The Worthington advance., 1879-05-01

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."Ah," said the violet, would I were :
Some stately garden dowerl
One little hour to her sweet breast.
All, me!
Only one little hour!"
On came the rosy shepherd lass,
:, With heart that idly best .,
And crushed the yoilot In the grass,
How sweetw It said, with faintins moan,
III must die, to die alone
For her,
For her ...
To die at her dear feet
JOHN B. COUGH.
The Great Temperance Orator and
Ag1tatOr at His Home.
Fro. the 1oodea World.
Though born an Englishman, John B.
Cough, in his life, modes of thought,
habits of utterance. diet and gait, 10 an
American of the Americans: and his
home is type of the American gentle
man farmers residence. It is in the State
Of Massachusetts,, six miles by smooth
and pleasant carriage road from the town
of Worcester, . lesser Boston, situated
forty.five miles from the American Ath.
ems, on the main line of railway. You
take the ten o'clock express at Boston,
and at II 30 step from the train 1T Wer-
cester. Thence it is an agreeable walk
or drive to Hillsdale, actaracteristically
American house, picturesque both as to
its shape and situation, with wide pill
Jared veranda running oil round it;
broad windows opening to tie floor.
sheltered by venetian blinds, a great
square wooden cupola on tho top, with q
shading co1nice: wider cornice orna-
menting the caves Of the house itself,
which is of two stories only. and sits
lightly on the earth, seeming to have no
cellar, and to be supported on an airy
structure of diamond-latticed trestle-
work.
1t is handsome house, airy, roomy,
summery, and, as q resting place after
the lecturers winter work, altogether
charming. Surrounding it is the ';farm"
anoble and beautiful estate OF 240 acres,
part of Of it Of park-like Beauty. and all
Of it under thorough cultivation. The
grounds Immediately surrounding the
house are extremely lovely, and laid out
with gravelled roads, bordered by fine
old trees with :broad-reaching depths of
shade. The lawn includes five scres, Gid
ing downward into one of the loveliest
valleys in New England---a valley which
English visitors are quick to compare
with those Of Kent and Surrey with its
gentle undulations, its round and velvet
hills, its Towering hedges along the turn
pike roads, its perfumed air, and its
swarms of singing birds. Nor is the
interior of the house less attractive.
Taste and culture unite with Yankee
neat-handedness to make drawing-room,
dining-room: library and ''grass psrlor''
singularly fresh and inviting. Like all
the rooms in the house, the library is
bright and sunny, with broad, large paned
windows coming from the ceiling right
down to the floor. Upon the marble
mantleshelf are vases holding fresh-cut
flowers, whose fragrance fills the room
few choice landscapes and family per.
traits are on the walls. Lining the walls,
between the airy lace-hung windows, are
book shelves from floor to ceiling, upon
which rest 5000 carefully selected vol
umes, consisting largely of English CON-
mentaries on the Scri ptures, and other
helps to the comp, ehension of sacred
writ. Next to these, the most nota-
BILE thing in the library is the great num-
Der Of volumes relating to art, and the
immense quantity of sketches and en-
cravings, bound in magnificent folios
aad quartos, or lying loose in portfolios.
Among them are Cruikshaak's works, of
which Mr.. Cough has perhaps the finest
collection in the world. It numbers near.
ly l,200 Of the best sketchings of the
humorous and highly moral pencil
! advocate of teetotalism.
The English visitor to this charming
home is naturally somewhat surprised to
| find it such~a beautiful property. But
lecturing in the United States is a very
different pursuit from lecturing in Eng
land. In this country Mr.. Cough is q
temperance lecturer only; and it is true
he is that pre- eminently in The states
but there he is also one, if not the
chief, of the lyceum speakers, who spread
| all over the country every winter, ad-
dressing such hosts of people as English
lecture audiences can scarcely conceive.
John. B. Coughs usual fee is two hun.
dred dollars, or about forty pounds. In
some Of the largest cities he receives
eighty guineas per night, the profits of
the association which manages the lecture
being often quite equal to the lecturer 3
honorarium. Multiply these figures per
| night by one hundred and 6f*y nights
his yearly average lectures--and it will
be seen that Mr.. Coughs income Is equal
to such = home as Hillside. As a
matter of tact it is equal to
| much more; and less open handed
giver tnan Cough would be at his age
wealthy.
Cough has this nome, and that literally
Is all. He has accumulated no comre-
tency upon which to retire from his
arduous work. His charities have been
boundless, though always unostentatious.
He means to die in harness, and retire.
ment from his active life is thing that
has never for moment entered into his
SCENE Of existence. To work in the
winter, to rest in the summer-that is his
whole programme. For SO years he has
been, except during the GUNNER months.
inceRsantly travelling. The distance he
has6ourneved would have suficed to carry
him a dozen times around the terraque-
ous the globe. He has delivered
nearly 5000 speeches, he has been heard
BY more human beings than any preacher
living. spureeon "egan to preach near
l. ten years later than Cough, and has
net spoken more than halt a. often
Henry " ard Beecher was not heart OF
until sixty years after Cough had become
the recognized king of teetotalism, and is
in demand as a lecturer from . thousand
platforms every winter.
1t is impossible to converse long with
Mr.. Cough without his passing to the
subject OF temperance. For thirty five
years this theme has formed the staple Of
his discourses. There is not an actor on
any stage who can approach him in ver-
satility. In illustrating his lectures he
will play with equal ease the rolicking
1rishman, the unbendinp Scotch deacon.