Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-02-15
western Letter.
OUT WEST, Jan. %, 1872.

" w ES 1, JAN. 20, 1Cl
Deu1. Herald Your welcome face
greets me enthusiastically in this west
ern world, like that of an old friend, and
read and reread you even to the adj
vertisements; and here, let me add, that
our Western cousins may we'll take les
sons of their Eastern relations in editing
newspapers. They are not up to their
standard in style and cultivation, tho
perhaps, in talent, they are not one whit
behind.
The accounts your faithful chroniclers
give of the exciting gay and festive
doings in at least one little town, t'other
side of the mountain, of especial in
terest to one whose childhood and girl
hood was spent there and tho Il have
travelled many a weary mile since lastI
saw that little hamlet my heart still
turns to its green hills and sunny valleys,
as home The slight matters which gOto
make up the interests and daily life Of
such town, sound small, perhaps, to
some, as they float over these broad
prairics, in comparison with the more
expansive life Of the great West, but to
me they are always welcome
New England is the old grandmother,
sitting at home, keeping the old hearth
fire bright, listening to the ticking clock
and counting the days and years since
the girls and boys lifted, for the last
time, the gatc-latch, and babe, with
mOistened eyes, the last adieu. Hope
points to a day of reunion, perhaps,
when they shall return to the waiting
fire and old-fashioned pantry, only
children, but hosts Of little ones, to look
on their parents home, and learn from
whence came the sterling gold which
made the endurance and success Of
pioneer life, and created ont of the sur
roundings the large nObleness and gen
erOSitV we see exhibited in newly fast
growing places. The same New Eng
land natures are rc-created or moulded
for the greater sphere without losing the
strict tone of truth and honesty which
gives to those in the more confined
circles, a prosaic appearance. They
have no room to expand outWardly,
tho the material is there SO let the
young men come West-the old ones had
better stay with grandmother and keep
warm. I am sorry to know that some
of them have been letting their angry
passions rise" and scratching out each
others eyes.-N. b. Not copied literally
from the Westminster Catechism.
The reverend brother and the learned
and Aerc0ux attorney for the prosecu-
ton. (rdp Bellows Falls Illness have
INDUCED III "a tempest in a teapot in
deed. Allow me, in the way of profes-
siOnal advice, to suggest bran tea and
saw-dust pudding as a requiem for the
Rev, and the nervous party | would
prescribe entire exclusion from the night
air and n0rb wind, particularly that
which blows off graveyards, and such,
for his client, as he, remember, like
the LtyitcS of old, almost always pass
ed by on the other side Well, perhaps,
such tits are enrolling and improving
to young minds like theirs.
And 50 Hugh the third has been and
gone and got married. the Lord ha'
mercy on US, See what we may all come
to. 1t must truly be "A solemn season in
that region Well, it has prepared me
for almost any shock that may follow,
which is comforting.
And now, dear HERALD, if you knew
me personally, l have no donbt you
would say, with those who do know me,
that my pen, like my tongue, was hard
to stop. Hoping to see your face again
soon, l remain, yours truly, M.R.E.