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And another, OanOtner!
Unto whom my soul Is DEAR
Call them quick, for am passing
Through the valley of the grave;
I am passing with the baatman
Der the deep and sullen wave:
-Drean', Music, by +. r. Warren.
HORACE AT HOME.
The Great Nominee Among bis Neigh
.,els D0rs. -.-
The village Of Chappaqua is thirty
two miles from the City Hall, on the
Harlem Railroad, It is of the tradi'
tional railroad village order. 1t has
q dozen or two houses of white frame
including the railway station, the
post Office, the tavern, the store, the
church and blacksmith shop. 1t ls
surrounded by high wooded hills,
from the sides of which peep the
white country houses of few city
gentlemen. 1t is full of lusty sun
Drowned men, who 60 about all week
days in their shirt sleeves, and OF
cherry-ripe faced buxom lasses, who
take heartily to bright-colored Dolly
Vardens. They are all sociable;
Every man, woman, youth, lassle and
child in Chappaqua is anxious and
willing to enfighten the stranger in
their midst upon the subject OF Mr..
Greeley.f There is no other subject
which the highly elated village cares
to discuss Just now. Even the "crops
and weather are significant in com.
parison.
THE CHIEF OF cHAPPAQUA.
Mr., Greeley is almost lord of the
manor. His house on the roadside is
only stones throw from the Chap
ps6uA Hotel and the railroad track.
1t sits on the side of the till slightly
elevated over its ncighbors in the
village, aud from it's low-roofed porch
or piazza the sage, when at home,
can view the whole village over which,
by reason of his great repute and his
wide philanthropy, 'be exercises q sort
of kindly dominion, similar to that
of a loving lord of the feudal ages.
A broad dirt road leads you up the
windings of hill to his other house
in the woods, whence he has even a
more commanding view of bis do
main. "'1' - 'a~'~
CARING FOR AGED AND INFIRM SER
{ WANTS. -.-z.-
Beyond this is his stone barn, his
cow pasture wherein the old bevine
that gave milk, for his@chadren il
suffered TO chew her sweet cud IN
comfortable retirement, unvexed By
the miIkmaid and undoomed to
s!au shter, respected and revered BY
her master, pointed out TO all comers
eagerly by the rustic guides and ia
ken" with hearty appreciation by
all the pictorial artists. The orchard
whichis silyersd all over with bios
soming fruit, adjoins the pasture
The dark, swsmpy morass, which his
mastery system Of drainage has re-
claimed to thcruse of agriculture, lies
at the bottom Of the hill, rich in the
blackness Of its soil.
TEE GREAT WOODS,
wherein the physical forces OF the
philosopher rejuvenate Themselves
after the i Intellectual excesses OF his
sanetum, crown the bill. They are
not the great prirneval forests of his
earlier days. Only here and there a
great Seak, rears its head grandly.
The rsst sre trees that . great IVES
tern farmer would hardly take much
pride in.p .zq... u
A CURE FOR INoAIsITIvENEss.
But they are large enough to tax
the physical powersof his city friends
who. come to bis farm to question the
philosophers on political subjects. He
has courteous way Of setting the
interloeutor to axing trees while he
would fain be axing questions.
THE FENCING.
Stone fences, neat and regularly
builE traverse the farm, shutting out
ths woods from the swamp, the pas
ture from the orchard and the barn
yard from the ploughedland. Wood,
en-. palings serve for the garden and
house Fencing. - as -
THE WATER SUPPLY.
A dozen springs give out an mex
haustible supply of pure living water
They are carefully enclosed, and one
fax up in a little glen, the peerless
spring of crystal purity, which the
philosopher calls the spring, is thick
ty shaded and sheltered, and is ~
cold as2ice water at all stages of the
summer, Another, higher up the bill
bubbles to view at a depth of twenty
feet ip q chasm Of the earth. Te
this Ledge Of twenty-nine stone
steps lead, Pipes are !aid from these
springs 10 ,ths peighbors' houses il
the little village, and thence the
whole hamlet obtains. fnee Of water
Sax,without money and withop
pssess itsfnlf supply Of drinking wa
ter. Nothing can illustrate Mr.. Gree
}ey's abouuding philanthropy mor'
than this. He is
-1f 4 WHOLE cRoroE RoARD
in himself, and furnishes purer wate
at a cheaper rate and in more inez
haustible supply to tie little villag
of his friends than our elaborat
Commission, with all it's accessories o
Putnam county lakes and the grea
aqpsdact, seens able to do. =
Y7Hx PHILOSOPHERS BEVERAGE.
sIoSths spring Mr.. Greeley turn
his steps eagerly the moment b
leaves tho cars on his return to th