The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-11-23

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the hotels. The common school was
well enough, but to the common nursery
they had grave objections. Eggs might
De matches in ovens, hut the hen on
her W account much preferred the
Old way. A hen without her chickens
was but half hen.
1t was a curious experience Of the pa
irons and leaders of this noted commu-
nlty-in which the agreement with
May parties was that they should give
so many hours OF instruction in matlle.
mates, in music, in moral and intellec-
tual philosophy, and 80 forth-hat in
every instance. the newcomers showed
themselves keenly alive to the advanta.
yes OF the society, and were sure to avui!
themselves OF every mean of instruc-
,lon; their knowledge was increased,
thelr manners refined, but they became
IN thai proportion averse to labor. and
! we're changed by the heads of depart.
| meits with a certain in iolence and self.
ishness.
In practice it is always found that vir.
tue is occasional, spotty and not linear
or cubic. Good people are as bad as
rogues, If steady performance is claimed
the conscientious runs in veins, and the
most pnnctllious in some particulars are
lattudlnariGn in others. 1t was very
gently said that people on whom be-
iorehand all persons would put the ut
most reliance were not responsible. They
saw the necessity that the work must be
done, and did it not, and it OF course fell
to be done by the few religious workers.
No douot there a in many a certain
strength drawn from the fury Of dissent.
l.!ls VI, ripley olu theodore Parker:
There is your ACCOMPLISHED friend; ne
would hoe corn all Sunday If | would let
him, but all Massachusetts could not
make him do it OH Monday"
vi course every visitor found that
ttiiere Was a comic side to this paradise
"t shepherds and shepherdesses. There
was IA stove in every chamber, AMI ev-
erVone might burn as much wood as he
or she would saw. The ladies took cold
on wasliing-day, 80 it was ordained that
the gentleman shepherds should wiring
and hang out clothes, which they pune
tuallv did. And it would sometimes oc-
Il that when they danced in the eve
nlng, clothes-pins dropped plenlifully
from their pockets. The country neigh.
bors naturally were surprised to observe
that one man ploughed all day, and one
looked out of the window all day, and,
perhaps drew his picture, and both re-
ceived at night the same wages. One
would meet also, some modest pride in
their advanced condition, signi.ied by a
frequent phrase: "Beiore We came out
OF civilization" The question which oc-
ours to YOU had occurred much earlier
to Fourier: Chow in this charming
And long ago Fourier had exclaimed,
"Ah, l have III" and jumped with Joy.
"Don't you see" lie cried, that 'no,hing
so delights the young Caucasian child as
dirtl see the mud-pies that all the
children will make, if you will let
them. See how much more Joy they
find in mourning their puddln. on the ia
blec.oth than into their beautiful mouths.
The children from six,to eight organized
into companies, with flags and uniforms,
shall do this function of c~ivillzauun."
In Brook farm was this popularity,
that there was no head. In every family
Is the father: i'll every factory a foreman;
III q shop, Il master; in boat, the skip.
per; but iii this iarm, no authority; each
was master or mistress of their own &C.
tons; happy, hapless anarchists. They
expressed, after much perilous exper-
ien:e, the CONVICTION that plan dealing
was the best defence of manners and
morals between the axes. People can
not live together in II bnt necessary
ways. The only candidates who Will
present themselves will be those Who
have tried the experiment of in,
dependence and ambition, and have
faile 1; and none others will barter tor
the most comfortable equality the
chance for superiority. Then all com
munities have quarrelled. Few people
can live together on their merits. There
must be kindred, or mutual economy, or
a coutnon interest in their business or
oLner external !lr.
The society at Brook farm existed, ]
think, about six or seven years, and
then broke up; all the partners came
oll with pecuniary loss. Some of them
had spent on it the accumulation of
years. l uppose they all, at the mo.
ment, regarded it as a failure, | do not
think they can SO regard it now. but
probably as an important chapter
in their experience which has been OF
Ii eiong value. What knowledge of
themselves and of each other, what vari-
GUS practical wisdom, what personal
power, what stu lies of character what
accumulated cultur~, MANY Of tile mem
bers owed to I'll What mutual .nea sure
they took of each ofher! 1t was Il close
union like that in asliip'scahin, mechan-
les, farmers sons and dnghlcrs, with
men and women of rare opportunities
anu uSltCate culture, nLhSSet lDiCu Lflcrc
10y & sentiment W llch all shared, some
of them hotIy shared Of the honesty Of
| Il life OF labor and OF the beauty OF u life
of humanity. The yoeman saw refined
manners in persons who We're his
!riends; and the lady or the romantic
scholar Saw the continuous strength and
faculty in people who would have dis
gusted them hut tina. these powers were
not spent in the direction OF their own
Theory OF TIfe.
l recall these selected facts, none
Of them Of much independent interest
but mpotamatic oftlmes and contrary.
please myself with the thought thai
our American mind is not r"w eccentric
or rude in strength, hut is BEGINNING to
show u quiet power, drawn from wide
and abundant sources. proper to a COLI
>titution I'D to an educated people. Ii
have owed much to the special infu
ences | have indicated, l am not less
aware of that excellent and increasing
circle of masters in art and song n
in science, who cheer h intellect OF
our cit es and this country to-day; whose
genius is not Il lucky accident, but nor
mai, with broad foundation OF culture,
and SO inspires the hope of ready
strength advancing on itself, and 2 day
without night.
A Big Hit. ..