The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-10-02

manhood, and youth pressing on to I'll
the gaps of time in the ranks of citizen
ship. The address of welcome by George
W. Wing, Esq, was in that gentle
mans happiest vein, but the cap-sheat
of felicity and side-splitting laughter
was the speech of Lyman G. Huxley,
x-lieutenant-govern the member of
many legislatures from Chelsea, famous
throughout the state for wit and hui
NOR, big heart and good fellowship.
After the formalities of the occasion
we're over, Mr.. Hinkley was installed
as master of the revels. His speech
was bubbling over with funny anecdote
and apt allusion. Under his magic
sway the great auditory burst into peals
of laughter and rounds on rounds of APP
plause. His concluding hit has been
the Kohinoor of anecdote and reminis-
cence of the great social festival. Turn
ing towards Senators Morrill, and Ed
munds, who were seated on the plat
form, after he had been spe Aking of
Vermont's influence in the senate of
the United States, he said: When 1
look at my two friends | feel as much
reverence for them as did certain old
clergyman / once knew for the old
prophets. He used to put the cart be-
fore the horse. Speaking Of the old
prophets, he said they were wonderful
men; they could make the blind hear
and the deaf see. Finally he rose up
in his dignity and said They could do
even more than this-they could cast
out the dead and raise the devill' :"
When Senator Edmunds rose to respond
to this unusual introduction, he turned
the tables upon the presiding officer,
after some pleasantries, by remarking:
/, for one, could excuse him when he
said we were able to raise the devil, be-
cause, as he has just told you, as
sisted to a considerable degree in
bringing him up"
There were reunions of senates and
houses of representatives.; meetings in
which great stream of Renaissance
flowed in from the past; all Vermont's
ancient WORTHLESS were recalled and her
historic past revived. There was a
realization of the poets vision:
The night shall be filled with music,
And the cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents. like the Arabs,
And as silently steal away.
A great banquet in the Golden Fleece
on Thursday evening closed the festiv-
tiles. This was probably, as Senator
Edmunds remarked, the first time, in
the history of any civilized country, of
a reunion of this kind, whether in a
country of parliaments, or country of
republics. 1t was unique that gentle
men who, through long series of
years, one after another, have been con-
nected with the welfare, the prosperity,
of society-as every legislator is in a
peculiar degree, as every citizen is in a
large degree-have gathered together to
renew old acquaintances, to remember
old times, and to consider the welfare
and progress of the republic of which
they form so conspicuous part. 1t
was really great occasion and Be-
rious occasion.
To-day begins the second of these
decennial festivals. May it eclipse the
first in numbers, in enjoyment, in
jocund spirit, in the renewal of patriot
ism and stimulating of state pride in all
things that a people should feel pride.
Many, very many old familiar land
marks have passed away since the last
reunion. The present will solemnly and
i'm Jressively illustrate the mortality OF
man.