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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-06-28

archive has become hardly more than
q blank and wrinkled sheet OF paper,
solicitude for its preservation has be,
gun to be felt, and at last it is cared
for as it should have been cared for
years ago.
1t was my privilege some time since
"A privilege then accorded to few,
and now, under the strictest prohibi-
ton. accorded to none-to see and
touch this precious document, says 4
writer in the Detroit Free Press. 1t
is kept locked up in a steel safe in the
library OF the Department Of State.
1t is spread out fat in mahogany
portfolio, made to slide in and out of
the safe, and over it is sheet of
thick paper and plate of glass. 1t is
now never exposed to the light, and is
as little exposed to the air as is possi-
BILE without placing it in a vessel from
which the atmosphere has been ex-
hausted.
The document is single sheet OF
parchment, thirty-six inches long and
and thirty-two inches wide, and bears
no scrolls or decorations such as are
seen upon many of the copies that are
SC common. The body of the writing
having been evenly and clearly written
when the instrument was engrossed, is
still even, though badly faded, and
can hardly be made out, but the sig
natures, which were written perhaps
with q different ink and another pen,
are faded and beyond recognition,
many of them being wholly gone, and
others partly so. The heavy stroke OF
the pen in the J of John Hancock +
bold autograph is still visible, but
that is the only line that is distinct.
The history of the origin of this
great State paper is well known to
most Americans, but is always inter
esting. The story of the varied and
disastrous fortunes of the document
itself during the past us years is less
known, and is here told.
! On the 26th of June, 1716, a com
mittee, of which Thomas Jerferso1
was Chairman, was appointed by the
Continental Congress, then sitting q
Philadelphia, to draft declaration
setting forth the reasons why the thir
teen colonies should become indepen
dent of England Jefferson was re
quested by the other members of tn
committee to prepare the draft, anC
this draft when presented was at one
approved by majority of the commit
! tee, few verbal alterations only be
ing suggested. On July I'd a copy o
this draft was laid before Congress
and. after hot debate of three days,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-06-28

Mrs. Mary 5. Holmes, New Jersey; Mrs.
Emma G. Deitrick, New York ;
Rev. &, Dunkley, New South Wales
William Walton, New Zealand; Mrs.
Ignate Carlson. Norway; James J. Wal
las, Nova Scotia; Mrs. W. R. Bridges,
North Carolina; Sarah Neal North Carolina
Jr; Mrs. Alvan Briggs, North Dakota Mrs. r.
R. Mcdowell, Ohio Mrs. j. f. Barrell, Ore
gon; Miss Gertrue f. Aughey Oklahoma 8.
Ella Stem, Pennsylvania; Adela Horton.
Prince Edward Island; I, M.Moore, Queens
land Mrs. ]. L. Masse. Quebec; Mrs. ]. N.
Worth, Rhode Island Mrs. Grace T. Avery,
South Dakota; Rev. E. c. Mckillar. Scotland !;
Mrs. ]. H. E. Milhouse, South Carolina !;
John Hylander Sweden; R. Zanoni,
South Australia Mrs. V. Wyss, Switz-
erland; ]. Hutchins. Tasmania: Mrs. Sallie
Bray, Texas; Mrs. Eliza F. Cutting, yer-
mont E. P. Edwards, Yictoria Mrs. A. 8.
Washington James Jenkins, Wales eng
lish); Rev. ]. Macs yddog, Wales (Welsh) ;
Jabez Harper, western Australia; Rev. E.
Marsh western South Africa Miss Nancy J..
Lauck, West Virginia; Mrs. F. J. Forbes,
Wisconsin.
In the evening public mass meeting OF
Juvenile Templars was held, and every
templar attending was presented with a
souvenir badge of the order. Rev. James
1eanes, T. W.T. l., preSlueu over the musicaI
program and Joseph Malns presided at the
meeting. Addresses were made by visitors
from abroad. special feature Of the even
ing was singing Of a chorus OF $50 voices,
composed of Juvenile Templars of Massachu-
sstts. They were under the direction of Mr..
Yeames.
At the session of the International institute
paper on the Building for the Future" wa:
read by S. W. Russell. G.S.J.T., of District
of Columbia. The debate was opened by
Mrs. Emily f Cain, G.S.J.T., of Maine.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-06-28

few sentences were stricken ont and
the Declaration was then adopted. Ii
was at once entered upon the journal
Of Congress; but the engrossoi copy,
on parchment, was not prepared and
signed until August ,.
During the first tweniy-four years
OF Its existence the Declaration was pre- .
served among the archives Of the Gov
ernment at PhiAd .lphia, ami during
all or part Of that time it was uu-
doubtedly rolled up, as it shows by tue
cracks in the parchment that it must
have been rolled for long period,
and it is known that subsequent to
that time it was hung up exposed to
public gaze.
When, in the year 1900, the Ma
tional Government was transferred to
Washington, the Declaration was car
ried there and deposited il the De-
partment of State, where It remained
for fOrty-one years. In the year 1871
a substantial building having been
erected for the use of the United
States Patent Office, which had form.
erly been in the State Department,
and the State Department being il a
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-06-28

,ue day was attended by nearly every mem
ter OF theorder in the state. The following
persons were il charge Of the juvenile work
IN different parts OF the world
Mrs. 7. |. Humphrey, Alabama Mrs. Mar
tina Hoxworth. Arizona Mrs A. A. Thomas.
Arkansas Rev. J. Calvert, British Columbia;
Mrs VI. L. Richardson. California; J. f.
wilson, Canada; A. c. LveIl, Central South
Lizzie Rees, Colorado; Mrs Hattie A. Bishop
Connecticut: Miss Mary L. Well, Della
ware; Harold Thompson, Denmark; John
RMahoney, District OF Columbia, 5. Wedder-
burn, eastern South Africa; Z. Brown, Eng
land and the united services Mrs. Ada An
drews, Floriia; Alice Caro- Florida, Jr. j.
J. Keith Georgia; 4. Grabig, Germany;
No. c. Speck, Germany, No. 2; Powardur
Powardsson. Iceland Mrs. Leah Burnside,
Idaho Minnie 7. Carraway, Illinois; Mrs. S.
|. Cullen, India; Mrs. NJ. S. Henry, Indiana
Mrs. F. VI. Remington, Iowa; William
Thompson. Ireland: William Wilson, Isle OF
Man Miss Annie Il. Sankey, Jamaica; Mrs.
Annie Austin. Kansas; Ethel Symes,
Lake Superior; Miss Raymond, Madras !;
Mrs. f. F.. Cain, Maine; \. s. Coubough,
Manitoba; Nettie Parlette, Maryland,
Jr.: Mary I. Lee. Maryland; Miguel
Sereque. Massachusetts; Mrs. T. B. Knapp,
Michigan Il. Felix Tranter, midland Eng
land Agnes E. Safely, Minnesota; Andrew
Woren, Minnesota Jr. Mrs. Louisa Harris,
Missouri; 7. {. Gaibraith. Montana; ]. A.
! Watkins, Natal; 5. h. Long, Nebraska; Cal
win Powers, New Brunswick; Mrs. G. F.
Bailey, New Hampshire; Mrs. Cora Squires,
| Nevada; Mrs. Cameron, Newfoundland /;
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-06-28

brick building, and not fre-proof,
Daniel Webster, Secretary OF State,
addressed letter to Henry L. Els
worth, the Commissioner OF Patents,
and requested him to receive the Dec
claration and other valuable docu-
ments into his custody for safe keep
ing. This request was complied with,
and for the next thirty-fve years the
Patent Office retained charge of the
precious paper, but it was while there
it suffered its greatest injury. 1t was
hung up, exposed to public view, be.
hind the glass in one end Of case of
Patent Office models. At certain hours
OF the day the sun shone directly upon
it, and, of necessity, it gradually
faded. 1t is amazing almost beyond
the power OF belief that Of the dozen
Commissioners ofPatents who had the
custody of this document during
those thirty-fve years, not one of them
saw that it was being ruined, and not
one of them had the forethought to
take it out of the sunlight and put it
away in darkness. In England such
treatment OF an important State paper
is unheard of. Magma Charta, the
death warrant of Queen Mary and
other archives in the British Museum
four or five times az oldas our Declara-
ton of Independence, are still kept in
a condition of perfect preservation.
In 1875 Congress woke up to the
outrage that was being perpetrated
and appointed commission consist
ing OF the Secretary of the Interior,
the Secretary of the Smithsonian In
stitution Professor Joseph Henry
and Ainsworth R. Spoford, the
Librarian OF Congress, "to have resort
to such means as will most effectually
restore the writing of the original
manuscript of the Declaration of In
dependence, with the signatures ap-
pended thereto" Experts we're con-
suited by this commission, and finally,
the matter was referred to the
National Academy of Sciences. II
having become known that the great
Declaration was fading away, the pub
lie became interested in the effort
made for its restoration, and the pub
lie press urged the Importance o
prompt action, but years went by
and nothing was done. The Nationa
Academy of Sciences reported to tn,
commission that portions of thu
restoration was impossible. Mean
while, in 1876 George W. Childs, o
Philadelphia, and Frank NJ. Etting
in charge of the historical department
OF the Centennial Exposition, re
quested the Government to send the
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-06-28

To facilitate the arrival and de-
parture of passenger trains at the
Union station, and at the same time
abolish the first and most dangerous
grade crossing on the consolidated
system, the Boston Il Maine R. R.
have decided to separate the grade of
their tracks and the public thorough
fare from Cambridge to Charlestown.
at Prison Point. This is to be accom-
plished by means of an over
head viaduct and bridge for pub
lie travel elevated to a height of about
90 feet above the present line of their
tracks on Prison Point street, from a
point near the junction of Chapman,
Austin and Washington streets, at the
state prison to the end of Cragie' s
bridge, at Main ST in East Cambridge.
at the Charlestown and Cambridge
ends are to be stone -buttressed incline
approaches, rising from the present
street line at a grade of about three
feet in each 100 to the nearest grade
crossing, clearing that at height
of Is feet, from whence the viaduct
continues with gradual but very
slight rise to the draw and bridge
connection, where it will be about %
feet above the present line. BotL
the fixed part of the present short
bridge and draw are in first class con.
dition, having been rebuilt by the
cities OF Cambridge ana Boston but
10 or II years ago. The passage O
vessels up the stream is very light
and practically insignificant, but al
efforts of the past on the part of the
railroads, to persuade the war depart
ment to close the river to navigation
have been unsuccessful
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-06-28

The system of kindergartens re-
gently established on some of the
Indian reservations has proved so sue
cessIul that it is soon to be widely eI-
tended, especially in the Southwest.
The Indian children there are un-
usually shy. Under the influence Of
the kindergarten games they have
been found to rapidly lose this shy
ness and reticence, and to become
friendly with each other and with
their teachers. A number of new day
schools will also soon be opened in
that part of the country. 1t has been
found best to educate the children as
far as possiblein kindergsrtens, rather
than in boarding schools. After Il
time those whose cases seem adyis-
able can be transferred with little OPP
position from their parents, who prob
ably would have objected strongly il
the children had been taken away to a
boarding school at the outset. The
principal work of the schools at pres
ent is in the line of industrial educa.
ton. The girls are being taught cook
ing, sewing, washing clothes and the
like, and the boys plowing, tilling,
tending cattle and using tools, rather
than even reading and writing: They
learn English with considerable ease,
but have no inherited aptitude for
mathematics. Indians have very little
appreciation of numbers, being IN
miliar only with addition and sub
traction. Some of the Indians have
reached high degree of proficiency,
and the Indian Office is daily receiving
applicatlons from Indian girls, who
have been graduated from high school:
for positions as teachers. Places are
found for some, but not many, and
the remainder usually return to theil
tribes and relapse into their former
ways of life. Superintendent W. H.
Hailman, OF the Indian schools, is very
anxious to find positions for more O.
these girls in nearly any class of work
He says they make excellent servants
and he would like to hear from an,
one willing to employ them.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-06-28

The Corea1 Government has made an al
lowance of 5000 yen (about 81, ,O06) to sus-
tain the COrean Legation at. Washington. d.
c. This is likely to be followed at no distant
day by the appointment of new Minister or
the return of the old Minister. who has been
in Seoul, the Corean capital, for some months.
The making OF suitable allowance for the
legation insures its retention there and dis
pels the fear that this unique and picturesque
branch of the Diplomatic Corps would be
withdrawn.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-06-28

Chicago is after the trade Of the
South, notes the New Orleans Plea.
yune, the Importance of which it is Just
beginning to realize, and means to
grab for it with both hands. \ largely
attended meeting of railroad and busi
ness men was held in that city few
days ago to discuss ways and means of
securing the Southern trade, and one
OF them said that if the people inter
ested in the different sections Of the
South and by the South ismeant the
country lying south of the Ohio aud
east of the Mississippi-could have an
understanding with the various trans
portation lines, and some efforts in
| the direction of unity and common
interest could be reached, large results
would necessarily follow. Mr.. Stone
is enthusiastic on the subject. AMI
vigorous pusher, J. S. Buckley ex
pressed himself in similar language,
In his opinion the tide Of immigration
was sOOL to move southwark, and the
southern section of this country would,
in very near future, occupy rela-
lively the same position rs that held
by the great Northwest in the past
New Orleans is the proper and natural
distributing point for the larger part
OF this grand territory, but she will
have to bestir herself and improve her
methods if she wants to hold her own.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-06-28
ALL THE WORLD.
Juvenile TemplarS Meet in
Boston.
Their Sessions Were Full OF Deep
Interest.

The various temples under the juris diction
% the Massachusetts state institute Of Juye-
nile Trmplars, that have been preparing for
some time TO receive and entertain the insti-
tute Of the world. met in Boston June "a, &c
,!e't officers and transacted business. The
Massachusetts state institute opened the meet
in in Berkeley temple, Berkeley street
and Warren avenue. Miguel Sereque, G. S.
J. T.. president. in the chair. An adjourn
mput was made at noon. and at 2. 80 the inter
national institute assembled.
The reports Of officers. etc, occupied the
afternoon, and As many new lands have been
Invaded since the last session, that part oi
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-06-28
NATIONS CHARTER
STORY OFTHE DECLARATION OF
INDEPENDENCE.
A Glorious Document That Has Been
Neglected-Its Words Said to
Have Faded Almost Be
yond Recognition.
TrHE original Declaration of In.

THE original Declaration Of In
dependence, of which Ban
croft, the historian, said that
it had received a renown
more extended than that of any other
State paper in existence" " has faded
away beyond the possibility of res
toration. The names of the signers
to this great charter Of American lib
critics are no longer legible. After
1lS years of careless guardianship, in
various custody-durlng the greater
portion of which period it was
thoughtiessly exposed to the destroy
ing influences of light, air and heed
less handling how when the irrepar-
able havoc is done and the precious
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-06-28

"This age is prolific is striking
phrases, says the Christian Standard.
eve Lave had the masses and the
',Uhmerged tenth, and now we hear
the expression the unreached major
ity >"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-06-28

Consul General Karel, at st. Petersburg,
Russia, in despatch to the State Depart
ment, at Washington, D. c., says the Russian
Government has granted concession for
seal catching to Russian company. tax
OF 1886 is to be paid Russia on each skin.
Government official will go with each boat
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-06-28

A man named ]. Stanley Bell writes
to a Boston paper defending the high
check rein and the docking Of horses
tails. Remember the name-J. Stanley
Bell. Pass him round.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-06-28
Essex County Herald.

The returns from an acre of beets
in Germany are $40 while that from
wheat and other cereals only $50.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-06-28

Sir William Vernon Harcourt an.
nounces the intention of the British
Government to stand firmly on the
gold basil.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-06-28
BOSTON LETTER.
ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.


No institution of learning of its type
in this country can boast of longer
and more honorable career than the
Roxburv Latin School. Founded In
lGi5, within fifteen years after the
settlement OF ROxbury, Dorchester,
Charlcstuwn and Boston, its origin Is
almost coeval with the beginning Of
our New England civilization. At
the time that II was founded Roxbury
was but small settlement of hardy
coloni-ts, but that they entertained
high ambitions and high hopes is
made evident from the fact that they
established and maintained SO long a
school Of such high aims and widening
reputation. A glance at the early
DAYS OF the RDXbury Latin School
would take rs back 10 the primitive
condition of our earliest colonial life.
Puritans founded the school; it WAS
taught by Puritan schoolmaster and
attended by the sons OF Puritans.
Some idea of the political conditions
which prevailed at its founding can be
derived from the fact that but two
wears before the colonies of Massachu-
sets, Plymouth, Connecticut and New
Haven formed confederation, called
the United Colonies of New England,
whose principle object was common
action IN defence against hostile In
dians and the Dutch settlement
on the Hudson. That the school
did honest work and gave complete
satisfaction is shown by the fact
that it has lived through the storm
and stress of two and half centuries
of war and peace. 1t has sent forth
Young men to take part in the colonial
campaigns against the Indians it fur
nished patriots and soldiers during
the trying DAYS of the Revolution; its
graduates have filled many positions
of honor and trust throughout the his
tory OF the Republic and many OF them
are today bearing an honorable part
in the work of the world. A school
cannot achieve such reuown without a
capable corps of teachers, and no
school has been better equipped with
a teaching force than has the Roxbury
Latin School, and Its present Principal
and instructors received and deserved
much honor on its 250th anniversary.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-06-28

Not Enough Loan on the Common:
The foot of rich earth required to
top all grading now being done near
the subway will be likely to cost
neat little sum OF expense. There is
SO little loan on the parade ground
that in order to complete the grading
probably many loads will have to be
bought outside. Every load SO pur-
chased viii cost - dollar, and load
of loan spread to the thickness of a
foot makes a very small showing on a
! plot so large as the parade ground.
I The grading there has already been
carried to a distance of fifty feet from
( the top Of the flagstaff hill. Men
/ are now taking loan from the en-
baukment Just across the broad dag
oual walk from the Park Square gate
i of the Common, and in the excavation
/ thus made the contractors are pre-
/ pairing to set up a gravel screen
/ ing machine protected by small shed.
1 The machine is hardly more than a
rough sheet iron cylinder perforated
/ with holes of different size, SO that
the sand and gravel fall into separate
bins while the larger stones slide ont
at the end The waste left by this
machine will probably 60 to fill the
excavation made by the removal OF the
loan. The contractors are still uu-
certain about when the fremont street
mall will be opened. They do not
care to hurry il much for it would
make more confusion and annoyance
for the public without fastening the
completion of the subway as whole.
Jones and Meehan say they can easily
I complete the first section of the subway
! before the required time, next Decem-
yer. The pile driving is all done. At
/ present the contractors are content to
devote themselves TO the completion OF
the wall for the incline to the portal
This wall is gradually growing thicker
as it grows higher, and down at the
portal it will be about twelve feet
thick, facing of stone backed up with
concrete. This thickness becomes
necessary to withstand the pressure,
or thrust of the sides of the trench.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-06-28

4 man to stand on his merits nova
days needs something to balance him
self --. .---.----.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-08-25
8 12-tds.

'khUSTkE'S SALE-WHEREAS BY A GER
tain deed OF trust dated the 10Th day OF SEN
t S Der 1Sy and recorded In ihc clerks office or
tue musings Court Tor the city OF Roanoke Va,
IN eeeo book No. 81 page e6, d. c. Moomaw and
VIE conveyed the hereinafter described real es.
tate 70 silas w: Burt and his successor ae Trus-
zee, 70 secure to the Bankers Loan and Invest
ment company the payments as therein set forth
on loan OF (S!0O) seven hundred dollars And
whereas. the said deed of trust provides IL tic
grantor should be in default OF the payment of
tne interest, premium, dues or fines upon tho
sala loan Tor the space OF three months after tho
sSme snali rall due, that tho principal sum and
ai interest, premium, dues and fucs shall at the
op.Ion OF the said company become duo and nav.
ao!e lmmeoiately thereafter, and may be enforced
snu recovered at once, and default having been
nAoe IN the payments aforesaid for moro than
tnree months, after the same fell due, and tho
saio company having exercised It's option and d e.
uanueu inc payment OF the principal sum- with
lts premium, interest, dues and fines,
=, NOW therefore, the undersigned by virtue Of
Tue premises, and having been requested go to do
oy me beneficiary will ocr for sale at pu bic auc-
lion tothe highest bidder on the premises on
The 10TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER 1895. at lido
a. III cnt following described real estate lying in
Inc city OF Roanoke. Va: The eastern half OF Iot
No r. Ig sccton OF the map OF the Rorer heirs
lEhMo CASH-The amount due under the
ABOVE mentioned deed OF trust is Eight hundred
ana seventy four dollars and ninety cents (SS74 9l
as oi the Slst day of August, 1895.
o,. SIL4 W. BURT,
eio.os' Trustee.