The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-17

the limitless vista Ofwaving wildgrass, these
green meadows and treeless hills dotted
everywhere with purple and yellow flowers,
was a sight of nature in her noblest mood.
Such rolling hills behind hills If those
rolls could be called hills After an hour
the coach had gradually assembled to the
summit of the "divide" between Purple
River on the one side and Big Gun River
on the other, and the rows of willows and
cotton-woods that hung over the waters
edge-the only trees under the whole sky
marked distinctly the meandering lines of
the two streams. Albert Charlton shouted
and laughed; he stood up beside Jim, and
cried out that it was paradise.
"Mebbe it's" sneered Jim. Anyway,
it's got more'n one devil into it. OIL
lang!"
And under the inspiration of the scenery,
Albert, with the impulsivcness of Il young
man, unfolded to Whisky Jim all the beau
ties of his own theories how a man should
live naturally and let other creatures live;
how much better a man was without flesh
eating; how wrong it was to speculate, and
that Spectator gave nothing in return
and that it was not best to wear ilanncls,
seeing one should harden his body to endure
cold and all that; and how man should
let his beard grow, not use tobacco nor
| COlltt hut WHISKY, SllOulu XIV uH ~ ioui
| o'clock in the morning and go to bed early
"Looky here, mister! " said the Superior
Being, after while. ~ wouldn't naow,
eff was you'll
Wouldn't what?"
" Wouldn't fetch no sich notions into this
| kedntry. Can't afford tew. faint no land
of idccs. It's the kcdntIy of corner lots.
Idees is in the way don't pay no interest.
IIant had time to build 'sylum for people
with idecs yet, in this territory. Eff you
must have en-, why let me recommend
Bost'n. Drove hack there wunst, myself.
Then after pause he proceeded with the
dcibcration of Il judge: It's the best vii
lage | ever laid eyes on fer idecs, is Bost'n.
Thicllcrn hops! Grow single and in
punches. Have Societies there for idecs.
Used to make money outen the fellows with
idccs, cartin' 'cm round to anniversaries and
SIGH. IF you only wear nice slick plug
hat there, you kin believe anything you
choose or not, and be Il gentleman all the
same. The more you believe or don't be-
lievc in Bost'n, the more gentleman you be.
The don't-helievers is Just rs good as the
believers. Idees inside the head, and plug
hats outside But idccs out here! tell
you, here it's notlin' but per cent" The
Superior Being puckcrcd his lips and whis-
tied " GU up, will you. G'lang! Better
try Bostn."
Perhaps Albert Charlton the student pas
senger, was little offended with the liber-
ty the driver had taken in rebuking his the
cries lie was full of @ idccs, and his fun
damcntal idea was of course his belief in the
equality and universal brotherhood of men
In theory he recognized no social distinc'
tons. But the most democratic ofdcmocrat:
in theory is just II little bit of an aristocra
in frelng-hc doesn't like to be pattcd OF
the back by an hostlcr; much less does he
like to be rcplimandcd by stagc-driver
And Charlton was all the more sensitive
from certain vague consciousness that he
himself had let down the bars of his dignity
by unfolding his theories so gus&ingly t.
Whisky Jim. What did jim know-wha
could a man who said " idccs know-abou
the great world reforming thoughts that en-
gagged his attention? But when dignity il
once fallen, all the kings oxen and all thu
kings men can't stand it on its legs again
In such strait, one must fee from hin
who saw the fall.
Albert Charlton therefore determined tina
he would change to the inside of the coacl
when an opportunity should offer, and leav,
, the Superior Being to sit wrapped in tn
/, solitude of his own Originality"