The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-09-22
enough in the name Of the city.

After having thanked his fellow-citi-
zens, Cornelius proceeded to his old pater-
nal house, and gave directions for come
repairs, which he wished to have execu-
ted before the arrival of his wife and
children; and thence he wended his way
to the house Of his godson, who, per-
haps, was the only person IN bort as yet
unacquainted with the presence Of Cor
nelius in the town.
In the same degree as Cornelius De
,Witte had excited the hatred of the peo>
pie. by sowing those evils seeds which
are called political passions, Van Baerle
bad gained tn, affections Of his fellow
| citizens by completely stunning the pur-
! suit of politics. absorbed as he was in the
n"acsful parsuit Of caluv-tias tulips
Van Baerle was truly beloved by his
servants and laborers; nor had he any
conception that there was in this world
man who wished i'll to another.
And yet it must be said, to the dis
grace Of mankind, that Cornelius Van
Baerle, without being aware of the fact,
had much more ferocious, fierce, and
implacable enemy than the Grand PEN
sionary and his brother had among the
Orange party.
At the time when Cornelius Van
Baerle began TO devote himself to tulips
growing, expanding on this hobby his
yearly revenue and the guilders of his
father. there was at bort, living next
door to him, a citizen of the name Of
Isaac Boxtel, who, from the age when he
was able to think for himself, had in
dulged the same fancy, and who was in
ecstacies at the mere mention of the word
tulips.
Boxtel had not the good fortune of be-
ing rich like Van Baerle. He had, there
fore, with great care and patience, and
by dint Of strenuous exertions, laid out
near his house at bort, garden fit for
the culture Of his cherished flower; he
had mixed the soil according tn the most
approved prescriptions, and given to his
.-Itbeds just as much heat and air as
the strictest rul IS OF horticulture exact.
Isaac knew the temperature OF his
frames to the twentieth part Of degree.
He knew the strength of the current of
air, and tempered it so as to adapt it to
the wave Of the stems of his flowers.
His productions also began to meet with
the favos of the public. They were beau
tiful, nay, distinguished Several fanci>
ers had come 10 SEQ Bartels tulips He
had even started tulip which bore his
name, and which, after having travelled
all through France, had found its way
into Spain, and penetrated as far as Por-
tugal; and the King, Don Alphonse vi. =,
who, being expelled from Disbon, re-
tired to tho Island of Terceira, where he
amused himself, not, like the Great Con-
de, with watering his carnations, but
with growing tuli ps-had, on seeing the
Boxtel tulip, exclaimed, Not 80 bad, by
any means"
All at once, Cornelius Van Baerle,
who, after all his learned pursuits, had
been seized with the tulipomania, made
some changes in his house at bort, which,
as we have stated, was next door to that
of Boxtel. He raised a certain building
in his courtyard by story, which, shut
ting out the sun, took half degree oil
warmth from Boxtels garden, and, on the
other hand, added half degree OF cold
in the winter; not to mention that it cut
the wind, and disturbed all the horticul-
tural circulations and arrangements of
his neighbor.
After all, this mishap appeared to Box
tel of no great consequence. Van Baerle
was but painter, sort Of fool who tried
to reproduce, and disfgure on canvass
the wonders of nature. The painter, he
thought, had raised his studio by a story
to get better light, and thus he had only
been in the right Mynheer Van Baerle
was painter, as Mynheer Boxtel was a
tulip grower; he wanted somewhat more
sun for his paintings, and he took half q
degree from his ne;gobor's tulips.
The law was for Van Baerle, and Box.
tel had to abide by it.
Besides which, Isaac had made the dis
covery that too much sun was injuriou:
to tulips, and that this flower grew quick.
er, and had better coloring, with the
temperate warmth of morning, than with
the powerful heat OF the midday sun. He
therefore, felt almost grateful to Cornell.
ius Van Baerle for having given him 9
screen gratis.
May be this was not quite in accord
ance with the true state of things, in gen
eral, and Of Isaac Boxtels feelings il
particular. 1t is certainly astonishing
what rich comfort great minds, in tn,
midst Of mountainous catastrophes, viii
derive from the Consultations of philoso,
ply.
But, alas what was the agony of tn
unfortunate Boxtel on seeing the win
dows Of the new story set out with bulb
and seedlings of tulips for the border, an,
tulips in pots; in short, with everything
pertaining to the pursuits of tulip>fan