, 1874-11-01

Dialect poetry Is vigorous outline drawing Of
picturesque humanity, dono in broad, telling
strokes. In 'Chiqmta" aud others is evident
dreadful apathy concerning ths value OF human
life, which is eu8endere1 by social state IN
which necessity GAUGES ovarestimate Of endur-
ance in man or beast:
We came to tho fo1d, and
Ductled right down to her work, and k1ore could
Ysll to her rider,
TOOK wasar ist i the ford aud there va. tho ledge
and swea7s-huodred dollars at hozsodash adoat and
dE1ftt1' to thunder.
What did yoa ssy3
Oil Tie ne5ey
Drowned reckon; laestways, hs never KEN back
to deny it.
OF humorous poems not in dialect, 'The Lost
Gaueon ranks first. The lines doW easily, and
ono is waited to this zone OF Gains and lulted in
tbs 1epoaa OF far past century, where
Under the equatorial gla1a
3ust where the East and West 1rs ons,
You'll had the misang galleou,
Riding the se&s, With sails al ri,
Fresh upon that very day
sho sailed from Acspuloo By.
Hare the galleon watts to gain tho missing
dry, lost on the trackless, bound1oss main, -
the day sacred to her pasfon-saint. which in 800
yea11 she will aage, and return, ri in tbs glow Of
the setting SUM-" to Acapulco Bay.
Johu Hay is kin to Bret Harte in style and
purpose. Both perceive, in the stern. rocky un-
outwardly hard and pItiiess. golden veins Ehread-
ing in bound darkness this human waste
Tney disdAln to refine this native ore,
and offer it unsifted and unsmeltod, Erimy
and ehapeless, for acceptance or refusal
Contasted with our oyerpolish, it may
the lesson abldes that qualities has an Intrinsic
yaluo equal in all men. Tha father Of Little
Beeecbes" says - he don't 70 much on religion;
he dan't pan out On the prophets, and free will,
~ baf. -. q
and the angels since one night last spring." The
rude words flash full on us the unreasonablenesa
and futlllty in cteeds Of more refined apeakeEs-
Loug search revealing no trace Of his lost child,
the hopeless fathof prays - down On his marrow
bones." and afserward finds IN sheep-foh
Little Bresches' chipping ''for his chaw OF
terbacker." The ensuing profession OF faith be-
trays this profane speaker kindred to st. Angus
tine and ali holy men. About hss shaggy, En-
kempt head is revealed faith'a aureola- He does
my weakness. His completeness; around my
rest1essness, his resi-" No. This is the phrase
ology "How did ha git thar 2" 1.-THE Angels"
''Yhey jist scooped down and toted him to where
it wat safe and warm. '' And think that savin'
than loafin' around the Throne" This mans
hard, not overclean hand has, nevertheless, .
tight grip On the immutable-
This tattered rairuent Of words discloses fig
ures OF noble proportion. JIM Bladso, who
~ GOT OUk Oh LQG udOlE O1 lfluE Ike you auu
me- was brutal and profane; but 81 he mover
hunked, and he ne:er lied ;" - reckon he never
knowed how" Cheyalicr Baynrd might be
proud to receive such praise This mau's Titan
pride and reckless dazing sealed his doom but,
in tie midst Of the fiery horror, they s1l had
trust in his cussedness, and knoued ha would
keep his word"
He weren'. no saint, but st Judgment I'd run my
chance with Jim.
Longeide some plous gentlemen that wouldn't shook
bands with him.
Theologyis hit alike By missiles from street and
laboratory. The sum OF our real possessions is
small, and We will have none which human ex-
perience has not assayed aud minted Ho
seen his duty, and went for it thar and then, Az
did Sir Philip Sidney. "And Christ ainr a-goin'
to be too hard on . man that died for men," In
The humor of Harte and Hay there il 1esiduum
Of moral effect the grotesqua t1Acery vanishes.
aud the moral is plainly seen.
Genuine humorists arc rare. Purity and at
fluent sympathy, and cordial quality alien to
our stern, Puritan lineage, belong to the humo1-
st The" spirit which denies" (the spirit Of
Mephistopheles) sees in the incongrutles oz
human fate subject for satire and scorn. Hu.noT
Is keenly uiscerns this unsymmetrcal destiny
Ind it's incompatibility. with the noble forces
gagged; but it can smile, knowing the deeting
aature OF this untitness; while sarcasm Ii bitter,
because the future offers it no ample dues for
he present. 8. C.