Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-09-20
NE ENDURING HOME.



To .o Found In the city.
1t Is city property which Is a perish
able thing. and not property In the
country. Hardly house. which "a
p eserved. which has historical or
pions "reminiscences remains In any of
our cities The John Ha cock house
OF Boston had to go at last; the old
South Church might as well be torn
down as to be what 1t il, kind OF ned.
ding bazaar. The Hamilton House in
New York barely escaped sacrifice by
being turned over TO church. But
country houses are generally found
where they stood when the man of his
tory put them up
You never could find Shakespeare
house in London If he ever had owned
one there. The bard OF nature returned
to his cattle market town and there ae-
CURED and altered one Of the best resi-
oences, and to this day it stands evil
dence which, like the old mans tomb.
pnlverizes the small beings who would
get days fame by explaining Shakes
peare away. ] have always noticed
that when went TO hunt up the evil
dences OF men OF celebrity found them
nearly perfect In the country and hard
iy ever recoverable in the city. II you
want to see where John Jay lived so
much longer than his contemporaries.
| go to his farm at Bedford. forty miles
| above New YORK; Citv
If you seek for Dewitt Clinton roof
tree. do not ask where it is in New
York, but go out to Maspeth. in Long
| Island, and there close to the big GEM
| eteries and Oil refineries. stands exactly
as 1t was the statesmans home, where
no doubt he had more self-respect than
| IN all his political victories. He died
very young for such man. occupying
the Office OF Governor which is a seat
of nettles. You will find Oliver Perry $
birthplace still standing among the
rocks and sand-hills in Rhode Island.
Men who only lived in towns left no
more footprints than are TO be found
upon the brick pavements Hence the
ever recurring desire not merely TO puy
a place In the country. but to build one
| and see 1t nodded to ones own images.
Garfield had house at Mentor, which
will probably stand for two hundred
years. in some OF its parts. even though
fire should consume mos: OF it. He
said that in order to work off the men,
tai fatigue of Congress he had to &c
back and pitch hay upon the wagon as
he did when a boy. You can locate
Garfield for the next several centuries
by his country home, but where can
you locate Chester A. Arthur, who al
ways lived in town. and whose house
merits glance on Lexington avenue,
New York. being indistinguishable from
thousands OF others, having not one
feature that is distinctive or ornamental
about it.
But MI. Vernon rema rs all that we
can put Que hands on Of w shington
except his old bucxskin breeches
Posterlty he had not; the painters like
Stuart sublimated the mal to thei.
conception of what the public expected
but when you go to Mt. Vernon yol
have only TO fill up chair with Living
man somewhat worn out in the genera
service, you can smell him. handle
him and criticize him. You can no
say, "ln this closet he kept his whisky
here he turned and expressed a suspi
con to the servant that someb dy hat
been tamp ring with the whisky. ! hi
fire place he poied up with that ol'
shovel. Here on the porch he sat o
evenings and heard the chatter o
some French or German traveller. VIII
expected before he went to bed. at tn
risk of his eye-sight. to put dos
every thing that Washington grunt
and assented to, or ii he tilted back hi
chair and crossed mis- egs. - ath il
Cincinnati Enquirer.