Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 31, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 January 1872 — Page 3

THE PARTING HOUR. -7 V-J|- -vn

•S "BT AVAK1I.LI L. HOLHB.

Unclasp the hands and tear apart The lips that cling In mate despair Olang to the stong door of the heart,

And leave hope chained forever there Look oat across life's troubled aea, Look upward to the troubled sky, Write "Mtzpab" there'tirlxt thee and me.

Then say the last, the mourn fullest "gooc by!r My heart cries In It* pain— "I cannot let tln-e go!"

Thoa s«k't smile In vain, 1'in weeplng «o— Ilovr can I let thee go?

I'm weeping so— How can I let the® go?

Mr*' e'lT

O, life was rare, and hope wan sweet, When in thy love I found my rest,. And knelt contented at thy feet,

Or leaned In rapture on thy breant— How could I know that all would change? But here I kneel and make my moan, And life and hopo are cold and strange.

And thou and I mu«tgo our way* alone! My heart crle* In its pain— 7?® "I cannot let thee go!" ^Thou wek'at a smile In vain,

Ts.

•titlll at thy feet I kneel and cling, Aud bltwtH thy hand upon my hair— I die without thy love, my king, f!

For,

IOSIOK

thee, I wed despair!

TIH

vain t/ point to futnre hope* OrlefN tidal wave has drowned the shore, And only on Clod's upland slopes

Shall our lost love burst Into bloom once ii more! I hear thy steps depart,

And crouch here In my woe! They fall upon my heart ^Z' So sad, nnd «low— **'„Q, Ood! I've let th«4 go!

I From the Sunday Journal.]

RECOLLECTIONS OF "ARTEMUS WARD."

HY TIIE "FAT CONTRIBUTOR.

To tho multitude of reminiscences of the'pronial "showman" that have belli printe 1, I am tempted to add a few of inv own recollections,

I tlrst met him in Cleveland, Ohio, in the spring of 18T)8. I wan thon connected with a Buffalo paper, and "Charlev" lirown, a« everybody called him, who knew him in those days, was "local" of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, a position which be bad then held but few months. He had written some sketches over the nom deplume of "Arsteruus Ward, the Showuuii but, up to /that time, nothing that had attracted much attention, though his witty looal columns had been the delight of his •Cleveland readers.

On my arrival in Cleveland I called at the Plain Dealer office and inquired /or the editor, Mr. Grey, to whom I bore a letter of introduction. A tail, slender young man, of about twentyfour years, with a smooth, thin face, whose prominent feature was a high Jtomin nose and very light hair that persisted in sticking straight out in all directions, stepped forward and received mo with wtnn'.ng and unaffected cordiality, in the absence of Mr. Grey, Introducing himself as the associate editor, Mr. Brown. Tho gravity of his countenance, when speaking, was relieved by the twinkle of the merriest of blue eyes. Ho had a way of saying "very funny things, as if they were sol•omii, if not melancholy facts, which puzzled me much until I came to know in.

Walking along Superior street to .gether shortly alter our introduction, we p.issed a dilapidated specimen of humanity, who had "vagabond" written all over him.

Now sir," said Artemus, with a look of iniugled disgust and pity, as be pointed to the miserable fellow, •"you wouldn't think that wretched being was, at this moment, the wealthiest- man in Cleveland?"

No said I, looking at the man with some inteiest. Woll, he Isn't," returned Artemus, with a comical pucker of the mouth, while his eyes laughed consumedly.

It wasn't much of a joke, but it serves to illustrate one of his well-kuown peculiarities, a fondness for "playing" people, which grew upon hiiu as his years advanced.

The tlrst letter ot Artemus Ward's ihHt was generally copied, was his laughable account of "Baidlnsville" •celebrating tho laying of the Atlantic cable. This was printed in the Plaindealer, in the fall ot '68. liis next suo cessful effort, printed shortly after, was descriptive ot his visit to the Free Lovers ot Berlin liishts. In that letter he lirst einbollishea Amorican literature with the significant word "gush." 'She was a swete, gushin' ehild of natur',' said her mother. 'Lot her gush!' I roared, loud as I oood hollar."

In the spring of 18591 accepted a proffered editorial position on the Cleveland National Democrat, and renewed my acquaintance with Artemus.

On tho first evening of my arrival, bo volunteered to show me around— make me acquainted with the city—a very desirable achievement, as I was to till tho position of City Editor. He "showed me around" so successfully that about two o'clock in the morning I began to feel almost as much at home in Cleveland an though I had lived Chore all tuy days, to say nothing of my nights. ArCemus invited me to •hare his bed with him for the remainder of the night, and I accepted.

Adjoining nls room lodgod a young who was enestablish a school in Cleveland. He was just starting out in business, and was naturally anxious to propitiate tliepreas. "IiOt's get tho professor up," said Artemus, "and have him recite for us."

Seavorlnsoftoelocution,

rofessor

I remonstrated with him, reminded him of the lateness of the hour, that I wasn't acquainted with the pro feasor, and all that but to no purpose.

He's a public man," said Ward, "and public men are glad to meet members of tho press, aa restaurants are supposed to get up warm meals, at all hours."

He dcsre a thundering rap on the door, as he shouted: I'rofewor-r-r'" "Who's there? What yer want?" criod a muffled .voice, evidently from beneath the bed clothes, for it was a bitter cold night in February.

It is I—Brown of the Pla\n Dealer," said Artemus. and, nudging me gently in tho riba, ne whispered: "That'll fetch him. The power of the press is invincible. It is the Archimedian lever which—"

His remarks were interrupted by the opening of the door, and I could just discern the dim outline of a shirted form shivering in the doorway.

Kxc use me for disturbing you, professor," said Arteiuua, in hia blandest manner, 'but I am anxious to introduce my friend here,' the new 'local' of the Democrat. He has heard much of vou, aud declares positively he oan't so to bed until he hears you elocute." "Hears me what?" asked the proftoeeor, between his chattering teeth. i=si Hear* yon elocute—red to—declaim —understand ?—specimen of your elocution

In vain did the professor plead the lateness of the (tour, and bis Are had gone out. Artemoa would soospt no 4xco*e. "P«fmlt me, at M*«t," urgf£thf.pro-„

feasor, "to put on some clothes and light the gas." "Not at all necessary. EJoquence my dMr boy, is not dependant on gas. Here," (straightening up a ohalr he had just tumbled over) "get right up in this ohalr and give us. "The ooy stood on the bnrnlng deck," adding an aaide whisper in my ear, "The burning deck will warm him up!

Gently yet firmly did Artemus booat the reluctant professor upon the chair protesting that no apolosfles were necessary for his appearance, and assuring him that "clothes don't make the man," although the shivering disciple Demosthenes and Cicero

probably

thought clothes would make a man more comfortable on suoh a night as that.

Hb gave' us "Casablanca," with good manv qunvers of the voice, as he stood quaking in a single short, white garment and then followed: "On Linden, when the sun was low,' "Sword of Bunker Hill," etc., "by particular request of our friend," as Ar teinus Ward said, although I was too nearly suffocated with su laughter to make even a last dying request. had it been necessary. It was too ludicrous to depict—the professor, an indixtinct white object, standing on the chair, "elocuting, as Ward had it, and we sitting on the floor, holding our sides, while A. W. would faintly whisper between his pangs of mirth, "Just bear him."

It wasn't in Ward's heart to have his fun at the expense of another, without recompense, so next day, I remembered, he published a lengthy and entiisly serious account of our visit to the Professor's "rooms," spoke of his wonderful powers as an elocutionist, and expressed the satisfaction and delight with which we listened to his "unequaled recitations." The professor was overjoyed, and probably is ignorant to this day that Artemus was "playing it on him."

I never knew a man whose sense of the ludicrous was so keen as bis, and he would go any length to gratify it. I once came upon him at a little country inn near Cleveland, having a frolic with some old farmers whom he had fallen in with. Ward was mounted on the back of a white haired old mare of seventy at least, and was riding a circus act "around the bar room. The way he made that venerable mare walk, trot, run, go lame, waltz, and dance the polka, was too tunny.

His jokes were not always well taken. We were coming into the city, one day, from a drive, and came upon to:ne men engaged in tying up a raft on the Cuyahoga river. It was a hot day, aud they were perspiring profusely. Artemus stopped his horse, and asked them, very gravely, why they didn't go and steal for a living, instead of toiling and sweating in that way. The truth was, he had to lush bis horse into a run in order to get away from the shower of stones thev hurled at us.

His Artemus Ward letters, which he wrftte for the Plain Dealer, made his reputation, and were the best things he ever produced, for the reason that they were composed as the spirit moved him, and not written "to order." His column of "City Items" sparkled with witty parngrnps. It was difficult for hinTto write up the most commonplace item of news without some funny conceit creeping in. I remember his pararaphiug an accident to a Cleveland awyer, as follows: "Our old friend Bruce met with an accident this morning. His horse took fright and ran away, and in jumping from the buggy Mr. B. suffered a sprained ankle. Bruce little thought, when he defended Cole, the Ashtabula wife-poisoner, that, in less than four years from that time, he would jump out ot his biiggy and sprain his ankle. Such is life."

I once asked Brown, (he didn't spell his name with an in those days) what suggested his nom de plume, Artemus Ward. He said, when ne was reporter on the Toledo Commercial, he reported the trial of one Ward, in that city, lor murder. The parties to the trial were all a queer, ignorant set, and he said there were so many ludicrous and grotesqve features to the trial, that the name ot Ward became indissolublv associated In his mind with the outlandish and oomical. He always considered Artemus a funny name, so he united the two, and thus adopted Artemus Ward for a nom deplume.

I think Artemus left few enemies behind, when, in the fall of '50, he left Cleveland for a broader field of effort and the Irlends who knew him in hi» early days rejoiced at his subsequent pros'perity, and sincerely mourned his untimely death.

THE coroner's jur, the other day in a upon a man who died suddenly in his bed. The jury proceeded to the house, looked at the corpse, and began the inquest. The doctor explained the case to them, and drew a map of the man's interior, so as to show the jurymen how a whole lot of Latin tnings inside him there got mixed up somehow with a parcel of other classical machinery, ana produced a perfectly terriflo combination with another Latin title which killed him of course. The jury said the case was perfectly plain. Such an accident as that among the man's internal' Latin must have destroyed any one. The only wonder was that he bad lived an honr. So a verdict was brought in of "death in aooordance with the evideooe." Just mm the inquest ended, the man awoke, and the met was discovered that the deceased person was in the adjoining room, while this wretch had onry been asleep. The question that pussies the coroner now ia, "What to do with the sleeper To our mind It will admit of an easv solution. If that man has been found dead by a jury of his countrymen, he ia dead, no mattei* what he thinks about it, or what the apparent foots are. There is nothing in the Constitution of the United State*, or in Washington's Farewell Address to forbid his burial: and it we were that coroner we would grab him and pUnt him at once in the cemetery beneath the greenwood tree, and sue his relations Sir the fee.

REPORTS

ry was summoned Texas town to sit

OLD ladies are out of fashion going on with knitting work, because there is nothing for them to do. Kaitting is their traditionary occupation, and to conceive of an old lady without her needles require* an almost impossible stretch of imagination. But while a skilled knitter can make but sixty loops in aminut*,afram«-work knitter can make &,400 and now an ingenious Englishman has constructed a self-act-ing machine, three of which oan be tended by a little girl and together will make 40,500 loops In a minute. And this will abolish old ladle* entirely.— [Golden Ag*.

HTAKTMBD

fawn fled for protection

from the hound* into the door-yard of a Virginia mansion, where a beautiful rl of sixteen summer* was dtting. tie d**r approached her with Intuitive truat, and looked pitaooaljr into her mild bio* eye*. The maiden, however, contrary to mil traditions, slaughtered the uiwlvltk a aarving kail*.

EO. D. ARNOLD,

TEKRK-HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL JANUARY 27j 11872.

IMPRO VJCMMNT OF HUMANITY. The growth of primeval civilisation isahown by the striking siinillarity of the tools dug up in oaves of the "reindeer period" in 'the South of France with those of the Esquimaux and GreenUnders collected iu the Museum at Copenhagen, Our primeval Europeans were no doubt savages in the fullest sense, even those With a white akin being distinctly inferior, so far as we oan make out, to the lowest type of modern savage—the Australian. They wecfl^oannibals, as has been lately shown by researches in Copenhagen. The lake villages in Swltxerland, on the other band, show that agriculture and the pastoral life flourished while the metal were still unknown, and that the Introduction of them was connected with barter and trade. We are acquainted at present with a number of primeval manufacturing localities, and of the commercial routes which were used in the rudest time*. It oan be shown, moreover, that our civilisation came not from Asia, but from Africa: and Heer has proved that the civilised plants in the Swiss lake villages are of African, and to a great extent, Egyptian origin.

The corporeal development of man, and the different families, kinds, and raoesot men, have been less investigated than the corresponding divisions of the ape type. In many places the skulls discovered have been few but less than a century ago a cemetery of more than forty human skulls and skeletons, belonging to the "reindeer period," was discovered near Solutri, in France. We, therefore, now have considerable material for arriving at conclusions respecting primeval man of this period. There can be no doubt that man approaches more nearly in bodily conformation to the animal, and especially his nearest relative, the ape, the lower his stage of culture. Astime goes on these characteristics gradually vanish the forehead becomes more npright, the skull higher and more domeshaped, and the projecting countenance radually recedes under the skull ?hese changes are the result of man's conflict with his circumstances, and of the indntal labor which that conflict entails.

PRIXB FIOHTS.-A preach

er who tried his hand in a sermon on how to edit a public journal, illustrated the low character of the newspapers in general by the fact that they publish accounts ot prize fights. Yet he relates that a brother minister, who always condemned this feature, told him that the first thing he read on opening his paper was the account of a recent prize tight. This is a pretty good illustrarion of human nature in its ideas of elevating the press. There are not a few who would prescribe a higher standard for the' conduct of a public journal than would suit their own reading. They would like to have one journal for a high moral example, and another of a different character for their own use. They will approve the morality of a iournal which excludes certain scandals and unwholesome features, but will buy the other for their own reading. There is nothing strange in this. It is only another way in which men preach well, but practioe lamely. We venture to say that a large proportion ot the good men would, if the had the chance, prescribe so high a standard of purity for a newspaper that not one quarter of them would take it.—[Cin. Gazette.

^BUFFALO, N. Y., Dec. IS, 1870. DR. R. V. PIBRCE:—For the past six months I have used your Golden Medical Discovery in my practice and in that time I nave tested its merits in severe coughs, both acute and chronic, in chronic diseases of the throat, severe cases of bronchitis, general derangement of the system, constipatecLconai* tion ot the bowels, and wherever a thorough Alterative, or blood purifier, has been indicated. In all cases I have found it to act gently yet thoroughly and effectually in removing the various diseased conditions, and bringing about a healthy action through the system. a a 599 H. L. HALL, M. D.

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Our stock Is full and our prices shall be as low as the lowest. We would be pleased to have oa^ old fiiendf call and see ns as well as new ones. JAMES U. TURNER,

WM. B. SHILLITO.

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PierURES, FRAMES, LOOKING GLASSES, ARTWTS' MATERIALS, ...

MUSICAL ISTRUMENTS

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Magnfiicent Black Silks Colored Siltof,*'

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Superb Lyons Velvets fbr Mantles, HUAMMCSilk Plashes, IB lack Beaver, and Fancy Styles in Cloakings, a pattern of which would be a substantial Christmas Present,

JUDSOX BAY SABLE, MINK, SEAL, SIBERIAN SQUIRREL, ALASKA SABLE,.ALASKA MINK,

We are selling these goods very oheap and purchasers should examine onr stock before buying. -fc TV-

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The above mentioned articles are some of the most useful and desirable to be found in Santa Claus' illimitable assortment. I .A

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COLLEGE!

Merom. Sulliran County, Ind.

The Winter Term of this flourishing Institution will commence December ISth, 1971, At 10 o'clock, and will continue twelve weeks. Classes formed in

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Ladies pursue the name eonrses of study, are sutyect to the name Kgnlatlons, enjoy the same privileges, and receive the same honors as gentlemen. mxemMMMcm.

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Tattles, per Teras.

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