The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-06-27
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Herper's
Of the 400 illustrations in the Ju.y Harper
those of Porte Crayen, "elucidating" his ram
bles in Virginia, arc the most amusing, and
for that reason will probably prove most at
tractive to the majority of readers; though
doubtless those accompanying Bishop Hay
ems second paper or Mexico possess The high
est merit and deepest interest. How little, in
deed, We know o: cur next door neighbors
and especially of.hat strange city wherein
abide the '"Halls of the MonteZumaG," about
which 0Sr soldiers sang in 1917. We go to
London, Paris, Naples, Florence, Alexandria
and Jerusalem, and are charmed; bit have you
seen the gardens OF Chapultapec? Wander
ing among their marvellous woods, liking a
plunge in their strange baths, gazing en- their
illlmitable arborescent and focal weflth let
aus accompany the good Bishop 20 the
Heights of Chapnltapec," and like Moses
from Pisgah, view the landscape DER.
The court just below the top stops thehorses,
land a few steps land she visitor amiGet cool
and shady garden, surrounded by,bsoad We
,randas, where the singing and shining birds
CT the country every d; fferent species here, as
e,sewhere) SHINE in their exquisite .p,rmage,
or melt In more exquisite song. Long suits
Of rooms command the superb valley, It's city,
villages, plains lakes and monntains. No
such panorama has airy other palace IN the
M9rld. Windsor the next most beautiful,
is tame to this bohonhrunn, Posdap,, Fon-
tainebleau, and al, are flat and cheapt0 this
rare combination. Bctthen one is apt TO live
longer in these palaces and to die q anore
natural death, and so is content WITH hum bier
aluguries. Brom MOnteaama TO MsMimlian,
the occupants of this hin palace have many
of them made sudden exit from their tyoub-
lOus honors. Juarez dared not stag hese af
ter Il ightfall without q lagge body gGard; and
it IS abandoned TO occasional state breakfasts,
thesheart of sise city beng judged q 'sGfer
residence. .
So Thc trail Of the serpent is over them
ell" THE ride hither," scgs the author, us
over r. charming aveaue straight as an ar.
row path from an Aztec bow, and lined with
y0ang scees-but it is not safe. Carriage
riders or horscmen may find; themselves ligh.
er Of ;pHSsc and heavier 1f Heart before they
retarn from their Eden to tic city streets9'
The hand is omnipresoht In Mexico, and is
king
The thousands IN the west who retain
many lingering reeollcctions of hallowed
places fn the Old Bay State will, 2evour John
Chadwick beautifully written description si
Marblebead. Its quaint architecture, sinuous
streets mad errious dialect, all lift il out OF
common New England life; bu. the old
town, once 30 prosperous and now sinking to
In,a,. IN, hn =. Z .
the birthplace c. Elbridge Gerry.
1t was in the church at Waterloo, in which
the Massachusetts General Court assembled,
hat Elbridge Gerry proposed the FIRST meas.
Ere OF defensive wsrfare, In the view Of John
Adams the most important measure o. the
Revolution. As representative of the town
in the first Continental Congress, Gery's
voice was from the first for "independency,'
and his name stauds among the signers o. :he
imHaSrtal Declaration He was perhaps she
greatest man of whom the town can boas,
oolatorer with Hancock and the AdamseS
Tue bosom friend of Joseph Warren, signer Of
'he Declaration, Governor OF Massachusetts,
ana vice President Of the United States his
name has been ungracioEsly embalmed in
the WORD Gerrymander, which hundreds use
where one knows its origlO. Gerry, while
governor OF Massachusetts, MAS charged with
remodeling the Essex district for political
purposes. map of the district as remodeled
was mol unlike some fabulous monster, to
winch The name gerrymander, suggested per
maps py salamander, was given. And now
All remodeling of districts for party purposes
Is gerrymandering. Surely the unsullied
: patriotism CT Elbridge Gerry did not earn for
him any such doubtful honor.
Other illustrated articles are: A poem,
-l"Left Aloae," by Harriet spaford, with