Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-05-23
FROM THE HUB.
TIE LOSS OF EMERSON COMPARED WITH
LoNGFELLoW's-RELU FAINT SPRING.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. SPRING.
Maple Sugar Recollsctions-Maple Sap
Summer Forecasts-Canton Mattings
English women-Pashions.
Correspondence OF the RECORD. USIoS.l
BosToN, May ii, 1882.
In losing Emerson New England loses
the most original of her great men. Col.
Higginson, in the Woman's Journal, speak.
ing of Emerson and Longfellow, says ::
They are gone, and who shall take their
places 1t is the question that was asked
before they began their work, and that will
be asked after their successors have fin
ished theirs. Sydney Smith
wrote in lSlS There does not appear to
be in America at this moment one man of
any considerable talents, and yet at that
very moment Emerson was preparing to
write his first prize essay in Harvard Col.
lege. 1t is for us to laurel the dead and to
give encouragement to the living; the
eternal forces of the universe will take care
of the rest" A literary man here in Bos-
ton made some remark to another concern
ing the much greater number of mourners
over Longfellow's death than over Emer.
sons. Yes," replied the other, "but
one Emerson mourner equals a hundred
Longfellow Ones" "That is true," agreed
the first speaker. Doubtless i. is true,
JUDGING BY THE HEAD
Rather than the heart, but whose influence
and memory will live longest Are not
Emerson's most fervent disciples, even now
when his not over long life has but just
ended, among the middle-aged? Could
there be found, wonder, in any coterie of
young people, students, or young men and
women just entering upon active life in
the world, the almost religious enthusiasm
plenty Of us who are beginning to find our first
gray hairs can remember to have seen or
shared amongst the young people of twenty
and thirty years back Even farther
back that influence began, for gentleman
who heard Emerson's first public lecture in
1S34-the hearer being school boy who
won his lecture ticket as a prize of good
Observation-Disclosures he can never forget
the lecturer, and the impression that lect-
ure made upon his youthful mind He can.
not now recall tie points of the argument,
but its sentiment is perfectly vivid after
this lapse of nearly half century Why
cannot some little community of men leave
others to seem. and content themelves to
be 81
TYNDALL Is ONE WITNESS
To the way some of those bygone young
folks read and felt Emerson and Carlyle.
Here is his testimony, in an address to the
students of London University: "The
works of two men, neither of them i'm.
bued with the spirit of modern science,
have placed me here to-day. These men are
the English Carlyle and the American EN-
erson. They told me what to do in way
that caused me to do it, and all my conse.
quent intellectual action is to be traced to
this purely moral source" Emerson might
well be the believer in heredity that he
was, for eight generations of strongly re-
ligious, individual, eloquent and cultivated
Emersons preceded him, and his mothers
family was remarkable for union of prac.
tical philanthropy and eminent spirituality;
spirituality that was, in some of them, of
mystic cast. The Mrs. Ripley,
famous in so many New England legends
that embody tie true New England mix.
ture of the practical and the sublime she
who taught Greek and the higher mathe-
matics to the collegians, rusticated with
her reverend husband, the teacher busted
at one and the same time with hearing and
the lessons and shelling peas or
rocking the cradle, or. later, at Brook Farm,
could do justice to a Latin class or one in
with her arms buried in
wash-tub and soapsuds, was an Emerson
cousin. So, too, a second one was lady
whom knew, who
THE CHIDLEsS WIFE
OF man whose income never exceeded
81 900 the year, and was at times much
less, had brought up to honorable man and
thirteen adopted children
children wholly dependent upon their
adaptive parents In the Sleepy Hollow
Cemetery at Concord sleep now Thoreau,
Hawthorne and Emerson. But will Con.
cord be less than it has been the American
Mecca of thinkers and readers? There
still will be the famous dust there still
The lesser stars of the Concord galaxy
Bronson Alcott and his ! ghter there
Emerson and Thoreau the Old Manse
aden with more eloquent mosses of history
md association than any building in New
England, and the remembrance of long
line of illustrious pilgrims who have rev.
srently sought this quiet little town. Never
was there more
RELUCTANT SPRING.
The woods give not sign of warm airs
and voyaging sap, and even the fruit trees
are only family green, or show their twigs
slightly knobby with swelling fruit buds.
But the birds in force pipe out the true
calendar time, and we know the sap does
move, for look at the high. piled tiers of
maple syrup cans in each grocer's window,
and the pyramids of maple sugar bricks.
The use of maple syrup grows hugely each
year. Who that has once eaten pancake
or fritter, dipped in the favored woody
sweetness of genuine maple syrup, would
not forever more scorn the best that sugar
cane, unspoiled by any glucose or other
commercial and fraudulent. adnixture,
could do? But the syrup bought in the
cans is not so good as that prepared from
the sugar, melted each day for the daily
use, or rather syrup bought in the market
is not 80 good. 1 have eaten, In private
homes in Vermont, year-old maple honey
that was the perfection Of flavor and un-
cloying sweetness. So, too, in Cuba, one
gets cane honey = eaten there with
fresh cocoanut or Clipped pine
apple cheese-a delicious amber Lucent
syrup" that never by any chance is to be
found in a northern market
BUT MAPLE SAP
In its most exquisite form is maple wax
the thick, ropy syrup in the last stage be-
fore granulation. This can only be had in
a sugar camp, or its near vicinage. In
portion of my school days there were great
sugar orchards near the mixed college
wherein I was a student. The young
men students might freely visit these, but
we poor unlucky girls might not wander
outside corporation limits, and really
if ever in life belleship was worth anything
it was in spring days then, for as sweets to
the sweet the young men brought back
from the camp to the objects of their
special or general admiration such fra
grant boxes of cedar chips full of ductile
maple wax as no bonbonnieres with q
freight of French bonbons could
ever equal-such Easter eggs-turkey
eggs, or goose eggs, blown and filled with
this same wax, as no confectioner's coun-
ter ever dreamed of. Needless of present
east wind and thrashing snow.squan we
listen to the birds, believe summers only
round the corner, and are wholly given
over to planning what we shall do in its
long days and
BRIEF SOFT NIGHTS.
Some of our notables will make the