New-York tribune., 1880-10-03

with the sor7 look Of country folk who cannot see
objects nj glance but look hard at thing 20 take
1t IN. The dark Hoosler wives nave laie'' 10, %
hurried manner and gentle voices without tne
nasal twang, thank heaven. Here ana th"re a'hong
them is the old man who has cut three arms out
of the green woods. He is progressive OLD felioW
exnects 10 hear the cattle bellerln through the AR
ON their way from Texas 70 New-Iork IN balloons.
But most interesting are the poor people from Dog-
town The little town of TaIlholt," and from
"the crawfish lands" the wet lands oil lnclana.
They are dressed in thick w0Ollen hats ana wOolen
clothes the further you 90 south the more corliN
ito the men hate straw hats and linen coats. IheY
Ionk worn ont ground ou. broken and cracked To
the very marrow on the wheel OF privation, ana
they are tanned, weather beaten, bespotted WIN
exposure vet il is because they are too lazy 10 MAKE
themselves comfortable. At their doors are an
the elements of luxury and wealth-the Dest Oiick
clay for houses In the world; the best wainn' w
the best flax and sheep II their dogs dld not
devour them. Tor clothes. They are rounu-
shOudered, lean and uneoinfortaDe WIN hz ness;
i'm hot climate a. elsewhere laZiness being one Oh
the discomforts of life. But they have CONTENT thau
virtue of a low capacity; the man who cannot piough
one-hundred acres is content with one. HAD they
the energy of the inhabitants of our great north-
western empire they might live IN magnlhcence.
Ii is n shame that Americans should ne sncn
miserdbles since every American can be prosperous
If he will One of these poor beings II a barefoot
bow of twenty-one who has brought log-to one Oh
the saw-mills. The owner is not there 10 receive H.
Write on IL and leave It" advises bystahder
81 can't write and Pve got TO 90 twenty miles TO-
night and | haint had no dinner, nor my horses
haint had nothing TO eat says the boy. IL
CITY rnughs in blue flannel with @ay hahdher-
chiefs tied loosely about their necks, Oesprlnkie te
crowd with certain handsome recAlessnesS' Nc
groes too, are there as impudent as theV uNeu 10
be meek before the war, not having attalheu lho
golden mean of fine behavior. Stare At black boy
and Didn't We never see Niger before = he asks
FEATURES oF THE CROWD.
Occasionally you see an immigrant not long from
Castle Garden He is homesck in our level, dusty
West where the showers onlI make rhe heat sticky
and every little muddy rivers fork seems 10 hlm
toasting-fork. He longs for mountain streams and
for the hilly air that made him feel hungry ana
Young. and he woud like to rest his bones IN
still gloomy valley and stand again on
mountain-sde. As an offset to the homesick
ones comes a wOodcarver who has been to his old
home in Switzerland for his health, this summer.
and has Just got back He says the people at home
are doing nothing but livin and he is glad to get
where there is plenty of sky once more. lie has
something of the comprehensive love Of nature that
enjoys plains as well as mountains, and he thinks
Indiana paradise And a cabnet-naker has just
returned from Bohemia. where he went 10 see his
old father He likes our fiat lands better than city
fat and our stoneless fields better than stony noun
tains Mountains ALWAYS are a disappointment
never high enough to satisfy one. He has Deen ln
Bohemia. making himself perfectly lntO.rrdhle,
Dragging about his money ana MS pusi1eS fa1'i %,u
Well. a shiplo load OF his old neighbors Will be after
him here be lore next March.
Tr mn ttrdcs bear the loiterer into the seed and
vegetable halls and on into the fragrance OF apples
pears and
biOOmv pums,
Ready TO met between an infants gums
and then INTO the perfume Of dowers. and at last
into q bew ldermenr of merchandise where one ma y
see ever, thing from marble and iron to sIVeI' gou
diamonds and
"moon-like rows
OF pearls each round and white Us bubbles Cupcs DO"
l. z luf OF mothers mllk.'
Now one Is smothcred among furniture carpets
,, franeri.s nov uuffl "A in laces and silks. now
wrapped in an atmosphere Of tiukling piano notes
now entanged in a snarI of tides, wors ed work.
wax flowers. cOunterDaues and embrolderies IN tht
W0mcu's Department Better the open air and the
Crceusward.