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 EULOGY OF DANIEL M. CHRISTIE.

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��that provision was made by the town for teaching all the children of the town, male and female, "to write and read and cast accounts." The other towns were not slow to follow this wise prece- dent. New Hampshire has ever been ready, except when absolute poverty prevented, to give a common school edu- cation to all the children within her bor- ders.

She also attempted, in imitation of the more powerful State, to regulate social intercourse, manners and dress by sump-

��tuary laws. In Massachusetts, the drinking of healths, the use of tobacco, the wearing of long hair, the use of gold or silver lace, unless the wearer was worth two hundred pounds, were offences presentable by the Grand Jury. The gowns of women were required to be closed round the neck and the sleeves must reach to the wrists. These minute and vexatious laws were adopted for a time in New Hampshire. They disap- peared with increasing light and cul- ture.

���HON. DANIEL M. CHRISTIE.

��For nearly half a century Daniel M. Christie, whose long and honorable ca- reer was recently closed by death, stood in the front rank among the great law-

��yers of New Hampshire. For the great- er portion of the time, at least, his was

��recognized, if not by the public generally, certainly by the Court and the bar, as the master legal mind of the State. Per- haps no more appropriate outline of his character and career can be presented than that embodied in the following eu-

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