THE SCRAXTON TBIBUNE SATUBDAY MOBNIXG, -DECEMBER- 22, 1894.
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IVHU W 1 lArfJL AAA
fit Festive Board
Eighthflnndal Dinner oi lb? Heu) England
;iefy - of JkauJanna Colinfy
Js:an EnfoyabI? Affair.
Naragansetts . and. "ppcjuotB'- round
about them daring to defy tlte power o(
the British government?. -They had
less than 6,000 In total population and
less than 1,000 souls, Including boys
over It year of age, capable of bearing
arms,' yet when asked to return their
charter their answer was' the hasty
our old. enemy arid prevent triQftr.from who were once merchant, manufactur-1 mediately reminded of how. his mother
undoing the work of 78. .1 earneJ the era and prosperous workmen, but wnon 'naa pursued ,nlrn, and, supposing that
atofy: .of that -inscription. - Tlie- people
of New Orleans, grateful to General
Jackson, fiir his defence, of the cltfy in
isin, ereciea mat monument but in
scribed noihlngon the base. When the
war for the Union was in progress a
WIT, WISDOM, AND ELOQUENCE
HOLD HEARERS SPELL-BOUND
One of the Most Successful Meetings in the Annals of This Enterprising
Organization Is Held ut the Terrace Hotel Eminent Speakers and
-. j What They Said Kcv. Joseph H. Twitchelt on ''New England
Hueh ' Kcv, Dr. Karfiehl on "The Old Ked Schoolhouse anil
What Came of It ; T. V. Powderly on " The Heroism of
American Labor"; and Kcv. Dr. K. H.l'curce's
Tribute to " Xew England Mothers.'! ..
to Jackson will not forget that (leneml
Hutler, than whom no better, truer sol
dier drew sword for liberty, emphasized
the sentiment of fidelity to the union
and the constitution in letters of gran
ite wnere us lesson was most required.
a narerooi Doy stood on the deck of
a ferry boat on the Ohio river and
earned his first dollar by carrying two
HE descendants of
the Pilgrim fathers
celebrated Forefa
ther's Day in an
appropriate man
ner ut the Hotel
Terrace lust night.
At 7.40 o'clock near
ly one hundred and
twenty-five mem
bers and guests of
the New England
' -society of- Lacka
wanna, county sat down to banquet in
thJ hotel. Gathered around the ban
' ;quet board were young and -old and
comparatively sturdy buiis of the stur
diest people this' country, and possibly
any other country, has- ever known.
The later-day revellers were a fair
representation of" the -qualities -which
have mmle 'possible -the Scranton of
'toduy.- ' The wealthy man elbowed
ulong with his more worldly unfortun
' ate man,vbut during the early formal
'reception-and the sluing about -the
.board the material condition was ab
sorbed by the common boast of herit
age from New England stock.'
That the society does not move und
,huve Its being in name only was at
tested by the brotherly feeling, some
" thing deeper than platonlc friendship,
which seemed to link the evening's
gathering into a unit. The assemblage
individually did not, In casual convers
ation, boast of betng able' to trace Its
ancestry; but these. was no mistaking
the pi'lde'wtth which many spoke of
having .staunch, stern and true New
" England forefathers. -
" it was the eighth annual banquet of
the society and in point .of numbers
and otherwise was said tohave been the
. must, Ruoces8fulver:J)clil. Certainly
small amount nf eredirjs'due trie, spean
ers. l.icaland from abroad, .who-.added
'brilltane'y, lustre and learning to the
occasion. . . .
Speakers of the Evening.
Among the toast resribn.Hors-was Rev.
Joseph II. 'Twit-hell, of Hartfofd, a Yale
man of ,-tMrty-flve years ago, w-hdm'the
New Tork rilumni is allowed to yet call
;.!".Toe'v Twi'eheil, and': whose, irjame, is
-linked "by the alumni with "Our. Chaun
cey" and "Ike"' Bromley;-such 'was. the
?t":nanner,lh which he .wis introduced by
" City Solicitor ' James il. Torrey,.; the
toastmaster. ' " ,', .'
i K. D..Warfleld, Ir.-tj.'D., borri In Ken-nituek-y,
educated hi England, and who
' enjoys, the distinction "of .bejng the
youngest college president, in the Unit
ed. States, was another of the speakers.
He Is af the head of Lafayette's facul
ty, but frorn his own remarks and in
"thesfsUmatloit .of his auditory,. he en
r. joys as great an honor in being the hus
' "band of 4 -daughter of Massachusetts. .
Hon. S. A. Northway, present mem
ber of congress from Ohio's old Garfield
district,1 contributed largely to the en
joyment of the occasion. His humor,
masterly style and familiarity with the
part played by Puritan pluck in the last
rebellion made' his effort one of intense
Interest
Hon. T. V. Powderly, ex-general mas
ter workman of the 'greatest labor or
ganization the world has ever known
, iaiid Rev. Dr.'W. II." Pearee pastor of
; one of the largest Methodist congrega
' tlon in the country, represented Scran--ton
In the list of speakers.
It was 10.15 o'clock, after about two
and onehalf hours of gastronomlcal
i., discussion, before the feast was ended
.and In. their gastrohomical power of
.' ticking to a thing-and treating It prop
Henry Delln, Jr., W. H. Jessup, R. S. Hull,
Walter 11. Huell, F. B. Foote, K. O.
Koote, V. W. Shear, W. F. Surdam, W.
H. Richmond. H. R Cox. T. K. Tracy, C.
F. -Wtirttemore, J.-W. Altk. Carbondale;
George Sunclerson, Colonel F. M. Hitch
cock, -Dr. L.' M. Gates, Homer Greene,
Honesdale; W. W. Watnon, Dr. Cupwell,
C. H. Von Stoiuh.
President Pond's Kcmurks..
Owing to a severe throat affection, C-
II. Pond, the society s president, coum
only make a brfef address; In fact he
had to desist in the midst of It. ' In in
troducing his remarks he referred to
the death of two members, Dr. George
Throop and D. W. Connolly, whereupon
the members drank while standing to
the memorv. of the departed. Presi
dent Pond saild:
, I am more than gratified to witness
so large a gathering of Yankees, which
eclipses any of our preceding meetings,
and Is a grand token of the future. You
will pardon me If I say nothing about
our past presidents or fail to brag a
bit about Connecticut; I had hoped to
do so,' but my throat is incapable of
the effort.
While looking over such an audience
of well known men, and men of ability,
1 cannot help recalling the most domi
nant characteristic of the New Eng
land people force; whether It comes
from ' blood or association there is
force, a vital force, In New England
blood which, is. seen and felt In every
progressive locality In our country
We all have a fond hope of a more
extended development of our society.
whose aim should from now on be to
perpetuate the memory of New Eng
land in a broader Held. I hope the
society will be so permanent nu
merically and financially that It will be
alive ull the year. Already a commit
tee Is at work extending our field
throughout northeastern Pennsylvania,
jiiid. jyj; Jrustsyyil.to Mve JJLdiar.ter, for
corporate existence.
3dr. Torrey prefaced his remarks as
toastmaster by reading letters of re
gret from VC. R. Storrs, first president
of the soclt'ty, and Senator J. R. Ha,w
ley, of Connecticut, now in Washing
ton, whose public duties prevented his
presence in the capacity of a speaker
and guest. Mr. Torrey said, after re
ferring to the couplet beneath his name
on the menu card:
I rise I suld with undisguised dismay
SUchfare my feelings as I rise I say.
:I am "dismayed" from the fact that
the toastmaster is expected to be the
butt uMila hearers, but you no doubt
will not experience that feeling from
the fact that you will be the butters.
Like the Irishman who was assessed
tx for owning a goat, I place myself.
The Jrlsliman went for legal advice to
n brother felt who in a law book could
only find bearing upon the case a pass
age which read of property aboundin'
HiV'abuttin on the public highway as
sessable div the sum of $4 for each front
foot. ! However, I'm here to be butted
! , ',-, . -.!.... - 1
and snnu receive uie mittua un u mvt
yer's brazen shield.
Mr. Twlchell was happily Introduced
by Mr, Torrey, who referred to him
pardonably as "Joe," the' appelation
still given,' him' by Yale "graduates o
thirty-flve years ; ago, ' Mr. Twlchell
said:
Kcv. Mr. Twklioll's Address,
Your president partially based his
claims uin my attendance 'here upon
the fact that we were b'orn In 'the same
town. While I feel that' it is too late
to alter that -circumstances I feel that
I am paid too high a .compliment 1
being asked to export myself 200 miles
for .the. .use specified. I jlnd myself
like a farmer who fastened to his leg
rope, to the other ."end of which was
tied a yoke of steers. The Bteere ran
away, dragging the farmer after them
bringing up a few old pieces of cannon New England general, who was a bare-
and the melting of lead. The demand foot boy when Jackson was a candl-
was renewed, but the little band was date for the presidency, went to- New
never frightened. Il was an everlast- Orleans to-drive disuninn into theulf.
imr example of the .stuff of manhood Riding past the Jacksun statue one dnv
unsurpassed in the records of human- it struck him that the people should be
tly, not excepting David's slungBhot given an object lesson In loyalty and
battle with the armored Saul; it was he engaged the services of a stone cut-
in the spirit of the German offlcer wno
shouted to his cowered men, "Forward!
Charge?1 Do you want to. live forever!"
Their only ally was distance, but they
held their charter and furnished a
manhood which history does not pnr
nllel.
They were not hotheads; thelr's was
Inspiration and sentiment that' was an
Inexhorable determination . to hold a
point wrung in their faces stern faces,
that we mirht have a cheerful coun
tenance. If, In tracing back the noblest
of heritages we leave out the hard fea
tures of our ancestors, we miss a chief
explanation of the fortune to which we
and our children are neirs.
"The Old Red School House andWihat
Game of It," was responded to by Dr.
Warfleld. of Lafayette college. He
said;
Old Htd School House.
Like Ruth. I cannot help thinking
thut- my effort will be fraught with
cleaning among the alien corn. I an
not wish to convey the meaning, but I
am forced to be reminded of the Scotch
laymen addressing some of the kirk
He was III at ease and spoke of casting
pearls before swine.
Of New England blood I can only say
my children have that of Massachuse tts
which I cannot claim for myself. I
was raised on the Kentucky bottle as
product for export only
Of "The Old Red School House" I
believe that Irt'lta memory we have our
birthright and heritage. Washington,
Lincoln, Claywhere should I stop in
the list of men who educated them
selves for us. If my country could have
had that school house wecould have long
ago clasped hands over the Mason and
Dixon line; we could always have been
one country, all free and going on to a
unity. For myself, I thank- God that
went down before the -march of the
merchant prince, or the-' coming of the
trust. I grant that the-Hramp element
is largely made up of the idle, the
drunken and the shiftless, but never
forget that when a brother falls or
halts by the wayside the whole re
sponsibility rests not ' upon' himself
alone.
The Accumulation of Wealth.
A dozen men.'or families, In this na
tion own or control one-flftleth or the
wealth, and-the reverse side of - the
Picture shows thnt 9(1 npr cpnt. of the
lei ui cui me inscription I nave quoted producing masses support their faml-
lnto the stone. - ' lies on an averaire of 90 cents a day.
minever iooks upon tne monument
While this is true, we hear a cry go up
from tht citadel of the nation: "Make
things cheap, give us cheap products,
cheap food and clothing." The sin of
cheapness has run mnd, for Its logical, nourish his body Into strength and his
inn miner nau 'a I Ke exner ence. he
shouted 'out. '"It ahe.' after vou. too.
father.?".. -, .
W orld Indebted to Her.
The life of the New Enirland mother
was full orbed in tho hnm. Shu rnld-
ed in all of its affairs, and she holds a
very heavy account against our best
civilization for the unnumbered hoBt
or mighty men she moulded into nobil
ity .of character and inspired with
reverence and faBt clinging love for
law, purity, truth and sroodness.
I am Just old-fashioned enoiiE-h to be
lieve, when a man steps out into
the glare of public Ufa or sits down at
the loom of life's weav-lnes. that he Is
already what the home has made him.
It is the eternal and Inalienable heri
tage of woman to mould the man,' to
ending is poverty, its final analysis Is
charity to- men who should be self-
sustaining, cheap, products ends in
cheap men, and the conscience of the
nation should be stirred until It real-
passengers from the Kentucky to the lzts that the lesson of old is still true
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Those present were: ,
Theodore Strong, PHtston; Rev. N. F;
Btahl, J. K. Burr, Carbondule, J. A Latisf
lng, j. II. Fisher, Arthur Frothlnghami
B..B. Mott. 11. E. Watson, H. A. Fullen,
O. B. Wricht, Colonel H. M. Holes, L. O.
-Northrnp, W. J. Lewis, L. C. Kennedy,
Rev. George E. Guild, L. M. Smith, R. M.
Blocker; Honesdole; Rev. Charles : Lee,
Carbomlnle; R; W. Luce, J. 1). Btocker,
Jermyn;. F,. C. Whltmore, J. 1J. Blocker,
E. 8. Sanderson, John H. Law, Throop;
V Alfred Hand, S. P. Hull, R. A. Jadwln,
Carbondale; W. T. Smith. J. W. Peck, L.
JtfUnnitMl; T.-C. Von Bhirch.-P; S. Page,
Albert 8, Raker, W. J. Hamilton, Carbon-
' dale; H. J. Anderson,' A; Vr Law, L. R.
" Pottdr, George R. Molr. Jotut F.V Roe, E.
F. Marsh, W. P.'Kennedv, A.' D. Hlack-
, JJtfptpn I Sohn- II. .PhelnaV.'A. lUVWlltama,
"f; L. Pftllllps," WV .O Robertson, C. R.
Klhslny, JJlukely; Charles O. Rse, Er F.
CmrmberlUIn, George .F. Ferris, Pltts-i
ton;"' "' Foster,''' Isaac- 1. Post,
W.. 'B:' Blantihard," p.- n."' 'Atherton,
J( L. Atherton, G. P. Ronnrn. Carbondale
Mayor E. El Heridrlc'kvX'arbondu: A. P.
Trauiwoin, laroondaie; Ctintain W. A.
May. IW.' Foster, ,y. A. Wilcox, Dr. IV.,
11. Throop, v. V.i Jones, w. 1I. Peck. 1.
F. Megargol, E. B.. purges, W. J. Torrey,
A. C. Fuller, C. H. Pond, J. H. Fisher, F.
E. Piatt, A. G. Gllmore, C. H. Welles,
Indiana shore. Sneakine of It after
ward he said: "Sometimes it was diffi
cult to propel tha boat up stream, but
Having no shoes on my feet I could get
ai Detter grip on the deck." He fol
lowed the streum .later .on until it
took him to where he saw slaves sold
from the block in New Orleans, and ns
nis niooa surged fast and hot through
his Bix foot of manhood he said: - "If
ever I get a chance to hit that Institu
tion (meaning slavery) I'll hit It hard
The Opportunity- Came.- "
In the Providence of Ood it wns or
dained that the opportunity should be
given him, and it came when he sliriipd
the proclamation which liberated four
millions of black men and women. The
name of Lincoln will always shed light
on tne uarK and dreary pathwav of
the boys who struggle .throuirh vicls-
pltude and trouble. .. ..
Our-national history Is" studded from
the beginning to the present with the
names of those who as barefooted boys
strode from youth to manhood, from
obscurity to fume, und from unknown
depths to the proudest places In the gift
of the people. But here were and there
are others, Just us good, whose names
are never told, whose deeds are never
"The laborer Is worthy of his hire."
While those who pla'y In the game of
life are permitted to-stock the cards
that they may wiln and keep the golden
pi'ize, the homes of the poor grow
darker. When wo trace the causes why
many a life is tainted with crime, no
man can boast, for the race of life is
not run with an equal chance for all
the barefoot boy carries double weight
today. As .we shake the frosts and
snows of time from the boughs of
memory, we can look back to nothing
purer or brighter than the green fields
and sparkling rivulets of our boyhood
days.
What we fondly love to dwell upon
within the sacred walls of memory we
should not begrudge to others. That
the barefoot boy of the future may hold
his own in the march of progress,
which rushes so swiftly onward, we
should give of pur effort to make.lt
possible for him to reaeh-the goal of his
ambition and become d. gain to the na
tion, Instead of being a'draln upon her
charity. -We devote time, thought and
means, to theerectlon of warships, forts
and arsenals; we clamor for oflice and
strive to 'vrite our names as those who
did something great or heroic, but we
mls9 the greatest of 'all opportunities
mind Into soumlncssto equip him for.
tne warrare or tire and Inspire him for
its victories; to breath through him the
wishes of her soul and teach him how
to gain the ideals which her purity re
veals, her ambition craves and her
love demands; and In this she gives
tone ana cnaracter and color to society
ana tnrough it virtually makes the
world. The souls and minds of little
children are marvelously tender, senai
live uno uetlcate things, and keep for
ever tne snauow that first falls upon
them, especial v if it Is the mother's.
I do not think that it is an exaggera
tion to say that there was never a truly
great man whose life ran along the
lines that converge - .In the world's
peace, purity -and universal brother
hood, but what had a great mother,
The first six years of our llf mnkr n
It stamps the coin of our. .character
and tells what it will be worth In the
great market and exchange of life.
Alter me years or our childhood all
thut Is added is only veneer. There la
no higher dignity than the dignity of
shaping In silence . and patience .'the
forces that mould, and guide human
society, nor can the. sphere be narrow
rrom which such potent influences flow.
This is Just what the old-time New
England mother thought. She thought
that the home was the divinely or
dained fountain of all blessing to the
SIP
DR. E. GREWER,
The Philadelphia Specialist, and his asso
ciated staff of English and German
physicians, are now permanently
located at
Old Post off ice Building, Corner Ponn
. Avenue and Spruce Street
The doctor Is a graduae of the Ufflver- .
mty of Pennsylvania, formerly demon
strator of physiology and surgery at the
Medico-Chlrurglcal college of Philadel
phia. His specialties are Chronic, Ner
vous, Skin, Heart, Womb and blood dis
eases. DISEASES OF THE NERYOUS SYSTEM
The symptoms of which are dizzlness.lack
of confidence, sexual weakness in men
and women, ball rising in throat, spots
floating before the eyes, loss of memory,
unable to concentrate the mind on one
subject, easily startled when suddenly,
spoken to, and dull distressed mind. which
Unfits, them for performing the actual du
ties of life, making happiness impossible,
distressing the action of the heart, caus
ing flush of heat, depression of spirits. ovll
loreDomngs, cowardice, rear, dreuma. mel
ancholy, tire easy of company, feeling as
urea in tne morning as wncn retiring,
lack of eneriry. nervousness, trnmhllnir.
confusion of thought.dcpresuion, constlpa-
ui'ii, weuKiiuHH oi me nmos, etc. Tnose so
affected .'Should consult us Immediately;
ard be restored to perfect health. ,
Lost Manhood Restored.
Weakness of Young Men Cured.
WOrld, that it WflB n nnurnrfol ln lla-l .t A " .i J T . U' U. X0,lr P""'
my ancestors clung to the old flag of I Ing the forest fires of lust summer, in
inscribed on brass or marble, and of when we pas the door of the public could
wnuHe praises no poet ever sings.' Dur
moral and social training and equip
ments that neither time nor change
. y "V. .'u i."'. lL: :B?."ciJ"nJi Finally the rope 'parted and the neigh
snoweu uieir .eieuuaiy uaus " bors gathered the. farmer together and
payeu . coii-'i-Liv t? .t-uiiiiJuiiit-iit iv ue
caterer. .- Three lines of tables along
three aisles of the 'dining .room, and
forming a hollow square and a smaller
table In the center contained the ban
quetters. In addition to an elaborate
array of limitless good and rare things
selected from the -season's delicacies
the menu contained such reminders of
New England as pork and beans, cider
and mince and pumpkin pie.
Those Who Attended.
The guests from abroad with the oJ
fleers of the society occupied the front
side, of, the table facing the square.
During the progress of the feast or
chestral ' music wias ' furnished by t
party of Hauer's. muslcluns situated in
the hotel lobby, and the intermissions
of the speech-making were filled by the
admirable vockl music of a quartette. -
sat him up against a stump, when one
of them asked what ,hq meant by fool
lsniy tying tne rope to- nis.leg,
hadn t gone fur," said the farmer, "be
fore I realized my mistake.".
I must put levity, aside; the minute
one begins- on a subject like mine "New
England Pluck," he stops foolishly and
takes olt Ma hat. - The pluck of the
Puritan was endless, intellectually and
physically; in his day opinions were al-
niost a man's only property, and it was
his purpose to stand by them to the
death. They were tolcrent, but they-
were fell debaters; they" split hairs.
but they never split differences. In
speech they were straightforward and
honest, a, characteristic their, sons have,
In a metsur,! lwt, and an example of
which was shown thirty-one years ago,
when a- terrible voice, indeed, spoke
against their weakness and spoke the
trutH. ; , .;, ,
While our forefathers were not liter
ary, they made themselves understood;
they generally spared people the pains
Of guessing what they were driving at.
perhaps they were unamiable, unpleas
ant, and assimilated in their domestic
affections, and yet were not wont to
turn their sunny side outward; these
Puritans were not of the effusive and
osculatory type. They were true even
to hardness whenever the Btern faculty
Would -do-a good turn.
People pooh at the stern face of the
Puritan; do they think of the stern
situation of those days days that nur
tured the vlBnge of a soldier? Like
armies in battle (hey faced situations
which' made men a very sombre com
munity, I can tell you; there wng no
time, for fiddling and othej" fine arts
unnecessary tospeakof. And yet people
poke fun at them. It was a struggle
for existence with arm on the; body
most, of the time and arms in the mltui
all of the time. The stern look on some
of the faces about me tonight' Is the
elgnttlre of a fighting people' and, pot
the signature of, an 'aesthetic ahueetry,
leaver'.' in history', have,; Pluck,- and
icyurage. been shown equal to , thut of
tha. New England colonists. "Can there
b,any'proor Inching? What, of the
people of the Hay State colony with
scarcely bread to eat, and with the
New England. One of my fondest and
most sacrea memories Is that nf L n
coin's presentation to my father, a
Kentucklan. a commission in .the
United States armv,
The greatest and best school idea 1b
founded on the idea of Puritanism, on
its hard necessities, "on its practical
teacnings. mot all the seers and poet9
and orators were trained In colleges.
Mucn or tneir greatness came from the
schooling of the schools. I am reminded
of Webster, who, arguing In the su
preme court that Dartmouth be sus
talncd, said with tears in his eves. "She
Is in- her dotage but we love her very
dearly." Such men and Such Institu
tions are tne necessaries which are
fertile provinces of God In which our
grand country was nurtured and made
what Bhe is.
Men trained in these simple schools
are not unlearned; from the schools are
bred the very essence and Juice of
learning. It is a mother Influence ovor
which we should all rejoice and the
memory of which should be perpet
uated
Rather than let my Inspiration make
me chow my subject too fine, I shall
cease, although It is a subject dear to
the heart of one who loves his nation 8
welfare.
T. V. Powderly was Introduced to
speak on 'the subject, "The Barefoot
Boy, the Heroism of American Labor,
Hla response was as follows:
Mr. Powdcrly's Addrcus.
In the dead of winter, with the regu
lator of the weather bureau preparing
plans and specifications for the coming
more comfortable place to introduce a
bare-foot boy than to this gathering of
tne sons and lineage -of progressive,
hospitable New Englund. What would
the boy say were he to stand here, bare
foot and in rags, before this table? He
would feel awkward and abashed, but
I doubt If he would be more surprised
at the novelty of the situation than
those who sit here would be. The bare
foot boy, the Ideal bare-foot boy of
Whlttler is but a memory, a dream of
the past, and in repeating the beautiful
lines we lose sight of the reality, the
hard, cold, stern reality, and give
thought to the sentiment alone. Jn no
country on the globe has the barefoot
boy stood forth. so prominently as In
ours. In no land did he find so many
opportunities, golden opportunities, too,
stretcneu out uerore mm, and In no
place on earth has he reached the
heights to which the barefoot boy of
America has climbed. America is pe
culiarly the land of the barefoot boy
In it he has reached a prosperous, suc
cessful manhood such as the boy of no
other nation has been fortunate enough
to call his own. It is but Just and
right that we should crown him in
wreaths of song and story and hold him
up to the light that future generations
may see him as he was, as he is, and
as he ought to be,
Whlttler. he whose lines we repeat
when we sing of the barefoot boy, iwas
once a shoeless lad, and In his youth he
was taught in his New England home
that it was wrong for man to own his
brother man, wrong for property in man
to be known as an institution of a
nation which began Its glorious record
with the words: "All men are created
equal." New England, America, , has
been blessed with many brave, true
men, whose names stand for -cour
age on the battle field and in private
life, but no man ever struck at the steel
links which made up the shackles of
slavery with a better blade,, a keener
weapon. or with more strength of will
or undaunted courage than the black
men's poet friend whose words and
songs cheered and . encouraged a na
tlon to do its-duty by Its God, in the
liberation of man from chattel bondage,
Had Whlttler been born in affluence it
is a question whether he would have
realized the necessity for the telling
of bucH. truths as his songs carried to
the southland, where they lifted the
gloom from the home of the poor black
slave. He knew what it was to toil,
Michigan, a relief train was dispatched
to the rescue of a number of villagers
who were hemmed in by a wall of flame.
It was necessary for that train to run
through the blazing forests; buf before
the return could be made the fire had
swept across the tracks for miles and
escape appeared Impossible. The engi
neer closed the windows of his cabin,
saturated cotton waste with water.
placed it before his face and with his
hand on the heated lever he stood at his
post. Behind him, in the tank stood the
fireman shovelling coal Into the furnace
and occasionally dashing water over
the engineer and himself to quench the
flames that hud seized upon their cloth
lng. The frightened passengers throw
themselves on the bottoms of the enra
and during the long minutes, that
seemed like ages, they scarcely
breathed. Through the long lines of
flame, out of the stilling smoke and into
tfie pure air they came, but the engineer speed. Mr. Northway said:
aim iireman were almost wrecKS oi
school unmindful of the fact that, after
all. It Is the only real fortress of free
dom, the bulwark of liberty, the hope
of the barefoot boy upon whom this
nation must, nfter all. depend for Its
strength and support. On behalf of
the barefoot lad now entering on the
march, made rough and perilous by the
greed of those who went before, let
me quote the words of, Longfellow, an
other son of Now England
"Were half the power that fills the world
with terror,
W ere half the wealth bestowed on
camps and courts,
Given to redeem the human mind from
error
There would be no need for arsenuls or
. forts."
"What Congressman Northway Said.
Hon. S. A. Northway was introduced
by Mr. Torrey and asked to respond
to the toast, "Uprising of a Great Peo
ple." In the course of an Interesting
were
what they had been. Burned and
blinded they guided that freight of
human souls to safety regardless of
their-own. A few days ago we nil read
of-the colliery engineer, who, on learn
ing that the engine house and shaft
was on fire, remembered that a number
of miners were down in the earth. He
sounded the alarm, called. the men to
the carriage, and with the flumes lick
ing up his clothing, burning his hand to
a blister, he clung to the heated lever
until his fellow-men were safely landed
at the top of the shaft. ' Where shall
e look, In the days to come, for the
name 'of Root, the engineer of thnt
Michigan locomotive: of O'Donnell. his
fireman, or nf Lloyd, the' -engineer of the
colliery? No monument, no stone, no
record even of their heroic bravery but
they are specimens or us sterling man
hood as ever evolved from bure feet
to man's proudest estate.
We I-'orgct the Soldier.
We remember the general but forget
the soldier who made it possible for the
general to succeed. We Idolize Wash
ington, and well we may, but have
given no thought ta the barefoot boys
whose bhKxl consecrated the soil of
Pennsylvania at Valley Forge that we
imilght.be rid of the king's evil In this
land
We shout the praises of the general
whose chief claim to recognition lies In
the fact that he killed men to save his
country and we ride. silently over the
Brooklyn bridge, or through that which
sua n b the Father of Waters at St.
Louis, and are oblivious to the fact that
the greatest monuments that can be
erected to the memory of man are be
neath, around and before us, We can
tell who designed these wonders, but
never question who they . were who
erected thin. Look around .you tomor
row ana everything your eye will rest
upon will speak to you of the handi
craft of your fellowman. The raw ma
terial placed at our hand by the Al
mighty Is made sublime und still more
wonderful by the hand of man We
recognize In the Commonwealth build
lng, ut the corner of Washington and
Spruce, the thought, of a Hand, a Hand
to whom we all turn with respect and
pride, fof It Is Justice Hand's common
wealth. We are watching the erection
ef the Jermyn hotel, at Wyoming and
Spruce; we wonder as the iron girders
and braces fit into each other day after
day and our admiration Is challenged
as the building climbs heavenward.
After Hand and Jermyn have passed
on to that empire or silence these mon
uments Will tell the future resident of
Scranton the Btory of their work among
us. Whose tongue will tell the names
of those whose labor made It possible
for the names of Hand and Jermyn to
be remembered as builders among
men?
While dreaming over what the bare
foot hoy of the long ago could do we
olose our eyea to the fact that he Is fast
vanishing from among ue as the little
hero of Whlttlcr's poetic fancy. We
dream of the barefoot boy of fiction
and pass the living, breathing boy in
his rags and bare feet every duy on the
street without giving him a thought.
My toast is "The Uprising of ft Great
People," and on 'on occasion like this
politics are apt to predominate, and If
I say anything in political mutters
which seemingly offend any one, you
must charge it to those who originated
the toast and not to the one who re
sponds. American people are peculiar
people In one respect, in being emphatic
In expressing their ideas. There are no
other people on the globe who can ex
press their ideas in such an emphatic
manner, tind no people can gather to
gether like ourselves in the sense that
we, the descendants of the ISew Eng
land people, can. With the New Eng
land people originated the government
for the people . by the people. It Is a
saying worthy of the wisest man that
people who can hold a proper, peaceful
public meeting are lit people to rorm
a government, and we have gathered
that idea until we express it in nn em
phatlc manner. If there is any field in
which we express our Ideas more em
phatically than another It is the field
of uo it cs.
1 have come in contact witn a largo
number of men of all political parties
and the great majority, I am urmiy
convinced, are. thoroughly honest,
whether they be Republicans, Demo
crats or Populists. We are all pollti
clams we are the only people on the
globe who. us a class, are all politi
clans." Uo to a few years ago It was
generally believed that the position of
parties in politics did not unect mucn
In their results to the country and the
general talk we were accustomed to
was that it did not make much differ
ence which "party was In power, the
country would go on Just the same.
One other idea is that great people are
capable -of great things. They can rise
above party for the sake or their coun
ty, their home and their country s in
dustries when any of them are beset by
danger. Much of this feeling we owe
to the New England- people and their
descendants, 'who, from their town
meeting had originated the great com
mon school system, the dual syBteip of
government and many advantages of
the present day.- There, that evening,
they renewed their allegiance to the
memory of their ancestors and re
vived their pledge of faith, given to
their old fathers and mothers, to hold
to those glorious principles which had
been taught and given to them In
homes defended by their life's blood.
Rev. Dr. W." II. Pearce was the last
speaker. He responded to the toast.
'New Englund Mathers, the Angels of
the Household." He said: .
jvlmt it was to endure privation, and he We like to read of what the American
could feel for the sufferings of others.
The recollection of his barefoot days
made him strong of heart when he
wrote
For to my ear methought the breeze,
Bore Freedom's blessed word on;
Thus salth the Lord: Break every yoke,
Undo' the heavy burden.
Ills Career of Progression.
Somehow or other we find Ourselves
looking toward New England when we
Speak of the barefoot boy. It was there
that he began his career of progression;
from there he started westward to carry
the spirit of freedom beyond the hills,
slopes and mountains, to where the
Missouri rolls down to the sea and
beyond. .No wonder, then, thut Boyle
O'Reilly, another barefoot boy, sang of
the staunch old ship that bore your
sires to the landing place at Plymouth:
Thunder our thanks to her guns, hearts
i and Hps,
Cheer frdm'the ranks to her,
j, Shout from the banks to her '
Mayflower, foremost and, best of our
ships.
1 On a Sunday morning, four weeks
ago, I sat in Jackson park, New Or
leans, and studied the equestrian statue
of General Jackson which stands in the.
reenter pf the square. .-On the base of
the statue these words are cut Into the
granite, block; "The union must and
shall be preserved.'.',,.
1 Butler's Object Lesson.
! I could not recall that as one of the
Sayings of Jackson And it Struck tne as-
being rather odd. . . The preservation of
the union was not in question when
General Jackson earned the right to
that monument. ' No question of In
ternal strife agitated the union then,
and his mission southward was to repel
youth can do, but do we realize that
the achievements of the past are no
longer to be reckoned among the possi
bilities or the future? . , .
Different from Our Fathers.
We are not such creatures as our
fathers were, our environments are not
the same and our end in life Beems to
be different. We grasp for riches, for
powerand position, forgetful of the fact
that he Who gains power over others
loses control of himself, and that once
the longed-for position or eminence is
gained he becomes a servant for others
and must be guided In his acts by what
others think and what custom pre
scribes rather than by the dictates of
reason or the better impulses of his
nature.
,We struggle for wealth and trample
barefooted boys and men Into the earth
in the mad rush. We applaud the Ideal
and damn the real. We wrap ourselves
In a dream of what used to be and
scarce bestow a thought on what is tg
come. What the barefoot boy could
do he can no longer do. The race Is
keener, the competition more, heartless,
and the struggle more bitter than- it
ever was. Machinery has almost super-
ceded hand labor, more shoes are. made
than can be worn, and there are more
barefooted boys, women arid men than
ever bpf ore. In the race of years , ago
only the Idle and shirtless went down,
but now the deserving and worthy who
cannot p. 'y cards' at - the game or
chance In the industrial world are In
danger of1 being run over.. Go among
tramps, among tnose whom we .have
been taught to bears hatred, and ques
tion them as I have done and you will
find among them men of .education, and
if .you scrape the dirt a-way you wll- see
the traces or rennement. Among that
New England Mothers.
T am not sure that I belong to this
goodly company, and that I should be
accorded the privilege to respond to
the toast just ottered, "The New Eng
land Mothers, the Good Angels Of the
Household. I am not an immediate
New Englander. .1 wish that I was;
at least for the present hour, and for
the full enjoyment of this bright and
festive occasion. And yet, perhaps, I
do not deserve to be-wholly ostracized,
for my life has been cast upon the great
lines of New Englund history and by
tne royalty or descent. 1 am some
what, though remotely,-akin to you.
My father's father .came from so far
down east that he used to say that
there was nothing beyond his father's
farm but the bleak shore of Nantucket
and the Judgment day. My mother's
mother spent a happy girlhood amid
the green hills and laughing rills of
Vermont. So vou see that I am at least
tributary to the great river of New
England life, that has poured its noble
waters through every channel of our
splendid Civilization.
There Is a royalty of mind, as well as
a royalty of blood; there Is a royalty of
character, as well as a royalty of de
scent; and tiws royalty of mind and
character characterized the New Eng
land mother, tier lire was given up to
the home and home-making. She
cared but little for anything else, and
her life in the home was as tender as
it was brave, as gentle as it was strong,
as beautiful as It was stern; inspired
with a lofty purpose to make the home
as Sweet and blissful as a bit of heaven
on earth, and at tne same time as
Strong and rigid-In its moral, mental
and physical ministrations as If It were
the grasp or an unrelenting law. A
story Is told of a down-eastern mother
who was seeking tc correct her boy of
7 years for ill conduct He eluded her
grasp, fled from her and hid under the
porch. She threatened him find Impor
tuned h'm to come out, but of no avail,
and at last' she reminded him that she
would have a satisfactory settlement
of the matter When hla father returned.
The boy quickly went to playing under
the porch with some blocks and forgot
all about, the late unpleasantness. - Uy
and by the father returned home,
heard the story of his bad behavior,
and went to the porch and begun to
crawl under: Tne Doy, seeing him com
arrest or undo what it had
wrought! That the home life over
reached and underglrded all other life
and cnaracter, and If things went right
there, they would go right everywhere,
and if they went wrong there, they
would go wrong everywhere.
mat sne was riKht and her deduc
tions safe and wise, none of us In this
presence would question for a' moment.
Her l.ofty Mission. ...
Controlled by this thought, inspired
by the greatness and loftiness of her
mission and sublimely awed by the
results aim destinies that it involved
she gave herself up to the home and
to home-making so lovingly and ef
fectual' and with such faith in God
that the beauty and strength and value
or her productions have been the hlth
est adornment und the strongest-story
and the surest and most enduring sal
vation or this great American republic,
Sad day will it be for the home and
church and nation when the home shall
be anything less than our New Enirland
mothers thought it to be.'a divine thing
sent of God to bless and beautify the
whole round of human life. Lead child
hood captive to high and ennobling
principle, and through It, the whole
world to its promised latter day glory-
Let me say In closing that as woman
decrees so will human society be.
When cruelty held high carnival In the
Coliseum at Rome and bloody tragedy
in human life was the sport and fusel
nation of the people, the victorious
gladiator held his victim close to the
ground and before he daggered him to
death turned his gaze toward the bal
cony of the great building that was
filled with women, the most beautiful
and richly attired of Rome! And if in
response to his gaze they turned their
thumbs down he proceeded with a new
and Increased relish to finish his awful
work. Hut If the thumbs were turned
up he quickly released his victim and
sought to ease his wounds.
Today such is' the power and in
fluence of woman In society that If
she smiles at sin and gives herself up to
fashion and pleasure the tragedy of
sin will go on to its awful finish; but
If she decrees purity and lofty Chris
tian character for herself and the world
and adheres (o It In sublime consecru
tlon, earth's sorrowful dirge will speed
lly end In songs as sweet as those that
float from angel harps.
Unique Menu Curds.
Each succeeding year the society has
included in its menu card some feature
symbolllc of early New. England and
later day Scranton. This year Oliver
Wendell Holmes and the witchcraft of
Puritan days and the witchcraft of
this generation were ingeniously and
historically embodied in the menu
cover. On the front of the cover is an
engraving of Mother Goose riding
on - the trolley of . an electric
car, while above her the wire Is throw
lng off a splutter of sparks, and be
neath her can be Been only the roof
of the car. The words, "Scranton
Witchcraft, December, 1886," recall thnt
In that year the first electric car was
run in Scranton, that Scranton was
the first city east .of the , Mississippi
river to use electricity for transports
tlon, that Is was the first city in the
United States, to build a road for the
purpose, and thnt its cars were the
first in the world to be lighted by elec
tricity.' The whole Is. a travesty on
Holmes' "The Broomstick Train."
On the rear cover reproductions of
Faneuil Hall and the old North church
and other colonial structures suggest
the early scenes of and the title, 'Salem
Witchcraft." The two engravings are
shown with an ecru coloring and with
the enclosed menu will prove a happy
and appropriate souvenir to the ban:
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