Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-09
A POETS Love Story.

A Poets Love Story.
The matrimonial eccentricities, felici-
ties and mis-alliances of famous literary
men have been an interesting study for
those who delight in contemplating the
curiosities of literature and the calami-
ties of authors. 1t has been remarked
that nothing is so notable about the
wives of great men as their resemblance
in character and fortune to the wives of
lesser men, and, perhaps, it is only be
cause they stand in the brighter light of
ampler criticism tnat there seems to at
tach to the domestic relations of poets,
dramatists and other men of genius
peculiar misfortune and frequent ship
wreck. The subject involuntarily sug
| gests the names of Dante, Shakespeare,
Cervantes, Milton, Byron, Goethe and \
host of less brilliant lights. Joaquin Mil
leris by no means the meanest of the later
day poets and abroad, more distinctively
than at home, he has been acknowledged
as an original genius whose cOntribu-
tions to American literature have en-
phasized its claims to distinctive recog.
milton. His checkered married life has
been the subject of great deal of gos-
sip and scandal, and perhaps man OF
more native refinement and delicacy
of sentiment would have hesitated
to tell the story of the heart which
we reprint to-day from his narration of
it in San Francisco newspaper. But
as correction of the scandal and gossip
that have travestied the truth and us a
romance of real life it is curious and
interesting story. 1t leaves little to be
explained of the causes which led
to their future separation, while it re-
veals very plainly the sources of the
Sierra poets inspiration for much OF the
best work he has ever done. The egut-
ism of the man Obtrudes itself so plainly y
through this very sketch that no one viii
acquit him of his share of responsibility
for the awakening to their lovers day
dream. But if lie has written the closing
of this tale in sad sincerity-and it is
hard to see how he could have coined his
best sentiments into the earnings of the
penny-a.liner-he is entitled 10 the pity
of Il world that has chided him.
THERE are "no returns of umbrella
statistics in the census reports. Quite
natural.
GALVESTON has scored tho receipt thi!
season of 800, 900 bales of cotton, and TIM.
becomes the second port for this staple o
the country.
TIE striking coal miners of Wester:
Pennsylvania have filed a petition in tl,'
Pittsburgh courts for arbitrators under til,
WalIacs act. 1t will likely now have
fair test of it's merits.
AN important railway enterprise wa
. organized in Duluth yesterday, to run
road from there to Red River. Five mil
; lion dcllars of capital augurs a potep
factor in the development of the rich Re,
River country.
THE third volume of Count Paris his
tory of our civil war will be ready fo
the American public in about month.
will include the war Oh the Rapidln, the
Mississippi and in Pennsylvania, includ
ing the decisive battle of Gettysburg.
IT is reported that the civil service 10
form commissioners have determined t.
give Keim a chance to ask the Withdrawal
of his name. They count without thei
host. Keim is altogether too modest t.
take such liberties us tha; with himsel
and his present opportunity.
THE appointment of Greenback orator
general, colonel and general dIsturber o.
Democratic peace, named Butler, to :
place in Secretary Of Internal Affair.
) Africa's Office gives offence to the Demcc
racy of northwestern Pennsylvania ant
they are eagerly inquiring who is respon
sible for the imposition upon lIr. Africa
THE SEASONS.
| Hay, and corn and buds and flowers
SnGw, and ice, and fruit and wine
Suns and seasons, sleets and showers,
Bring In turn these gifts divine.
Spring blows Summer glows.
| Autumn reapS, Winter keeps,
Spring prepares, Summer provide,
Autumn boards and Winter hides
Come then, friends, tL cir praises sound;
Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring,
As they run their yearly round,
| Each in turn with glaJness sing.
Time drops blessings as he files
| Time makes ripe and then makes wise.
REV. DR.. BRIGGS, professor in the
Union Presbyterian theological seminary
of New York city, an original and vigor
Gus thinker and an able preacher, will
deliver the annual sermon this evening
before tho Society of Religious Inquiry of
the Reformed Theological seminary. To
this association the community is egularly
indebted for the presentation by some able
divine of one phase or another of Christian
thought and those who hear to nights ser
mon will profit more than from the mere