The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-06-01
The June Magazines.
THE ALDINE.

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principal pictures have for their subjects the
wild grandeur of the primitive forest, each illus.
trating passages from the poets. Moran has Sc.
lected '.kwasnd, the Strong Man." from 'Hia.
watha;" Neblig, Gertrude and Albert" from
Gertrude of Wyoming; and Hows, the forests
OF the Adirondacks. They, in common with the
minor Illustrations, are treated with wonderful
| vlgor and SURPRISING skill. The literary por.
t'ons OF this magazine in the front rank,
while the mechanical get up is, usual, incom-
parab!y fine. The present number contains an
interesting paper on Charlotte Bronte's Brother
and Father by Jann,ry Searle, in the course of
which alluson is made TO the historical Lud;ii,s
riots. The Rev, Mr., Bronte had rendered him.
self obnoxious to the unreasonable malcoutents
by his endeavors to suppress their lawless pro-
ceedings, and was waylaid by a gang OF masked
rufians. We quote the writer's description of
| the incident.
"At Huddersheld there was also terrible riots.
and scores and scores of men from first to last
were shot by the military. When Mr. Horsefall
was murdered in open daylight for tho crime of
Introducing machinery into his mill, Mr. Bront.
was present as Heckmondwyke on the same CIV.
e,
men, to take means to hunt down the murderer.
1t was on returning from this meeting that Mr..
Bronte was set upon by four men in black masks.
with the intent, as they acknowledged, to kill
him, but they began the wrong way. Being
Yorkshirenen, and as he said, very seIi.opnion.
ated, they were urged by their uncopquorable
conceit to let Mr.. Bronte what clever fellows
they were, and how we'll they understood and
| could argue tbs great question then at issue be.
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capital and labor. So, having ordered him to
stop in the middle of the road, they began accus.
| ing him OF being their enemy, and told him they
were going to kill him out of the way, that he
might do no more harm, and that they meant to
send Parson Robinson after him.
| Now. n drawer man never lived than this xaunt
Irish rector. He laughed at and defied them.
| -Four masked aud armed assssslns to one poor
unarmed psrson p he said. "That's your fair
play, is it? have always found Yorkshiremen,
hitherto, brave and honorable even when they
were mistaken. But you are miserable cowards;
you sneak after lonely man in the dark, four of
you! and stop him on the high road to murder
him, because be don't agree with you about the
value OF machinery applied to manufactures! A
pretty reason for killing a man, isn't it? Sup
pose eight manufacturers were to stop you, after
you had knocked my brains out, and give YOU
i've inmates to say your prayers in and make
ready for DEATH telling you they meant to muir.
der every enc OF you because you were opposed
to machinery! How would you like it Go
home, men, for shame! Gro home, aud get down
on your knees, and ark GOD, in his mercy, to for.
give you for contemplating SO horrible crime.
l am no enemy OF yours, God knows! try TO
do my duty to you and TO ali, and You will never
intimd ste me from doing it by threatening to
kill me-" Then advancing y. step to the ,aIlest
mnn, no was evidently lesder of the gang he
, held out his hand, and said, Come, you see
am not frightened. Let US shake hands and be
friends. Ii ever you should need help come to
the Parsonage House, and you shall have all
, have 10 vive, You would not be afraid that
SHOULD betray you, know" And having sh.k-
Ell hands with them all, he said so!emnlv ia a
voice u-,i. bling with emotion: NY brothers, We
, ure Nil sinhtr--let II. pray" SO they knelt
down on the dusty road, these intended murders
ers aud their proposed victim, and the latter
prayed earnestly 70 God to eIligh,en their dark
hess, ard give them hope and patience, loving.
kin dness and faith, and trust i'll him to the very
end.
Single copies for sac and subscriptions re.
t ceived ty Osmau Il Hapcman, Ottawa In..
sCHIBNER's MONTHLY.
The contents of the June .ScraJner are uuu.u.
ally rich and varied Mr.. Richardson's second
article Oh "Traveliny by Teegra ph" appears
/ and, with its rare illustrations of home -cenerv,
) is alone well worth the price Of the magazine
Whitelsw Reid, of the Chicago YriJuae contrib
utes paper upon School, Of Journ ali.m,' where
In be dlscus'ts the duties and tendencies OF the
modern newspaper. As might be expected from
} such an "xpv fenced master niud, the paper is
marked 10y ken "cumen and n due appreci ton
of The subject. Warner gives Us his sixth chap
ter OF "Back.luS Studies" wherein he treat. of
wisdom. The ether departments OF this maga-
zine aud its fry three illustrations are quite up
to the mark OF excellence which has character.
led this seri, irum its first Issue.
CRIME AND CRIMINALS.
NtIdert-D NC you think Their. i, too much
hl.ncy toward crime and criminals, taking the
place OF Justice, IN these DAYS
lite Fre.7cacdr--Therc may be too much
disposition 10 condoue the crimes o! thu,e who
have been considered Respectable
orr Mart Ooyy -TAal is, scarcely an body
WINS to ses his friend hung.
.Va"decWe-l ,nlnk It large part of the bitter.
ness Of the condemned arises from a sense Of the
Inequality with which justice is administered.
surprised, in visiting jpils, to tiud no few re.
sprctrbe-looking convicts.
; Our Nch Door.-N obody will 20 TO iail nova.
day who thi" Ks anything of himself.
ne Ftre. 1endsi.-When society seriously
takes hold of the reform ton of criminals lsay
, with Nv much Determination as it does to cnrry
an eiecilonl this false itniency will disappear;
TOR it partly springs from feeling that punish.
ment is unequal and does no. discriminate
enough in individuals, and that society itself
has no night ,oturn " IMAM over to the devil, sim.