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Show J HaV Tho Country IMIIor. flBrW Oneof the highest trlbutt ever paid, flffi! If not the verv hlglieit, to a moat de- WHW serving clttt of people, It that of Ben- flRn ator Kugcne Hale of Maine, to th JWBMj "country editor " In diicnaslng th flH the subject ol postage on newspapir fflBW the senator from Maine remarked ol lb (Hj country editor IRkiS "He I a paekhoria of ever eommun- tfln ity, the promoter of every laudable en- Hike ttrprl'c, tho worst underpaid laborer In JUSc the vineyard, Counting his space) aa (JJiB capital he give more lo charity, hla jB mean consldrrod, than any other mem- H ber ol society. Iloliapower In poll- M tics, a pillar of tho church nnd a leader In the crusade for better morals. He la H premlnently tho friend of hnmantly. M Line npon line, paragraph upon para- H graph, day by day, he la embalming In H cold type facts from which the Hcrodot- tt u, Tacitus, Kismondl, Maeauley of the; M future will write the history of our H time. ll lully chronicles our advent M Into the world, briefly note our uprll- M logs our ilowntlttlngt, and rorruwfully M records our exit. rH "We are all moro or less generally B more his handiwork, and the creatnra H should rol bo ungrateful to his creator. mk Without hla genorou and enthlislaatlo Lbb labor most of us would never have Icon H here; and, whin ho tires of us, most f IH bi will return to private llfo amid rnral 'H scene propitious for secret modltallon JH and sllint prayer. Working night anil jH dav during tho campaign, when the fH election la over and the Urns came for ,H the distribution ol the loive ami fishe H now vulgarly called "pie," by aomet H strange lapse of memory he I generally H |