Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1884-08-21
SOUTH, WEST AND EAST.
Gath's observations on tho People
from Various Sections.


from Various Sections.
fChicago Letter in Philadelphia Time,.]
There is wonderfully 'aking manner
about the southern man. Ho giy.s more
time to human intercourse than the moro
intellectual or rather more tho, 5htful
northerner.- Notwithstanding his courasa in
the war he is not much OK vindictive man
ana is quick to make allowance for your
temperament or situation or anything else.
When he comes up after an absence and
takes your hand and looks into your face you
only wish you had the civilization 70 bo as
fraternal to your own flesh and blood.
Therefore argue that we are ultimately to
become much better nacon Ct men, eern-
iEg from each other The southern people
are learning method and the value of thrift;
the northern people want to learn to become
more heartfelt
In some OF the southern communities there
Is too much style. l have an idea that you
get as good manners In South Carolina as
anywhere in the southern states, and think
you get the worst manners in Kentucky,
though there arc excellent traits OF character
in the Kentuckians. The widest SHOCKING
people in this world, or, at least, on this con-
tinent, arc the extreme eastern men who
have been altered in states like Kansas
saw the Kansas club come into Chicago, es-
corted by tho New York County Democracy,
and it seemed to me that every man there
looked like old John Brown or his sons They
had those queer, long, red boards, and
l saw one fellow whose beard was
passed inside his vest, and it came out below
his vest, and it seemed to me to fell to his
knees. What he wanted with so much beard
was greater puzzle to mo than the political
platform adopted there. Now, can you
imagine a more ridiculous thing than theso
wild, tall lank men, each OF whom would
have made human telegraph pole, carrying
a banner on which was a Latin inscription
which said something about ave hope to the
stars for hope and ourselves are as tall as the
stars" Vet, when man goes west and sec"
the splendid encounter everybody is making
with human nature-the land, miaSma ETC.
what is called the culture of the east looks
little absurd
notice eye glasses seem indispensable TO
every young person i'll the eastern towns,
while have never seen an eye-glass, think,
in the west on any young person How Is
it 70 be accounted fori 1t cannot be great
study, because the western men read their
newspapers all through In little type and
ought to have no eyes at all. 1t cannot be
the mutations of the weather, for the aver
age western man is always full Of either
chills or quinine, and he is up in the morning
trying to find his cattle in the fog and fire.
qucntly is drunk at night trying to find his
way home Others drink so much cold
water in order to establish their stability on
the temperance Question that their eyes have
an aqueous and flmy nature. l have about
come 70 the conclusion that the young man
from the east wears an eye-glass because ho
is fool 1t seems that the latest agony is
to wear only one glass and look through it
with both eyes; this is supposed to give pre-
cision to the mind By the time the west
gets properly civilized large part Of the
east will have become barbarous through it's
atfeCtationS.