Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-11-25


Was ever q case like it? First, / did
not know that i was suffering at all.
Secondly, as an Irishman might say,
had Thought it was indigestion of the
society / got.
"As for the Parker House, 1 went
there once, when the Club was away,
but found it hard to see through the
cigar smoke, and men were deposited
about on chairs over the marble floor.
as thick as legs of bacon III a smoke
house. It was all smoke and no sale,
attic or other. ass-.i 3
Il have lately got back to that glo-
rious society, called the Solitude, "
where we meet our friends continually,
and can imagine the outside world to
be peopled also. Yet some of my friends
would fain hustle, me into the aims
house, for the sake of society, as if i
were pining for that diet, when L seem
to myself most befriended man, and
find constant employment. However,
they do not believe word l say. =
''Methinks certain poligamy with
its troubles, is the state of almost all
men. They are married to two wives;
their genius IA celestial muse), and also
to some fair daughter of earth. Unless
these two were fast friends before mar
riage, and are afterw ards, there will be
but little peace in the house.
ssThe next day A. and heard Beech
err breach. He is, apparently, the
greatest Democrat the world has seen.
The kings and aristocracy go by the
board at once, as they have long de-
served to. A remarkably strong, coarse
nature, of sweet disposition, and much
priced by his friends. Though pecu-
liar and rough in his exterior, his skin all
over red, he is essentially getleman.
I am still somewhat in a quandary
about him. / feel that he is essentially
strange to me at any rate; but am sur
prise1 at the sight of him. He is very
broad, but, as I have said, not fine. He
said that 1 misapprehended him. 1 am
not quite sure that do. He told us
that he loved to ride all day up and
down Broadway in an omnibus, sitting
beside the driver, listening to the roar
of the vehicles, and sometimes gesticu-
lating and declaiming Homer at the top
of his voice. < $780,.
pheasant is it sometimes to sit at
home, on single egg all day, in your
own nest, though it may prove at last
to be an egg of chalk. The old coat
that I wear is Concord; it is my morn
ing robe and study gown, my working
dress and suit of ceremony, and my
night-gown after all. Cleave to the
simplest ever. Home! home! home!
Cars sound like cares to me.
81 am much the same person that L
was, who should be so much better; yet
when / realize what has TRANSFERRED, and
the greatness of the part L am uncon-
sciOusly acting. ] am thrilled, and it
seems as if there were none in history
so match it.
''Soon after Johns death listened to
a music box, and if, at any time, that
event seemed inconsistent with the
beauty and harmony of the universe. 1t
was then gently constrained into the
placid course of nature by those steady
notes, in mild and unoffending tone,
echOing far and wide under the heav-
ems. But / fluid these things more
strange than sad to me. What right
have to grieve, who have not ceased
to wonder ? We feel at first as Ii many
opportunities of kindness and sympa-
thy were lost. but learn afterward that
any pure grief is ample recompense after
all. That is, if we are faithful Tor a
great grief is but sympathy with the
Soul that disposes events, and is as nat
ural as the resin on Arabian trees
Only nature has right to grieve per-
petually, for she only is innocent. Soon
the ice will melt and the blackbirds
sing along the river which he frequent
ell, as pleasantly as ever. The same
everlasting serenity will appear in this
face of God. and we viii not be sorrow
full if he is not. 1<sE
al do not wish to. see John ever
again. 1 mean him who is dead; but
that other whom only he would have
wished to see, or to be, of whom he
was the imperfect representative. For
we are not what we are, nor do we
treat or esteem each other for such, but
for what we are capable of being.
eff You would convince a man that
he does wrong, do right. Men will be-
lieve what they see. Arguing does lit
tie good. :,
''Pursue, keep up with, circle round
and round your life, as a dog does his
masters chaise. Do what you love.
Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury
If, unearth it, and gnaw it still. Do not
be too moral. You may cheat yourself
out of much life, so aim above morality.
Be not simply good, be good for some
thing. All fables, indeed, have their
morals; but the innocent enjoy the
story. Let nothing come between you
and the light. Respect men as BROTH
ers only. When You travel to the Ce-
lestial City. carry no letter of introduc-
ton. When you knock, ask to see God
none of the servants. In what con-
Germs you much, do not think you have
companions; know that you are alone
In the world.
ssThus write at random. / need to
see You, and 1 trust 1 shall, to correct
my mistakes.
ssBut think of making call at half
past three in the morning would it not
have implied three o'clock in the
morning courage in both you and me?)
as it were, ignoring the fact that man
kind are really not at home-are not out;
but so deeply in they cannot be seen
nearly half their hours at this season OF
the year. 49,
81 do not remember any thing which
Confucius has said directly respecting
mans origin, purpose and destiny:
He was more practical than that. He is
full of wisdom applied to human rela-
lations-to the private life--the family
Government, etc. 1t is remarkable
that, according to his own account, the
sum and substance of his teaching is,
as you know, to as do you would be
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