The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-06-29

old way 1 fell an I00e 2oatb an A60tata01a
Sst." fright here we might moralize OF
the influence of women, the wars waged
the Empires overthrown on her account
and show what factor she is in human
history even without the ballot but viii
f merely quote what Demosthenes said, tina
J emeasures which the statesman has medi
. tated whole year may be overthrown IL
a day by a woman.") II
Speaking of that weird, wise dreamer
/ DR.. Alcott, Phillips said that he hao
twelve volumes of diary from which
F might be culled 2.or3 volumes of the pro
foundest thought America has produced
He is the father of Louisa Alcott, is sup
ported by his family, eats neither meat
nor anything which grows under ground
so we do not wonder at thequestion ofthe
Hungarian refugee, who, brought up on
brandy and beef, met Alcott at a dinner
in Boston, where the Doctor had remark
ed that he never ate meat, and passed by
nearly every dish, refusing even potatoes,
because of their " dark secretive nature. y
The Hungarian sprang to his feet and ex-
claimed, my good sir! will you tell me
what under heaven you do eat?"
| When Alcott went abroad he called on
Carlyle, and that wise, deep, grand old
scold met him somewhat gruff1y. Soon
after, Alcott remarked to friend that he
did not like Mr.. Carlyle; he liked those
meetings "where soul answered soul and
the answering soul said yea I" but he d.
rectly wrote to his friend Emerson =
"Take that old squash Alcott home" At
one of Alcott's " Conversations the sub
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on for some time, when Theodore Parker
suggested that it would be well to define
terms ;-(by the way Alcott never defines
anything, but he commenced and was
talking on at magnificent distance from
the point when Miss Peabody arose, she
whose great hobby is the inadequacy of
language to express our ideas, and began
warmly to press her theory. Then said
he Mr.. Parker, l cannot define con
science. God defines, man but confines. "
SWELL" says Parker, will you please
con7fne IL then"
1t is either this Alcott or his father who
was quite radical on the subject of cent?
latio1a, so much so, indeed, that he arose
every night at IL o'clock and lovingly
shook his wife out Of the window
Phillips related many pleasant Incl
dents showing the timidity ofo literary
men. Hawthorne was as bashful as a boy.
Longfellow he describes as a man of
quaint and gentle ways, who always
avoids the very appearance of controver.
sy. Lowell's reticence has kept him from
the lecture field. "Nasby was once
offered $400 and declined, but soon after
hired country school-house which would
hold about 40 persons and delivered free
lectures for practice.
Mr.. P. talked calmly Of San Domingo
and the political situation, remarking that
the Republican party could not afford to
quarrel with the great general" He
told us that the time-stricken systems of
Government in Europe were hollow. In
England the Trades Union, with an in
come of two millions of dollars,and which
in its management is miniature Repub-
lie, is educating the people for self-gov-
ernment,and when the old bark of aristoc-
racy and monarchy drops off we shall
ind live and vigorous republic beneath. |
He spoke of Bismarckas great man, but
not that infinitely great man who plans
and works for the future. He should
have ushered in the new era of magnan-
unity by hating at Sedan; by going on
he planted thorn in every cradle in
France, and French mothers will rear
their children to carry their eagles again
into Prussia, and thus in the weary years
to come the pendulum of revenge will
oscillate between Paris and Berlin.
g But time and eternity call on mortal
gossip to be brief Phillips on the los
trum may sometimes be scold, and it is
not quite clear that the world dosen't de.
serve and need such scolding but in So
ciety he is Incompatible and there is
that charm about him which genius and
a broad culture good heart and q 'sil
yer tongue I" alone can give. JIM. NJ
TYPOGRAPHICAL, BLUNDERs. There is
no funnier reading in the world than
some of the printers plumbers that gothic
rounds of the papers. Here are afew
that a laugh or two may be found in
In the office of New York paper there
stood in type the report of sermon and
a paragraph about the career of a mad |