, 1877-09-11
AMERICAN TOL1TfCS, AND BUN.
kElt HILL.
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AMERICAN roL1rrcs, AND nUN-
kElt HILL.
Hosfan Ade.ttser.
William Black, the novelist, is writing story
with The title of " Green Pastures and piccafil-
~" "in conjunction With m American writer"
in which lie turns to goNf aerotint como OF hts
personal observations during his recent vis!t to
this countrr. The hero of tho story with the
ladies' of his company fays arrived at Saratoga
They have dincd Mt the monster hotel with its
flashing lights an1 It's troop Of black waters.
The band is playing In tho s1uarc; the fasflon-
nb1e guests arc promcuadinr along the balcony,
ansl the travellers aro quietly enjoying the
bright spectacle and tito grateful coOluG8S OK
the summer nights:
was 1t not kind Of those two gentlemen,
both Of whom wore ample irtck-.oats ard straw
hats, to place their chairs just before us Of, tho
lawn, so ttat, We cou1d not hut oycr1lear their
conversation And what WIS It all ahputl
~ pennsY1rnnias a!ive,-icst alive kaf1 the
s1tfcr of TIC two sfhe miilcrs are rctI.l!ot,---
yca, sirf You should hare hccrl mo at Ma'icli
Chunk, k,-sA,oN people, and barbecue IN the
woods. and wfolc OK r1astcd, d,-biggc!t thing
since "Ttppecanoe nnl Tyler too.'' When
told 'cm that the bontcd bonilholders robbed
xes ven e. a thfi cs. Il p1pa a as 5 IL ao xa
valley, yo,, should have hcer,l Zen. shout. /
thought they would tear their shirts. The bond
Ii tHE 8nAE[l.u 4kiek tklKG tltG
"'AnI low aIout Thllalctphyi' says tho
WWelI, I was no. quito SO hctty there.
THERE'S a heap Of bonds In rhilattctphy; nnl
ies1ags, -'ntFu1crstnndlnEs. 1t aln't politics.
WHAT'S good Tor one sllo ain't good for usotler
sIlc. You Row your seed A. tho land lays; limits
politics. Where people fiain't got no honie
ers. hut in Fhila.lclphy Etvo II 70 'e1n ou re,
form and corruption, and tho days OF tho Rect-
tuition that trtul mems souls, md tint sort %
th'nG,-anl w'sIitn' VIC hal Washington buck
Washington; mud when people arc skitsIsiI @,
creat questions. yuu fall hack on the fathcr Of
Ills Country. fOt1 scc--'
"tI]ut Wnshtngton's dcad,' objected tho dis
"'Of course he's deaj,' eail tho other,
s,ls Ia canvass. In politics, tho dcatltr a matl
IS the more yoa csan do with him. Ao can't talk
- And about Massachusetts. now,' tho hum
WWcli, those Yankees tloot take too muel,
stock In talk. You cal't do mucl, with tie
lyonds a1l cnfHtptiou tn Massachusetts. There
YOU touch 'em up on whisky and the nieEer.
TIC evils Of tntcnlterunre un1 tho opprcsBlons
Ut the culored brother, those nro tho two bowcrs
IN Massachusctts.'
"'O, well. Rhode Island is onc-horso State,
where every body pays taxes and goes to church !;
and nil you've not to do Is to worry 'cnl about
s,,'n5p The rnpe' Bay tho p'po's comm to run tho
''TLc,. these two rolapso into silence. and wo
arc left free to pursue oar own spcculations.
"a worl must 10 satd about the great
thourhtfnlncss OF our good friends In boston.
no.e-execpt l,unker's lIill. They most seru?.l.
lously avOitcl all mention Of l.unkcr's Hill,
tast as scntelsrnan would rather die than tus,l.
tion BlnnOckhurn In tho SOUTH and, to tell tho
truth, VIC never auw tho place at Ail. This Is
much to bo regretted, for tho vsttn. Of such
scenes Is ipost useful fn refreshing ones knowl-
| elEu OF history: And, indeed, tllia courtesy u,l
Of soI.fusIon aftgrwa!d. Fur, one ovening up
| IN Canntla, when Bell ltAl been busy with her
maps, She suddenly cried out:
"tMly, We never went TO SEQ I}unker's llll1 Y
"sNcltbcr W. DID, wns tho reply
"tAnd II Is close to Boston,
"'AssuFetlly.f
"siiu remained In dcop reflection for mo.
mcnt or two; and then Sic said. in absolute In.
nUccncc:
~ do wonder that 1,atfon that fought Sc
we'll. Nnrth and South, should show such q
sensIttvcncts ~ tEAt. They never sald word
about Dunkes's liLll whel, VIC wero ut l'oston.
sm4ll defeat was quilts forgotten hs this tIlnc
fur nm quite surc tho South wonlil not speak
proud Of stonewall Jackson now rs tho souti
|
"Btoaewall Jachsoni Dunkcr's ItIlil"
What do YOU mcanl' said Queen T., So
vcrcly; for sllu thought tho young wtf0 lal
tukcn leave Of her ecnses.
"'Wcll,' saIli slls simply, and rathcr un
Ernmmaticnlly, III tho North was beaten, tlle1
fought vel enough afterward; ald, when tho,
need not bo nfraid OF tho Bouth remembering
Bunkcr's Hill against theIn.'
:" This was too awful. She WAS the mothc
Of two children. Hut wo wrote TO our friend,
In lsusto1l, begging them In tho future not II
let any of their English friends 90 through tn
town without telling thc,n what Bunkes'a LII
was MI about" ,
IN HUitMAIf.
lKdn9oon Ctrvsspdudtnca Nostoa TbM.
There arc forty or moro lcttcrs In the yernac
ular tongue of tho Burmese, Ill Of clrc,lla
form, and written fruIa right to LETT. As TIN
latiguags has neither dcclllati0n nor conjugu
tton, It takcs years Of hard and paticnt stud,
for Europeans ~ muster 1t. Yet the luwcs