Connecticut western news., 1920-11-18

hs3S&SI N O m 30,
 1887. He died Oc-
 tober 19, 1745.
 =#%*: This most bril-
 a$$sa liant wit, genius,
 .:' hater of rascality,
 :: ::$:::$ g6l master of irony
 s33S33SM and invective, and
 true Irish Patriot,
 Y: 4, t8&$8 was born to pow
 E#*i #$s% W H erty and depend-
 encey he started Mke embittered and he ended ~dyfng .T rage like a poisoned rat i'm a hole." Ae suse his own expression. Ills life v1s failure, though he played a mkghty} part. "Good God, what a Eenius had when wrote that bookw RG said when he later reread the @Ta1e ~E . Tub,0 and the world has agreed Weth him. Yet failure ever tracked nnm. He never received the prefer UneHt In the church which his ability nouId have brought another; by his waMtfcaI pamphlets he largely formed Ahe public opinion of his time, yet that wns the end of it for him, he had the .krengest attachments for two women, A1senas" to whom the famous Journal wzA written, and "Vanesss,' but little MmDptness came to him. gro think of MAM,r said Thackeray, "im like thinking @k the ruins of great empire."
 <GulIiver's Trave1so (1z26), though - zxxyived its temporary and local pur- nase, aad, especially in the first two unxts. fs considered fn be one of the Reat possessions of literature.
 IT WAS of a Nottinghamshire fam
 fly and educated at Cambridge. = Likewise was I educated in medi- aSne, and preferring ships surgeon @y to any preferment ashore, it came skout that after several deep-sea voy- ages found myself surgeon of that ahdp, the Antelope, which was wrecked an a violent storm on coast north wpst of Van Diemen's Land.
 Of all the ships company I alone escaped to the land, where, in ntter exhaustion, I lay down and fell asleep. Tawakened to find myself bound hand and foot and surrounded by swarms 2f the tiniest human creatures. They RFsught me food and drink and con- weyed me to their capital, where the Hing, of a majesty full half-inch szEzer than any of his subjects, came with his court to view me. .t.a
 In time I learned that was in the kingdom of the Lilliputians. By them Twas kept long time in captivity. Befng- ultimately satisfied of the harm lsssness of my intent, I also adding imE word of honor to do them no in- Nry, they released me, and set aside six professors of education to teach me their language. For my bodily s.stenance they allowed me a quan- Sckw of rx,oot opd dripL uufR Rniont for 1z24 of their own people; for so, be- Ing exact in their mathematics, they estimated the proportions of my bulk aD theirs. Three hundred cooks and GRe hundred and twenty walters were nnmed to dress my meals, two hundred 1exmstresses were apportioned to mnEe my linen, and three hundred aEkaors for my outer clothing.
 With my wants thus attended to, \ was desirous to be of service to 1asm. My first service was not to damage their people or their property nEF walked abroad, most likely dan- ges when the men were of such size k1@t could secrete two or three of Mlsem in one of my coat pockets. In wzfking the streets, were to step Aeavily, there was danger of my shak- Ing down large buildings; or, by not Keying an eye below me, could cas- zy tread to death half a dozen of alzefr cattle.
 One day the king, who was most 1sendly to me, came to me in great rxeuble. The emperor of the neigh Acring kingdom of Blefuscu had 1Areatened to lay waste the kingdom f Lilliputia. The Blefuscuan navy, ssnsisting Of fifty great ships of war, was even, then about to set sail but R by wadfng and swimming, reached aksfr chief sharbor where they were ysf at anchor. With my pocket knife II gut the cables of their fifty ships of war, and then, tying each ship to a Uheee of twine, drew them after me enpftulation of B1efuscu.
 While this deed redounded to my S6OFy, it also raised me up powerful enemies, one being the high admiral of tfe Lilliputian navy. Had I wished, K could have crushed them and their szffre kingdom under my boots, but Mere was my pledged word not to Haxm them. So when by secret in- tEfgue they had me tried and. consr dssmned to the loss of my eyes, there waE nothing left me but escape. I, 1 wenr to Blefuscu, where Twas given a great reception and where they would haxe me stay; but I was weary Of Asngs and princes, and told them that I N desired nothing except that they vCRld provision for me boat, which 1 Ihad found drifting on the shore, and saow me to go my way..g-"' -'''',-zs..1 They stored the boat with the car aHsses of one hundred oxen three