Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-10-08
Mr.. Huse's Address.

Mr.. Huse's Address.
The last speaker was Hiram A.
Huse Of Montpelier, who was intro
duccd a, 4 son Of Orange county who
had distinguished himself and hon.
ored his birthplace by his career at
the bar Of Washington county.
Mr.. Huse said that Notwithstanding
the over eulogistic Introduction which
Chairman Pickett had given him, he
was able to speak with a sufficiently
chastened and subdued spirit, because
the realistic picture given by Miss
Jones Of scenes in a photographers
gallery had brought to mind an inter-
view OF his own with a photographer,
which had left a lasting and sadden-
ing impression. The misguided pho
%tographer at the outset labored under
the impression that the face of the
speaker was n suitable TO take a
picture in profile, and il was the sud-
denness Of the photographers aband-
onment of this idea upon taking one
look through his machine that had
left a wearying remembrance.
Mr.. lIuse said that he hardly
thought that Mr.. IIale's suggestion
in his paper that distance may have
lent enchantment ia our view OF the
past lawyers and judges of Orange
county stood upon very good founda-
ton. Tested by their work, done
under the narrower circumstances
and greater limitations of their day.
they yet stand forth as strong and
able men, effective in their calling,
and of some of them it can truthfully
be said that they were great men.
They lived in communities where
display had little opportunity and
whore il did not greatly tel. but
these communities were Vermont
neighborhCo ODDS where good work and
good deeds We're remembered. They
had this advantage too, that Vermont
ers love their own state and are apt
to give full credit TO those who do
their life-work in il.
This love OF Vermont exists not
only among her children who STAY on
her hills and in her valleys, but fol-
lows and abides with her children
who make their homes in other states.
No other state has so large a percent
age of her native born sons and
daughters living outside her borders
as has Vermont. And the speaker
said he had yet to find the Ver1nonter
abroad who did not look back TO the
old state with respect and affection.
He well remembered that his father
and mother, who moved to Wiscon-
sin when he was so young that his
first remembrance is of Wisconsin
fields and skies, had this love for our
green hills; and that his father said:
Emily, wherever | die | want il pos
sible, you should see hat | am buried
on Randolph hill," aud his mother
answered, "lf Vermont is good
enough to be buried in, it is GOOD
enough to live in" And the desire
of both had been fulfilled.
Orange county has perhaps as much
as any like extent of territory i'm New
England, been a place of farms. of
small villages, of schools, both dis
trict" and academical, and above an
of old-fashioned, conservative New
England homes. Ii is a matter of
question whether any other like extent
OF territory and population has been
more permeated with respect for
Learning" than old Orange county.
and its people. To a large extent
this is perhaps to be attributed to the
fact that near her borders, during all
her existence, Dartmouth college has
done its work, and near her borders
also Norwich university has stood
through all the years of its existence.
Education rather than wealth has
been the goal toward which the faith
ers and mothers of Orange county for
more than a hundred years have been
glad to see their children AIMING.
In the early days of the county, Or
ange county grammar school, estab-
lished at Randolph, was the pioneer
OF the academies that afterwards were
maintained in many of the towns.
such as Thetford, Bradford, Newbury.
Chelsea, Corinth and elsewhere. The
boys and the girls sought if possible.
at least the academy; and beyond
that there was perhaps Dartmouth
for the boy, and after a time perhaps
Mount Holyoke for the girl. This
trend OF thought, this aim at THINGS
not wholly material, has made the
n women of this county tvpi-
cal Fermonters and New Englanders
In the best ems of those terms.
1t should too be remembered that
working to this same end, the Yer
colleges, especially the Uniyer-
slty OF Vermont, have done much.
Many OF the young men, and later
many OF the young women of the
county have received their education