Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-02-16
The Utilization DUDE Extermnator."

That Mr.. Joseph Mulhatton, sat
ated With the triumph he has 6
easily achieved in the fields {
romance. should have turned hi
attention To other kinds of inver
tIdlis, can scarcely be matter {
surprise to those who know hin
best. In any age less progressiv
than ours, the appearance OF al
invention at once so important an,
so wonderful rs his "Dude Exter
minator'' could not fail to produc
widespread excitement. The ini
| tiaf trial of the 'Exterminator" wa
made at McCauIey's Theatre, ii
Louisville, a few evenings since
and Was, in every respect. highly
satisfactory. According To thevery
interesting account published in the
tally papers, after the play the
dudes arranged themselves in Their
usual Ianguiu manner against the
walls TO watch the departure
of the audience. little dreaming that
their useless lives should at last be-
comesQf value in demonstrating the
practicability Of one of the great in
venti0ns of the age. Suddenly a
hidden spring was touched, a slight
7o,s6 twas heard, and the long line
of dudes was blown skyward to
mingle with the nebulous dust of
great comets, and assist in giving
Us, when the rains are over, anoth-
er series of brilliant sunsets.
That a large stock company has
been organized for the manufacture
of The Dude Exterlnlnator. with
Mr.. ,Mulhattonlat its head, is sutfi-
cient guarantee of the. esteem in
which this invention. is held by
those who have, had an opportunity
of testing its workings. That Mr..
Mulhatton has rendered most ac-
ceptable service to humanity, and
tnat his invention, in newspaper
parlance, meets long felt want, is
not to be doubted by those who
watchedthe tendency of the times.
1t il an old truth that history re-
peats itself, and this is not the first
age in which the curled darlings of
fortune have set up other Gods TO
follow than manly strength and
valor. Sybaritislh, dandyism, dude
ism, it is the same evil under differ
ent names. Sybarltism, swoonIng
with voluptuous pleasure !. dandy
ism, decked in laces and Jewels,
whose sole cause of self repr9ach
was having swallowed IA pea, met
fearful retributiun in the overthrow
of Rome, and on the French guillo-,
tine. end it may happen, even in
these days, that dudeism should
not go unscathed. So long as dude
ism was confined to Il few rich
swells who exhausted their scanty |
stock of brains and energy in wear
ing impossibly tight pants and
Iooth-pick shoes, and were, thence
forward, reduced to such a state of |
assitnde that nothing could move
them but the silver knob of deli |
,afe walking stick, the matter was
only worth an idle jest, but when
he malady spreads through All the
ength and breadth oftur land, and /
t seems at present that we shall be-
come nation of cane sucking
young nien, il is time that Null
lattoa should arise TO save US from
he curse of dltlesism as Cervantes is
aid la have freed Spain from the
Age ul Gi.ivalry.
That the descendants of the men
Who in,l,ie the Wilderness blossom
ike the rt,se, who have flashed their
nventions around the earth, and
lighted the world by their genius
hould be guilty of such an atfecta-
ion is one of the anomalies of life
hat some future priest of the evolu-
ion of man must eXpound.
That the tendency is an evil one,
nd :. fast growing one in spite OF
IS absurdity, is not TO be doubted.
he dudeism that exhausts itself In
urple and fine linen, and in the
imitation of what it fondlY believes
} be the English Aristocracy is,
erhaps, the least hurtful form this
lalady can take. 1t is the dude
'm that is undetinable-the some
ming that ignores the fact that to !
We is not all of life, that makes all '
motions "bad FORM" and draws
ne meshes of conventionalities SO
osely that it smotheFs sentiment, !
ne dudeism of literature that CO. /
uettes with metaphysics but touch '
J not the grand passions OF tie .
uman heart, the dudeism of poll !
cs that sees in MorInonism the +
reat caneerous sore that unmulest. e
] will poison all the sweet and Z
current of our blood yet +
lrinks away from the surgeons g
nife, that recognizes in the tariff i
le great issue OF the Cay yet fears =
decisive step, the dudeism of re- /,
gion that is so comforting to the v
eh, and so cold to the poor, it is v
II the dudeisln that even Mr.. Null a
atoms machine does not reach +
lat our need for the remedy is sor. D
It. a
However, no one can doubt that :
le introduction of the Extermina- :,
n ushers in a new order OF things, y
Id that the dude is doomed. Like n
le drdDsdtis perSOnR in an old >
shioned tragedy they have seen :,
Ieir daggers, and, true to the last y
their one principle I'm life, will die S
ith due regard to appearances. =
ne does not regret their exit, sure :,
lat in their wake must follow n
Gorge w. Simpson. and Gerendo- /;
ne Mahaffy, Minnehaha MeNulty, Z
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