Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 16, 1893, Page 22

22 WALKS IN RURAL ENGLAND Historio Reminders Afforded in Every Quar- ter of the Old Sod. SPLENDOR OF CASTLE AND MONASTIC RUIN Graphic Sketches of Most Notablo Villages Abiding 1 a 1 Landscapes, Once th England’s Hlustrio Wakeman's Lotter, ) ndence of 1 Loxvos, April Bre It is no wonder tha Briton's heart, be he Ir or Englishman, thrill with fadeless aftection as he recalls diate environment of gave him birth, Were or's and knew in u flerce still untel It is because r equally truc in nearly ever pyrighted , Tt Corre the cockles Scotel i hman foreign land, the imme that hild inan o " his ¥ 1 pan thee he backward vista L h and wble charm in ost Briti Al England rural Scotla in its age, o m and nat ness, tha have left more inte v would l¢ your | most ¢ fied by offort even more ten and him and his aiv way It is such a heautiful kept and delitfou: | garden ing land in sunshi ble one in storm; and stranger within it such o interest, coupled with clos shorteo incoutinently into t country ; suc auch a smil suug and comforta to withal gives the human compan uie and prig fonship end that « and incapable of intercst in any land but his own though repress o kir there pricked into place and that find i In less than a_three hours jonrney, on an English day v time, whit innumerable scenes of intercst, of stirring quality and of restfulness and repose flash upon you from your carriage window ! Still more gratefully feastful are the things one will sce and feel, as mnumerable hamlets, steadings and 1 are passed. Glorious old manor houses flash from parks and acmesne forests, Thatehed ofs of village howmes, yellow with lichen, arc varied here and there by red tiling. Avenues of an ent ¢clms, beech and limes give tengt stas above broad roads, tessalated with lights and shades, and as gray and_smooth as some old cathedral floor. Cropped hedges with trim, tiny ficids give place here and there to downs, rolling away in billowy hills of heather, spangled v the golden asphodcl, or wide meadows and t where flames the yellow marigold the forget-me-nots are so dense t their surface like pled pool scoms a Hawthorn lanes are white and beneath as banks of driven Grear masses of honeysuckle trail from copse and hedge; and in, around and above all this May-time nature-heaven, t and blackbirds, high above the roaving your train, flood all the day with song. In the (remendous object lesson and hi torie reminder which each ting bit of the face of England affords, there is a no more impressive study than_that of English vil lages and their folk. These villages ave the most delightful of all objects in every pano- ramic rural scene, Closer study roveals countless hidd. beautics—for even age and decay here possess 4 mournful beauty and charin—to the artistic and vagrant mind And their quaint, quiet folk, of whom I shall particularly speak in another article, though regarded as dumb and sodden by many, still provide one of the most interesting sociologic studies to be found inany land Although many characteristics of 1 villages differ in'different snires, or in diffor- ent parts of the same shire, they all leave the same typical picture in the memory, when considered as a part of the land Inever yet came to an Euglish vill T have visited hundreds on foot, that it not the same gencral massing of pic effects as all others. This, too, whatever craphical situation, It was Just the same whether nestled in an Avon, Wharfe, Derwent, or Tamar vale: clumped upon a breezy southern down ; half hidden in the shadows of & midland hill cr toppling along the edee of ragged chine or flowery burn, or wedged into the stony face of some dr V northern moor, There it stood, a distinet and ch teristic picture f. Ariftof loy lying cottages, tiny splashes of white gray and red at “cither side, became toward the center in luxuriant shiub Thena fow gables, quaint and old another mass of foliaze, denser darker hue. Then a jumbled v gray and red roofs and outjuttings of niore pretentious structur And finally, the highest mass of foliage dominated by per haps a battlemented roof, above which always rises a_huge, square, centuries-old tower that tells of the English parish church from Land's End to the misty Chey iot Hills T sometimes think, wonderfu a storehouse of histor art and of spleador in cathedral, castle, hall and monastic ruin, as old Eugland teuly is, that after all the sweetest part of one's wan derings is experienced away from the beaten lines of travel among these gray old nests. which the centuries have softened and beau titied even in their age and decay Come with me _then, vagrantly, into a f of these lovely old home 8pots of rural Kng. land. Not fur to the h of damp und grimy Liverpool is pretty Orms! It i half village and half town, for the spindles are humming here as alme eywhore in Laneashive and Yorkshi Two hug white roads leading fo n flelds, which were impassabl olden times, ris ng to o gentle s intersect the place, abd thoe verdure growth of 400 years nlmost hides from view the nestling, ancient homes, he quaint old shops, the sleepy, restful i and the historic church itself. The old church loomins tiles of the cottage roofs is curiously sur- mounted by avate towers and steeplo; the pile so gray, mellow and ivymassed as to involuntarily suggest a_gigantic tree lopped off in its lower trunk, where the huge battle mented tower s, out of edge where the steeple rises, has sprouted a soc ond slender tree. The tradition goes that two capricious maiden sistors, desivous of raising some sacred memorial, od upon erecting upon Ovmskirk a tower aud stecple yet, disagreeing as to uniting and connectin their worlk, they finally expended all their wealth and_encrgies upon both, each in dependent of the other. The earliest of the renowned Derbys und Stanieys are buried here. Mossy, lichenel, slumberous ve the entire place is a wondrous picture of ten der repose and is but one of ores of v some Lancashire villages blending, low lying and hushed, in the ploasant landscape between the thunderous towns of mills precious old bits of gray and d green are the half dese of Cockermouth ana here in the English lake in Cumberlapd and the latter’ just inside Lancashire, where that county pushes its rugged arm up awong the scars, feils and pikes of the English Alps! Cotkermouth itself, where Wordsworth was boru, is but one of the many quaint old Cumbriun vil lages which “secin as_ancient and wmossy he rocks out of which they were hewn S a sweet, dim, dreamful and songr spot, for the Derwent viver sweeps melodi susly by and the Cocker river, from which ihe village derives its name, is emptied into he Derwent at the village side. Wordsworth's fathe John Wordasworth vas an attorney here and luw agent to Sir ames Lowther, aftevwards the earl of onsdale, The house where the poot was orn is a long, two-story, hipped-roof struc ure, standing at a corner of Main street and recessed alley, and must p been re urded asa stately affair in its time. A «er of nine windows in the second and eight i the first story face the strcet, which 1s shut off by a massive stone wall, with wide voping and monumental projections at regu- {ar imtervals aud at ke corners, lu the he cannot now and then th ret tender here and in th sinsm, be admiratic y marshes above Snow of had uresque ne- out and lost vy Then and of of higher 1 and compact reiics, of garnored o in above the red sun 1 vil Hawkshead up vegion, the former as 1t 1 old | for aud obtaiuea the THE | aren botwoen the street wall and the house are soveral pertly trimmed shade troes, and the ample garden in t rear extends to the banks of the vely Dorwent Hawkshead midway betwoen the | livs i queen of the ki tnkes, Windermere, and | | Coniston water, uear which may be found the home of John Ruskin,ar tt beside the beautiful Esthwaite is by far the n ntry. The old 1 nestles pre Water It antique t It with wide door and & where o f bumping the ngeon w broad, low oo inte ila be in - danger 18 with his head oy, Wordsw cut his name sk, and the searred old plank is v prized as a precious relie. Every member the good old dame, Anno Tyson, with Wordsworth lived, and who was s a mother to him during od's days at Hawkshead Her agc is still standing ; and Flie stow white chiureh upon the hill made famous in the “Pre stands as hen in a near fleld. Around 1t the sheep 1 lambs ave grazing. But the old life went of Huwkshead with the handloomis: you | will never find more than a score of worship ers at service within it: and the fncumbency | is so veduced that the village rector himself | x nan W H\\‘ }-. l‘n”‘ | t ings the chime of bells which calls the dim 1 folk that remain to this all but deserted in rth Are and types of villages another in the neither like the s Bamlets in tendor Yorkshire va ngz grimly and stoutly against the ors, defiant of ch 1 the iries with ove s and therc upon dead old 1 I'here lies the sinu he one west look down ancient LIASS-Erown nieth, flanked b, thatehed raofs the east tho ¢ domiain v winding t of half a wile ned houses, half ¢ fallen in Far Rokeby. o the north, the dells and fe whese flows the river Tees. To the S the glen of Greta, where that viver tumbies I'hat huge, lonc, stone structure, it Bowes f 1 the Greta bridee weird and ghostly under huge syea mores, was formerly” another Dotheboys hall. Richard Cobden once owned it and wade it Lis home. Then the Unice outbuildings. ¢ thdb whos acres of wn. O 0 fnn, with pty and u silent inn, the facing westward, a Near it, the ruins Behind thes ient Roman station of Savatrace, remains of baths anu I'nen, roofed and unroofed hovels on eithe side to tne westward, where you will still standin, t as Dickens described a veritable Dotiicboys hall in~ his “Nicholas Nickleby.," i long. ¢ house, one story high, with a few straggling outbuild ings belund, anda barn and stablo adjoin inge “The other is Haworth, Secen at a distance it scems a half-defined line of ragged gr cut in another line of gray above which is the lofty, dreary Haworth moor. There is but a single street; closes sometimes xtead for @ house length to the right and left. The yard-wide pavements e s of stone stairs and platforms. Be. neath th erare shadowy shovs and liv All stand open, But few in habitants areto be seen. Up, up. up, for a half mile yo at’ last reach a tiny open The houscs are set arouni closely, Quaint shops and ancient inns crowd it at all sorts of curious angles. This is the head of the vill topographically, in habitations and in ar acy for its attractiveness, but because it seems an outlet to somewhere, you puss into a little court behind the Black Bull inn. 1t is a_maze of angles and wynds. Suddenly another open space coufronts you. Here are an old, oblong, two-storied stone house, with a few yards of grass plot at its side; a littie stone church, attached_to, rather than blended with, a grim Norman tower:; a graveyard cluttered with crumbling stone; the whole barely cov ing 'an acre of ground. 'Theso were Haworth parsonzge,church and chureh yard, the earthly and final home of the Brou'tes, and their living cyes ever rested on Haworth maor, which rises immediately above the church-yard like a wall of rounded 1 of & ruins, the whet aqueduct posite, Crown N i Then church an castle. Come to such as these in the summer time ouly. Then fleecy clouds stragele over and between the hills, as if shadowy hosts were marshaling. bebind the horizon, Here and there splatches of color lie against old walls and house fronts. The heather blushes from the undulant green of the moors. And one can then easily imagine bits of Apulian pastoral & in the shopherds and their flocks, like cameo relicfs on beds of dazzling emerald, with a perspective of bil lowy lines and misty clouds Over here in Northamptonshire. the cdge of the garden shire of W. ancient moss-grown Crick, sleepi its thatches heside Watling stree famous of Roman roads. There ar rest and delight in old, old Crick; rest, because it is one of those nglish vil tages which stands just as it always stood vherc the roar of the workaday world's ac- tivitics never comes: where the old parish church, the graveyard, the manor houses, the huge stone devecotes which house 50 familics of doves, the thatched farm labovers cottages, the ivied and mossy walls, and the simple village folk, all invite to quite and repose, Nov ten miles away you suddenly come upon the daintiest and” most flower-spangled village in England. Tt is a tiny collection of dependencies upon the manor of Ashby St Ledgers; but there ean nowhere clse be found such fiower-embowered homes, Just at the northern edgo of this, the whole form- ing a striking background to the siie broidery of one of the finest wide. high overarch ings of ancient ash trees I have ever scen, first apoears wall, high, thick, ivy. hungg and Surmounting this'is a wonderfully picturesque old gatehouse with hambers and an attic—the om of the conspirators s gunpowder plot capacious archiway, which sole entrance to ‘the do- il this are othe venerable out- buildings, half a thousand years old and in ‘L maze. To the right and hizher shows 1 square Norman tower and the mossy of the parish chirch. Behind and ubove are the many massive gables of this most endidly fantastic mauvor house within the England midiand shives. How glorious an historie romance could be wrought within Ashby St Ledgers' grim and ghostly old walls! In th ist at rwvick, is under most both decayed itable me: in the noted ( of 16 form main westeen and western midland shires of England are scores of ancient villages of restiulness and beauty, hiddea coy from the globe-trotters’ loreueites in the Suuny hol lows of the yerdant hills. Old Broadway “Bradweia it once wus, from the shepherds cottes on the mounted wolds down to the most fruitful vales of Evesham™—is a lovely type of them all. — All its houses are pic- turesque. Indeed, hereis one of the few ancient stone built villages of olden Eng lund, left preci ts makers built it all s wary from 800 to 500 y ears ago, On every e are hiwipitehed, gabled roofs, with wonderful sione and iren finials, mullioned wind s, leaded casements con taining th luss, and huge, tall stone chi sl weathered to most veautiful colors. Low stone walls in front ing world gardens with elipped and fancifully shaped yew troes. Its quaintest of hostel ries abound in bits of detul, old oak doors and hinges. old glass and casement fasten | ings and most curious chimney picces, pla ter ceilings and paneled very house has flatheaded mullioned windows with 1 © wood lintels inside and huge buutks of oak, roughly squared and moided over the ingles and fireplaces. In these suuz old inus and n half the buge stone farmhouses roundabout, tradition will tell you, Charles 1. or Elzabeth passed a night they haa the wsanl b ney stucks lose little old- roous How wise of them to do so if footing, time and will Enaan L. WAKEMAN Offered by ot St. Louis the numby 1t & Myers Mo, The Pobacco one guessing neares t will attend th fair gels #,000, the second 1,00, Star tobuceo tags entitle you to & Ask your dealer for particulars oa send for cireular In Table Rock, Neb the wife of the pros ent vepublican postmaster, whose term his about expired, has appealed to the adiinis tation to let the oftice remain in the family cause sho is a stalwart democrat, Her case is not unlike one that attracted some attontion - England recently, The oceu pant of a desirable postmastership there was about to be retired - because of having reached the age limit, and bis wife applied Place, n 3 OMAHA DAILY BE TRECASTING - NEW ENGLAND Mighty Ohanges Wrought Within the Las Forty Yoars, IS Transformation in dustry, Edue nnd IT DECADENCE OR DEVELOPMENT? tion 1 rexent Conditions ¢ ppulation, A Religion pared What of th ulation, politics religion. Ninety-e inal population wer present century. | local ity loafer, they victed of “selling times to such as kuowing thereof livered into the benefit ot the who “abused himsc 1 to with a sheetof paj the word letters was compel drunk Wi deali there m onposing 1t from colony was com 1 i the of der of the value of Agric dustry oped g Col St ture L T, W, Hi not yet fift men making handles, sevihes, troughs and spinning They sat or by elockwork sions cand brig tum) vooden sticks | it by the they doc wi or hung in dvied t glasses; they s, at different " poiuts but each Indian pudding were cheese, p tactory of odds itsel tion to all, and the thing centeved i was the ministe ship in suffrage in the sta half a century, in century and a half Today one qua foreign’ birth; ano by th pirents different state Connect Rhode cut, onc Island, Canadians, who encourage Louis XIV. and dreams of a New I shall be po more litical hife which caucus, difus in the nution ly chosen reference city quer ost town, the locality igrati false pride of the nativ facturing the | turn it ove The natives in are tradesmen clerks, bookkeep professional men. tical, Ity instead us to vigor, of sports girls mental not impr the identity of Maunual tr ot and tice in be don ioned farm, Religion has not tions of cv practically tude of rival sects days’ of Jonathar of has ations olence effective damned duty been for the int ligious character, The turning-in the overthrow of t ot altogethe the resort of stron th world Engl Eug oute indepen fen te is irvesistible went dowr hand ism characte religious subjects, he has o self, his probatio thiuk en: ate her ugh abous stitutions and relat tion or spirituai whole and of each and now depends. The foreigner, or ization and more authority than t | brought to thesc Catholic church is already our free tutions, It | dntismasa whole, Williwm DeWitt Hyde in New England is being transformed in pop in and remained 8o down to the b and almost socialistic in gulation of private afairs by If & woman was a scold were fined W h hands of the 1 this 7 with offenses wi ined the interterence and without Massi wdacity to answer the demand for its charter by ma there might be plenty in eas. wais th F'rom this as a radually commerce and thy Aprit Forum education, and it per cent of the orig: of English extraction ginning of the intense dustry slitical life was its minute re public author if & man was a If a dealer was con water at div cre drunk with it, water was de the strong leacon for poor, and the f shamefully with drink and in a publie place v on his back whercon was written in great searching severity in thin their own bod, most sublime cour tiven in its infancy wsetts Bay had the of Charles 1 ten that kinz bullets a lega farthing apiece, of need universal were deve arts. As alm basis in nson has said in our country villages lived by f theirown mortars braiding. wound great fireplaces with har ing crane, fivedows, and spits turned by hand they made low candles, and used, even on blocks they 1d ored their own fifty different wild herbs, all gathered near home and all put up ia bags for the winter i dials or cases they did not sitdown to reguli took a bowl himself from a kettle ot mashed potatoes or soap was made at he arl-ash, birch, vine beer, baskets, straw hats and ends, a village a laboratory of applied mechanics, ducation was plam village school gave the rudiments of for professional life the ¢ house was the center of the tatute book of the con was the censor of soc the church te it more, monweulth endured century the change has come. Canndian Immi th paventage: only one-half (Alty-two | last census) “The population varics in the Maine quarters native of native Hampshire and Vermont, each thre naif; tentn of the total population are the rate of 40,000 & year, with marvelous prolifickness, s ient as long ago us the fostered grants to fathers of large familics down' to the present day; fortified against rapid as- similation by the triple armor of lan stoms and religio The found town meeting is being smothe 1 over the statc Selectmen, alder rescntatives of the state legislaturesare fre without to or solely becaise they belong party which happens to be in Poor land and r to and competition from the west, rapid readjustment due to _tarift wnd social have combined to make 1 formerly their commereinl ss the dignity of mauy he useful and tiie honor ining is good as faras it goes; but it is by no meaus an equivalent for the prac ctually doing thinzs that whicli the boy got on t munity as a whole and on the concrete v y day life that it had Instead of tlie one powerful Puritan church, identical which it served and ruled, we have i about virtue have tuken the beneficence. glory of readiness 1o be critivised and misunde a misfort ward world goes against Stoics did when the r ) and thought and life wnder grapples with the realities of the world in earaest and in the But it takes u gr cation to draw him out of his shell eut he scems to have nothing particular on Extreme subjectivity and individual izes the religious thought and life of Now Eugland today not merely that he does his own thinking w of Puritunism and highly desirabl, ie to think to prospects. and hereafter, well-being individual with him a religion ! in fecling thought us of the American Catholic church as a_whol. today as it is to speak of American Protest years sinee the pe ling, the shingles, ax yrooms, oxbows. bread the women carding, binding and dyeing theic own tal festal ocea or raw potatoes for ate from pewter kept scouring rush (cquise diseases by ches; they spua by hour- hid noon marks farm: in many meuls, milk and helped on the of me. so der, each farm was a store in The educa; lege fitted Every seting the bible nunity ; the Uy member was the condition of In visible form for invisible spirit for a the biblical com- Within the last half- and practical ademy and ¢ 10sen few The town veligion geation, of the population is of quarter of foreign it, ave natives of native still has thre parentage; New fifths; Massachusetts and two-fifths. One t'rench coming at traditions of mulated by royal days of legis] nly by ruage, s faith, and inspived by | hen New ntensity of xpression nece in ihe ed in the ward ind absorbed ien and rep- the slight views on affairs, the nationsl @ majority in ch water, em- their state to legislation, ubition on the part AN \ to r industry, and ¢ together with domestic service and manual labor of all kinds, to_fc i the her living on interest ner towns and cities, as a and commercial travelers, , agents, teachers and Education is ornamental rather than prac lies on classes in physical culture and dancing for the development of physical chor It fits living ways. m and outdoor boys and m orna It does abor and ble. needed to the old-fash- hat grasp on the com in formerly with the community multi wuch ch intent not so on building up the community out of itself as on building up itself out of Saving souls for heaven rather than estab. lishing the kingdom of heaven among men is too frequently the chic the community. concern. Since the wards, discussions lace of declar- Disiuterested beney- cultivated more than Willingness to be d rather than rstood e service of men has been the test of re- Not a Misfortune. on self which followed Puritan theocracy was This is always spirits when the out them. It is what publics of the old 15 deepened New When the New It as in the struggle for milict for slavery Provo. t pres. By this [ mean hich is the very essence but that uuch about him his chances of and does not those objective social in us on which the salva of sociely as a mber here the other hand, more compact in strongly brings organ intrenched in t which the Puritan wes. Bul the Roman some of its branches. the iuflucnce and free iusti unfair ~ to speak There is a Romanist E ors | ve | but | DAYI JAPRIL 186, element in the Romn Catholle chureh which is the bigoted, implacable fon of everything free, everything prog rything [ American--T mthe” almost suy everything | human and divine that does not emanate from the vatican. . And there is a Catholic elerient i the Roman Catholie chureh which is as broad and golevant and candid and | truth-loving and patriotic as any that can be found among Preshyterians or Unitarians or Aggnosti Tknow no nobler statemnt of the political and intollectusl attitude of the | true Christian chireh than that made by | Bishop Spalding at the laying of the corner stone of the Catholic University | Attitade of the Catholic The tendency of our bigotry, and as wo lose faith | ana eMeacy of persceution more clearly that true religion | be propagated nor defende [ lence " and intolerance y to sectarian bitters wsive, ¢ Chareh, is in oppos the we pel can neither by vio ¥ appeals ss and national hatred The special significance of our American | Catholic history lies in the fact that our example proves “that the church can thrive where it is neither protected nor persecuted, but is simply. left " to itself to manage its own affairs and to do its own work. Such an | experiment had never been made when we | became an independent people, and its sue worldwide import, because this is the modern tendency and the position toward the church which all the nations will sooner or later assume, just as they all will be | forced finally to aceopt popt ile. The great underlying principle of democracy, that men are brothers and have equal rights and that God elothes the soul with freedom is 4 truth taught by Christ, 18 a trath gro claimed by the church, To” be eatholic s to be drawn, not only to the love of whatever is good and beautiful, but also to the love of whatever is true; and to do the best work the Cath churen must fit herselfl to a constantly changin environ nt, to the character of ever ANAEHD. WKL OF |« We 1 ognize that ugh reli unchangeable the not that the point of view varies from people to people and from age to age. Science is the widening the ht of man king on the hypothesis of universal Ligibility toward universal intelligence, and 1cligion the soul aping from the labyrinth of matter to the Wt and love of the Infinite; and the hits they meet and are at peace. Lot us. hen, teach ourselves to see thing 18 they are, without preoccupation or misgivings lest what is should ever make it impossit for us to believe and hope in the better that is to be. Whatever the loss, all knowledse 15 gain. The evils that spring from enlight- enment of wind will find their remedy in wter enlightenment. Men have ceased to care for the bliss there may be i ignorance, | and those who dread knowledee, if such there stili be, ave as far away from the life of this century the dead” whose b crumbled to dust a thousand years ag Those who praise the bliss and worth of ignorance are sophists, Stupidity is more to be dreaded than malignity, for ignorance, and not malice, is the most fruitful cause of human misery. Let knowledge grow, let truth prevail.” Since God is God, the uni- verse is good, and the more we know of its laws the plainer will the It way become.” This is a long way in advance of the ideas of the relation of church to | state and of the mind of man to the truth which the carly Puritans | entertamed; and it would not_be dificult to find Protestant bodies in New England today which fall far short of this high sensc | cf the things sceular and the divineness of s human and the certain beneficence of the results of scientitie re wreh and eritieal inquiry. Were such tholicism as this (o supersede Puritanism in New Eneland the transformation would not be in all respects a loss, As to population and the power sides in the majority, the predom the descendanis of the French and who have arrived since 1850 over the ants of the Pilerims and Puritans who came previous to 1640 is a foregone conclusion | This fact should warn us against all appeals to race prejudice and religious fanaticism Not thus can we avert the influence of those who before the year 1900 will constitute the | majority of New England’s population | What Will be the Outeome: Will the native or the forcign predom- | inate? We must answer in detail. The per. petuity of American political institutions is | well assured. Thatassurance lies not in the | exclusive control of native Awmecricans, but in the intelligent ana hearty participation of foreiguers in the administration of local gov | ernment.” Oficial responsibility and ‘active | participation in political work™ is the best | sehool of politics, and our Trish citizens ave bright and eager learncrs in that school, This activity is not evidence of sinister ec clesiastical schemes, but simply the expres | sion of a racial instinct long repressed. The | French have less disposition and capacity | for political life, but they are eminently | peaceable and taw-alading. | _ Industrially, the foreizner will conquer. | Manual labor tends to vigor and reproduction ; casy ways of getting a living tend to de. tevtoration and sterility. Hard work, stead pay, vegular savings and large familics a giving to the forcigner the industrial futuro | of N England. 1t is easy to get cream | from mille, not so easy to get milk from | cream. You can make good stovekecners and insurance agents aud milliners and type- writers out of the sons and daughters of the farmer and mechanic. You cannot make goot salesmen and good farmers’ wives out of the sons and daughters of mechanics and boc e False industrisl standards | and social pride ave fast robbing New En lund boys and girls of their industrial in heritance. The American ideal of froe secular educa- tion by the state is too deeply rooted in New England to be overthrown. The right of the family and church to determine the relizgious | education of their children must be frankly admitted. Protestants must recognize, ve spect, and perhaps emulate, the genuineness | of the Catholic's concern for the religious | training of his children, Notwithstanding the obyious hardship of double taxut tholic must recognize and accept the acticability of any form of state aid to e siustical instruction in a comumunity such a diversity of faiths as England Let the public and the parochial school strug | gle for existence freely and fairly, side by | side. If the geaduates of the parochial schools | prove equally inteliigent and more devout | the Protestant clergy will have to establish | parochial schools their people. 1f the | graduates of the public schools prove to be equally virtuous and betier equipped for | practical life, Catholic laymen will offer | their priests the alternative of putlic schools | free or somethmg equally valuable if they must pay for them, Elements of Success, The relizious methods of both native and foreigner will have to be modified in order to endure. [7 the Romanist element in the Roman Catholic h predominates and | undertakes to make the state subservient to | the temporal interests of the church, then | the Roman hierarcby will farve no better than did the Puritan theberacy. Free discussion in the state and the scientific method in the | school are absolutely fatal to ecclesinstical pretensions. 1f the-Catholie element in the | Roman Catholic ¢hurch predominates, and | that church prov@s-its power to administer to the spiritual 'meeds of plain men and women more helpfully than the aristocratic and speculative Protostant societies, it has { & large carcer of wsefulness before it and | will d rve the best wishes of all who have [ at heart the weltare of New England | The Protestant churches must rise above the spirit, if ngt the form, of se tarianism. These seets stund for the special empliasis of partioular aspects of Christian faith and life:; they have their justification | in the circumstances which called them iuto being as protests against error or witnesses for neglected truths, and in their appeals to different temperagients, different degrecs of mental culture and social refinement. The | mischief of scectarianisin lies not so much in | the different aspects of truth ana life for which they stand as in the lack of responsi- bility for the welfare of ty, which, in different degrees, is common to them all | They seek first to get adherents and contri butions out of the community, rather than to | put influence and inspiration wto it. ‘This tnet of self-preservation, as dis | tinet from the impulse to social service, is the inevitable result | of the feebleness juent upon the minute subdivision of the church, 1t is loss munifest in cities, where separate churches would be @ necessity apart from sectarian divisions. In the country it 1s fatal to the | largest usefulness. church that is so all that it is 1 1o think of itsclf first, to regard other chur as rivals with it for subsistence, and to depend on charity to keep itself alive, cannot be great in spirit nor powerful for good The modern Protestant church Puritan predecessor, MUst assume responsi- bility for the well-being of the whole com: munity in which it 18 placed. Competition cess is of people 1St 1 ion b ery | the trutn of wind of man i so0, and W in « vhich ¢ wance of he Irish seend | ¢ B ¢ 1 like its wusL give way 1o cooperation. Lu country | SIB—TWENTY-FOUR PAGE villages the weak churchos must bo left to starve to death by the withdeawal of mis slonary aid from the foeblest evory town where there are more than vl or can be sustained I'he stronger of these churches in each town must be stren ned by the absorption of the weaker, by the improvement of the quality of the ministry which this consolida. tion will mak wnd by the direction of ¢ pro the s I'he Tort to the con | community in which it | church fu each town must measure its s cess by its service, by reforms in local poli tics, by improvements in charity and sanita tion, by support of libraries and hools the sweetening of family life and the v | ment of social intercourse, by the inspires for honoest toil and the standard righteousness 1t maintains merel the imber it draws into its fold and the contributions it sends to the denominational treasury. Yet all this must be done, not the Puritan tried to do it, by law, under constraint through the state, but by love with freedom through sovi In each town the first of the s thats rises to this conception of its duty should have the right of way. It thereby will prove its claim to be the worthy successor of the Paritats Gal Losws? Whether the transformation « land is vegarded as a gain or upon the point of vie Chat inhabitant is better housed, batter better fed, better informed, is of vond dispute, I'hat with the of commerce there has been a ¢ development of the comme gladly recog A bread, and the Yet man cannot the material g oms of placed 8¢ by fing v g depends vorage clothed fevelopm erespondinge virt with better With mpor Now of the iin th s i least. o spivitual loss, The ds less nerl arily a Euglandor every word that ih of God s complete The tis spirit satisfaciion toaay than forn erly early New Englander dwelt in constant communion and intimate fe ship with God, He saw all things s ernitatis. No doub tpprehension of spiritual things was one-sided and nar and lus expression of them erude and intol erant. But he did sco spivitual things and made others see and feel theiv reality. His daily duties, his household toil, his work of farm and store and shop, were all performed under the great ‘Caskimaster’s ¢ Into the humblest home. into the homeliest details, there came the high sense that the infinite and cte God was to be gloritied by fidelity or dishonored by neglect: and thereby life of the New Englander was lifted out the pettiness of his material and tempor limitations and set in lur frame of the Divine purpose and o him was worth liv b lived in fellowship with God nd practiced the doctrine chuef end is o glorify Go foreve ‘The directne: mediate comn han i le the ¢ and plan. Lif wuse it w He believed that “man's and cujoy Him s and intensity of in fon with God was facilitated for him by the absence of physical scicnce and historical eriticism. — ‘The passage from the confines of his little practical world to the throne of God in heaven was casy be cause the great intervening regions, which to our minds are occupied by philosophy, science, history and criticisni, presented o him the pure transpa noSt empty space, That these clouds’ should have cotie between our eyes and the purely transcen ent God of the Puritans is neither our mis. tune nov our fault It was a nece omitant of the development of human intellizen That the change should bring with it temporary | of relii fer and of theological certitude was also in tablc Thut these losses il damp enthusiasm and dimimsh interest in might have been anticipated, even if had not st it written in desolation — and decay that i Shakespeare's Seven Ages FOURTH ACE. ¢ /2 T 3 Fowrth age THE SOLDIER SEEKING THA I TATION EVEN IN THE CANNON'S Ther > oatl THE SOLDIER VICTORIOUS AFTER USING 1 sol JOIANN HOFF'S MALT RXT Full of stran, and Afdta the pard ¢ cannon 1 15 by strength f 1Hofl's f ed Malt Ext ract. “Iha e,and find it to bet P G warned ngainst bmposition ine, which must have the i wor a1 OIANN HOKE " o sist upon the cck label, £ book er pearc © M f strated, sent free on application. 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Ramont, Narrow; Euclid, vary Narrow, EUY THE MOMNARCH SHIRT, It Will Fit and Suit You, + CLOETT, COC icken the domestic and soc Lappy homes and ho 1t is futile f to lament these elouds, 1s though they were a sereen devised by the evil one to hide God from our eyes;: it is use less to try Lo find the Paritan’s transcendent God onec more behind them, They are thick for unrcasoning faith to penctrate Our tast must be to find our God, not behind these clouds on the throne of some heaven re- mote from earth in space and time, but to find Him in_that beneficent order which science inereasingly reveals and through that be nevolent purpose which history progressively unfolds. As with 11 en aceess of knowledge, the ope of New I land to 'the influence ot the great world without has brought with it for the time a spivitual fall. When, however, the cuit of this new knowledwe ‘shall be fully assimilated, when the complexity of our new industrial, socinl and political conditions is fully mastered, we may hope to see restored the'old intensity of faith and enthusiasm of life which made great and glorious the souls ot Pilgrim and Puritan: yer without that »whess of mind and limitation of view which rendered many of their acts ignoble and repulsive, In the conilict of ideas, in the struggles of mstitutions for exis he fittest will urvive, If the native New Englander loses his int interest in local wffairs beeause they are no longer so simple as they used to be; if he shirks hard work in farm and factory for soft places in offices and stores it he sceks polish rather t power in education; if he loscs the trictness of Puritan morality without gaining the inspiration of altruistic ethics if he wraps his religious aspirations in_the napkin of individual sulvation or hides them hin the confines of sectarian exclusive ness, then the descendants of the Puvitans and their institutions with them wii from the land If, however, he takes up the problems of town, city and state, not but more cagerly because they memyers of a mighty nation: if he is willing to do his share of the rough, hard worls; if he edu cates olf for service rather than for show puts the enthusissm of human ity behind his morality and sets the ideal of social service beforo his veligion, then it will matter little whether the lineal descendants of the Puritans constitute a majority or a miuority of the populat The institution of the Puritan thus apprehended, invig ovated sustained will survive by virtu of their intrinsic fitness, and will endure as a perpetual blessing to whatever races c men may hereafter dwell upon these sl perish Unlike fhe Dufch Process C;‘ No Alkalies —or— - Other Chemicals are used in the preparation of W. 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