Litchfield enquirer., 1880-01-01
qua ouare mile is densely populated, and then see


 square mile is densely populated, and then see where your republicanism will be-" When asked concerning the labor question, he said Nobody understands the labor question No one comprehends it." But" said Mr. Guy. Ter, Doesn't John Bright comprehend it ?'' ''No," said he, John Bright and argued the labor question one night, and he 'theed and thoued, and 'thoued and theed' me till twelve o'clock at night, but gave him as good as he sent. No, he doesn't understand it.''
 What picture! That earnest quaker John Bright and Thomas Carlyle arguing the labor question till twelve o'clock at night! What bits of wisdom listener might have gather ed. He told of dining with Gladstone when he was premier of England at the time when the arbitration of the Alabama claims was in progress at Geneva. He says that gentleman never lets affairs of state interfere with his eating or sleeping. When he closes his bed room door he shuts out the external world and drops into the arms of Morpheus like tired child. This accounts for his iron constitution and robust health. He. told Mir. Cuyler that question in his life, except on one occasion, when he had been called away and was obliged to leave tree half cut down. In the evening there arose high wind, ''And," said he, q couldn't free my mind from the thought that that tree might be blown over during the night" Mir. Cuyler said "Wm. Gladstone and Bismarck are without doubt the two greatest men in Europe. Gladstone is generation ahead of the slow moving En- glish, and ought to be premier again, and I honestly believe and firmly hope, for the good of England he will be-"
 In speaking of Disraeli he said he was the magician of England, and had befooled, be- fuddled and juggled her to such an extent that to-day she hardly knows her own mind. In the course of his remarks, in speaking of Dr. Guthrie, he said he was the most eloquent man he ever heard utter sentence. In the face he closely resembled Henry Clay. He told the Dr. himself so and the Dr said, s.Yes, believe 1 do, for I once visited friends house and seeing what I supposed to be pie ture of myself on the wall, said, I see you have my picture. where did you get it ? Why, that isn't your picture, said be- in some aston- ishment; aud got up and looked and under heath It was written Henry Clay of Ken lucky So believe do resemble him." Dr.. Guthrie could carry hls audience with him in every flight of eloquence, and hold his hearers spell Lbound to the end, not so much by his great learning as by his personal magnetism and marvellous eloquence. Mir. Cuyler's wife went once, listened to him and returned. Said she, Theodore, Pm spoilt." ''Spoilt 2'' echoed he, ''What has spoilt you? What do you mean?" "I mean," answered she :.just what l say. I'm spoilt. I've heard the grandest language, the loftiest eloquence, the greatest sermon-in fact, I've heard Dr. Guth- rie preach, and I'm spoilt, for you common fellows can never fool me any more" And he said he did not blame her, for those who ever had the pleasure of hearing Dr. Guthrie were sure to be ''spoilt" for any other preach- ing they might ever hear And so MT. Cuy- Ter talked on in his eloquent and delightful manner about one great man and another whom he has personally known, and finally wound up his remarks with the familiar story of John Randolph speaking three successive afternoons in the House of Representatives, and said, like him, he had 'just approached the threshold of thls subject" and sat down amid the great applause of all present. It was feast of wit and flow of soul" which will long be remembered with pleasure by all who were fortunate enough to hear it.
 At the Sabbath School concert, Sunday night, Miss Elsie Beeman and Fred Williams recited appropriate poems for the occasion, and Miss Nellie Sperry and Miss Julia Averill read bepefitting articles. The classes all re- cited the infant class under Miss Ruth Ben- nett, as usual, doing much better than any of the others.
 The Society's meeting was held Monday afternoon at the Congregational church, at 1 o'clock, for the sale of slips and other business proper to be done.
 Mir. Wm. Wooster has returned from a weeks visit among friends at Woodbury, looking we'll satisfied with the world
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