Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-10-31

man OF the people; ono in heart ant
feeling with the men who dig and ,Dloy
and weave. .p-Tff Tribune, Feb. Is, '69.
-5,'i FANNY FERN g6t
A Sketch of Sara Payson VIII,
! a el9i.tfi $ Parton. = -ia '19 E Ali'
aii From the Tribune of Frridayl
| Sara Payson Willis, wife of JAIME,
Parton, whose death occurred yester
I day, though1she has left. few enduring
! literary w works,s has. earned with hel
pen a wide celebrity. Born, at Port
land, Me-, in 1911, she seems to, have
passed through a Somewhat stormy anu
cloudy girlhood and woman hood aaC
passed into mature life before She
made an entrance into the field of liter
ature.t She was a. descendant of two
old Puritan families of New England
and, in common witbgh her, brother, N.
r.. Willis, inherited from, father anC
mother O large share OF mental power
and geniusg The father Of Sara willis
was q feap6er Of Ihe f7hjStRt Recorder.
religious journal, Published In Boston
tand Of TIE. Youths COnlpd,aiOR, printed
in the same city. The mother Of the
Willis children, Nat hanfeI. Richard
and Jane, is described as 4 iargestrafn.
ed, great -hearted weInaR of most leya-
bic character. When Sara was vet 4
child, her family removed to Boston,
where she passed afp her early years.
She was educated at Hartford, Conn,
by Miss Catherine Beecher, and was
recognized as a clever young lady, high
spirited and eccentric, and addicted to
mischievotis and c0n1icai escapades.
While yet young, and soon after leav-
ing school, she married Mr.. Eldridge,
of Boston. After the birth of three
children, she was left widow and in
somewhat embarrassed circumstances.
Ofthese straits came her first literary
venture, and, in 1851, she offered an es-
say signed "Fanny Fern to one of the
literary weeklies iof Boston, 1t was
accepted apd, acceptable, for the, great
reading public Immediately demanded
\ nor6l and Fanny Ferds grew irtt
HamaSnd favor. . These leaflets were
| gathered into a volume with the title oi
Fern Leaves, and had a greatsaIe, nc
less than rs, 600 copies of the book hay.
Ting been sold. le9Eittle Ferns for Fan.
InyisL Liftieo ofriBndS," .aher next book,
had q fair sale,l and "a second series OF
the. Leaves reaeheda very large edi-
ton. In 1854, her first novel, Truth
Hall, appeared; ft was not genial
4 book, andaoverfits family revelations
and allusiens q generous charity draws
q vail of fofge getfulness. Rose Clarke, Y
published in 1851, was q, more sunny
| work, and commanded 4 wider circle
! of readers than even the a6E&hpF no
toriety of its predecessor had attracted.
The two novels Were the only ones
| which Fanny Fern" .eYeFxDabHshed;
they pre- yOked muchts3fGsnl,3 and
were read by thousands who sought in
their pages the sauegrace aud sVivaci-
ty whichisaa1 1beent charm Of her less
pretentious, writings. 80
I'm 1853 the subject of this sketch was
IfnaEFied to- MFR. sIaIneS Parton OF. this
city, the brilliant and effective histor-
ical writer and essayist. Since her
marriage her published cwritings have
not been very volumfnous, but their
character has been considerably mOdf-
those OF her earlier career She was "a
good hater," !" and her pen, gentle and
mild enough when pursuing congeniaI
themes, was pointed and Calling when
engaged in the ehastisement of vice,
can't. or sTobbery. She had a fierce
hatred for every sort OF hypocrisy, and 4
with the inevitable tendency OF one
whop trese subjects with perth
nacity, she sometimes drifted into ex-
travagahce and uncharitableness.o AS al
writer of brief sketches and essays for
tbs weekly press she exceiled; and in
the production OF these she was fnlonii-
tsbiein industry, fertile IN resource,
and bou6dless fI patience. She has
shown her Struggling sfsterhood whatI
women can DO with the pen; for, inI
spite of nanibefless obstarfes, she wonl
herself a place In current literature.
generous income, and many hbnestl
friends and admirers, Her life wasi
not alwayssdnny; but its closing years
were tihGlodded save by bodily Ills; /
and, after, u long, busy iwrestie With
iife's problems, sheslee eps wen at last.
: A New York Mali letter tells howl
a Cfinanan learned to smoke a cigar. 4
AS the puffs carried out from hislips hisl
face was wfeathed In smokeand smiles.
He took it cut, and in Silvery accents
said. s"Himgood. Here pause and
more puff5 ofsmoke. Him heap good.
Another pause and he put one hand up
to the cigar. "Him berry bully heap
good.n Here both hands went up and
the silence was broken by-stHim ber-
ry bully heap good." And then al
change came over the spirit OF his
dream as his face Changed frOm pie
crust to 6ust and ashes, and things as
sumed a tiHge no longer celestial but
cerulean, ,suntil with gesture nndescri-
bable in its expressiveness, he slowly
: sHim muchee mueheel /
big berry bully heap good, but me mol
berry well here" Here he took of hisl
washing assumed an attitude in-
dicative of digestive disagreement, and I
LET history draw q veil over what fOI-t
lowed. lil.1 SfiaEt r.5 5i'u I1lT.f9 ~,
7 SYMPToMATIc,-The following $50
ciety" anecdote is Just imported from
Brooklyn: a Republican and a Dem
ecrat of that city,, standing together,
saw approaching 8 man under, the in
tiuence OF cprn Juice, Said the Repub-
licaI. ,,,i,i.,i a., -. Ia.i -.,y5. h-,l.,
'iI viii bet i've dollas that that man
is a Democrat." - -..,so.
Taken, . replied the Democrat; shut
you must ascertain the fact from the
man himself" .,es ~, 80. 81
AS the topper approached he was ac-i
costed by the Republican ,sr.t ',,...s - Il
sMy, friend, have Just made betI
on you, which yon are to decide. IL
have bet my friend here tha. you are a
Democrat. How is il ?'' r...st s, !,
"Well," replied Mr.. Cornjuice, 'Il'
am sorry to say you have. lost your
Hacknowledge I've got tjte
,yniEtonls, but not the disease ?i-T Etii-i
Ior's Drawer, in Harper's Magazine for
November. SE(ffk4