel, equiv
alent to 70 pounds of dry corn. Rye is also
bought from first hands at 60 pounds to the
bushel, and put on the market mt the legal
rate of So pounds. He urges farmers 10
make common cause against these practices,
and wherever they are persisted in, to club
and ship their corn, ETC., directly to the
large markets. A united protest and refu-
sal to sell at uulegalized rates will remedy
the injustice.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-04

And cooled the corn through all the summer days.
Plunged like wild steers in pastime or in battle,
Straight In the binding brightness Of the blaze.
And down fell bridge, and parapet, and Intel,
The blazing barques went drifting, one by one,
The mighty city wrapped Its head In splendor,
And sank into the waters like sun.
Oh thou my master, champion Of the people,
Tribune, august, who e'er kept righteous court,
Long AFTER fire had toppled church and steenle,
Thou stoodst amid the ruins like fort
High and serene thy cornices extended,
Though scorched by smoke and Of the flame the prey,
Above the vault where, grim, and calm and splendid,
The sleeping lions OF thy presses lay
Till looking round thee in the wondrous pity,
Thyself alone erect, intact, upreared,
Disdaining TO outlive the glorious city,
With innate heat transfgured, disappeared.
Yet, from the grave, Chicago's wondrous spirit
Comes forth all brightness, DER the darkened town.
To say again; "Lo, am with you, brethren;
With all my thorns my civic crown
To die Is sweet embalmed in your compassion;
Your oil and wine make life In every rent.
Oh let me lean little while upon you,
And walk to strength in your encouragement"
Cincinnati Commercial.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-04
GROWTH OF PLANTS IN AQUEOUS
SOLUTIONS.

Experiments have been prosecuted of late
by German psychologists in regard to the
cultivation of plants in aqueous solutions of
different substances, without the addition of
any earth; and, as the general result, we
are informed that a plant will grow, bloom,
and ripen fruit, without being inserted in
soil of any kind, but simply in a liquid
which contains eight different substances
namely: potash, lime, magnesia, iron sui
phuric acid, phosphoric acid, chlorine, and
nitric acid, the nitric acid being capable of
being replaced by ammonia or hippuric acid,
uric acid, &c. 1t is furthermore stated that
neither the nitrogen compounds, iron, nor
any other of these eight bodies can be omit
ted from the fluid in question if the plants
are to pass through their various stages of
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-04
AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS OF BEN
NINGTON CO.. CENSUS OF 1870.

ACRES OF LAND. Improved l27, ,OO6 Woods
81 ,O79; other un'mproved, 1886; Cash value,
of farms. $6,34O, 1876; farm implements and
machinery, $2ll ,62l; wages paid during the
year, $2O8, ,42l.
LIVE STOCK. Horses, 2,529; mules and
asses, A; cows, $3.50; oxen. 524; other cat
tie, 4.Ol9; sheep, 32,O6S; swine, 1852. Value
of all live stock 1887, 1877.
GRAIN. Spring wheat, 1879 bushels; win
ter so; rye, 1851; corn, lOs, ,537; oats, l6l,-
s76; barley, 6,379; buckwheat, ls, 1873; peas
and beans, 155.
Wool. 1864 pounds.
POTATOES. 1876, ,79l bushels.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-11-04
THE sMITTEN CITY.
By GEORGE ALrRED TOWNSEND.

BY GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND.
I heard parson Of the school Of Balaam
Lin up the lesson Of the flaming town,
And, like pedder in the will Of Heaven,
Show how Its sins invoked the sovereign frown.
Thus the dead lion ever Is insulted
BY asses colts, whose pity is a blow,
And fallen empires find their last misfortune
In shallow r'atit sdes from fool an, foe.
Bright Christian capital Of lakes and prairie,
Heaven had no interest in thy scourge and scath
Thou vert the newest shrine Of our religion,
The youngest witness Of our hope and faith.
Not In thy embers do we rake for folly,
But like martyrs ashes gather thee,
With chastened pride and tender melancholy
The miracle thou vast, and yet will be
Not merely in the homages OF churches,
Or bells Of praise tolled DER the inland SEAS
Thou glorihed our God and human nature
With meeter works and grander melodies.
or cheerful toll and willing enterprise,
or hearty faith In freedom and In man,
The hoar old capitals looked on in wonder
To see the swim, strong this STRIPPING ran.
How like the sun he rose above the marshes,
Aud built the world beneath his airy ieet,
And changed the course Of immemorial rivers,
And tapped the lake for waters cool and sweet.
How skillfully the golden grain transmitted
To birds Of sail and meteors OF spark,
And, like another Noah babe creation
March in the teemng masses Of his ark
Yet in his power, most frank and democratic,
ua xv;.ca - A.