Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-05-05
SENATOR MORRILL,.

Senator Justin S. Morrill,, of Yer
mont, and Mrs. Morrill, issued cards
of invitation for April 14th, bearing
the dates 1910, and 1884, marking
the birthday and age of Senator Nor
rill. The birthday party Of Senator
Morrill, has been an annual event for
several years. The first one was
masqueraded by his personal friends,
who, unlimited, crowded his house,
filling it with flowers, gifts and bless
ings. Each year, since then, Sena-
tor Morrill, has given a birthday par
ty of his own, bidding his most init
mate friends, making it one of the
most delightful occurrences of the
entire social season, an occasion
which can bring but one sorrowful
thought-that each one must make
one the less. Senator Morrill, is not
only a typical American, but an
American senator of the highest
type.
No senator of the United States
moves on the even tenor Of his way
fuller of years or deserved honors
than the senior senator from Vermont
Free from the angularities and dis
crepancies which mark the manners
and the scholarship of so many ''self-
made" men, Senator Morrill, is q self
educated man, whom the most law
ishly lowered may gladly take for an
example. He has the repose of man
ner and the symmetry of character
which many believe to be the sole in
heritance to an indulgent fortune.
When q boy he was placed as a clerk
in a country store. His long winter
evenings, for years, were devoted to
laborious study. In due time he
mastered Greek and Latin, and later
the higher prizes of classical scholar
ship. At forty years Of age he re-
tired from trade, the possessor of al
honorable competency. Shortly af,
ter he was elected to congress, and
in the house of representatives anC
in the senate has served his country
consecutively as a legislator evel
since. His name is associated will
some of the most important practica
financial measures ever adopted by
congress, while he is also regarded
as one of the most scholarly and re
fined of senator's. His home, one o
the most delightful in Washington
is the center of everything best il
our American home life; and thus
full of years and full of honors, sur
rounded by devoted friends, one 0
the best of American senators, wit
mind and hands still full of though
and love for his country, he is sc
renel y passing on to the higher lif
and larger reward. AT his last birth
day reception of the fourteenth, wer
assembled the president of the Unite
, States the members of his cabine
with their families the chief justiC
and the members of the supreir
court, with many senators with the
wives and daughters. The beautifI
home was transformed into q bowt
of bloom. Light, music, good chez
and good will filled the hours fro
nine till twelve of one of the mo-
delightful of these ever d
lightful birthday parties.
: chronicling social events there
genuine satisfaction in recordir
anything so real, SO full of hums
} kindness and brightness as one
!. Senator Morrill's birthday gathe
ings.
And SO, crowded with brightnes
:, beauty and bloom passes our East
: season.-Ma,y Cgemnaer "a, Iadepen
it ent.
! ''Did the editor accept your poem
asked one of his friends of would-be {
q thor. ''No. He complimented it We
II highly, however, as he handed it back