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WALT WHITMAN ON AMERICA.
The l.oed firnr I'erl’e View of onr l*opa.
tut Ion and oar Kature.
Walt Whitman sent the the following
letter to the managers of tertio
miliennial celebration in Santa Fe, New
Mexico:
L)eab Sirs: Your kind invitation to
visit von and deliver a poem for the
three liundrod and thirty- third anniver¬
sary of founding Bauta Fe has reached
me so late that I have to decline, with
sincere regret. But I will say a few
words off hand.
We Americans have yet to rpally
learn onr own antecedents and sort
them, to unify them. They wifi be
found ampler than has been supposed,
and in widely different sources. Thus
far, impressed by New England tacitly abandon writers
and schoolmasters, we
ourselves to the notion that our United
States have lieen fashioned from the
British Islands only, and essentially
form a second England only—-which is
a very "of great mistake. Many leading
traits our future national wili personality, certainly
and some of the best one*,
prove to have originated from other
than British stock. As it is, British
and Germans, valuable as they are in
the concrete, already threaten excess.
Or rather, I should say, they have
certainly reached that excess, T’o
day something outside of them and
to counterbalance them is seriously
needed.
The seething materialistic and busi
ness vortices of the United States, in
their present devouring relations, con¬
trolling and belittling everything and else,
are, in my opinion, but u vast in
dispedsable Htage in the New World’s
development and are certainly to bo fol¬
lowed by something entirely different,
at least by immense modifications. Char¬
acter, literature, a society worthy the
name, are yet to lie established, through
a nationality of noblest spiritual, heroic of
and democratic attributes—not one
which at present definitely exists—en¬
tirely different from the past, though
unerringly founded on it and to justify
it.
To that composite American identity
»f the future Spanish character will sup¬
ply some of the most needed parts. No
stock shows a grander historic retro¬
spect—grander in religiousness and loy¬
alty, or for patriotism, courage, decorum,
gravity, aud honor. It is time todisnviss
utterly the illusion-compound, half Mys- raw
head-aud-bloody-bones and half
leries-of-Udolpho, inherited from the
English writers of tlio past 200 years.
It is time to realize—for it is certainly
true—that there will not be found any
more cruelty, tyranny, superstition, Spanish history etc.,
in the resume of past
thou in the oorresjxmding resume of An
glo-Norman history. Nay, I thiuk
there will not be found so much.
Then another point, and relating to Amor- I will
icau ethnology, touch past to ernne, As to
bore upon at a venture.
onr aboriginal the or South Indian and population— tribe
the Azteo in many a
in the North and West—I know it seems
to lie agreed that they must gradually
dwindle as time rolls on, and in a few
generations more leave only the rom
uiisoeuce, a blank. But 1 am not at
all *lear about that. As America,
from its many lar-back sources and cut
rent supplies, develops*, identifies adapts, en
twines, faithfully cheerfully its own, and are
wo to see it accepting
using all the contributions of foreign
lauds from the whole outside globe, ami
then rejecting the only ont*s distinctive
its own—the autoahthoiiic onto ?
As to the Spanish stock of onr South
west, it is certain to mo that we do not
begin to appreciate the splendor and
sterling value of its race element. Who
knows but that element, like the course of
some subterranean hundred river, dipping invis¬
ibly for a broadest or flow two years, and is ut>w
toeftn'rgejn perma¬
nent action ?
If I might assume to do so, I would
like to send you the most cordial,
heartfelt congratulations of your Amer¬
ican fellow countrymen hero. You have
more friends in the Northern and Atlan¬
tic regions than you suppose, and they
are deeply interested in the development
of the great Southwestern interior, and
in what your festival would arouse to
public attention. Very Walt respectfully, etc,,
Whituak.
an Awraiwa's rum bath.
“M Mitchell is accustom ed b>
tween the acts : to refresh herself by n
prescription of her physician," savs “This a
writer in The ih-eunntie Neuia.
prescription simply involves her being
submitted to » sponge bath of rum.
The constituent of the bath is aarriud
with the baggage iu a five-gallon dorni
The- job! demijohn repkmiahed i* ss occasion from the demands,
sent railway
to tho theatre, where it rotaains in
charge of the property man.
“Toward the end of tho last season
Miss Mitchell lmgtun to notice that her
bath did not hare the recuperative ef¬
fect upou her that it was wont to. The
circumstance alarmed her verg much, a?
It suggested the remedy was losing its
value through some deterioration of her
system. Her physician, however, as¬
sured her that this was not the case.
The fault,he said,must rest with the rum.
“ But the liquor was of the very IhvO
quality, as the bills of the house which
•applied it showed. There liappcanvl to
be a little left m the dexuijohn just then
and the doctor sampled it. Then he
mailed, wrote an order which he sent to
the nearest drug store, and after certain
manipulations of the demijohn of fresh
liquor, in he connection mysteriously: with a package of
powders, ‘*‘t said, will know hat
guess you w is the
matter with the stuff by to-morrow.’
“That evening there was weeping and
wiuimg and gnashing of teeth in the
*
j t ,, . v
liquor for it bathing hurts purpocn-a, it—hurts as water
does; but it pretty
badly- -for drinking. » to
Captubki' It.—I n a Caliionua <y»me
tery a large in- mimeut st.ni ever tii»'
grave of a Mb: whose rela w were
diwd. A wiaaui Iwidly had it emoved
to her own lot planed off iu in l*‘ ; ’
and had it lettered again to' suit v
ttmry reqaircinents of hoc fan.
ADVICE FROM BURDETTE.
IT You Will Hold Omro do oo Under the
Itulee.
Listen to me Bon-Ibrabim, and may
Allah smooth your path: into politics
My sou, if you are going
write these axioms upon your heart with
hooks of steel, as it were:
It is right to steal from the Govern¬
ment
If it isn’t right it is customary, which
gives the practice a color of legal right.
Do not steal from the Government a*
though you were ashamed of it. Only
a common pick-pocket is ashamed of his
profession, tbievafti Steal boldly. the coffers Plunge of the Gov¬ your
arms into
ernment clear up to the elbows, shut
both hands tight and oomeaway with a
full hold and a fair deckload. When
you grab, grab ns thongh you never like the ex¬
pected to hold office again. Be
lightning, which never strikes twice in
the same place. Because it doesn’t
need to; because it never leaves anything
to strike at.
When the band of thieves to which
you belong is sufficiently unanimous in
its rapacity to cover the tiieft with a
joint resolution, by all means resolve.
It adds to the sin of theft the vice of
hypocrisy and the crime of cowardice.
Allah is not deceived hereby, nor are the
people fooled, but it lays another plate hide
of brass over your pachydermatous sltimber
and drugs into yet profounder
your superannuated conscience. By
the beard of the profit, it would be hard
lines for the believers if they had to be
lieve all that the skeikh tells them.
If the children of the faithful shall ask
you wherefore you steal so mnch more
than you work, say boldly to them the
law allows it ami you are going to have
it. May you live as long as the loot
lasts. And endeavor to leave nothing
for your successor. Shall you throw
temptation in the way of an honest man ?
Allan made us all, my son, but he made
you first, and as everything else comes
after you, so do you go after everything
else.
If yon sought to lie a clerk in the
booths of the merchants of Filed-el-f-hia
you would earn 82 a day by twelve hours
work. If you were a scribe at the desk
of a reporter, you would labor eighteen
hours each day, and your ability would
earn for you about 86 a week, at your
real value. If you journey with the car¬
avans of the Pennsylvania Railroad, $60
a month yon would get, and be glad to
get it. You ore an average ten-dollars-a
wock man. But you go to the Legisla¬
ture and you can pay yourself out of the
Treasury of the. State $10 a day for rest- do
mg. Jt is wonderful. But HH as yon
less harm while you rest than you are
sure to accomplish when that you work, spend it, ail is
hotter for the State you
tint days of your term in resting. When
you bind yourself to do nothing what
ever, you are cheap at 810 a minute if
you oan be got for no less,
Promise everybody everything they
ask for. It is so much easier to promiso
a man what he wants than it is to refuse
him and have him torment you with un¬
portunities and pester you fox reasons,
then, when the day for the fulfillment of
the promise conies to hand, renew the
promise. Take up one note by giving
.motlcx— .la..tUe uiaug- Of 4fi«- VBflflfH-,
st and him off lot another term and tell
lorn that when yon go back again then
you will do ali these things for him.
And if it be so that you do not go bock,
how can yon do anything for him him? that And
if you do go back say to you
will not buy your place he of throws any man.
What dirt is this that upon
the beard of a there reformer? hardly By the enough head
of the Sultan, family, are
places for your own
Flxiag a Hklutlisl.
“ Tongh business? Well, I
say so. ”
The ex-steamboat clerk referred to
old days on the npjH'r Mississippi, Min¬
nesota and St. Groix rivers.
“ The people living along the
used to think it was righteous to beat
steamboat man whenever they could.
We had to keep our eye* open for all
sorts of swindlers. Stcom 1 waters
common prey for those people. I re
tuember once our K»at worked all day to
got through the Hawk Greek chute, a
narrow, shallow and tremendously swift
place in the Minnesota River. An old
codger on the hank saw us working away
with all our might and burning onr
wood nt a fearful rate. He calculated
we’d need wood by tho time we got
through the chute, so ho harnessed liis
oxen and houled several cords of green
cottonwood down to the bank. Sure
enough, when we got through we had
used up all our wood, and were burning
ahnost clear rosin out o’ the Iwrrels.
When we landed I asked the okl cur¬
mudgeon what ho wanted for his wood.
“ ‘ Four dollars a cord.’
“ ‘But,’ says I, ‘wo buy tho l>est
maple for 82.50.’
“ • Four dollars for this. Take it or
leave it. ’ The old skiuflint km>w we had
to take it, although green cottonwood is
the poorest of all fuel
“Well, I measured off two cords—
just enough to take us to the next wood
pile. While tho roasters were taking '.t
aboard I whispered something in the
mate’s oar, and then, when the w ood was
all shipped, I told the old swindler to
come to the office on the boat and get
his pav. When we were well in the
office the mate pullet! iu the staging and
we pnt out into tlio river. I paid the
wood man his $8.
“ • Here,’says he, as he stepped middle out
on deck and saw we were in the
of the river, ‘ I want to get ashore.
“ • Do you?’ says I. ‘Well, you 11
just pav us $8 to land for you.
“ • Then I'll K° % to the next landing
, ,
off m the mud. les, tlioee people atong
il » *r sbametUMy. ri *
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Ijovr.—A wealthy family for Severn
successive years foam! a quiet rural re
treat on the* borders of Moose Lake, ii
the Adirondack*, where they camp»ed
" u{ and employed several Indian guide*, tin
Tl »»y » romantic eon, and iwe of
Indians had a captivating hat daughter. lawfn
These two paired m forcibly secret
nia rriage, but were separatee
and a lawsuit is the upshot.
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MACHINERY DEPOT
W. J. POLLARD,
Manufacturer and Manufacturers’ .Agent.
—MANUFACTURER OF—
W. J. Pollard’s Champion Cottonseed Feeders and Condensers.
-|AND J——
SMITH’S HAND POWER COTTON and HAY PRESSES
GENERAL AGENT FOR
Grain Threshers and Separators and Agricu tural Implements
Fairbanks & Go’s Standard Seales, Etc.,
Talbot & Son’s Agricultural, Portable and Stationary Steam Engines and Boilers
Saw Mills, Grist Mills Etc.
C & G. Cooper, & Co’s Traction Engines, Portable and Agricultural Engine*
Watertown Agricultural Portable & Stationery
S 2 ZJAM jS’A GIJVUS, SA WMIZZS, J??c.
GOODAL & WATER’S WOOD WORKING MACHINERY.
W.L.B RADLEY’S Standard F ERTILIZERS.
THE DEAN STEAM PUMP KREIBLE’S VIBRATING CYLINDER STEAJT
ENGINES OTIIO'S SILENT GAS ENGINES. MA¬
CHINERY OF ALL KINDS,
Belting Packing Brass Fittings, Iron Fittings, Iron, Pipe, Rubber Hose and
Everything that can be used about Machinery.
Acme Pulverizing; Harrow and Ciod Crusher
TOOLS OF ALL KINDS.
Hancock Inspirators, Etc.,
Fina.y, I desire to make the Machine Business a complete success and we have
to guarantee to furnish everything wanted in that
line on as Reasonable terms as any
* house in the country.
MY STOCK IS THE LARGEST AND MOST VARIED
Of any house in the South.
My connection with some of the largest Manufactories in the United States
WOrTfLUND ANWHERE° r fumislling the BEST AND M0ST RELIABLE
W. J. Pollard.
731, 734 and 736 Reynolds Street,
.Augusta, Gra
meh ifXy ANDREWS, Agt. f Crawfordyill©, ©a.
WBaft. ^L>. 'W VTLIa Proprietress.
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IS now prepared to receive and entertain the public in the best and most com¬
fortable manner, The house is convenient to the Post-office and business portion
of the town, the rooms are large and well furnished, the table is supplied with
tae best the market affords, and my waiters are polite and attentive. Commer¬
cial travelers will find a commodious sample room at their disposal.
CHARGES MODERATE
In connection with the Hotel i» a first class Livery Stable, where vehicle*
and hones can be had at any time,
Feb 23 ’83 ly.
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TOR SALE BY
FOR SALE BY
W. DAS ACOTT,
CRAWFORD VILLE.
A Yikw or it.—S enator Hoar, of
Massachusetts, says that Americans will
stand more in the matters of poor serv¬
ing and high prices than any other na¬
tion. He says that practically the pro¬
tectionist and free trader do not stand
very far apart, there being only a meta¬
physical distinction, and it being neces¬ of
sary to raise money for the support
the* government by impost duties. bill He
aavs that every job in the last tariff
was wedged in by a free trader.
Brown’s Globe Hotel.
Agusta, Georgia.
RATES $2.00 and $2 50 PER DAY
LOCATED IN THE CENTRE OF THE BUSINESS PORTION OF THE CITY
B. F. BROWN, Manager.
S. H. MYERS,
(SUCCESSOR TO MYERS & MARCUS)
-JOBBER X3ST—
©fy G^ood^, J^otioi|^ kt|d Bo^iefy,
Boots, Shoes, Hats and Clothing,
npHE _L adjoining undersigned counties, would that his respectfully FALL Stcck inform is now the baing merchants received, of Taliaferro and in pri aofl
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and assortment is unequ&led by any that has ever bean brought to this market.
A special feature of my business is the establishment of a
’- W H O L E S A L E—
BOOT SHOE AND HAT HOUSE
Entirely distinct from my Dry Goods, Notions and oth»r Departments. In my
store will be found the largest and best selecsed stock of SHOES and HATS, I
ever brought to Augusta, and we feel satisfied that it will be to the interest of pur
chasers to examine our stock before purchasing elsewhere.
S. H. MYERS, 286 and 288 Broad St., Augusta, Ga.
Mar-30 ’82-ly
I^! Id^!! IC^!!!
E. LIEBSCHER’S
BOTTLING WORKS
Corner Jacls .n and Eliia Streets, AUGUSTA, GA.
X TAKE THE LIBEKIY of informing the f3ople of Taliaferro and adjoining
Lccunties that I have considerably enlarged my buainesi facilities and I am row
prepared to furnish mv ps^nn* with the following article? at wholesale and retai
and at lowest prices : ICE PACKED AND SHIPPED TO OLDER
CINCINNATI LAGER BEER IN M AND 1-8 KEGS.
FRESH AND SALT W ' TER FfSH OYSTERS IN CANS SHELL A BULK
T HAVE also added aBOTfLING EST \BLISHMENT to my already exten
X?ive busine:s, and I am now prepared to mrnis’n you with a first-class article cf
Bottled Beer. It is the best in the market and recommended highly for its lead¬
ing qualities, especially so by some of our leading physicians, al:o by a great num¬
ber of our brst merchants an: citizen?.
Hoping that you will g vt my goods a fair trial, and air > that you will kindly
give me a share of your pa.rouage. I remain, RE3PEC fFULLY,
Mch E LltBSCHER, Augusta, Ga.
16- 83 ly
