the home in his youth or Ex-Governor Sey¬ 
mour, whom a goodly number of our citizens 
once sought to make President of the United 
States. Out the famous Cardiff stone giant did 
not dare to make up his bed in sight, of h oicst 
old Toppin! Meeker (Till is in Full view, where, 
long ago, the energetic Joun Meeker, though 
he began by peddling pins and needles, amassed 
a handsome fortune. Hold up your head, my 
honest peddler boy 1 T.ooking westward but a 
Ff'-v miles, Toppin, perhaps, beholdstheyruiMi- 
iul sporting grounds of the poor hoy, Millard 
Fillmore, afterward President of the United 
States. Hereafter no poor, moral, Industrious 
ami economical “apprentice boy ” over need 
despair of a competence, or of a respectable 
position among respectable men. 
Mnnnf Tohsln to r»totiT’mdflberl ns the birth 
MOUNT TOPPIN 
ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL.” 
A STOEY FOE THE HOLIDAYS. 
BY PROF. M. M. BALDWIN 
’Tis one of the most sultry days of July, and 
Mount Toppin lies beneath our feet. AVe came 
here not without toil, but that toil Is amply re¬ 
paid. What a glorious scene lies before us ! 
How charming ! —how picturesque I What a 
vast extent of plain, hill and rocky deJi, of for¬ 
est, fluid, stream and lake, dotted all around 
with comfortable farm-houses and pleasant 
villages, the eye ranges over nr u ‘duel* flan'll 
cf Toppin, aDd 
southward, !>.“• '• 
sought the same 
ocean. From his lofty look-out, Toppin holds 
his silent watch from age to age. At his feet 
is the village of Little York; and to the south 
that of Homer, known abroad mainly for its 
excellent academy, where for fifty years many 
have been fitted for lives of usefulness and 
BY MRS. ELLIS WORTHINGTON 
IUST fancy, mamma, how lovely little Blue- 
l will be In this costume. The velvet. 
,ohos to a shado the color of her eyes, and 
white fur suits so well her pure, pearly- 
ed complexion—the darling.” And seeing 
, Eleanor Tremaine unfolded and dis¬ 
ced to view a petite dress end bnsrnie <>f 
- amro velvet, 
ox 
_ " - , like a princess ; 
*«iro that So- 
pgy fiiie o.iniii j t fail 
paper envelopes 
Iial gave an un- 
isoaI air of con- 
‘••tndly ^sitting¬ 
s' WOUNDED P)OV ~F! 
school leading in this direction. When will the 
young everywhere learn to “go and do like¬ 
wise," and thus reap the same rich rewards of 
instruction, amusement and happiness ? 
And when will the expression, “ Country- 
norn," cease to be a term of reproach ? sinco it 
h well known that, to a great extent, the most 
important and responsible stations, everywhere, 
are flllod by those who were born on quiet ! 
country farms. If people will forget that ! 
Washington, Adams, Webster,Clay, Grant , 
and Lincoln were of this class, w ill they not, [ 
in i his vicinity at least, remember that many I 
of New York’s most eminent sons, as Van 
Buren, Wright. Hunt, Fillmore, Nelson, 
Seymour, Church. Hill and Harris first 
looked out upon life from the peaceful pro- J 
cl nets of a farm? 
Adieu ! good, old, honest, cvt'r-frrecn Mount J 
Toppin! May we meet again, in the not dis¬ 
tant future years, under equally favorable cir¬ 
cumstances ! 
pxace ox Nicholas hill, Jr. Here on this 
mount, then a wilderness, of parents remark¬ 
able only for poverty, and amid surroundings 
the most, disheartening, Nicholas began life. 
Born on the highest mountain pinnacle In the 
county, b> indomitable energy and perseverance 
he urged his way upward and onward until he 
stood upon the highest pinnacle of Ids chosen, 
honored profession. On this, the place of his 
birth, should a monument be reared sacred to 
his memory. If he could thus succeed, who 
in this land is so “ lowly boru ” that might not 
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