The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-04-21


Both laughed, for how could LIQUID
Within "A basket stay?
But yet the jest unanswering,
The Indian went his way.
When next from rest the farmer sprung.
So very cold the morn,
The icicles like diamonds hung
On every sprig and thorn.
The brook that babbled by his door
Was deep. and clear. and strong,
And yet unfettered by the frost,
Leaped merrily along.
The self-same Indian by this brook
The astonished farmer sees;
He laid his basket In the stream,
Then hung 1t up to freeze.
And by this process oft renewed.
The basket soon became
A well-glazed vessel, tight and good,
OF most capacious frame.
The door he entered speedily.
And claimed the promised boon;
The farmer. laughing heartily,
Fulfilled his promise soon.
Up to the baskets brim he saw
The sparkling cider rise,
And to rejoice his absent squaw,
He bore away the prize.
Long lived the good man at the farm.
The house In standing still.
And still leaps merrily along
The much-diminished rill.
And his descendant still remain
And tell to those who ask Ii.
The story they have often heard
About the Indians basket.
The following prose selection was taken
from a Fourth Of July grafton. delivered
i'm Providence I'm 1900 by Jonathan Russell.
1t is the most celebrated specimen Of
such efforts. Mr.. Russell was born In
Providence In 177i: graduated from Rhode
Island college 1871: died at Milton. May.
1892 Five editions published at different
places. and at sundry times; one OF
which was at Watertown. n. Y, In 1880.
Mr.. Russell was Y. s. minister plenipo-
tentiary at Stockholm several years. He
also was negotiator of the treaty Of
Client. The following selection was made
for the reason that this year Oct. 18th
is the centennial anniversary of the es-
tablishment OF Free Schools in Provi-
dence. Three months before tho
Mr.. Russell set forth the grandeur of
Republican governments. and urged the
establishment of free schools I'm order to
protect such governments. Another rea-
son for the selection was that the ex-
tract IL a fine illustration Of the method
Of thought. as well as OF the use of Ian
guage. John Rowland was the writer Of.
and largely the author Of this. first or
dinance establishing free schools:
THE FREE SCHOOL AND THE STATE
Beware how you indulge this spirit of
party-there IL no security In the triumph
IL may obtain for you today-tomorrow
the very instruments of that triumph
may be turned upon you with frightful
at one moment brought the loyal and
virtuous Strafford to the scaffold. was
found "A NJ instrument the next for the
execution, of the illustrious sidney-the
Danton which had fallen on that of
Louis XVI: and Marius returned from the
ruins of Carthage to glut his vengeance
Revolving as this barbarous spirit may
appear, II generally chooses its dwelling
I'm the fairest portion of the world and
although i'm its excess II appears the inn
placabie and mortal enemy to liberty
vet IL Is nearly allied To that genius Of
faction which has often proved her
strong but untractable friend; this last
appears TO be the thunder which while
IL shakes. refreshes and purifies the poll
tical atmosphere, wherever IL has been
completely silenced every foul and nox-
tinguish life or sully it's charms: YOU
may have the silence of death: YOU may
have the patient despair OF slavery. but
violence Will never obtain Tor you free
indeed be quiet when every tree is turn
ed into "a gallows; and France. had the
energy OF Robespierre continued a little
longer would have lost the last virtue
that could rebel All history is indeed
fun OF the factions of free states: these
howsre like the mountain oaks appear 10
have gathered vigor from the storms
that shook them. Athens In one year
under the deathlike tranquility OF n ty-
rant, lost more strength. more riches
more elegance. and more plory. than
amidst the boisterous agitations Of all
her parties or even the conflicts Of the
civil war: hut these were not the beg
gariy and servile conflicts between n red
rose and a white one. nor whether n
weak and inglorious bieot. or a wantor
and abandoned dcbauchc should I've king
they were not those temporary bursts OF
misery which now and then agitate the
wretched Inhabitants of Constantinoplc
and which an execution will allay with
out exhibiting any evidence OF It's Justice
They sprang from that unbroken spirit.
that wild and unfettered boldness: that
restless uncomfortable. but sublime love
of liberty. which sometimes mistakes it's
means but never loses sight of its OBJ
icct: which while II seems tn endanser
often secures that object: and which
burns with undiminished force while one
generous sentiment fingers I'm the human
breast Co support ~: male lihertatem
pericnlosam guam quietsrn ssrvltium n
would rather have danger with liberty
than safety with serviltdel, exclaimed D
noble Paiatine in the Polish Diet. IL Is
Storm that ever vexed the political ocean
n Genoese galley slave have liberty only
human race then doomed io the melsn-
chnlv alienation of ~~rvitude or of
eternal insurrccion; must II be forever