Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1880-10-21

in which an enticed victim may be murdered
and hidden, perhaps for weeks, without dis
covery. For no one, without a special object,
will venture into jungles which seem to be
homes for reptiles
But after all, isn't there great difference
between the two peoples2 No, / can't say
there is, or rather, would say there is both
more and less difference than one would sup
pose. A casual observer, taking note of the
salient points of difference, overlooks the re-
semblance, but the close comparative student
is more impressed by the likeness than the
unllkeness OF things; the unity, not the va
rletv OF nature; the sameness in the ground
plan of mind and matter astonishes him. In
general way all men are alike. and the Yam
KEGS are more like ourselves than we are will.
ling to believe. Many of them do not s'guess,"
but sreckon." 81 judge not, for II suppose
not, you will often hear. ''Danl," in place
of Daniel, = is habitual, and 'sNathan'l" in
stead OF Nathaniel" heard in the pulpit
last night. Introduced to an old lady yester-
day evening, she held out her hand and drop
ped me ''court 'sy." thought it very pref
ty. We brag much about our hospitality, but
every day that have been in this house, and
at almost every meal, there has been com.
pany. Three persons came home with the
family from church yesterday, spent the day
and remained all night. But for the rain, the
family IN this house would have spent the day
at a neighbours, mile or so off. Isn't that
like Maryland or old Virginiap
That free society has developed q race of
men and women in every respect superior to
those of the South l empbaticaly deny. With
equal emphasisI deny that we are as superior
to the Yankees as we fancy. Doubtless it
makes each side feel better to think so, and if
it made either of us act better, it would be
we'll to foster the delusion The facts, how
ever, sustain neither us nor the Yankees. &.
They are more industrious than we are, but
deserve no credit for it. They don't want the
credit, for their industry pays. If man
could lie down under tree and be fed with
mama by angels he wouldn't get out of that
and go to ditching eleven hours day at 25
cents cubic yard. What would he do with
the IS cents? But see. An old man is
breaking stones near an unused quarry in the
suburbs of Bridgeport. ''Dot you make your
living at this ?" I ask. ''Oh, no; I just do it
at odd times" The pile before him was
worth. $12, and he had made many such piles.
youth in BARRIERS shop at Litchfield talks
out OF the window to another youth, who is
plying an axe. The talk is animated, but the
axe never stops. A farm hand, twenty years
or less old. comes on Saturday nights to Leba-
non and cuts hair or shaves Boards After the
heavy work of the day is over, farmer goes
through his orchard and picks up the fallen
apples. After supper he ''projicks" around
the barn and stable. My host in Cornwall
was one of class that delight to honor.
For 30 years he has practiced medicine In that
rough country for poor pay at best, often for
no pay at ADJUST as country doctors do with
us. Far from being self-asserting Yankee,
he seems to think that he owes an epology to
the world for not being rich. AS an opulent
mo I hot sc q
kind IS due me, and accept his apology and
all the more readily because he does his
''chores" himself-milks the COWS, groonls the
horse, gathers the vegetables, and so on.
These people eau teach US nothing about
farming scientifically q thing. Parcel
culture, little land we'll titled, occupying
spare moments working with your own hands,
and never employing help till you really need
help. That is the whole secret. We of the
South have got to come to it, and the sooner
we learn this lesson the better.
/" Seeing, then, we are so much alike, why do
we not come together? Water requires neith-
er argument nor persuasion to mingle with
water-why do we not mingle? There are
many reasons. Look at the Gulf Stream flow
ing over the cold flow of the Atlantic as if it
were bed of rock. 1t is question of tenn
perature, then? No, not altogether. leave
you to guess. Sometimes fancy it will be as
much as all the seaboard States, from Maine
to Florida, can do to keep in check the West
when 1t shall have grown mighty and arrogant.
We may yet come together. But it is mere
fancy. When I look at the map and foresee
the time when we shall number hundreds of
millions, try not to think. =.
= New England is the United States epitomiz-
ed-America condenscd-it is varied, and
very, very beautiful Long shall remember
the stately pines of Cornwall, the imperial
elrns of Litchield and New Haven, the green
slopes, the orchards and the meadows of Leb-
anon. A new and instructive chapter has
been added to my life, and thank the Sun
for having given it to me. B.