Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-02-09

marked my Bridge street blunderer yester-
you propose 10 do itY" Take BATH" and
he steered his way up Monroe street, pre-
sumabiy TO Iigqte' himself by the Oriental
method.
/ can't say what arrangements my friend
Powers may have made for raising his splen-
did new structure on Fulton street next sea
son, but do know that this present cold
weatheri is raising Cain, with my delicate con-
stitution. TO say nothing of the price of real
estate on the rivers verge. If one reads the
a ms of The tines-and there is nnqu, .ior e l
evidence that several hundred persons do, out
side and beyond the shadow of the grass
hopper that pendantly hangs DER Fanuel
Hall-he or che must admit that this is
period of deep research into, and profound
meditation over, the laws according 10 which
nature, society and thought live, move and
have their being. Granting this 10 be a self-
evident trutt-a ma1in-it seems TO have
taken head In this community in the fol ma
ton of class for the study of Herbert
Spencer's philosophy. 1T does me proud"
(as Mayor Belknap was about 10 remark the
other evening when blushingly introducing a
lady TO slender audience) TO note this in
vigorating searching after the unknowablc
and unattainable, and did not my advancing
years and hereditary leaning TO lumbago for
bid 'I'd ine' that class and stick 10 the
doctrines till the last fond crack of
doom. But for me that day has
gone. Ny once raven locks are taking
s;reaks of gray ''atween;" TO teach olu
dogs new tricks, is said TO be no good, so
I'll fondle the old illusions TO my breast,
and when the sundcwn of life with its dark
ening shadows surround me, I'll draw such
curt .ins of Hope as are left suoh Old beliefs,
and bide the final result without having
puzzled too much over the ever shifting
doctrines Of theorists. While speaking of
myself. l must remind my readers-suppos-
ing for an instant, have more than one
that hypocholdriacal senility creeps over me
apacc, in inverse ratio with my lumbago
troubles, and my over-tasked nervous sys-
tenn is liable to go to peices unless the tor
tion OF constant work is iightened at
times with needed rest. Hence the infer
ence, may be relied on that these letters will
not be inflicted on the constant reader more
than once week, and then only in such
allopathic doses as the crick in my back will
allow.
When frsst the might of deathless thought
lmpress'd the ftr-instruciing page
Unconscious giant, how he smote
The fraud and force of many age.
Pale wax'd the harlot. feard Of thrones.
And they who bought her harlotry:
Thy printer shonk the throne On bones
And SHALL all evil yet To be.
Lord, taught by thee. when Caxton bade
His silent words forever speak;
grave for iyrants then was made
Then crack d the chain which yet shall break.
With study WON. the Hll-scs IN ii man.
For bread for bread. his PRES prepared.
He knew not. Lnrdl thy wond rous plan
Nor why. nor what. he aid and dar,d."
"B. g." clipped those admirable lines
from printers specimen book. and pleads
ignorance of the author. Would a friend.
better acquainted with the poets than he,
furnish the writer with the authors manner
"B. g." is impressed with the idea that as a
text for the Press il cannot be excelled,
and when called on to respond TO that toast,
would advise all journalists to study its pith.
1t will not be found an easy elocutionsry
effort to read it aloud. Try it.
While on the subject of Press" I am re-
minded OF an inquiry made the other day as
TO the derivation of the word 90 electro
lot.." l replied. suppose j. is diminu-
tive of electric" perhaps, and carries
- ~ ln~ - .oI szla
Oh said my Il thought it meant old, stale
telegrams-four or FIVE day. old, so old in
fact as to be defonct- You Newspaper men
take 80 many licenses uith the Queens Eng
lsh that the wonder is she don't grew jeal-
ous."
The dear old regal lady has trouble enos gh
Just now, ! wssn, without worrying over
literary labor. That internal Arab has tied
knots in the Ea9l al 10 - III tiIl the ''hAffi-
can h'emblem" can't rest ron know. What
grand opportunity there is nov for the
Feniaus to square accounts with Engispd.
Every one OF them should pack their vHiises
full Of dynamite. start for E0yft and join
hands With q e aons Of I hmafl. who are
battling for their Own CO.. ntrT. BT TIE way,
a short trlp along the Borthern const 81
Africa. and up the Nile as far the pyramids
of Gizeh. conyinces b. q. that these sous
OF the desert sYring barefooted
into this world with more nnfnral
lutsslsisencs. innate shrevdness and genins
for adapting the cunning rneans ~ fhe
dIab0iicai e18ds. than ang of the multiplied
sons of Abreham. ShYlock is poor ressre-
sentstloH of d u ard kn0wledge of hnrnen
nsfure when compared wIfh fsis cooaiu q
Z the Pyramids. The son of Havar world
E have stolen his p0und ~ fesh. after the
f coart hsd come TIE eQu1fg rH=e On hirs. and
wou'dnt Aave taken poor cut eIther.
+ Their dapiIcity iles tsereath counfeunncs
4 as ifnperturoahle as ths1r sgshgux. and tlseir
secrets srs "a hard - Observes. as wssrs the
CHAMBER. N ths heart 81 TIE TyrRnld.
They tel rne AZ af,peAi vlH % made -
E Csnads for spbS13s of 2s.en men Wfsls
the glory of 6sE = CREST snd rnovine
e1neffof. lef me cfvs = pointer 90 ffsees
sadlx neiehhors q os-s. 20 reBhin cnirsls
- hafss heneesh thsir nsn wfnes hnS rrsets'
- palaces The burning Seo8s ef ~ kfvI
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