Omaha daily bee., 1888-12-22

take 1000 policemen TO look after the bach
doors.
In Omaha: It was different, and in closing
his remarks, he said;
81 know what the better element require
of me, ard I trust that before Ego out OF
ONCE will be able TO fulfill these require
mtnts."
Rev. A. Il. Thrain, of Galesburg, spoke
humorously Of The Yankee and explained
that he only missed being one by about two
hundred aud twenty-five years, having been
born in Scotland. The Yankee, as he knew
him, was born down cast, anu, although he
came into the world as a baby, was never
young. As he took an inventory of his
baby clothes there was speculation in his
eye, aud he looked at his crib as though to
ask, How much did il Costin He climbed
from his crib and clanorcd for boots, and
spent his boyhood days in trading tops and
strings. He cut his eve teeth sooner than
any other mortal, and was seen at his
best in the search for the dollar.
AS a peddler, he had few equals and no SUI
periors, and as an insurance agent he could
almost persuade a corpse TO take out n life
policy. AS u lightning rod agent he was
smarter than the lightning itself. He had
cut down the forests till the earth was bald,
and had rooted the falls of st. Anthony till
the stream carried dollars to his Golfers. Ho
came west as "A farmer, but III the soil was
too poor he became a cattle raiser, and IL
poorer still he was found as n miner. If it
was too poor to be farmed, mined or used as
grazing grounds, he would stake il off
as an lndian reservation. He closed
with an eloquent peroration in which no said
that the safety of the land depended on tho
New England element aud the American
character.
Miss Lizzie Pennoll then sang of our
Great Grandmothers," in a style that won
a well deserved encore.
The Hon. w, j. Connoll thought tho time
and place n fitting one in which to extend u
greeting from the Green mountains to the
$40 4 a,"I. tNt "a
he had married a genuine Vermont gIrl. He
then drew a word picture of the New Eng
lander in his prairie home, and among other
things predicted the admission of Dakota to
statehood soon after March 4.
The Rev. l.. +. Berry, of Fremont, told of
the New England deacon as he knew him
a composite creature, different from all
other deacons. Formerly he was a man of
mature years and ripe experience, now he is
a man of business as well as of religion, and
quite as liable to drive a fast horse as his
pastor. But New England had a
right to be proud of her d~eacons.
As he could remember them there
was the deacon with the deep voice, and tho
one that could say grace and get to the cary
ing knife quicker than any other man he
knew. There was the old man, the friend of
the young, and there was the deacon that
could never keep "A secret, but stuck to his
pastor through thick and thin. There was
the punctilious deacon, who never mixed his
religion with his business, but always knew
when his rents We're due; the obstinate
deacon, the progressive euchre deacon,
and the horesy hunting deacon. There
were all kinds of deacons, and though
those he spoke of were long since
dead, there were others still like them filling
their vacant chairs.
Miss Georgia p. Boulter then rendered q
musical selection suitable to the OCCASION,
and received "a hearty encore.
Prof. Lewis was unable to be present to
tell of New"England Puritans in Literature
and as the hour was growing late short
speeches were made by Messrs. c. S.. Chase,
w. II. Alexander and !. j. Manatt, of Lin
coin.
Miss Iteah b. Wilcox, of Kansas, made
many admirers by her excellent rendering of
lection from "Marguerite.n MIR. Jay Northup
sang the tenor solo, 1.-THE Pilgrim Fathers"
and the New England banquet was over.