Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-01-30

xrh.n 90 ., cu, on Saturday afternoons 70
a.5 a., new, houses. we usually take our
vnunr ones by Aladiin's palace. Aladdin was
Yankee. He started Hfc by swapping JasN
knives, then putting the halves OF proAei .
bles together and passing them on as Whoss
ones. When be had gathered some erass -, ns
went to school all the. summer to learn the goia,
en- rule OF arithmctic-addition ior hiiilset' A4iN
subtraction for his neighbor.
Al am early age Aladdin was considered 20 es |,
good at Largafn--which meant that nc eouss
always suceeedin changing worse for oester.
ALWAYS keeping the blind side of q horse 10 sns
wall when he had TO sell &c and the village said
TIA. certainly Aladdin would succeed. Whenhe
left. he viii be rich" said the village, with more
approval than II would say, "he VIII be Sehs'-
Gus and true" To Aladdin the wor'd ~a van
but market in which to buy cheap anu sen
dear. For him there was no beauty, no history,
no u;etv. no hero;sni Vainly the stars shone
over hin,--vainly the south wind blew In .ne
wake Of the great .irgo in which Jason ana MS
! compauons sailed for the Golden Fleece, over
the cleaning Mediterranean-wheret the ships o'
| Tyre. Rome, and of the Crusaders had been De-
| fore him--through the Pillars OF Hercules
| through which Columbus sailed to lind tame IN
| a new worid-now sails Aladdin to find fortune.
| To him nil lands are alike No Homer sang ior
him in .Egean--he only curses the wind that
:
for him. but he loves the huge oath OF the hveiy
boatswain. With the Bible in his hand aud
ouid of tobacco in his mouth. he goes about tne
holv places in Jerusalem, and calculates their
exact site. He sees the hand of the Rameses ana
the, Ptolemies the reverend records OF the
J.vbian desert; whose echoes have slumbered
since they were tramped over by Alexander
army are now awakened by the shrill whistle OF
..Old Dan Tucker" He insults the Grand
Llama. hobnobs with the Grand Mosul, turns
his back upon emperors, and takes pinch out
of the Pope's snuff-bcx. de chews with inc
Arabs, smokes opium with the Turks, and rides
for bride with the Calmuck Tartars.
Aladdin comes home again, aud the admirlne
village points him out to the younger generation
as successful man: MY son, look at hini--ht
BEGAN with nothiug-now see!" my son doe;
see. and beholds him owning million OF dol!
lars-of all societies of WHICH he is not presi
dent, director. 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 mouth with silver fork. f'
has home for n poet but he makes IL MI
boas, that he reads nothing but his newspapers
He goes to church twice OF Sundays, and ont,
wakes up when the preacher denOunces the SIN
ner of Sodom and Gomorrah, and those ''tousi
old Jews" of Jerusalem His head is bald AM
shiny with the sermons which have hit ant
glanced off. He clasps his hands in prayer, bu
foreets to open them when the poor box is passe'
around; and he goes home like successful man
thanking God that he is not as other men are
And after dinner he sits before the fire in an cas-
chair lights large cigar, and looks languidly a
!. Mrs Aladdin through the thick smoke.
By and by old Aladdin dies The conven
t tional virtues are told over as the mourning car
i, riases are called out. The papers regret tina
they are called upon to deplore the loss of re
vered parent, generous friend, public spirte
, citizen, and pious man; and the precociou
+ snapper of jack-knives, and the model set up t.
: the young generation is laid in the dust Abov
his grave the stars he never saw now burn wit
y IA soft lustre which no lamp about Il k ng's tom
c can emulate; and the south wind, for who's
S breath upon his brow he was never grateful
5 strews his lonely last bed with anemones an
h violets that his heel crushed when living; an
n we who are to be formed upon that model, care
lessly remark, as we stir toddies, $50 o!
G Aladdin is gone at last and, by the way ho
l. much did he lcave?"-[ From recent lecture b
J. & w Curtjss New York.