The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-14


uave a lg b n ec IN s and ieft them
without a Jennie, BeH or CSnrch 0'
And ,,oso uho ,o,,od ,,,o macs, damon
Enjoy no more the lively BIN:
They've lost, alas their pleasure: House,
Ana miss their richiy furnised man,
They once could boast a pleasant mn.
Delightful Rhodes, a charming Lane,
That tbe,y nav never aver see apain IN "'"eS'
in T G xxx al" t thr , m1oos Iad Ira ieiieu
Has broken up his giittering camp,
And friendly Scott and French are fled.
Ans lost-tbe men have lost their crafts,
They've lost their Ambier and their Wheeler,
Have ost ther Steel' their rex a their RICE
'" ~ WON "'''' ''"'' '''' '"''' "'''"'
Yes. all Is lost-and those whove gone
Tbav,a lag, ti,air 49, r "st 81 az 81 ~ ~
Arid lost their Pride, and Hyie and BoHami
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PRESIDENT THOMPSON" Mr.. Moses T..
Cheney of Barnard is called upon for a FIVE
Minutes speech and a song"
Mn CuENEy rose from his seat-a tall
oaunt 6gure. clad in a long overcoat. his
white head aud hoard enveIoned in n broad
shawl He said. g Mr. Sneal,ar II il thirty
wears since the eminent town of barnard
sent me TO the canital as a humble represent-
ative was am old man then and was a
GOOD deal friphtened when T felt comnelled
70 sneak. nov I find myself confronting the
members of forty Legislative sessions. and |
tremhle a GOOD deal 7 would not have left
the farm if I had known I was coming TO
this. I never do anv speaking. and hayn't
fnr tbe lost tyentv veara avceSt nerbons at
a neiphborhood prayer-meetinp.r (At this
stage the old gentleman stonned unwound
his shawl and took off his overcoat as though
he meant businpss) at am going TO en-
brace this opportunitv TO saw something.
some one proposed that we should have
short bumorons sneecbes Won must not
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theology. i'm a very retired wav and for nv
own benefit. not asking nv family TO par-
ticipate. You remember there was once an
| old fellow of whom Won have read-an old
prophet-who walked so and so; he didn't
ijde. I have taken to walking. and came
down from nv house at Barnard to the
Bethel depot to take the train: did it in a
| little more than an hour. | would have
walked all of the way here but for one
thing-I couldn't have got here in time -
The Speaker then related an anecdote of an
occurrence in the Legislature of 1856 be-
tween Powers of Woodstock and j. Dorr
Bradley of Brattleboro on the subject of TEN.
perance Powers was a great temperance
| advocate. Bradley was not particularly in
favor of meddlinp with the subject that
wear. although he did not openly manifest
| ODpositon to the temperance cause. Mr.
| Bradley EXPRESSED the idea that he was
much in favor of temperance Mr. Powers
told the following story: He said there was
once congregation of coons, and among
them there came unexpectedly an animal OF
peculiar stripe. The other animals asked
TINS one what ne was ana now ne happened
to be there. The animal of strange stripe
replied that he was coon and was present
for the same purpose as the others. Well
one OF them says, you dont look IKE 9
coon, you dOn act IKE a coon ana you uoil
smell like a coon. The gentleman from
Brattleboro does not look like temperance
m n a IN
ana whether he smells IKE temperance
man L leave 1t for those who SIT by hin
to say. Bradley rose calmly ana SAID: Mr.
Speaker, we ma mankind divided INTO twt
classes: class number one is the gentleman
from Woodstock; class NO. =, the rest OF
mankind. L didn't say the people OF Brat
tleboro; said that the people OF Brat
tleboro requested so and SO. came here
to do my duty, and by the Gods VIII do 1t
for all of Tom Powers OF Woodstock. " MIR
Cheney then asked the president If his time
had expired The president replied that i
was now time for the song. Mr.. Cheney
continued: Here is my old friend, walton
l will call him John Anderson My Joe;
| Will be Mrs. Anderson. with consider
able power and feeling he threw himsel
into the melody and poured forth the above
song At its conclusion the audience mani
tested their pleasure with good round o
applause.
Hon. A. L. MINER was then called upol
and responded to the call thus. "Mr
President and members of this vast assem-
bly I have no apolopv 7 am not in a stat,
of health to make n speech. 1t is forty
nine wears this month since I was first of
ficialiv connected with this Legislature
Since that time have been here at thirteel
sessions Including one extra session. tits;
GREAT pleasure to me to he here. don't know
when 7 have enioved so mich during al
nv LONG life as 7 have today. | was hardl,
able to 90 few rods last week. and here
am: it has renewed me. | cannot in fiv
minutes relate some of the amusing Incl
dents of nv lone legislative exnerience
But will tell one aneCdote of nv friend
Cheney. that occurred at the extra session
when The ouestion was nm about changin,
the location of the CAPITAL. At that tim
Mr.. Merrill renresented This town. Mr.
Cheney likened him TO Calhoun. He sal,
the gentleman from Castleton he likened T.
Daniel Webster. that Daniel Webster wa
sometimes called God-like. He said n
Thought sometimes il was sacrilepious f
cali anv man Cod like althougb If was tru
that God made man i'm his own image. III
said it was perhaps as proper to say tina
Daniel Webster was God-like as it was t
say that the gentleman from Castleton wa
Webster-like. 1t has been said that an
man might be proud of constituency il
Vermont. Is that vain talk? 1t does no
seem to me that it is. AS | look at this au
dience it seems to me as if every man
meet, every face / see, looks as though
had a good brain back of it. What ha
been said of our two senators has been yer
truly said. What state can YOU name tina
has ever had in the National Senate men c