Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1883 — The New England Fathers. [ARTICLE]

The New England Fathers.

The character of the New England fathers was well defined in a poem by Allen G. Spooner, delivered before the New England Club thirty-seven years ago. Herewith is an extract relative to Sabbaths and the Quakers: On ft'indav his house was still as a mouse— The high wavs almo-t 8 qniei ; The Caurch-warden ttotft caught the boy who was out, And gave him the stocks and low diet. The dutv th -n, for heast. wife and men. Was t 1 bor six days out. of seven; On the t-evjutli, in the b st cf their toggery dr st. To wo;k harder to get into Heaven. Foul weather or fair, they were constant in pray* r, ' * Bnt i o hrift all t' e time kept a squint: And in matters of trade, when a bargain was made, Th ir fao’B were set like a flint. Innov tions in f ith th'y opposed unto death; ■* t the cart’s tail they dragged the poor Qn ke-: with oerision and jeers, they cropped heretics ears, And fe t they were serving their Maker. A veterinary surgeon of Binghamton, N. Y., successfully removed onehalf of the tongne of a valuable horse, upon which was an epiphhyticnl cancer, without much blood or trouble to the horse. Atlanta, Ga., claims to have the finest church in the South.