The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-04-30

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And crushed the violet in the grass,
It only said, "How sweet!
How sweet" it said, with fainting moan,
If must die, to die alone
For her. .#sG
- For her, 80 49,
To die at her dear feet .,E Lii.
JOHN B. COUGH.
The Great Temperance Orator and
AgitaIOr at His Home.
From the London World. .,.5.l...." q .a
Though born an Englishman, John B.
Cough, in his life, modes of thought,
habits of utterance. diet and gait, is an
American of the Americans; and his
home is type of the American gentle
man farmers residence. 1t is in the State
of Massachusetts, six miles by smooth
and pleasant carriage road from the town
| of Worcester, lesser Boston, situated
forty-tive 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 at Wor-
cester. Thence it is an agreeable walk
or drive to Hillsdale, a Enthusiastically
American house, picturesque both as to
its shape and situation, with wide pill
Jared veranda running all round it;
broad windows opening to the floor.
sheltered by venetian blinds, great
! square wooden cupola on the top, with
shading co1nice; q wider ~cornices 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,
summary, and, as 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 sores, Gid
ing downward into one of the loveliest
valleys in New England---a valley which
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 drawlng-room
dining room. library and ''grass parlor'
singularly fresh and inviting. Like all
the rooms in the house, the library il
, bright and sunny, with broad, large paneC
windows coming from the ceiling righ
down to the floor. Upon the marble
, mantleshelf are vases holding fresh-cu
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, upo1
J which rest 5000 carefully selected vol
}, umes, consisting largely of English com
}. mentaries on the Scriptures, and othe
helps to the comprehension of sacre,
writ. N ext to these, the most nota
BILE thing in the library is the great mum
e Der Of volumes relating to art, and tn
immense quantity Of sketches and en-
{, cravings, bound in magnificent folio
e aad quartos, or lying loose in portfolio
= Among them are CruikshaAk's works, {
IS which Mr.. Cough has perhaps the fines
= collection in the world. It NUM- beers neal
~ 1000 of the best sketchings of tn
n humorous and highly moral penc
l, advocate of teetotalism.
The English visitor to this charmin
It home is naturally somewhat surprised I
E. find it such beautiful property. b.
lecturing in the United States is yer
& different pursuit from lecturing in Ens
land. In this country Mr., Cough is
* temperance lecturer only; and it is trr
d he isl that pre-eminently in the state
ID but there he is also one, if not tt
ar chief, of the lyceum speakers, who sprea
k all over the country every winter, az
TT dressing such hosts of people as Englis
lecture audiences can scarcely concciv
ID John. B. Coughs usual fee is two hui
30 dred dollars, or about forty pounds. ]
some of the largest cities he receiv
v; eighty guineas per night, the profits
a the association which manages the lectu
being often quite equal to the lecture,
Is honorarium. Multiply these figures p
ed night by one hundred and fifty nights.
his yearly average lectures--and it wi
be be seen that Mr.. Coughs income Is ecu
ut to such home as Hillside. As
re matter of fact it, is equal
much more; and less open-hand,
giver than Cough would be at his a!
er wealthy. (, +
Ii Cough has this home, and that literal
IT. IS all. He has accumulated no conn
iii tency upon which. to retire from
arduous work.. His Charities have be,
of boundless, though always unostentatio,
ed He means to die in. harness, and retil
-. ment from his active life is thing til
has never for moment entered into /
SCENE of existence. To work, in t
winter, to rest in the summer-that is
ito whole programme. For SO years he b
cn been, except during the summer month
of necessarily travelling. The distance