Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1875-01-15


soon, as those who know his untiring
industry will agree To the titles Of nag
lzine critic, editor and cssayist, his friends /
added that Of kindest, truest gentlemen, /
which does not always lead suit with the
others as i: 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 laughingly as in |
the habit OF going into Wall street and
making money enough TO live three or four
years as he wanted t0-writiug-and spend
it all, then 90 to work hard and make
another fortune TO Use in the same way.
He studies with ze5t. and writes with sa-
Yor, and nothing the country shows can
equal the exquisite style of his Greek
translation, which dstil like honeyed wine
along the palate, and show the purple and
gold of the attic crOcus among their cOlors
\ ct this work, which Americans will ap-
preciate generation later, as the English
do now, was done not in easy leisure but
alter the fall tale OF banking hours had
been told, begun in golden sunset, with his
younger sou studying Latin declensions by
his side, and continued long after the house
hold was wrapped in sleep. He is one Of
editing a magazine like Putndm's Monthly
in the broad half day which lies between
Office closing in Wall street and midnight,
and no one could ever say that he did not
keep bis worI; with well in hand. lie car
ricd his business habits into literary work.
was prompt, systematic, and got through
with an amount of it which another man
would have spread through a whole day,
and Leen justified in calling himself well
taSked after that 1 want TO hold this pic
turc up before young men who arc ambiti-
Gus Of literary success. Ifthey can crap
pie with business seven hours day, study
and write five or six more for fifteen or
twenty years, they stand a 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 il most honor in cultivated
circles abroad, has been produced by such
n.en as the twin cities, II. IL. 5toddary and
Stedman, after hours - not in the leisure
of 4 life set apart for such pursuits. There
is Il class Of young men who will not 20 into
business because they fancy they have a
vocation for art or literature, and make
{ themselves terror TO editors and success
fui writer's by hanging round, beseeching
letters Of introduction to this, that and the
other mazine OF newspaper, and looking
( Tor Il position which will at once give them
/ enough to live Oh.
UNHEALTHY FOR CHILDREN.
/ The mild winter has proved very sickly
and dangerous one for children aud young
people, among whom Giptheria and scarlet
fever make ravages known only to the
health officers and those who casually
glance at such returns az seven hundred
deaths by diptherla in one week. st. Nary
Hall, an Episcopal school Of The best or
der, for girls, near Burlington, \. j., was
lately broken up by typhoid fever, thirty
cases OF when made their appearance
among the scholars ut one time. This case
which was caused by the use of river water
held i'll foul Ci-scrns ought to lead tC
thorough inspection OF the sanitary coudi
ton OF boarding schools through the coun
try, few of which will be found quite salts
factory in theiI arrangements TO well bred
physician. Principals and teachers have
too much care on their hands To notice that
the water tastes brackish, or that there is Il
Hat OdOr lingering about parts Oh the house
or any of q dozen signs watch tell the ex.
. peritnCed sense that something is aWry
/ with matters on which health and life de
pend. | have known fever bred in n fash
iOnable boarding school because the cham
/ bermaids had too much to do To empty the
slops properly, and they were left to over
flow carpets and Yitiate the air Of the dor
mitOries. Anal this leads 10 a theory
lately heard about the unhealthiness OF New
Y York itself. 1t is fast growing the home
/ of Intermittent fever, 50 much so that per
sons of certain temperaments cannot live
/ there six weeks without losing health. auC
are forced to give up living there altogether
( The cause has been laid TO the fault OF sew
ers, and to the imperfect drainage of th(
old marshes about 18th street. which wer(
built over long ago. While giving this fac
due weight those who have looked into the
subject DO not scruple TO charge the agut
and Intermittent fever abOunding TO Dat
ventilation and i'll conditions inside thI
houses. They say thai New y Ork is large
ly made up OF boarding houses and hotels
TO say nothing of families in which the
most glariDg neglect Of every law of health
IS the rule and not the exception. Houses
are built on wrong principles and witt
their cellar, Kitchens and dlning-rOoms, ,anC
bedrooms, their closets and bathroom:
passing the fouiest air continually into th,
body Of the house are as fruitful of malaria
as if the occupants lived on the edge Of {
swamp. Comparatively few even of thu
first rate hotels and boarding houses have
anything like proper ventilation. Th'
passage smell musty, the air from a hun
dred close bedrooms pouring into them
while not Il window is opened in the BALI
from October till May. Not pleasan
subjects to speak of, but one Of vial i'm
portance, not only To- residents, but pro-
pcrtv holders in New Y Ork, for it is seri-
Gus question where to find healthy plac,
to live within a dozen miles of this city
anu luc nOet ElSlu sanitary COnuillOn
must DC learned aud enforced where 81
many thousand dweIlers are crowded to
gether, or living in The city is not to b,
thought Of | will say that families whc
keep we'll ordered, well ventilated house!
find nothing to complain Of in New YOrl
more than in other cities.
NEW YEARS CALLS.
The young swells of New York mad,
their calls New Years Day in the rcgula
ton still shirt fronts, white neck-lies, Will
waxed moustaches. 1t was as cold a;
Grccnland's icy mountains, and The young
gentlemen had hard time of it. DESPITE
the appeal of The Temperance Union to the
ladies not to ofcI their callers wine. it strikes
me great deal of ardent liquors must have
been consumed, Fo; toward night The
young gentlemen wObbled in terrific man
ner, and as they went from the doors TO theft
carriages they complained Of slippery side
walks, where there is no ice, and they
showed an inclination to sleep that betok
ened exhaustion. And their tongues were
thick and their breathing heayy-in short