, 1873-09-12
BUTLER At WORCESTER.
The Road to the Derby...1noi-
dents by the Way.
massachusetts By-Ta!k---The Bay State
as an Influence Of the Period.
Interviews with Samuel Bowles.

6fHlN9F1EAUt FdAabst sept. v. 117J
Summoned from the Great Of tho Allegheny
Mountains, whore tho tr ont, tho nir, and tho
company wero equally unconventional, brisk,
aalubrous, I found myself on tho way to But
1er's Convention last Sunday afternoon, with 4
dislike OF tho lifo at tho foot of tho mountaina
which could hoed such horo as he. So mont
to s1eop 1t the car-window, with
F1rTEEN-DoILAn HAT
On my head. It Was straw hat, Of very pecu-
liar and doicato braiding, made, imagine. to
DO put on tho head Of eomo Romish salnt "a a
votigo offering worthy Of his holiness. It yae
presented to mo ut Cape May by worry cxtraya-
gant NAH who had hat of tho same kind, md
whoae vito and connections wore all saying
Hall, what follow you aro to giya SIS for a
Btraw-hat!"
Hall got worry wonry Of being thus upbraldod,
md visions Of the poor-house passed through his
oxtrayagant mind, liko tho remembrance Of an
organ-grinder in picture ascending tho per
spootive Of d first-claas hotel OF some mora un-
comfortable palace. Ho therefore slipped OIL to
Philadelphia, md bought another hat pro-
cleely like hia own, and sont it ogor to mo.
"Thoro!" lie exclaimed to his friends,
"there'a another hat horo just uko mine. That
nowspapor-man wears it,"
We Wero at ouco classed together, and tho
joke kept up until left the Cape, when, by lot
ting tho cat out of the bag, heapod mountainB
OF straw-aguratiyely speaking-on TINT great
spendthrifts head 30 I wont to aleop at tho
car-window, flying down the mountains at 40
miles IN hour. Presently had delicious
dream; it waa to the efFect that was build as
Ben Butler, and was bathing tho classical feet of
Charles Sumner with my bare scalp, na the wom-
en- did with the worry precious ointment. After
Summer, Henry Wilson put hia foot upon mo;
no1t cnme tho very cold feet OF Judge
Hoar; tho clammy feet Of DR.. Loring
succeeded, and all tho pilgrims of Beacon Hill
appeared to DO indulging in a cold bath at my
expense. Suddenly awoko, and beheld my $15
hat flying up tho mountain-grado. followed 1t
With my oyos, and SAW grimy ooa1-heavor, who
mas ut homo Of Sundays, take 1t up, look at it,
md aot it on bis woolly econce. NY feolings
#ero peculiar, to. say the least; but had
postal card On my person. which took up, and
.Madamo: cannot tell q lie. Bon Butler
took that hat"
10 be without hat is to e1porioncc novel
eonsation. You get greatly ashamed OF your
.;a haaa and annoyed at tho quantity Of coal-di1t
filled with exciting meditations as to what you
shall do when yon got out of the cara ind
whether it will bo concluded that You neyor wore
tas at all: Yo4 e1ageerate the cold you are
behind you. You walk TX ont i''1s On Iha ill.,
platform bareheaded, and feel very much uiffai
Like the late Peter Bchlemnil, who bemoancod
bis shadow, you see that tho loss OF tho smallest
object habitual to you is . subject Of melancholy
aud predcament. At Washington City bor-
rowed q lat several sizes too largo from tho
tcket-agont, aud went forward upon different
career OF dsconsolation. It now appeared that
n .f1SdI +~1r1l a.
who had foloniously appropriated my neighbor's
hat, Or q man who had accepted Of hat AZ =
gift, or man to whom tho bad hat only waa
natural, end who had stolen all tho rest Of his
olotheB Itwaa the Sabbath-day; my OK Lad fallen
into ditch, and none Of tho has-storos wore
open SO sought in win to mako up for tho
sufacionoy in my head by drawing on q new and
superfluous pair OF kid-gloves, as il to mako it
tatiye: LII this way got to tho town Of SPRING
fold, hlRsH., and Bbruck hnt-storo in the second
fitted mo. "How much for thia7 7" raid to Is
raol.
FIFTY shensh, eaid Israel.
"Great proyilonce!" aad to myself, "the
coat OF the hat Ben Butler lost would havo Gov
e,1 srsd man all his life with the hats of SPRING
Equilibrium nor being restored, strollod out
to SOC tho great citizen Of the place,
BAAIuEL DOW1E8, EHQ
The town OF Springfield consists Of ono wide
mniu street, full Of Shops and OF a square at the
middle part around which are placed tho City
grogatonal Church. Tho population ia divided
10 mind between that square and the groat rail-
road depot on tho samo street, some thinking
the depot to bo the scat ct government, and 9TH
Justice. The railroad OWLS tho most
makos a shooting gallery Of the main street,
firing trains Of cars across It at tie town grade
put OF breocl,-loading depot. II the Court
House should fire baseball acroas tho street,
lhe populace would be aroused. Thus queorly
haye our inventions got the whip-hand of our
institutions.
Tie Republican Office is broad-shouldered,
id-looking structure on the main street, with
editorial rooms on the second floor, 30 as to
spare the hinges Of tho editors knoos, which, in
this paper, are anything but pregnant. From
long practice at independent journalism, am
paper, could walk to tho top Of tho
house. except in m elevator. Tie younger
editors seem to bo all quiet, orthodox. we'll
combad young men, of tho Massachusetts habit,
Who havo fallen into tho tradition curront IN
lower than the angels and littlo higher than
tho clergy. The dny before, Mr. BoMles Ind Or
ganized what he called " a raid on tho churches"
by which he meant tho condign capture Of
ent pulpits. road some Of these sermons
over, and thoy seemed to mo to bo pretty fair
newspaper editorials. It has got to bo 10 now
that nobody can preach on tho miracles, or the
burning bush, Or tho lottiDg down Of tho great
bed-quilt from the heavens, because thoro Is too
much mechanical acumen In the congregation
tor the preacher to infringe in that way. There
fore he editorializes on moral themes, giYoa
good advice, hints against tho heresy OF the pull
great reliof. The model New England serrnons
always appeared to me to hago been delivered by
Theodore Parker on Daniel Wehster, and by tha