The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-01-07
ASSORTED.
WHITTIER AND HOLMES.

Mr.. Whittier and DIR. Holmes are
now our patriarchs Of song. But it is
in years only that they are old. The
later verses of Whittier have the same
unchanged quality of graphic simple
ity and deep and catholic feeling, the
same penetrating pathOs and New
England vigor, which have been always
his. For half century he has been
bard arousing patriotic and humane
emotion, minstrel cheering and sooth
ing and charming with tender ballad
and romantic lyric. And here is the
latest song of Holmes, the are of the
beautiful illustrated volume, which
happily reminds us how ever fresh and
familiar are the strains which it pre-
ludes, and which will go on echoing
and singing themselves along the COM
ing years.
These are the singers who still hap
PLY connect us with the great group of
which they are parts. But it is the
especial glory Of that group, which
contains the various genius which first
challenged the attention of the world,
satisfied il that at last the MUSES. had
alighted upon this continent, that they
are as illustrious as citizens as they are
renowned as poets, philosophers, his
tOrians, novelists, essayists, masters in
science, ami scholars. There is perhaps
no similar group whose members were
of such lofty and blameless life, so free
from the common faults of men of
letters-of lives so regular, so we'll
ordered and diligent, so free from every
Representation. WILLIAM CURTIS, in
Ha1Per's Magazine for January.
ABOUT EMERSON.
DIR. Joseph b. Cottrell, in letter
from Cloverport to the Frankfort Cap
ital, thus speaks of the great Yankee:
1.-TWO weeks ago your correspond
ent was very agreeably sur
prised by the presentation of
an elegant copy of the poems of Ralph
Waldo Emerson from the Star of Hope
Society, Miss Maggie Bomar making
the presentation most gracefully. Last
Summer, in Paris, Tennessee, / had
given my copy of the same poems to a
venerable woman, eighty four years of
age. casually spoke of Emerson in
conversation with her, and sue re
marked: 81 have copy of his essays
but I've never read one of them; Pm
afraid of him. They say he is a dan
gerous man." AS / unused the fire
burned. After time of silence asked
her if she would listen to me read one
of his poems. She said, certainly ?v
L went to my valise and drew out a
copy of his poems, and seating myself
near the grand old woman, | read, as
deliberately as / could, Emerson's
Threnody. When / ceased, the look
of wonder and womanly sweetness
from those pig, grey eyes-the tears
streaming-told the tale of her capture
drew my pencil and wrote my pre-
senIatiOn of the volume in a blank
leaf. The enthusiasm of woman,
eighty-four years of age, expressed in
such look and by tears, and i'm words
so impuIsive, was indemnity, for what
| had heard from lips of men-one
partIcularly-causing ME amusement.
Had one told me an hour before that
could have been induced to part with
the book, would have deemed it the
extreme OF absurdity but, deep called
unto Deep and the soul of the dear
old woman drew the loop from my
hand. 1t must have been an inspira-
ton which prompted the presentation
of this most elegant copy, out of which
| now read aloud to others who are as
much under the sway of the prophet as
l am"
WATER VS.. ALCOHOL.
In England an Oxfordshire farmer
lost S25 on bet to beat ON water only
Wiltshire farmer in pitching in the
harvest-field, the latter drinking alco-
hol. He pitched 19a. 2r. 26p. in less
than II hours, against 20a. 3r. Up. by his
opponent, losing by 3r. Zip. The effects
on the body of each were very severe.
The ordinary laborer pitches about II
acres in good days work.
WINE.
At tine last International Health
Exhibitio N a lecture on "rhe Aesthet.
zeal Use of Wine and its Influence upon
Health" was delivered by DIR. Thudi-
chum. He defined aesthesia as being
correct feeling-a compound of natural
organization and inherited structure,
aided by science ana refined by poetry
Alcohol was essentially AN anaesthetic,
and i'm some forms was much used in
medicine. Beer was by no means an
alcoholic beverage merely, its main
influence as n naracoti, being due to