Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1884-02-05
The Pal ltdn Gazette apropos of
Baron Tcnnyson, has the following

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Baron Tcnnyson, has the following
lines:
Alfred. Alfred. We're de We're.
If Time be heavy on your hands,
Are there no tOilcrs in our streets.
MOI. any poor in all these lands2
Q! teach the weak to strive and hope,
Or teach the great to help the low;
Pray heaven for q noble heart,
And let the foolish title CO."
l wonder if Tennyson read these
lines J. wonder if they touched his
heart. From the glimpse given us of
the Poet at home by Thackcry's
daughter, in the Christmas Harper,
Tennyson is one of the most lovable
and loving of men. And yet, he has
been successful man, poctical and
dreamy, living as he must with his
head in the clouds, yet he has man
aged to keep his hands busily at work,
filling his pocket-book.
1 note that Bulwer's life, by his
son, is not meeting with any sale in
England. Is he out of date? Alas
as our old friend Rip Van Wrinkle
says, Chow soon we are forgotten"
Who wrote The Bread Winners
Having just read it, carefully, and
enjoyed it, I should say, first, it was
written by man. A manly man
not a dude. And it is one of the
strong probabilities that the man's
name is Gen. Felix Agnus, of the Bal
timorc american. He has not denied
it, and having been asked about it.,
his silence gives assent.
Week after next we have Edwin
Booth. He will not draw as much
money as Patti and Gcrstcr this week,
but more people will hear him and he
will most assuredIy do more good.
Again, the very Hamlet that Shake
speare drew, will walk the boards of
Old Holiday; and Richelieu will step
from Bulwcr's page out before the
garish light, and Shylocl1 will bend to
whct his knife upon the sole of his
shoe while the gallery Kisses. Strange
compliment to an actor, but grown
very common in these latter days
the heavy villain fishes for Kisses as
the hero poses for applause.
Booth is not a successful business
man. After building his magnificent
theatre in New York, and running it
for two years, he was bankrupt-hc
was 5000, 900 worse off than nothing.
He gave up everything, and beneath
the auctioncr's hammer passed his
books and his pictures, his souvenirs
and his jewels; even his unsurpassed
theatrical wardrobe, perhaps the most
complete in the world. And then he
worked himself nearly to the death to
pay his debts. Finally, j. II. Nc
Vichar settled for him with his cred
| ltOrs. and to-day, while Booths The
atre has been wiped out of existence,
Edwin Booth is in the very highest
enjoyment of his position, as the very
best interpreter of the immortal Shake
speare in the world.
The business world, as far as Bal
timore is concerned, is extremely
sleepy, and has uneasy dreams. The
anu cnetffy, ana as Srtar-Dyi year t the
South grows in Importance and wealth,
so surely must the commercial and
financial interests of Baltimore in
crease.
And as Old Virginia gets firmer
9C'1'Iu upOu tIIC hSCh u N1anOnc ana
Mahoneism. Marylamd's pulse will
beat firmer and stronger, for are they
not Siamesc rwins-if you stab Vir-
ginia, does not Maryland bleed q
Knock a man down in Baltimore, and
if he isn't q Virginian it's because he
was born in North Carolina.
1 see that Gebhardt, Mrs. Lang
try's Gebhardt, has just paid SIP, 900
for the bay colt Eolitc, to boswell &
Hancock, of Charlottesville. AS Sol
Smith Russell used to remark, q the
boss has four legs, one at each cor
ner." Well, three thousand dollars
corner is good price, and it's the
largest ever paid for a Virginia raised
horse. A. w. HAWKS.
January "a, 1884.