Christian herald and signs of our times . The Recent Eruption of Mount Etna and View of the Threatened Town of Nicolosi. means enough upon which to live every American President it may be said asit was said of Pitt : Dispensing for years thefavors of the State, he lived without ostentationand died poor. One turns from the dignified, simple life ofthe republican ruler to that of the nominal headof Britain, feeling that there he meets a coarserand less finely developed civilization. Theparade and vulgar ostentation which surroundsat every turn the nominal ruler of the parentland i
Christian herald and signs of our times . The Recent Eruption of Mount Etna and View of the Threatened Town of Nicolosi. means enough upon which to live every American President it may be said asit was said of Pitt : Dispensing for years thefavors of the State, he lived without ostentationand died poor. One turns from the dignified, simple life ofthe republican ruler to that of the nominal headof Britain, feeling that there he meets a coarserand less finely developed civilization. Theparade and vulgar ostentation which surroundsat every turn the nominal ruler of the parentland is, indeed, in striking contrast. The cost tothe State is as ten thousand to six hundredthousand pounds. The entire family, motherand brother, and his cousins, and his aunts,are supported, and bands of retainers who aresupposed to dignify the throne. The Stateprocessions strike an American as grotesquemasquerades, and the official coaches in whichroyalty moves provoke the inquiry, What cir-cus has come to the town ? One instinctivelylooks
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