Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1863-05-29
LETTER FROM DAN DIE GUILE.


LETTER FROM DAN DE QUILLE.
WEsr LIBERTY, Iowa, May 10, 1868.
Go to, shall we not grasp the pen and ap-
pear before our friends ?-Thou foul fiend.
spring-fevor, answer Are we not to be rid
of thee when lilacs are in bloom and oaks
bear leaves ?-or wilt thou usurp the rule
and rights Of Summer? Now, for many
months has our soul quailed before thee, for
number of times, and not a few "half
times, !" has our hand lain nerveless and our
brain idealess under thy lethean presence.
BE gone, the season Of thy reign is over!
Well, for the present the feud seems to
have departed. How soon he may return
we cannot say. We have a shrewd suspicion
that he has flown to no great distance, that
like hawk disturbed in pursuit Of its prey,
he is perched on some near pinnacle, ready
at the first favorable moment to renew his
prosecutions. Then let us haste as best we
may before we are overtaken by relapse.
Since early April l have been sojourning
in this region Of social Gains, where neither
breezes of war nor trade have strength to
raise ripple. ....... ..g.....
Here my tribe have taken strong root, and
here they still continue, giving much atten-
ton to the divine command, Increase and
multiply" Years ago We numbered many
on these prairies; now am lost and over
whelmed by the number of those who have
grown up in, Or have been grated into the
spreading tree Of my family. In our own
famy.and land am in some degree stran-
ger. A few years absence-but fow-and
some one must take me by the hard and say,
as meet my people =" Here's thy mother,
there thy uncle-this thy first cousin, and
these are all thy near relations ~. ..... 4.
How some sips-mere slips of girls grow
up and are mothers of other slips, as tall as
the slips we knew so lately and still bear i'm
aged in our minds. Soon, too,-when not
under our eyes-beards sprout on the smooth
chins of our little mud pie makers. We are
at fault as We take these brown and stalwart
youths by the hand; we ought to know
them--ought to speak their names; yet
blast it why surely it cannot be =" The
boy is-hark ye, sirrah-what's your name !?
Oh, Jacob--ay, rccollect-the same"
am almost frightened sometimes when
look about me; am almost afraid the world
has ceased to produce children--old fashion.
ed children children that stay children over
two years. They seem at one leap to spring
from the cradle to long dresses, breeches and
matrimony. A few appear to be attending
school in this locality this summer, but
suppose they will all graduate before fall, as
mistresses, and masters, of new balloon
frames and quarter-sections. Wonder what
they study nowadays? Should like to know,
but am too bashful to 60 near a school the
young gentlemen and ladies would be sure
to frighten me out of my wits by asking me
to note their proficiency in some new tangled
thing that never heard of before. sho'd
certainly be sque1cAed. O, the glorious old
times, when long rows of boys and girls used
to stand up and read from Hale's history of
" these" United States. Lucky the youth
whose fortune it was to get fo- his portion
of the lesson the death of General Wolf II
was always chance for display Of proficien-
yin reading much coveted. How p, oud Of
our achievement We would all feel, after we
had screwed our voice up to q shril pitch
and read They run who run the French
then die happy" But, doubtless, they care
little for these vanities in these times.
| had the pleasure Of meeting DR.. Meredith
and lady at West Liberty, few days since.
We chatted Of the Falls and the people there,
and was much pleased to hear that both were
prospecting so finely. suppose that shall
need guide when again attempt to naYi.
gate the once familiar streets Of The Falls
Well, SO my guide prove sweet tempered
youth, and one free from guile, shall be
content.
l should send you some news could find
anything coming under that head in this vi
cinity, but rotning has yentured to happen
since have been here. lam going down to
Muscatine this evening on the six o'clock
train |; its after Ave now, SO I must cut this
short.
Yours,
t@ DAN DE GUILE.
IT is reported that q Yankee down Eas,
has invented machine for corking up day
light, which vii, eventually superscde gas
lie cove..s the interior Of q -four barrel with
s....oemaker's wax-holds it open to the sun
then suddenly heads up the barrel Th,