Back To His Boyhood's Home

Aüong towuTil Hu last oí thLs montU Jud(ge AVm. D. Barriinaa ia Vo take a joumey back to Ma old iom in Vermout, a.nd view once again soine ■of tihö soen.es of has ea.rly diays be'llore ho set out t!te great aacl 'bonii'd'less west, to makO ior hiimself ii homo, anii i[ possilble b&w out a nlelhie on this im'pierlsihia.bl)e ecroil of 'Jame. II is special missi'oa wil! be to attend tihie centonnial celebcatipn of titat once famous acadiemy, the Ca!edtonia County Grammar School, aft Peaclham, Vermont, to ba held) on August 8tiu It was at ttids school that the Judlge laid the fouodatiioin for aik ed'uoatdan, and; so solid was th,at foundation tbat he has buMed on Jt ever sinoe, and ihei higher the walls of knowledge flh.at he rears, the fürmier seems to be t.h.e foundiatiion on whtoh ilt rests. That old academly has had many famvoas men wiithim its walls. It was iheTe that Wm. M. Evarts learned his boyhoiod lessons, aind Ilk fat.her was preceptor oí tihe sehool for a n;uimIber oí vaars. Thab granid and rugged cliaracter, bluff old Thad Steveuw fOir yeiara sat at a desk in. this famous seat oí leaniïlng, and conned t'h.s lession?, and imbïbed t'he knuwledge that he used tía sucfe go.o-d advanta-ge1 in the ji.iilonal halls of legislatton years aftierwiards. One of tlhe eo.rly precep'töirs was President Bartlett, of öartmiouth colleigr, and to briug oar communiity st'ill oloser in to-uc'h, it migiit be added that Leonard Wo'rciester, the grand Tat'her of Mtb. M. L. D'Ooge, was for twen!ty-five years trustee and' Becret'ary of tlh.9 institution. 'Twas liere that "Wtlbur Piske first sought the íounít of knowleüge, and many otiher lamious mames oould be recalled, but tlhese are perhapa sufiicienit. But wihen Judge Harri'mian goes back tlliei'e it will jiot be the same old sei ol. Thne wlll imve wrough-t sad navoj wrtJh the picture t'.iat youth has p'íiilnbed sa iinielibly on his brain. I3iere naay be a eiv tJhJtaga Jie wifil feccgaiae, but tüiose wffll be eurriQundU witth. uulamüiair ones, and inStead oL a-ecalliiog 'co luü visioen the glad a'.nd joyous Boenes of yomth, they wlll cause teaa oí sorrcww to rustu tm■bïcidtin vj hls eyes, ilie dear old ■Unies aaiid scènes ïhat wtll never mure retuirn. is best, piei-h:aps, that the return oï any of u-s ïo t(h3 6oeme3 of early Jlfe stoould ba suc.Ii. a shock to our nilnd'S, and so sorrowful to our -Asarte, lest we mug-ht wish ti live forever, aad like the Wandering Jew beoomie a burd'ea to our.selvee, a liivKng death. Of all the sad, sad t.hingj 'iini this lifet of ours, a visit to tto old iiomie after the loved1 ones iiave gone, ü vúát tío. the old' ciiildlhood, scènes offter tiunia has wrought ibs cilianges 'ilhereiin, are among the sad'dest, and lili is but rare tlhat one &ares to ,make a sec.o:ttd journ-ey to giucla a place. .We go eage'fly, we return saddened and satiistled with, o.ur present con'ditions and surroundings.