Saint Mary's beacon., 1877-11-16
For the Beacon.)

.Nes~s. Editors 1T seems quite
strange TO me how many people com.
init the mistake of considering whatev-
er written, the real sentiments or the
individual experience Of the author.
Ii they would only think, they would
discover how illogical is the supposi,ion,
to say nothing of the absurdity of en-
dowing the author with superhuman
prerogatives. According to their theo-
ry, authors must all be a veri.able Pro-
teus. Which one of the characters so
well delineated by Shakespeare may we
recognize as himself: or NAV We find
him in all Winch one Of them tells
his true sentiments, or do all of them
proclaim them; If so how contradic-
tory,
How often do we not come across au-
thors who by the magic of word power
portray picture OF welded happiness
that thrill us with emotion, who speak
in golden words of the bliss enjoyed at
'home, sweet home" touc hing a chord
IN our hearts tha, vibrates even after
the passages are forgotten, and yet from
their biographies We learn that they
knew naught by experience Of W bat they
described so eloquentlyl
II il saId that that song which has
found an echo IN every breast, cmana-
ted from one who had no home. sweet
home: still one cannot speak on GER
tain subjects without some az kaowing
ones being positive that those Thoughts
are tie result of disappointed ambition,
5hghtcd hope: or they say, "tha, fellow
must be IN love"
When ! hear people in a tone of con-
v!ction declaring this passage is intend
ed for 80 and 80, that for another so and
80, | am reminded the old farmer who
was at meeting one Sunday when the
minister began n lecture on the faults
and frailties OF poor human nature. He
listened with attention; at the mention
of each foible, he Iaer eracily for rhom
that was intended, but at last something
was said that touc he'd him, when he cx-
claimed, Il don't pay my money to come
here aud be insulted. and, by thunder
] mean to ask him what he meant by
it, Some people are so charitable a.
10 be perfectly willing to make pack
horses OF their ncighhors, but If any one
offers them the smallest parcel to carry
Observation-Disclosures what thew do.
In my quiet moments | have often
tired to divine the cause why people
riU talk about others. and the result of
my researches is that all the social po-
litical and domestic evils which come
from peoples talk may be easily attri-
bused to jealousy, or more frequentl to
envy. IL is a great :hIsTo.tune tor So
ciety that the green-cyed monster with
seven heads should find coscy corner
IN the hearts oi so MANY. Would
we had Hercules to battle against this
hydra, the arch-disturber of social tran
guilty!
We may go through the world. bu, twill be
II we listen 10 all that is said as we co;
Well be worried. and frct;cd. and kept in stew,
For meadleson'e tongues must have something
For people will talk.
Yes, people will talk. and il invariably
happens that the ball with which they
strike others rebounds, and il is a ques-
tion 10 whom most harm is done, SO
GOOD friends, he advised. and do as YOU rlensc
For your mind liz YOU have one) will then be at
case;
Through lie you win NEE, with all sorts of abuse
Gu, don't thiak TO stop them twill be Of no use
For people will talk.
The other evening | was in company
with three gentlemen and was quite
pleased at the enconiums heaped upon
our little Town. its inhabitants and the
entire county. One OF them mentioned
little incident that happened in lSiS,
when he was a gay youth OF fourteen
Summers. He, with thirteen about the
same age. went out yachting, entered
st. ln;socs creek, were most Hospitality
treated by the Milburn aud Courtney
families. They had on board fiddle
for which they paid one dollar and
halt. Not one knew how to play. In
their desperate efforts 10 extract some
music, the strings were broken, leaving
two lone ones.
Oae evening a tall specimen Of the
''sons ot Ham" espied said musical I'M
ssrument aud the wish entered his heart
10 possess the treasure. "Massa. dew
tell what YOU AK far dat dar eddie /: |
gin you ANYTHING for it. What am de
Priee = This fiddle. Sambo, is trea-
sure. You see it has two strings and
IN these two strings all The r;itsere /,
kinds Of melody are combined, II Is a
wonderf eddie"
Yes. Massa. sees Dat. an tell YOU