Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1879-11-26

iiaps It's better Dal1-Oniy tnelr EnRilsl
cousins of like manner and degree
You find here fresh and in clear outlin
the Lancaster of our young past; th'
Lancaster that clustered around th'
fashioned Court House the Ian
caster Of old King and Queen and Duk,
streets; the Lancaster of the Old Bal
and OF the country "manners" OF gon'
times = the Lancaster that used Il
come in from Carnarvon and Colerair
and Little Britain and the slower end !
tho Lancaster OF the Yates and Gun
ninghams and Lardners and Mont
gomerys and Franklyns and Jenkini
and Bartons laid away in their family
graves forever. Here it is, drinking
port and sitting in stately old Windsor
chairs and burning wax tapers and
swearing at dignified buffers and pow
dered footmen yet.
In their respective relation TO the
adjacent country there is a strong re
semblance between the two Lancasters
Lancaster Of England is situated on
the pleasing river Lune, which, when
the tide is out, is nearly as respectable
q stream as our Conestoga creek when
the tide il in it is something larger
While the county of Lancashire is dis.
tincuvely known as a cotton-splnnlng
district, that portion Of it which lies
Immediately around Lancaster town
and forms its beautiful setting is q fine.
rich agricultural sweep Of land rolling
pretty much as do the farm fields from
Lancaster TO Mlllersville in Pennsyl.
vania. 1t looks rather richer and
more bounliful than our land, because
the generous green of the meadows
and fields is not broken by the arid
lines of dusty roads and dry fences,
The sweep around this Lancaster is
one broad field of living green, the
various divisions Of property marked
only BY the he'd darker lsg olive i've shades of the the
daen and so hedged bv bawtborns and
HOY and bushes AZ 10 be hardly seen.
and NOT at all TO break the picture of
tho landscane
AItogetber there is ouite family
resemblance between the two towns
their peonle and life, There il the
same Size the same eonable comfort
and rest and substance-the Golden
mean of blessing. The general features
of every dav lile-on he outside and
out.of. doors AT least-are much the
same. There is a reasonable distribu.
lion Of wealth among the peonIe Of
both towns and comnaratiye freedom
from want.
Lancaster of England with its solid
s,ructnrcs of stone: its fine gray tints
unbrolen bv tho glare of red brick or
white paint: ia Old fashioned domestic
bouses with quaint armorial BEARINGS
or scrintural legends carved above he
doorwavs with its venerable old walls
and oatevavsclad with ivvand Iiolans
with itsiamous Roman castle which mas
OF rolled back the tide Of war,
and from whose parapcts surly cannon
are even now trained on the peaceful
fields; with its medieval legacies OF
dungeons and keep; with its authentic
traditions Of Roman Empire with its
tower and turrets and spires of modern
time and use with the British soldiery
of the day, brilliant in scarlet and gold,
filing through the streets to the calls
Of drum and bugle with its local
peasant dialect, unntelligible to Ameii-
can ears, and the ciang Of wooden
shoes, is by far the most picturesque
and impressive OF the two places.
Lancaster OF Pennsylvania, however,
has solid advantages over the older
city. She has already in her Court
House and Soldiers Monument and
Franklin and Marshall College, public
buildings far beyond those OF this
town at the same age. Give the Ian.
caster Of the New World 1000 years
more time and | doubt not she will be
q greater city than even this one, and
in tradition, already in her infancy,
has she not the names OF Muhlenberg
and Mlfllln and Fulton and Buchanan
and Thaddeus Stevens, men as great
and historic as any OF the heroes OF
tho Wars OF the Roses She was for
a brlet space, in times OF turmoil, also
the capital OF the Nation, a seat OF
government just as respectable as the
Court of Henry w., which for short
time was held here.
And to-day in many of those things