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La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1895-11-07

actual: nadie como 81 explicarfa Ia his
toria de cada fgura, de cada relieve. Es
IN erudito que desentrana, que rebusca,
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paginas de piedra la fantasia del soma
dor Sc expande sus anchas por el IN
meRso campo de los tiempos.
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te mi el velo de cien lustros que cubre
el Nalladolid vetusto anejo, dejando
yer solo al Nalladolid que crece Sc
transforma en- centro comercial contem-
poraneo.
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La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1895-11-07

Refli6ndose IN cofTesponsal del
o la reclamation que i nuestfo gahier
tenta hacar Mr. S3W rs, h4een
xaa ciQdadano americana eA
Cuba, manifesto 10 siguiente
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-01-04
THE ACADEMY.

Thetford has the honor of be-
ing the seat of an Academy that
once enjoyed a national reputa-
ton, and is to-day a worthy in
dustry within a narrower sphere.
1t was founded in 1919, Rev.
John Fitch, Principal, and at
tanned its greatest numbers and
celebrity during the service of
Hiram circuit, the eminent organ
izer and teacher. The catalogue
shows just four hundred students
in his closing year, 1854; and of
these Vermont furnished us,
Massachusetts, 100. In 1858 a
class of sthirty-two was gradual
ed. From the beginning Tibet
ford Academy has furnished 175
graduates of different colleges,
besides many who entered col
1ege but did not graduate. The
following college presidents were
Thetford students. Rev. AlvaI
Hovey, President Newton Theo.
logical Seminary; Rev. c. B.
Hur1but, ex-President Middle.
bury; Gen. John Eaton, ex-Presi.
dent Marietta. Ohio; Rev. Geo
w. Gardner, President, New
London, N. H.; Rev. Roger How.
ard, ex-President Norwich Uni.
versity. Three distinguished
women were Thetford students
the last two Thetford born. Mrs
E. Florence Barker, first Presi'
dent of the Woman's Relief Corps
of the United States; Alice E.
Worcester, specialist in deaf mute
instructions; Mrs. Mary Clement
Leavitt, great woman traveller
lecturer and organizer of the w
c. T. u, who has Travelled 100,
900 miles since she was 81 years
of age, and whose words have
been translated into forty-seve1
different languages. Some o
the many useful and notable met
who were Thetford students arr
He'll Heir s5st iii4 tel NJ M o
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The Wilcox homestead ranks among
the best of the succession of fine farms
along the Connecticut below North
Thetford. 1t is historic ground. When
Aaron Wilcox came here about 1900
he found the remains of an old fort not
far from the site of the present house.
He married Lucinda, a daughter of
Joseph Hosford the pioneer and reared
a family of eleven children. He was a
man of marked energy and force of
character, captain Of militia and a
soldier of the war of 1872, and died at
the extreme age of ninety-fve, having
lived sixty years on this farm.
His son, Abner b., was farmer and
for many years was successfully enga-
ged in breeding and selling standard
fine wool sheep. He kept flock of
from 100 to $50 sheep, and his reputa-
ton as shepherd extended all through
this section. His average clip from
$50 sheep has been twelve pounds, and
he has sold sheep as high as SToo each.
This result was accomplished by the
most careful attention to details, judi
cious breeding and liberal feed. Abner
B. Wilcox died four years since at the
age Of seventy-four.
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WORCESTER.

DR.. f. c.. son of Rev. Leonard Wor
cester, was born in Peacham, VT, Feb
20, 1874. He was educated at Peach
ham Academy. The Worcesters from
early times were family of ministers
OF the six brothers five received a theo
logical education, and two of them af
forwards added medicine. E. c. re.
ceived this double education. He
came to Thetford in 1916 and hi:
practice was almost continuous unit
the time of his death in July, 1887. He
was an eminent medical student anC
deeply interested in the cause of educa
ton. He built the first commercial
greenhouse in Vermont which he sole
to Mr.. Clauson in 1871. He was ap.
pointed by the state one of the medica
examiners at the Woodstock medica
school.
VIM. L. Worcester, his oldest son
graduated at Thetford, Dartmouth and
the Medical School at Washington, D.
c. He spent sixteen months in Eu-
rope in hospital work. On returning to
this country he was two years in Bur-
lington. He was then offered a posi-
ton as assistant physician of the insane
asylum at Kalamazoo, Mich, where he
remained ten years. Then he accepted
the position of assistant superintendent
at Little Rock, Ark, where he remained
six years. He has made a specially of
pathology and nervous diseases, upon
which he has written widely in medical
journals. He is about to go to New
York city for special investigation.
The second daughter, Alice E., went
to the Clark Institution as a teacher of
deaf mutes. She studied the Bell sys-
TEN, but discarded it, invented one of
her own, and at the time of her death
in January, 1889, was considered one
of the most successful deaf mute teach
ers in the world.
U. E. Worcester is the manager of
Mcdonald & Sons, the largest book
bindery in Boston.
Dean {. Worcester graduated from
Michigan University at the age of
twenty-three. He raised $4,000 for
an expedition to the PHILIPPINE Islands,
where he has spent three and one-half
years. In company with Mr.. Burnes,
his partner, he penetrated the unknown
of the islands and discovered
not only rare birds, plants and animals
but people hitherto unknown. He
found one tribe who had reduced their
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language to syllable writing, the second
and perhaps the Oldest syllable alpha
bet in the world. Upon being called
to Ann Arbor, he now has charge OF
the geological and biological depart
ments of the University with eighty
students in the labratory.
Geo. S. Worcester, born in 184o. was
for two years in the custom house at
Burlington was engaged in business
in the south and the rest of his life has
been spent in Thetford He has been
engaged in specialized farming, in
thoroughbred Holstein dairying and the
production of small fruits and vegetable
plants. He is staunch friend and has
been for ten years a trustee of Thetford
Academy and is a deacon of the Con
gregational church, He married Ida
E. Kinf of Corinth and has family oil
four promising sons.
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General &C, e. Hoveya; General
John Sanborn; S. w. Burnham,
U. S. Circuit Court Reporter Chi
cago) and distinguished astron-
omer; Judge HI. A. Morrill,, Gin
cinnati, Ohio; Hon. Ira Colby,
Claremont, N. H.; Edward CO.
nant of Vermont; Rev. Carlos
Slater, Dedham, Mass; Rev. E.
Slater, Boston; Hon. H. ].
Boardman, Boston; Profs. c. p.
Frost, f. w. ID. Worthen, E. r.
Ruggles ali of Dartmouth; ex-
Lieut.. Cows. Hale of Massachu-
sets and Dale of Vermont; u. S.
Senators w. E. Chandler of New
Hampshire and ]. S. Morrill, of
Vermont.
Who can estimate the number
of lives that have been broaden
ed, uplifted and made happier by
Influences emenating from that
school. The Congregational
church contiguous, has furnished
no less than twenty-five mission
aries to home and foreign fields.
What thronging memories clus-
ter around these scenes.
''What greetings smile,
What farewe1ls wave,
What loved ones enter and depart,
The good, the beautiful, the brave,
The heaven lent treasures of the
heart.
How conscious seems the frozen sod,
And beechen slope whereon they trod. !"
Who can essay to analyze the
causes that led to such grand re-
suits. We only know the prec-
ious seed of knowledge was plant
ed by diligent hands, in a fertile
soil, under favoring skies, and
God granted the increase, some
thirty fold, some sixty fold, and
some an hundred fold. Self help
was the motto, numbers inspired
enthusiasm, the teachers were
living examples of a lofty pur-
pose, and nature vouchsafed her
smile, for the Academy COM
nands a view that is a constant
inspiration. Our rivers were
grooved, our valleys t1nrolled,
Our mountains upheaved, Our
night skies bent, for the home OF
great ideas.
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His son, H. F. Wilcox was born on
the old homestead Dec. 9, 1851 and
has always resided here. He was a
student of Thetford Academy. From
early youth he very efficiently assisted
his father in the management of his
flocks. He is now reducing his num-
Der of sheep and giving attention to
dairying, keeping about twenty-five ex-
cellent COWS. During the last three
years he has developed quite business
in the feed line. He has room in the
depot at North Thetford and has sold
more that twelve carloads during the
past year.
During the past eight years Mr.. Will
cox has been largely engaged in
shippfng eggs and has sent during the
season from 1900 to 5000 dozen of
eggs a week. Mr. Wilcox is essentially
business man. His keen black eyes
are good things to see with and he
knows a good thing when he sees it.
Mr.. Wilcox has never aspired to public
office being absorbed in the manage
ment of his varied and extensive bust
ness, but is an interested and careful
observer of public affairs and a stalwart
republican.
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QUlMBY.

Joseph H. Quimby came to Yer
mont from Hopkinton, N. H., in the
early times. Soon after his marriage to
Marcia, daughter Of Capt. John Tyler,
one of the early settlers, he settled in
Thetford. John T. Quimby was born
at Thetford Center, July 10, 1884.
He attended the district school and re-
manned upon the farm for the most
part until the rebellion. He then en-
listed in Co. A, 18th Regt. (Col. Proc
tor, VT. Vols. and faithfully served his
period of enlistment. After his return
he went into business in Boston, where
he kept a bird and seed store for nearly
five years
His health becoming impaired, he
engaged in teaching at Tabor, Ia, dur
ing two and one-half years. Then he
went to Providence, R. l., for two and
half years in the employ of his broth
er in the manufacture of jewelry. A
hemorrhage of the lungs compelled him
to leave Providence and he returned to
Thetford Center and lived for time in
the present residence of C. T. Lucas.
The following January the state COM
mittee of the Y. M. c. A, engaged the
services of Mr.. Quimby for the evan
gelistic work throughout the state.
His health improved and for the first
three years he led his own singing, be-
sides speaking several times each day.
He conducted more than 100 gospel
meetings in different paris of the state,
and with great success.
Later he was called to Maine to
engage in the same work, where he
spent portions of three different years.
until his health failing under the stress
of the work, he returned to the farm
where he has since resided during the
last six years. He is now in company
with his brother, L. A. Quimby of Law
renee, Mass, engaged in dairying and
in raising standard bred horses and
standard bred and registered Jerseys on
the Ompompanoosuc valley farm. The
average test of ten COWS, a special test
for one day at the Thetford Creamery,
was 6.25 per cent. The influence of
Mr.. Quimby's breed in the improve
ment of the stock of the town has been
marked. Reginald, his standard bred
stallion is a large and symetrical animal
and notable performer. Quimby
Brothers have one of the best and most
convenient barns in town, and a good
farm. John T. Quimby is a man of
nearly six feet in stature and of impress
sive personal appearance and an inter-
esting companion. He is the only one
remaining in town of family of seven
children. He is a deacon of the first
Congregational church. In politics a
republican from principle, he has never
been active in local politics. He has
met the world in various phases. !
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with their present able principal, the
future of the grand old academy will
be secure.
PORTER.

lust as one enters Thetford Center
from the west the eye beholds two
landmarks that command attention and
suggests page of unwritten history.
They are two square massive brick
houses in good repair, but suggestive of
the past, each aanked by extensive out
lying barns. Hezzekiah Porter was the
builder. The young man came from
Connecticut in 1906, and settled on
this farm in 1875 which has since been
the family home.
The larger house on the knoll at the
right was occupied by him, and later by
his son, Amos P, while the other one
was built since for the oldest son, Flea
yer. who received half of the original
homestead.
Hezekiah was a typical pioneer, a
man of energy, activity and great bust
ness capacity. His operations were
varied and extensive. He was a cloth
Ter by trade, and was also large farm
er, run a brick yard and built several
houses in this vicinity, among others
the church and town house. Amos P.
was born in 1913 and has always lived
here and has followed a course of mix
ed farming, embracing cattle, sheep and
dairying. Mr.. Porter was stalwart re-
publican, and was deeply interested in
national politics. He was DESTROYS OF
giving each of his sons the benefit of a
liberal education. Nelson H. Porter
born in 1854, was educated at Thetford
Academy and Randolph Normal school,
After leaving school he assisted his
father in the management of the farm
until he was about thirty years old,
when he went to Kansas and South
Dakota on visit to his brother, Hon
William G. Porter. He became inter
ested in various enterprises, for time
kept hotel. Some six years since he
decided to come home and relieves his
father (who began to feel the burden Of
age) from the management of the farm
He has discarded sheep, and gradually
increased his dairy from five to twenty
four. His residence is within stones
throw of the Thetford Creamery, the
pioneer creamery of this section, of
which Mr.. Porter was principal pro-
moter. He believes in fodder corn and
the silo for Thetford. He now fills two
silos. Nelson Porter is man Of keen
: observation and good judgment in
practical affairs. He believes and prac-
tees continuous breeding in the same
general lines, a policy which has pro-
duced his fine Jerseys and Yorkshire
swine which must be seen to be appre-
ciated.
William G. Porter was graduate OF
St. Johnsbury Academy of the class of
'78, and also of Dartmouth '82. He
is successful lawyer in South Dakota,
and is sewing his second TERM as state 5
attorney of his county.
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war his wool brought from sixty cents
to $500 per pound, butter from fifty to
seventy five cents, and he once paid
John Pratt seventy-hve cents per YARD
for cotton cloth. These were "green
back" prices, In 1870 he sold his farm,
bought the store and stock and the
stand he now occupies.
Thetford is sometimes spoken OF as
one of the "has beens." 1t is the opin-
ion of Mr.. Lucas and many Others that
the houses of the town were never be-
fore as numerous or in as good repair
as at present, while many thousand dol
lars have been laid out in improved
barns, farm machinery and carriages
during the last few years. The roads
are fit for the omnipresent wheel, and
the natives of the six villages can quar-
rel or make love through the telephone
The creamery-well-ask the ladies'
In spite of the old cellar holes on "Son-
ny Bean" and few deserted farms
elsewhere, the town never raised SC
much produce before, and the land Is
increasing in fertility under the present
system. Take corn for instance. Mr.
Lucas this year raised los bushels O
ears of good corn from land seeded
with planter and sixty pounds of phos
phate, gagged at the rate of 100 pei
acre.
In two successive years one-half acre
of ground cut the first year thirteen
good one-horse loads, and the seconc
ten, in two crops.
Mr.. Lucas has one son, Charles, liv
ing in the prettiest site in the village
and one daughter, Helen, wife of Henry
West. Mr.. West has been town clerl
and treasurer for more than score o
years and was for four years salesman
of the Thetford Creamery.
l noticed trihing incident that illus
trates bottom fact. AS the store doc
opened with barely perceptable squeak
Henry promptly and carefully oiled thu
hinges. Henry West oils the hinge
of trade and chuck full of business, ther'
is no friction. He anticipates your ever,
want SO confdentially and lovingly
that you want to buy up the who'll
stock. Lucas keeps for use and sail
fine thoroughbred short horn Durham
of the best milking strains. They ar
beauties and have sold at fat prices
but are offered to suit the times.
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CHARLES D. LUCAS.

Let us go to central point in town
the store of Charles d. Lucas, and
through the keen and kindly eyes Of
Mr.. Lucas, that have seen the days OF
almost three score years and ten, let us
survey things old and new, past and
present. Mr.. Lucas was born in BoS-
ton, went to Rumney, N. H., child
of seven years and lived there with his
grandfather until he was twenty. Then
he worked year and half on a farm
at from nine to eleven dollars month,
very high wages for those good old
free trade times. Just think of it
grumbler of to-day. Charles Lucas
with two weeks wages, could have
bought calico gown for his best girl
in IS47. Soon after he came to Thet-
ford Center. and worked for Mr.. Fetch
er in the first starch factory ever run
in Thetford. Then he went to Yer
shire and worked year or two in
starch factory, for Mr.. Burnham. He
remembers that he and one other man
worked up $4,000 bushels of potatoes,
running the works day and night, the
hardest work of his life, at the then
high wages of $40 per month. Sewell
Fuller, late of Bradford, drew in 5000
bushels, for which he received 5000,
and thought he could soon retire.
Having married Emeline Tyler, after
seven years of Vershire experience,
Thetford looked better to him than
ever, and he came back to the Center.
and run the saw mill year or two. In
1857 he bought the Daggett place,
built miles of fence, big barn, and in
fourteen years quadrupled the produc-
tons of the farm. For his nails and
spikes he paid $500 per hundred
weight instead of S2.oo During the
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The Price Of Interviews.

It appears that Mr.. W. S. Gilbert is
not the first or the only distinguished
Englishman to ask compensation for an
interview. The New York Suns corre-
spondent in London once upon time
wrote to Mr.. Gladstone asking him for
an interview on the Irish question, and
in the course of conversation which
followed with Mr.. Gladstone's secreta-
ry it was learned that fee of $500
would be expected in payment for the
interview. it being understood that Mr..
Gladstone should write it himself, and
thus make it authoritative. Lord Rob-
erts fixed the price of 500 for an in
terview upon the threatened war be-
tween ENGLAND and Russia on another
I
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Samuel Mills Gleason, of Tibet
ford, son of Richard Mills and
Harriet (Mox1ey) Gleason, was
born at Thetford, June %, 1888.
He was fitted for college at
Thetford Academy, under Hiram
Orcutt, and graduated at Dart
mouth College in 1858. He read
law with Cornelius w. Clarke,
ESQ.,, of Chelsea, and was admit
ted to the bar i'll 1861.
He at once commenced the prac-
tice of law at Thetford Center,
where he has continued ever since.
He is one Of the best known and
most successful lawyers OF this
section. He was states attorney
in 1864 and 1865, and again IN
1868 and 1869. While acting in
that capacity he conducted sue
cessfu11y many important criminal
cases. In the long contested
chancery case of Bicknell and
Pollard against the Vermont Cop
per Mining Co., supposed to in
vo1ve the sum of $500, 900 he was
associated with Hon. John w.
Rowell, and argued the case for
an entire day before the general
term OF the Supreme Court, re-
ceiving the congratulations of
Chief Justice Pierpoint. In 1883
he was appointed receiver of all
the immense mining and other
property in controversy Gin the
suits against the Vermont Cop
per Mining Co., Vermont Copper
Co., and Ely Goddard & Cazin) /,
which was once valued at more
than million dollars, and he has
successfully discharged that trust.
Judge Gleason married, May
10, 1862, Sarah Lysenbee, daugh-
ter of DR.. Enoch Hilton and Ar
villa Smith Brown Pillsbury of
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
He represented Thetford in the
Legislature in 1864 and 1865 and
was senator in 1880. He is one
of the trustees of Thetford Acad-
envy, and of the State Normal
School at Randolph, and was a
director and attorney of the West
Fairlee Savings Bank. He was
elected in 1898 a trustee of the
Bradford Savings Bank and Trust
Co. In 1880 he was appointed by
Gov. Farnham chairman of the
board of railroad commissionersfor
two years, and filled this RESPONSE
BILE position to the satisfaction of
the public as well as the railroad
companies. He has been town
clerk many years, and was elected
judge of probate for the district
of Bradford in Orange county, in
September, 1886, by large ma
jority, and later by every vote of
both political parties in the dis
trict, which office he now holds.
Judge Gleason is a man univer-
sally esteemed for his many es-
Unable qualities.