The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-02-21
J. .A,.nIrlnoRs, n1FrIounrIEs.

d y AAS-AAASt's-,f - 77'iT9f Haas
How ssmesef tie Iittsratours Worked
while victims Of Disease.
HaIpts Bdsar.
Heinrich Heine, the sweetest singer
Germany has ever prodreed; wrote his
aRosnancero" under circumstances Of
great difiuultes. When paralyzed and
nearly blind, he wrote woven web OF
satire and pathos; in which he spared
nothing. not even his own raeked and
lans,isled frame. eAEy body he said,
iIl,as cone 70 rack and ruin, 80 that almost
nothing Is left but my voice, and my peq
reminds me Of the inelodlous grave ot the
iet,cli anter Merlin, which Is tlthe forest
~ BFoceliatde, in Brittany, beneath lofty
a.. b whose topmost branches blaze up
like green flames to the sky. An, col;
league Merlin, ! envy you those trees ana
.tleir fresh waving boughs, iof No g.sesll
leaf rustles here In my mattress gave
grave without rest death Nttnolt the pliy-
iieges 81 the dead, who have no need 70
write either letters or books. fhaYe been
measured for my cot9n some Tune ago,
and my obituary written, but die 90
slowly that this becomes Q tedious attatr
for myself, as we'll as for my friends.
Patience, however; there is an end %
tevarythins. One morning you will lind
tie hook closed where the puppetshowot
my flnmor so often amused YOU" One
5nivht. indeed, it.was 50, but not until he
.had endured his ''mattress grave for eight
longi weary years. Ono night he moved
i;nte +hat last sand best bed whore "thei
weary'at rest"
II has been commended that when the
disease OF which the sufferer Is dytngis
consumpti. nj or some disease when, psi
tween paroxysms Of pain leaves spaces Of
ease and rest ii Is nothing wonderful tnat
good work should be done. Some OF the
best OF Paiey's works were written under
such conditions, and some OF the best Of
+suelley's. Crabb Robinson said that GO;
ethe never had an affection which he did
not turn into poem. Mr. Philip Gilbert
Hamerton has noted q very peculiar effect
which file act OF composition bad upon
FApEaFdsworth. When engaged in compos:
ing The White Doe OF Rylstone, = he re.
ceiyed d wound In his foot, and observed
that the continuation OF his literary labors
increased the irritation Of the wound,
A1sSt 1880 H.. 4 T. ,,s,ri, h a oant1
whereas oy slspeniaiIg nssmyll i w SS sas
diminish 1t. Apsolute tess Ply. iyaa M PEI
tect cure. In cgnnsys.on mAs ". Ma t.
dent he remarked that p9eliy ss.t
accom- panied oy ptotsaGsel iapo - ~ ~.
position, always ntougt5 ~ .ors ~ M, is
bodily deransement hs presersea a nl.
sell from p.rnlIhehty latn;sa S0 4H9P 7
quences by exeellent napi!s S ;,Iaas. ,,hs,
IL Is curious tnat ZINES ~ " Mtse
the eyes SWIM aha stne ssu a si ~
oitentimes Hsn ~ ~ ssstivu' 4 ~
is naturally poetle le ents ~ atsss ~
by no means Iasteq. scn M.s ss s ~
diton OF AZ. Green, ttse iiIts WIZ
iterally dieu N tlllss. sm H. IA nr -
literary history are 90 Ioucni,g " NY ~.
face In which Mss; Green teiis VIZ ~ nis.eEy
Of tho making o. tne Sonq 9. ~
When he had nnisnen tne lg 1el!, Vvlaule
OF his History Of tue Engllsn fsopts, tneie
was a pause IN tne adyahce OF .ne iu w
disease which atiilcted nun. lager lor
fresh worn, he began % shapG me new pia .iS,
but early in the spring Oh !oel ne iei.
III again. IN the e1ttetnity o.
ruin and deieat ne lounu !, . Iignel
fidelity and q perfect sttengh: M9st men
give up their work gnen tneif emo com ms
neal, but MI. 9reen y saia y nave WoIkeu
all the harder because ~ uayS "s!s mum =.
bered, and stroye 70 OMAN anu oiause ~
much ghs as R9sslole petCte e Lne . anaas
q me gnl eei .is ! sa9yM =. ~
the CONQUEST OF EQklhuu, Wit5 utkull, Auu