The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-08-07

ssrHE SWEErEAT TlllG0 IN LIFE. -
The sweetest, and withal the saddest thing
v. have seen lately in the editorial line may
be found on the second page of Sundays
Commercial under the heading of lille
Battles" The sight Of the Commere'at il
ordinarily a sure cure for poetic sentiment,
white a perusal of the editorials Of that
shee, suggest. the grim and unpoe'ieai reali-
les of life. The cause of the Commercials
chronic melancholy has Lot been fully e1-
planned; but here's the turn it takes:
And il this life? Active, real, living life?
or ID it Ill dream-a phantom OF the braun
. VISION Of the night? 10 it in the BODY or
out of the body? The scenes shit % rap
idly that j, bewilders the brain. The views
presented 10 the mind, OK to the imagination
are 20 different and % at variance ne 10 jar
and shock. Look at that picture and then
At this, and say which il true life and which
10 false.
There are a good many questions pro-
pounded that We won't attempt to answer.
els it in the body or out Of the body is
sumner. We rather think after mature de-
Liberation ,ha, the editor by mistake winked
At the soda water r,an, and it's in the syrup
However, We will leave the question open
for future settlement and proceed with Colo
ne Houston up the mountain side. Here
he goes:
We haze Just passed few weeks in one
Of the mort pesceful, quiet and shady hooks
IN Gods great park-the Allegheny noun.
ain,
Here, on the peaceful bosom of quiet
.ieeping valley, gently swells the well
rounded knob" There roaring run comes
Town the rugged mountain side, rumbling,
rutnnling, crashing, dashing, ~ the waters
come dowa at Lodore. Here ''Spring Run
g1shes RON out the mountains womb and
quietly flows adown the valley, concious OF
unused strength enough to match an hum
bred horse.
s.Here on the peaceful bosom OF quiet
sleeping valley, gently swe.ls the we'll
rounded knob, Is very fine, but it occurs to
Us that it ia little too voluptuous for daily
paper. The Colonel then in pleading tone
propounds this one:
"Who blan,es u. for lingering over that
before We turn to this. That WAS the poetry
and this the battle Of life. Hard, stern, real,
a struggle for victory and the victor gains
what? All, that is the question.
Excuse the depression. We will change
the subject without presumins to mention
shat the vic.or would gain BY lingering to
cont mpla,e such q picture. "Mum's the
word"
We will retrace our steps with the Colonel
IN / visit the Library and there revel in the
pa zee of "Harvey's Meditation., ""Bostor's
Fourtold E-late" and Bakers Saints Rest"
Perhaps is would be better 10 give the Colo.
nel chance to discourse on literary topics,
hence we allow him room for this para
graph:
Then there ia the Gospel Sonnets, Par
ii,e Let snd Paradise Regained; POpe's
Course OF lime and Thompson's Seasons;
Poels true, pure and sublime. But the nom
'ense of Brste Harte or the jsbbering of John
Hays has never heen heard in that valley
nome and jus; here We wish to inquire
y DC si,ows the bert taste and truest judg-
ren,: He who read. Milton or who '.just
ove-" Harie; who studies Pope or "devours"
HAYS. l. not the standard of the day
allen very low? Dies even Tenbvsob, the |
Poe, Laureate OF England, Or any of our
modern rhyme writer's, compare in breadth |
# thought, grandeur of imagery, Oh great |
less of conception, TO the poets of former |
ime? But excuse this DEPRESSION, and ex-
u-e us il We linger on tina, picture before We |
urn to this. Ii We look with onr minds |
We once more at old "White Hail." five
iSten once sgain to the babbling brook that |
uns from the spring in front of the ''yard,"
.earken 10 the rrstling OF the mulberry |
caves, and view, perhaps, for the last time
hat graceful willow, and listen to the joyous
witter OF the little bird in its branches"
We will let Col. Houston have his own
ray about "Pope's Course of Time" and
Fi,hout expressing any sympathy for Bret
Iarte or John Hay, look into the "babbling
rock" and ascertain something about the
ra.er. The Colonel is rather profuse in his
mention Of the Pennsylvania
tresms, and right here permit US to say that
be water OF the Keys one State is no better
han that of Kansas, while the whisky, If
70 :sihle, is even worse. We take 1t that |
uestion Of State pride is here presented,
nd We cannot be false TO Kansas, hence We
ei,erate our assertions that Kansas is just as
rell off fox water as any State in the Union.