Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1863-11-20

IRON Alexander Smiths New Book.
APLBA ROR vAGABONDS.

ARkBA EOA VAGABONDS.
The fresh, rough, hearty parts Of human
nature, where the air il freshest, and whcrs
the linnete sing, is getting entfoached upon
BY cultivated Aelds. Everyone is making
himself and herself useful. Everyone il
producing something. Everybody is clever.
Everybody is Philanthropist. don't like
il. / love . little eccentricity. respect
honest prejudices. admire foolish enthu-
sissm in young head better than wise
scepticism. II is high time, it seems to me,
that moral game law were passed for the
preservation Of the wild and vagrant feelings
of.human nature.
All, me! what . world this was to live in
two or thres centuries ago, when 1t was get
ting itself discovered the sunset gave
ND America. Then were the Arabian Nights
commonplace, entertainments . matter Of
course, and romance the most ordinary thing
in the world. The man was counting nature;
now he has married her. Yet, for all that
time has brought and taken away, am glad
to know that the vagabond sleeps In our blood
and awakes now and then.
Overlay nature % you please, here and
there some BIT Of rock or mound OF aborigin-
a soil will creep out with the wild flowers
growing upon It, swsetening the air. Genius
: ID axegabond; Enterprise is . yagabond.-
The firnt 6ne day in Spring awakes the gip.
q in the blood Of the English workman, and
incontinently he babblss of green fields"
On the English gentleman, Tapped In the
most luxurious civilization, with the thous-
and, descends oftentimes . fierce unrest,
Bedoun. like horror Of cities and the cry of
the moneychanger, and in month the 6ery
dust rises in the track of his desert steed, or
in six months Polar midnight he hears the
biz waves dashing on the icy shore.
"Vagabonds have moulded the world into
it, present shape. Respectable people swarm
in the track of the vagabond as rocks in the
track Of the plough-share. Respectable peo-
pie do little in this world, except storing wine
cellars and amassing fortunes for the benefit
Of spendthrift heirs. Respectable well-to-do
Grecians shook thcir heads over Leonidas
and his three hundred when they went down
to Thermopyle@. Respectable Spanish
churchmen, with shaven crowns, secuted the
dream Of Columbus. Respectable German
folks attempted to disuade Luther from APP
pearing before Charles and the Princes and
electors Of the empire. Nature makes us
vagabonds; the world makes US respectable.
Commend mo to Shakespeare vagabonds,
the most delightful in the world His sweet
blooded and liberal nature blossomed into all
fne generosities as naturally as An apple.
bough into pink blossoms and oders. 1t
would be better il we could have along with
our modern enlightenment our higher tastes
and purer habits, great individuality Of
thought and manner better that every man
should be allowed to grow in his way, SO long
~ he does not infringe on the rights of his
neighbor, or insolently thrust himself be-
tween him and tho sun. A little more ait
and light should Be let In upon life. should
think the world had stood long enough un-
der the drill Of Adjutant Fashion 1t is hard
work the posture is an awful martinez, and
has quick eye, and comes down mercilessly
on the unfortunate wight who cannot square
his toes to the approved pattern, or appears on
parade with darn in his coat or with
shoulder. belt insufliciently pipe-clayed. 1t
ID killing work. Suppose w try standing
at ease for little."