Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-11-14
TWO YEARS AFTER,
Will Carleton on Montpelier and Admir-
al Dewey.

In recent number of Everywhere Wi,l
Cartoons magazine, the poet writes of his
visits to Montpelier and incidentally
makes some trite comments on the case OF
Native state VS.. Admiral Dewey. rho
letter was written at Montpelier during
Mr.. Cartoons recent lecture tour.
Again In this handsome little TOW capital
which always somehow reminds mo o.
II village PLAYING Washington, u. c. IT il;
when couchant. one of the most deliclo, -
of baliwicks, and the uuintcssencc Of
Yankee thrift ana reposc combined
want to see il sometime when il is ram
pant, with farmers country lawyers and
village storekcepers all gathered from the
n.ighboring hills and passing and propus
ms all sorts of bills and leg!slatinr for
the common veal and woe.
First time ever saw New England some
two years ago. droppcd out of a sic, ~
Ing car that had been coming all night
from the west-into MONTPELIER I wae list
off the gigantic prairie-che cker- boards #
Illinois and Iowa-Vhere had been wan
doing up and down for many wcrks-t.y-
ing to make the lecture field blossom.
financially, as the rose; and the beautiful
bills were like sweet dreams of Il morning
slumb,r. after the half-wakefulncss of the
Nide. monOtonous ptairics
The change was almost disastrously
rcstful. it seemed to me as If | leaned lcv
soul up against the mountains and
could not get it away. | wanted to live
in Montpelier the remainder of my hlc.
Sven folks ON the streets had a fricIdli-
ness OF manner toward the stranger n
their midst, that was wholesomely fas-
chatting. An old man had found some
thing in a paper that amused him beyond
repression ana held me mp to ct me to
laugh with him about 1t. A schOolboy tod
where the best book store was. went with
me all the way and impaired Information
concerning his studies as we walk along.
Even one of thH hotel clerks smiled
The book store was fun of Vermont;
john G. SAKE had his own shelf. Cnarl, :
G. Easiman's poems were in evidence,
ana Judge Thompson smiled out Of "LoCNc
AmSdcn, and The Green MOuntHln
Boys Tn" bookseller WAS a book-rcldcr,
and had the literature Of the whole State
at his tongues end. The capitol looked
ike Il beautiful playhouse amid the leVid
tLan architecture of the hills, ana tocmc j
with pict of Ncrmonters, and the
things they had done and possessed
When two years ago, / went ito Mont
pclicr again. the little city was rejoicing
that one of its mountainccr boys hud
E.ddc himself q hero of the ocean. Dew, y
FAD come home and was being more thar
lionizcd clcphantized mastodonizcd
There was nothing he could not have had
that day, as ne stood ON the reviewing
stand, and carefully lifted his gold laced
admire Is hat to various sections of tic
long procession as it passed slowly by
IoiIticans wcra harging around by the
score, elylY hcsc, ching him to become a
Ito idcrtiaL possibility. His very birth.
house was being sold pi,cemoal by thlir-
~ Yankee. mt fifteen cents pr shaving
The only place whore he ever was thrash.
ed the school htuSc-was visited BY tn IL
sands. The governor of the common
wealth, whom fate had had no difficulty