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THE SUNNY SOUTH.
^I'E IN NEW ENGLAND
tuB climate differs somewhat
from THAT OF NORTH CAROLINA.
Yonns Doctor Has to Say on the
, ■y,., Lolless Experiments With
ucns—^ Ien ^ ho Rise Suddenly—The
gl'.tion of Propinquity.
rcopvright, 1894, by Edgar W. Nye.]
r Yru" England For a Few Weeks, )
IX>E ‘ Feb. 20. f
winter has certainly been tem-
', to the shorn lamb up to this writ-
^ cl an!l the unemployed have escaped
1C f' t wonld have been with a winter
that of last year a season of suffer-
to mi wen death. ...
I met a young doctor yesterday in
Rhode Island who told me that he once
orted in to practice medicine in North
Carolina at Dncktown or somewhere on
L Murphv Branch.
“Howdid you like it?” I asked, wish
ing to appear interested.
•‘Well, I soon wearied of it, he re
plied dreamily. “It is a beautiful coun
try there, and the air is like a healing
MR. LOLLESS’ COMPLAINT,
halm the year round, but the masses
avho live along the Murphy Branch and
the Dncktown road give me a keen,
darting pain in the neck. I practiced
there among the copperas clouted yeo
manry till they had swallowed three
chemical thermometers on me, and then
11 thought it was time to move. My
practice here \a small, hut my lady pa
tients do not die here with their sun-
bonnets on.”
I give that just to show the strong
prejudice which exists between the
dyed in the wool Yankee and the hoi
polloi of Dncktown and the Murphy
Branch, near where I live. Of course
we have our peculiarities, but why
should we be misjudged on that ac
count?
My neighbor, Mr. Lolless, who runs
the Arden Park hotel, says that # he
bought chickens all summer at 15 cents
apiece for broilers, and that they were
almost uniformly stolen for him at
sight and sold to him at 10 cents in the
morning. Those people don’t mean
anything by that. They do not do it
to make you feel badly 7 , but just be
cause they do not see any other way of
obtaining an honest livelihood.
Last week I discovered that my rail-
r, ad ticket on the New York, New Ha-
^on and Hartford road read “Good ei-
hir way.” This surprised me because
had not been used to that, and, in
ac b I had to, years ago, walk over 52
1111 , es in order to ride back on a ticket
"Inch I bought of a scalper, and which
rau * n the wrong direction, I found
after it was too late.
„ firing about this matter, I learned
a * years ago a quiet gentleman of
J p lnin height riding from Bridgeport
rovidence produced his ticket and
as tolil by the conductor that it would
p! ,T° rk * n that direction
fcCntlem
unite and retain even his broadest prin
ciples, but at last the supreme court of
the United States, which was not at
that time waiting for two selfish New
Yorkers to fill a vacancy, took up the
case, and one day when the great au
tumnal alchemy of God had turned
the forests and the sky to billows of
gold and bronze the weary, worn and
plucky gentleman got his verdict and
his money, and so today you and I, fel
low citizens, owing to the grit and hero
ism of that shattered man, may ride
either way on the same ticket without
being disemboweled among total stran
gers and while there are ladies present.
We were talking together the other
day, Mr. William Hawley Smith and
I, regarding the habits of men who rise
to sudden wealth, and who are not pre
pared for it either by birth or breeding.
The country is full of them, and though
they get along very well for a few hours
without corking themselves they can
not hold out very long without an
nouncing themselves.
He was telling about a St. Louis
man who had risen to wealth on the
traffic in hides, pelts, tallow and dressed
pork. This man was asked what was
the meaning of the phrase E plurihus
unum, aud company being present and
the inquiring child very determined he
was obliged to say that the Greek ex
pression E plurihus unum meant that
“the tail goes with the hide.”
I visited a self made millionaire once
who made his money by stealing saw-
logs from the United States while the
United States was looking at a dog fight
or something. I ought not perhaps to
refer to the matter now, for the poor
man died a few years ago worth $18,-
000,000 and had to march up to the
great bar of judgment in nothing hut a
goatee and a strawberry mark, but it
might be of use to boys and young peo
ple who may read this to know that
when I dined with that wealthy man
he forgot himself after the carving was
done and ate with the carving knife and
fork, especially with the knife. Of
course he is now’ on the other shore,
where I hope that the carving is already
done, hut who would have thought it
possible that a man with the wealth of
an emperor would have fed himrelf and
injured his tonsils for years with the
carving knife?
Boys, remember this and send for my
great work on “Etiquette; or, How to
Avoid Dangerous Stab Wounds While
Eating Pie.”
While I am speaking a word to the
boys, I might tell them of a little in
cident that occurred at Harvard last
Halloween. The Harvard boys are not
such bad boys as some, but are full of
animal spirits and one thing or another,
1 all seeking expression in a harmless
who hud on the same branch beside the
leaf lard which gave vitality and wealth
to the parent stem, I think that propih
quity has little to do with marriage,
spondulicity being the great motive on
the one hand and love for purple but
strumous blood on the other. The true
English humor found in the blood of
the nobility is the kind that calls loudly
for 150 doses of sarsaparilla for $1.
But shall we say that cool calculation
has much to do with the true and happy
marriage? No, your majesty, I trow
not.
True love must be more or less asso
ciated with youth, and youth is not cool
or calculating. Did your majesty pause
to consider in your sweet girlhood the
great international questions which
your marriage with Albert might raise?
I do not believe that you did—I hope
not, at least.
Looking over my own experience and
those of some of my acquaintances, I
would exclspm, “Blessed he propin
quity 1” To those who have been denied
the joyful propinquity of a sleigh ride
on a frosty evening, when health and
high purposes hound through every
artery and a sweet presence sits adjoin
ing yon, death can have no terrors.
Your majesty perhaps has never start
ed out on a cold starlit evening with no
one in the sleigh but a very dear gentle
man friend, then a gentle horse, a lone
some road through the stately and now
common cause of humanity and give
the judges of the criminal court more
time to go fishing.
i5
Hawthorne’s Literary Methods.
My father wrote principally in the
morning, with that absorption and
regularity which characterize the labor
of men who are remembered, writes
Rose Hawthorne Latbrop in a profuse
ly-illustrated article on “My Father’s
Literary Methods” in the March Lad es
Home Journal. When his health began
to show signs of giving way, in 1861, it
was suggested by a relative, whose in
tellect, strength of will and appetite
for theories were of equally splendid
proportions, that my father only need
ed a high desk at which to stand when
writing, to be restored t * ad his pris
tine vigor. With his usual tolerance
of possible wisdom he permitted such
a desk to be arranged in the tower-
study at “The Wayside;” but with his
inexorable contempt for mistakes of
judgment he never, after a brief trial,
u-ed it for writing. Upon his simple
desk of walnut wood, of which he had
nothing to complain, although it bare
ly served it s purpose, like most of the
inexpensive objects about him, was a
charming Italian bronze inkstand—
over whose cover wrestled the infant
Hercules in the act of strangling a
goose. My father wrote with a gold
pen, and I cVn hear now, as it seems,
the rapid rofling of his chirography
over the broad page.
The quiet
if? f ' Jan medium height said that,
tfcn° ’ I- 16 fi nes tion should be settled at
or ' iest moiuen t. He was not noisy
from*o’ 61611 *’ they removed him
an „ 10 car by main force, breaking
Holy 11 an ? * n juring him considerably.
Va ^ se di one han'd and his
torn.'v 1 n tke °^ ier » he went to an at-
i n al ‘j aiK * councilor at law practicing
and (W le L- C0Urts ’ conveyancing done
Relat tl0nS * a b en while you wait.
Quiet ln "* ko c^cumstance to him, the
hand 1 ? b ' jntle,lian gave the case into hia
'vas fr r an ^ ! ken Lulling a shutter that
pital. h - v he started for the hos-
never fun s ^ ow ly gained strength, hut
lost ov,. r v rec °vered. The case was
courts over again in the lower
crippled ' , on f° r years. The poor
clung to ^ u ^ eiu an of medium height
landed v>- case ’ however, and de-
had to ^ lb ^100,000, even though he
yens. ° rr °w money to pay his law-
for the cp a6Se ^ . on ’ an ^ he grew feeble,
- as =iQ in bis midst refused to
way.
As Halloween approached, these boys
tried to think of some way by which
they could surprise and delight the po
lice. Boys love to interest the police
everywhere, I think, and it is veiy sad
to know that in many instances the po
lice are not only cold toward the boys,
hut in some cases even repulsive.
The hoys finally went to a barber
about 10 o’clock, as he was closing up
the shop, and asked him what he would
take for his barber pole sign. ^ He
thought a minute and then said $25.
“All right,” said the boys, “write
out a receipt.”
Then with the pole and the receipt
they started out over town. Of course
they were arrested. “I’ll tache you
young divils to go pnttin barber poles
in the cimitery over the graves of the
pilgrim fathers and sidebare booggies
on top the matin house! Come on wid
mel” said an American policeman, bo
thev went with him, carrying the pole
and singing joyfully a little song called
“Daisy Bell.” They produced their
receipt at the station, gave the Irish
man the great, big, coarse laugh and
started out once more to land another
policeman. All night they harvested
the police and in the morning sold the
pole back for $20. When the police
read this, they will know that the Unit
ed States and Great Britain have been
let into the secret on the promise not
to let it go any further.
I am pleased to. notice that her mos
gracious majesty Queen Victoria em
press of India by the grace of God and
political influence, is discussing t e
Question of “Whether propinquity or
cool, sober judgment brings about the
most marriages in the nsoild.
Though rather late in the day, I have
been asked bv a correspondent recently
to place myself on record on tms ques-
tion and I rise to remark that it is
rather a hefty question, especially to
I man who is not quite sure what pro-
^X^^irpropinquitybeasortof
fefa°go^to 6 d y o with many
emotional marriages especially among
the more barbarous tribes; but, on the
*ther hand, in England, where so many
extinct nobles marry American gnls
REAL PROPINQUITY.
communicative trees, a little propin
quity and one muff between you. Ah,
who shall say that even a crowned head
might not incline a few degrees toward
the shoulder of a truly noble being, and
who shall say that the noble being
would murmur if the royal diadems
and ruby prongs and things of the crown
jabbed him ever and anon under the ear?
Cool calculation comes with later
years and is confined more to widowers
who dye their whiskers and raise aspar
agus on the graves of their former
wives, your majesty. Love, so they tell
me, comes with the thrill of a voice or
the touch of a hand, not by cablegram
or messenger boy, your most gracious
majesty, though I will admit that the
blown out squib of a noble family, the
wet fizzle of a vicious and blasted life,
may bring its ashes and unholy scars to
the altar with a degree of self possession
and calm that would astonish the trem
bling groom of 25 who has to get mar
ried and burry back to do the chores on
the farm. But the latter is more apt to
arouse a pleasing interest among the
angels.
I believe that your most gracious maj
esty, queen of Great Britain and Ire
land and empress of India dia gracia,
will admit that most of the marriages
which come of a frapped judgment and
cool deliberation increase the fuel bill
for the lake which burneth with-fire.
Propinquity tempered by good ® aTl y
training is a great institution, and there
is growing up here in America, your
majesty, a girl whom we call a good
feller ” who is a better comiade, a
wiser partner, a sweeter counselor and
a more level beaded guide, philosopher
and friend than the best man on top of
sod. To associate with her is to get a
few notches higher socially than one
was before. It means a post graduate
course in a few branches of education
which the man about town thinks h
knows, but does not. „ ,
Your majesty will forgive me, I
know, for addressing one of the l^gma
type in this unfettered manner regard
ing a great question, for it is my only
way of expression. A child of nature as
lam and brought up by hand, deprived
of a mother’s care -while yet at the age
of 39 years, I speak toyou inthat^crue
style of eloquence peculiar to the Piu ,
with whom I lived for many years, or
until the tribe got to wearing cavalry
pantaloons to tea. Then I left them and
went to live in New York city.
I can only add that a more frank and
honest prop! equity in Eng lainI would be
a good thing. It would advance the
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