Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1910-02-24

! ladies' on the ground OF his bachelorhood.
Mr.. Fleetwood said that be was exceed
ingIy thankful to owe to the @. A. K. his
baptismal trip to town although he was
not veteran; because, when the war
broke out, he was not able to pass the
physical examination mot having yet
numbered 40 years. He then spoke in
part &c foIIows:-
1 wish it had been my lot to be wide
traveller, to have gone to the scenes made
famous by Marco Polo, to have hunted
big game in Africa, to have gone to the
North Pole and found it or not found 1t,
to have explored the Philippines, Cuba or
some other remote places from which q
message could have come to you and been
received with credence. But NV topic
must be a home topic, natural to one
i born and bred in the green hills OF our
beloved state.
II were to ask what sways a mans
conduct, he would probably say the hope
OF success. That word, success. draws to
it all members of the human family.
They try to find it far away in the rolling
West; our girls seek it among the titles OF
foreign nobility and, hence, ] remain
bachelor. Bot success is merely doing
the best one can. Let us contrast our
modern life with the early life OF our
fathers aud note first that with a state, as
with person, it is a mighty good thing
to be we'll born. From Connecticut,
Massachusetts and New York came
pioneers to the New Hampshire Grants to
find a place in which to build themselves
homes, found schools and worship God as
they saw fit. They began to hew down |
the forests and blaze trails and soon from |
the woods rose their dwellings, modest |
log cabins with puncheon floors. Their /
pathways were through a wilderness and |
they lived remotely and separately.
Then came a new need, that OF great /
er education, and there arose the little /
school house, to which the boys and girls /
trudged through the snow. There was |
no free transportation in those days, no |
free Textbooks, but their books and their
learning were the product OF selfdenial. /
Next they erected the church, a plain /
square building, like the men and women
who worshipped in III; for the pioneer felt
that be needed God more than God need
ed him. At the council boards in West
minister and Windsor they assembled
with such a leader as Tom Chittenden.
strong, full OF faith and vigor. Around
GUS, studious men, whose word carried
far; the Pays, Nathan Clark and old Mat
Lyon hose virile soul knew the meaning
OF liberty as he had not learned it in Ire
land. And to all these was added that OF
the Alexander Hamilton Of Vermont, the
scholarly Ira Allen, a marked contrast to
his brother, Ethan, who feared no one
but God, whose deeds and words were as
A
Their books were few; they hewed out
their virtues and thus developed the great
attributes of all pioneers-self. reliance,
courage and fortitude.
Somehow, Just as soon as we build our
selves villages aud cities, it checks most
OF our thoughts and reflections and we
to others those duties which
should in conscience be borne by our
selves. We yield our spiritual well being
to our ministers, our opinions to political
leaders and our social obligations to our
wives and daug hters, losing thereby some
OF the sturdy virtues OF the pioneers. Yet
in the SOS citizenship became something
to fight for and there arose a feeling
which shall never die. You who heard
that first shot, echoing and re-echoing,
know the sudden tremor which shook the
whole North. Vermont required only
the coal OF her endeayor to light the
fame that swept over the whole country.
We must bark back to the SOS to learn
The blessings OF civil life.
New Vermont seems new and glitter
ing; yet, IL it be anything, it is a product
or result of the Old Vermont. To-day the
current is turning backward and the cry
Is the welfare of mantle peoples rights
must and shall be preserved. Whatever
Affects them wrongly is not to be toIerat-
ID. This thought is not confined TO our
1wn broad land but has crossed the seas
Ind is agitating England, torn in twain :
BY Lloyd Georges budget which seeks to
lhift- the burden from the backs OF the
oiling many to the backs OF the wealthy c
ew. 1t insists that the rubber traffic of {
Africa shall be purged Of the slavery OF !
nan by the Belgian king and the Belgian
,eople; that in pure food the consumers
hall have what they buy and pay for.
Yes, the people ART arousing themselves !
8 they have not done before for several Z
ecades, simply that the average man
hall have the average welfare until the
ace of the people shall be the face Of
Iod.
The following poem. written for the oc-
aston, was read by Rev. Homer White. a
To this brave band Of gallant men
Ard galaxy Of ladies' fair
To speak for my poor tribe at all, =
With thought to please gives me despair. !
We never saw the battle smoke, II
We heard the cannon's roar, t.
We never faced charging foe, Is
We never sword or musket bore. nj
We neger-wel-did anything .;
To make US Ct to share your iates: -
We add no glory to your name,