Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1865-10-18
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Mr.. BRYANT will be II years old on the
I'd of November next. He bears his age
we'll. Frost lies white upon his ample
beard, but the fire of youth IS IN his eye,
and his heart still beats strongly and
steadily,and with vital force that showsno
! sign of serious physical decay. His mind,
working alertly and clearly, is as quick IN
perception and as logical in deduction as
L was twenty years ago. His slight and
agile figure, passing rapidly among tine
crowds of the street, is that of a man of
thirty wears rather than the frame which
men usually associate with a septuagena-
rian's weight of years. He uses no glasses
70 aid his vision. The nearest approach he
was ever known to make to a confession OF
imperfect sight was in my hearing about
a year ago. Going to a window to read a
nsIvspaper. he muttered a good natured
ron, ,nstrance against the fneness of the
nr;nt observing that he didn't intend to
Wear sn,actacles so long as he could help it,
but wished the papers would not use such
small type
In the malta. r of dress, Mr.. Bryant is
neither a Count DOrsay nor a Horace
Greeley. He grt atty prefers cleanliness
to style; is alwayA tidy, Dut bllsstully IN
conscious of the re qulrements of fashion,
and, like Dominic S4 mpson, would bequite
likely to attribute TO the preservatlve
qualities of the atmOsp- here the exceeding
glossiness of any new garment surrept-
tiously introduced into hhi apartment over
night. Yet he is orderly amt precise in his
intellectual life-almost to t he extreme OF
f-astidiousness and hyparcrit lsm-asi If ma
lures principle of compel lsatlon were
illustrated in his case. be b. as a hearty
contempt for shams, snobs ana Sl!l-
ness; admires pluck, perseverance e ana IN
dustry; adores nature, and wol rs n"ru
for the love of work, and readily rceoS-
nizes a worker when he sees him. mus
his recreation in reconcile studies IN
green fields, babbling brooks, and tne
study of natural forms-in digging among
the roots of language, in planting trees,
making newspapers, and observing man
kind-in the prattle Of children and the
wisdom of the schOols-in short, in every
thing that tho worle does and men think.
He has pleasant ways. At odd mo
ments he invites his friends to little trials
Of gymnastic exercise. "Can you do
tn. 1t = he SAID once to a much younger
man. suitihg the action to the word, by
lifting himself to the top of the floor by
his HAMS, and swinging up and down
and Sideways, varying the sport by
grasping the dor casing and repeating
the feat in a more III. dicult position. The
junior tried it, but failed he had not
leaped so many high rail fences in the
country as Mr.. Bryant had leaped, and
the brown beard could n OF wag IN the air
as the white one waggt d. Rarely, if a
fence or gate is in the way at Roslyn,
does its owner stop to dOdg e it or open it.
He leaps it. If a horse is not harnessed
he walks. If a storm bowls and a valued
p end is lonely in a distant house, he
r,n lges of, with an umbrella in one hand
nd boquet of flowers in the other; offer
no. II 'e latter and his com Oany, where he
-n1ws hat both will be Nvelcome.-Er-
T,aiuey- and Chronicle.