Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-10-30

were IL waiting 10 gain an entrance. \
kind fortune opened the doors for me.
and full hour before the procession an
rived. had found convenient seat and
was dividing my time between the for
ist and this letter. l wished in vain for
some good angel to suggest TO ne Ian
guage in which to describe the flowers.
but there IS nothing to compare them
with. and therefore cannot describe
them but their heavy Odor seemed to
possess ones very senses to creep into
ones veins and 50 to the very heart. 1t
comes hack to ne now ike
-The touch Of a vanished hsad.~
and thrills NE. TIL l wonder if it is
some disembodied spirit haunting NE.
When at last the procession had AZ
rived and was safely within the build
ing, the doors were thrown open and the
crowd outsid- permitted to enter. Then
l fully realized the favor shown me, for
l never saw greater hurrying. erowding.
jOstling, jamming, at fire where every
one was for himself. than there in the
presence Of the dead. Women screamed.
men swore, children shrieked, until it
seemed as If an insane asylum had been
turned loose upon Us. 1 had seated NY
self at respectful distance from the
coffin, instinetively feeling that the prop
er thing to do, but grieyously erred in
calculating On any exhibition Of respect
from q pr0miseuous California audience,
for never did pen full Of pigs crowd
and quarrel to decide which should get
into the trough first. and exhibit less re-
speet for both pigs and trough, than did
the large-sized pigs erOwding around
James Llek's coffin. In life it was said
he never liked coming in contact with
many people; that crowds worried him
His likes or dislikes were Of no avail
now, for lying there cold and dead in
his magnificent coffin, thsy jOstled him
as much as they chose. And such
crowd for such an occasion, Men fresh
from their workshops. unwashed and
uneombed women who had, in their
haste. forget to wash the kitchen smears
from their handsome even had for
gstten their bonnets; girls with their
arms laden with recent purchases boys
with their sehool-books; gamins from
the street with their faces almost lost in
dirt delegates fresh from the small pox
hospital, jostling against dainty women
in costly apparel hoodluns seeking a
stray poeket-book or convenient watch
and chain whisky-shOp representatives /;
men Of means and Manners" and men
Of means with noticeable lack OF man
ners-
The grand organ gave forth solemn
dirge, minister said prayer, brass
band played Handels' Chorals, and then
D. Stebbins delivered an address; then
little more music, the benedictiou, and
the procession reformed Not for one
moment had the crowd been quiet or ST.
lent; and 1 could only think of the
snarling Of thousand dogs, when the
choice bit they want is just beyond their
reach. No one need ever tell ne a spir-
It can return at viii, for If such a thing
were possible, James Lick would have
set such spirit rapping at work as
would have driven that crowd out in :
hurry. As be did not do It, guess be
went up instead Of down when he tool
fight
was out IN season TO see the hand
some hearse. with Its nodding plumes
drawn By four horses with black cover
on them, the Society Of Pioneers" th'
Native Sous Of the Golden West" th.
ssTerritoriaI Pioneers" Members Of the
Academy Of Science and Art, ct eeteTa
which made up the long procession
which followed the dead Pioneer 70 Lon'
. Mountain. where, just as the sun wa
going down In the west, they left him Z
his long quiet
And now for little Of his persona
. history: He was q native Of Frederieks
} burg, Penn, born IN 1896, Of poor par
: euts, who we're only able to give him th
l rudiments Of an education. Early II lf
he was apprenticed to planO-maker il
: Baltimore, which calling he pursue
: both in the United States and SOut
: America In IS47. he cane to thi
: coast with his little fortune Of $4,000
4 which has steadily grown since ther
4 With no disposition 70 speculate, h
E plodded slowly on, while the whole CIV
l ilized world went crazy about gol
: mines; and when all the rest fed to Ii
i mines he stayed quietly here, buying ]
their lands The city soon develope
I and his real estate increased In valu
E with marvellous rapidity. In lS4s. /
: erected a Touring mill at San jos
: which must have been marvel Of nics
Z " for a mill The wood work was (
f mahogany, and. to quote one who b
I seen II. the whole edifce was = nod
4 Of mechanical skill and workmanship
: The cost of this structure vas betEee
d s20O, 1000 and 100000. and It Is 81
/" referred to as @Liek's Folly. though !
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