Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1882-10-13

A letter from Montclair, N. j., to the
New York Evening Post says: | met
recently, an old friend of Herbert Spen-
Ger. You have no idea," said he,
chow broken-down that mar is. He
can't sleep-he can'tcalm himself. He
refused to see gentlemen in this city
with whom he had been in correspond
ence for years-refused to ever accept
letters from them. As for myself, who
have known him for n long time, he dis
missed me peremptorily and hurried off
to the Windsor hotel soon after reach
the city. He not only wouldn't talk
philosophy with anybody, but he
wouldn't talk anything else. The fact
is he couldn't. The voyage was too
much for him in his present state.
He took it as Il tonic, but it didn't
agree with him, and now lie is roaming
among the Catskills, nobody knows
where, in company with an old Eng
lish friend, Mr.. Lott, who was his COM
pdgnOn du UOydge, and who for twenty
years and more has been of the great
est assistance to him. The two are
travelling incog., SO far as Mr.. Spencer
is concerned, They register their
names at hotels as Mr.. Lott and friend
They want to be let alone"
"Shall we see nothing of Mr.. Spen-
Ger in New York;" / asked.
POSSIBLY, in September. His plan
is to 60 through the Catskills very leis-
urely, and thence to Canada, and grad
ually work his way down the St. Law
renee to Niagara Falls and back to
New York, if he is strong enough.
But one of his chief breads in view of
coming to this city was the dread of
being talked to when he arrived here.
1t was worse than any dread of crossing
the Atlantic"
'He has escaped the realization of
his chiefdread, it seems"
Yes, but the passage over was very
trying. 1t left him used up, and in a
condition where'the most cOnsiderate
attentions of his worthiest friends would
be only n burden to him."
Has he been long in ill-health?'
Ever since the year 1855, when nc
finished his Principles OF Psychology,
his greatest work, in eleven months
1t ruined him physically since that time
he has been the slave of sleeplcssnes.
and nervous irritation. Ihave received
from him perhaps two hundred Letters
in the last twenty years, but they ar
all on business, and short. / purpOsel,
kept him from writing on other sub
iects, because | knew what u labor i
was to him, and wished to spare him
In all the letters he has written to M
there is not one that contains n para
graph that would interest the public.
"Have Mr.. Spencer's publishe,
writings remunerated him in the large
American sense of the wOrd?'
NO; not in the large, America
sense; but they have paid him wei
His publishers in this country, Messrs
d. Appleton & Co., have paid him tn
regular authors royalty of 10 per cen
on the retail price OF every one of hi
books sold by them. Not 4 singl
volume bearing his name has com
from their press without a yOluntar
guarantee on their part that he shOul
be benefited financially to that eXten
and | may say that they have eXtende
the same courtesy to Mr.. Tyndall, M
Darwin, Mr.. Huxley, and all the othC
foreign authors represented in the
international Science Series Thes
gentlemen receive from the Messr
Appleton a. large Il percentage as
they were Americans who wrote bOOl
in this country and published thel
here. Mr.. Spencer has always Ina
this recognition, even since his fir
work bore the Messrs. Appletons' in
print
is Mr.. Spencer social in'his'tastes?
HIS principles are social, | ShOu.
say, rather than his tastes. He is n,
Il society man, like Tyndall, and in Il
snnse that TYndall is: but bis cOnNers