Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-01-15
TEE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. NAsTINEss.


horns in the legal arena, and the world is
expected to look on breathless. Tilton
gained the first advantage by having the
trial of the case transferred from Judge
McCue 10 Judge Nelson, which both
sides appeared ito consider very impor-
tant Beecher came into Court after the
room was crowded, and took his seat.
The newspapers speak of him as un-
changed in appearance, but I know bet
ter. sat within three feet of him, and
where l could study his face at leisure.
He has changed. He is older than he was
year ago-older in appearance far be-
yond what year should have made
There is look of anxiety, a sort of worn,
haggard expression that to me was absO-
lutely painful. Tilton is ten years older
for his experience, and even jaunty Frank
Moulton shows the effects of the strain.
By the way, as TIlton came into court he
passed within a foot of Beecher. and The
eyes of the two met squarely. Kwould
be difficult to interpret the meaning
their glances, but it did seem to me that
Tilton had the best of the encounter He
kept his eye fixed on his antagonist with
out anything ugly or wicked in the look,
but with the expression of man who be-
lieved himself TO be in the right. And
Beecher's bearing was equally undaunt-
ed.
The result of the trial cannot be pre-
dicted. But from the fact that so far
nothing new has been introduced, It is
safe to persume that nothing new will be.
The public will doubtless be treated to
the same old scandals-the counsel will
twist the evidence each to his own side,
the jury will get their wise heads togeth-
er, and-disagree; that will be the end of
it. We shall know just as much when
we get through as. we do now, and no
more. fear me the great and important
question as to whether Mrs. Elizabeth
Tilton and Rev, Henry Ward Beeeher
were very. very naughty, will be one of
the conundrums that never will be set
tied
ILLNESS OF THE POET sTEDMAN.
: I am sorry to have to speak of the ILL.,
ness of the delightful poet, Edmund Clar-
ence Stedman, who had been ordered 10
give up work for while, none too soon,
as those who know his untiring industry
will agree. To the titles of magazine
critic, editor and cssayist, his friends
added that of kindest, truest gentleman,
which does not always lead suit with the
others as it should, and he added that of
thorough business man, as if ambitious to
complete the names of honor by which
private citizen might be known.
Years ago, he described himself laugh
ingly as in the habit of going into Wall
street and making money enough to live
three or four years as he wanted to
writing-and then spend it all, then go to
work hard and make another fortune to
use in the same way. He studies with
zest, and writes with SAVIOR, and nothing
the country shows can equal the exquis-
ite style of his Greek translations, which
distil like honeyed wine along the palate,
and show the purple and gold of the attic
crocus among their colors. Yet this work,
which Americans will appreciate gen
Grafton later, as the English do now, was
done not in easy leisure, but after the full
tale of banking hours had been told-be-
gun in golden sunset, with his younger
son studying Latin declensions by his
side, and continued long after the house
hold was wrapped in sleep.
He is one of the men capable of editing
magazine like Putuans's Monthly in the
broad half day which lies between Office
closing in Wall street and midnight, and
no one could eyer say that he did not
keep his work well in hand. He carried
his business habits into literary work, was
prompt, systematic, and got through with
have spread through a whole day, and
been justified in calling himself well
tasked after that. I want to hold this
picture up before young men who are am
bilious of literary success. 1t they can
grapple with business seven hours in a
day, study and write five or six more for
fifteen or twenty years, they stand
chance of the good things which the men
who own them won in the same way.
The finest literary work the country
has to be proud of. and that which does
it most honor in cultivated circles
abroad, has been produced by such men
as the twin critics, r. b. Stoddard and
SNdman, "after hours" not in the leisure
off life set apart for such pursuits. There
is class of young men who will not go |
into business because they fancy they |
have vocation for art, OF. literature, and |
make themselves terror to editors and |
successful writers by hanging round, be-
seeching letters of Introduction 10 this
that and the other magazine or newspa-
per, and looking for . position which |
will at once give them enough to live on. !
UNHEALTHY FOR CHILDREN.
The mild winter has proved a very
sickly and dangerous one for children
and young people, among whom diph- |
therla and scarlet fever make raVsges
known only to the health officers and |
those who casually glance at such returns
as seven hundred deaths by diphtheriain
one week. st. MarY's Hall, an Episcopal
school of the best order, for girls, near
Burlington, N. j., was lately broken up
by typhoid fever-thirty cases of which
made their appearance among the schol-
ars at one time. This case, which was
caused by the use OF river water held in
foul cisterus, ought to lead to thorough
inspection of the sanitary condition of
boarding schools through the country
few of which will be found quite satisfac-
tory in their arrangements 10 well bred
physician. Principals and teachers have
too much care on their hands to notice
that the water tastes brackish, or that
there is bad odor lingering about parts
of the house, or any of dozen signs
which tell the Experienced sense that
something is awrY With matters on which
life and health depend.
I have known fever bred in a fashions
BILE boarding school because the cham
bermaids had too much to do TO empty
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