Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-03
HA7TON'S LETTER.
The Christmas Of the Carol, the
Chimes, the Cricket on the
Hearth, No More.
The Richest Man in the World and Why
He LOyed Trotters, from
IN English View.
The Dark Clouds lowering over Europe
The Political situation in England--
Lily Lungiry and other Celebrities.
special Correspondence of the Gazette.
,rrtp Nptv eptptf. olr r-ftr Acts.

special Correspondence of the Gazette.
THE NEW SPIRIT or THE AGE.
LONDON, Dec. 2i.--Christmas is more
OF a commercial institution, II seems to
me, than it was twenty years ago. Is 1t
chat as one grows older one discovers
more aud more that Christmas is more
particularly children's festival? Or do
SIC turn the time to financial account
more than our fathers did? | think we
do. Perhaps Dickens cast glamour
over the time which went out with the
current reading OF his books. Our mod
ern stories nave little OF the pure atmos-
phere OF the Kind Of love that belongs to
"The Carol" "The Chimes" CDR. Mari.
goidn and "The Cricket on the Hearth. y
The Christmas story teller OF to-day does
not fnd his romance IN back streets
and old curiosity shops, nor his moral
in the Christian procepts Of "True
religion is to visit the fatherless and the
sick,h and Glove one another.n They
deBl with more complex schemes than
Dickens dealt with Whore he touched
the heart they appeal to the Imagination
only; where the blessing Of good life
was the chief reward he gave his heroes,
they endOw theirs with the wealth OF a
buried treasure. At Christmas Dickens
applied to common events and to every
day life the sweet philosophy of Christ.
Nowadays 1t Is considered Il surer way 10
literary fortune TO glonly "the maminon
OF unrlghteousness.n Our current fiction
Of the season is taken up with the ro-
nance Of fortune, stock exchange adj
ventures, love In high life, mysterious
murders, treasure troVe and narratives
that rathergD down to the lowest AIMS
of life than up to the purest ambition.
II fiction may really be taken to interpret
the moral and physical characteristics of
It's period we are in peTilous state, as
compared with the days of Dickens, when
we were content to follow the
fortunes of Dr. Marigold, to grow
enthusiastic over the repent
ance OF Scroogc, to delight in
the revelations Of Mrs. Lirriper, and find
ourselves positively weeping in sympathy
with "Dotn Nowadays We must sail the
seas for buried diamonds, ascend the
treasury bench with a scheming politician,
ask with SWIVEL it LIE is worth living, or
follow the iutrigues of fashionable
woman ia society. All the old proverbs
against money are out of date We no
longer affect to dcspise II. enough is
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"TIE RICHEST MAN ~ THE WORLD.
don think artistic society as rule
enYied the richest man IN the world. It's
prospects are limited. The Stock eX-
chahge has no great possibilities for a
writer, painter or an actor; and the
prizes OF literature ana art are lew. Ar
us2c society would appreciate the report
IvFs story OF certain suicide IN which
the society oil wealth and fashion would
see nothing "Ihe deceased" said the
poor reporter, mad glass of whisky by
nus sac ana ilVe snlllings In his pocket,
50 mat there was no assignable cause for
ms rash act" The late Mr.. Vanderbilt,
during visit to England, fell into the
hands OF famous picture and bric-a-brac
dealer, who thought his fortune was made
Wnen 'the richest man in the world
entered his Office and evidently "took i
Ia fancy To him." The dealer
showed Vanderbilt all the avail
able art treasures of London,
opened to him many interesting and his.
toric doors, and after two weeks of lnces-
SAINT sight seeing with business views"
he sold 1.-THE richest man in the world" a
table for Sl65 upon which the dealer
made commission OF 20 per cent Van
der6ilt, when he came to London, always
paid MeHenry, the Philadelphia fnancier,
Tbis was nne i ot I to ia oilana park
, almost the only oneI hoNsas Of ,,,liah ho
diued in his Gniet md pnostonta+io,s ~
: to London, His conseryatorv on E Eitt
avenue Is almost an elact COW of Mr.. NJ
, lIenry,s copservato,y In IIolls5nd ,'.,ri,
? saw 4 little Of Nv Vanderhiit ~ A,,,a,
! len liz st,nct me- i' ~ I
, man. nut he sccn,ed 20 40 49,
= Die and pleasant I'm snite az his
wealth. allow to be Happy. ThongI
Rich" would, | guess. be MS rood n stb
Iiect for pleasant satire as alIow To h,
Happy, Though Married" one of IN,
cheapest, most plebeian and not Tho leas
lnutritlve dishes sold among the moor n
, London Is sheeps, feet pickIed They ar,
called trotters. workingman at M
East End was heard last week exprcssIn,