The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-01-21
INN FISK. or FlSRVTLLE.

WHY does the Tribune rage, aud the Philoso-
pher imagine a vain thing? ''Shouli the
wise man utter vain knowledge, aud fill his
belly with the east wind2 Should he reason
with Improbable talk, or with speeches
wherewith he can do no good ?" 1t is mani
festly absurd, and not less useless than rdicu-
lous, for the Tribune to ignore the existence
and importance of jim Fisk. Jim Fisk is;
and, if he were not, New York would cease
to be the metropolis that it is-in fact, would
cease to be Fiskvile. When the Trj-
6une denounces the Herald as
''blatherskite" because the Herald
interviews Jim Fisks Josie that was, the
Tribune forgets that it is printed in Fiskville,
and primarily for the edifcation of Fiskville
readers.
If Josie Mansfield is "tall, and shaped like
duchess, why should it not be proclaimed
in the streets of Fiskville? Jim Fisk 'oaS
lovely in the eyes of Josie, and Fiskville
yearns for all of the sweet details as to how
Stokes supplanted him in the gum-shoes, and
drove him from the brown-stone rancho on
West Twenty-third street. If half dozen
interviewers come to idiotic grief before the
Fiskville public is stated, it matters but little.
Anewspaper man may as well die of idiocy as
of any other ailment, especially if he chooses
Fiskville for the scene, and jim Fisk for the
ubiect-matter, of his interviewings.
The skin of Josie Mansfield is ''as fair in
fibre and hue as the lily ITSELF" 1t is not
matter of surprise, therefore, that her hand
is "white and smooth" Her ears are
''small" and ''seashell-like." And her eyes
we'll, her eyes are peculiar-that is to say,
''of peculiar grey, and lambent like the
phosphorescent streaks of light that follow
the wake of ship in mid-ocean." Good for
her eyes, we say; and good for the lambent
streaks of the phosphorescent ship that fol-
lows the peculiar wake of her eyes in grey
mid-ocean. Jim Fisk was wont to gaze in
those phosphorescent orbs, and to sigh in
| those small seashell-like tympanum cases.
and it is meet and proper that Fiskville should
have fair show to sigh and gaze likewise
Jim Fisk was accustomed to press that
''white and smooth" hand in his and the
leering, idiotic creature who interviewed its
owner should not be stigmatized as a loon,
because he took that proffered bit of dainty
flesh in his horny palm, preliminary to not
ing down the points of the interview. Wasn't
he sent there for that very purpose? And
didn't all Fiskville buy Wednesdays Herald,
because he went whittier he was sent, aud
did what his instigators expected him to do
1t Is all "blatherskite, to be sure but
New York is Fiskville, and Fiskville listens
contentedly to "blatherskite" while she gloats
on Jim Fisk, as the turtle-dove listens to
the liquid ditty of the golden wedding bells
while she gloats on the Fiskville moon. 1t
was at the dinner given by Jim Fisk to Mon
taland, the bouffiste-''a coarse person, in
her way, according to the insinuation of the
idiotic creature of the Herald; but ga very
nice and pretty" one, according to Josie
Mansfeld's plump assertion-that Jim Fisk
told Montaland he could have New York
called Fiskville, if he so desired. Josie was
there and heard him, aud says it ''was like
him all over" There is nothing Suburban"
about this man Fisk, and there is nothing
suburban" about the town of Fiskville. In
! Fiskville he fourishes as he would not flour
ish in our suburban village. Stokes dis
comfited him, it is true and stepped into
| the gum-shoes and the favor of Josie. But
then Stokes himself is of Fiskville, Fisky-
which we are not, being still somewhat
suburban"