The daily Gate City., 1855-11-28

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| \, From a receas lecfsrf bs @. W. Cutiss.
! AEhen a 90 out on Saturday afternoons TO
lnoraliss md see new houses, we usually take
.ur youag ones BY Aladdin's palace. Aad-
lin was : Yankee. He started life by swap
ping JACK knives, then putting the halves of
broken marbles together and passing them
of as whole ones. When he had gathered
some brass he went to school oil the summer
10 learn the golden rule of arithmetic--ad-
| Iision for himself and subtraction for his
ueighbors.
| AT an early age Aladdin was considered TO
| oe good at h bargain--which meant that ne
could always succeed in exchanging worse
| for a better-always keeping the blind side
Of horse to the wall when he had to sell it !;
and the village said that certainly Aladdin
would succeed. When he left, she will be
| rlch," said the village, with more approval
than it would say, she will be generous and
| true" To Aladdin the world was but mar
xet in which to buy cheap and sell dear
For him there was no beauty, no history, no
piety, no heroism. Vainly the stars shone
over him--vainly the south wind blew. In
| the wake of the great ship Argo. in which
Jason and his companins sailed for the Gold
en- Fleece, over the cleaning Mediterranean
where the ships of Tyre, Rome, and of the
Crusaders had been before through the
Pillars of Hercules, through which Colum-
bus sailed to find fame in new world---now
sails Aladdin to find fortune. To him all
lands are alike. No Homer sang for him in
the Egean he only curses the wind that
will not blow him into Odessa. No syrens
sing for him, but he loves the huge oath Of
the boatswain. With the Bible in his hand
and quid of tobacco IL his mouth, he goes
about the holy places in Jerusalem, and 'cal
culates' their exact size. He sees the land
of the Rameses and the Ptolemies and tho
reverend records of the Ly bian desert, whose
echoes have slumbered since they were tramp
Cd over by Alexander's army, are now awak-
ened by the shrill whistle of Old Dan Tuck
er. He insults the Grand Llama, hobnobs
with Grand Mogul, turns his back upon EN-
perors, and takes pinch out of the Pope's
snuf-box. He chews with the Arabs, smokes
opium with the Turks, and rides for bride
with the Calmuck Tartars.
Aladdid comes home again, and the admi-
ring village points him out to the younger
generation as a successful man "My son,
look at him; he began with nothing-now
see" "My SOM does see, and he beholds
him owning a millipn Of dolars--of all So
cieties of which he is not president, direc-
tor, His name is as good as gold-he has
bought pictures and statues---he has also
bought Mrs. Aladdin and housed her in
luxury; but he picks his teeth with a silver
fork. He has home for poet, but he
IN ikes it his boast that he reads nothing but
his newspaper. He goes to church twice on
Sundays, and only wakes up when the preach
err deuounces the sinners of Sodom and Co.
morrah, and those Slough old Jews" of Je-
rusalem. His head is bald and shiny with
he sermons which have hit and glanced Of.
lie clasps his hands in prayer, bat forgets to
open them when the poor box is passed
,round, and he goes home like a successful
man, thanking God that he is not as not as
other man are. And after dinner he sits be-
fore the fire in his easy chair, lights large
igar, AMI looks languidly at Mrs. Aladdin
through the thick smoke.
By AMI by old Aladdin dies. The conven-
tional virtues are told over as the mourning
carriages are called out. The papers regret
hey are called upon to deplore the loss of II
revere parent, generous friend, public spir-
ted citizen, and pious man; and the preco
cious swapper of .ck-kaivcs, and the model
set'up to the Young generation is laid in the
dust. Above his grave the stars he never
saw now burn with 81 soft lustre which no
lamps about kings tomb can emulate and
the south wind, for whose breath upon his
brow he was never grateful, strews his lone
ly last bed with anemones and violcts that his
heel crushed whom living; and We who are to
be formed upon that model, carelessly re-
mark, as we stir our toddies, $50 old Alad-
din is gone at last; and, by the way, how
much did he leave?''