The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-10-20
CHICAGO, AND LITTLE ROCK. ARK

using the trivial phrase, "thc blind mendicant drank whisky and saw stars," one should employ the sublime expression, "the blind, sightless, vis- uAi-clouded mendicant quaffed copi- ously of jim.j .jaming, sausaged, fiery watered whisky and saw stars--and snakes-and demons" Observe the point. If the mendicant had been simply blind (nstead of blind, sight. less, visual-clouded), he would not have seen, notwithstanding the power of whisky, so many stars, snakes and demons. In truth, the expression can not be surpassed for sublimity.
 A sub- division of the sublime, which is not mentioned by any of the rhetor- ioians, has been invented out of my own head, alone, unassisted, unsug- gested. I mean. the ridioulo- sublime An example will suffice to convey my meaning: Suddenly there rang through the spacious building a piercing cry of distress, which brought 6 multitude of employees to the scene. Horrible sightl It was man caught in ponderous wheel, and being re- volved at 6 fearful rate. Tho work men, white with fear, still found courage to throw sundry blocks of wood between the spokes; the firemen did their utmost to appeasc the angry furnaces, and the engineers to arrest their several engines. At last, the massive wheel was stopped, and 10 l and behold the msngled corpse Of & stuffed dummy was released from its perilous position, bleeding thick drops of clotted sawdust." (This finish Is what consider 6 good specimen of the ridiculo- -sublime)
 will now conclude my remarks upon the sublime by a short, tragic novelette,, entitled,
 THE vICIssITUDEs or A PIE HABER-
 DAsHER
 The fierce, unclean African haber- dasher was renowned for the sublimity of his pies they were rugged; savagely made, massive, of a profound depth and of an immense rough-hew cir conference. These masterpieces, of an intense sombre majesty, were cast in the same mould, and consequently possessed the same glorious imperfec- tions. TLere were pumpkin pies, tamarind pies, indisposition pies, re- beliious pies and deiirtnm tremcns pies, stunning in unquiet repose on an awful, dangerous elevation; and, when parted with, had to be harpooned by the dexterous haberdasher. And . slire of these sublimities was sacrificed at the infnitesimsl sum of five cents.
 "Such 8 display of grandeur must strike the mind with admiration, rev. erence, awe and envy. At least, such were the magnanimous feelings of Snowfakes, the Ethiopian pastry nec- romancer. Note the difference: Some people are thieves, others are klepto- maniacs, but Snowhakes, being hon. est, was only necromADcer. Day after day the haberdasher wondered at the mysterious disappearance of his sub- limities; night after night the Dccro- mancer devised s se~ trick of Ieger- demaia. Every morning the necro- mspoer would take in stock, and count, two, four, six, eight--pies.' The hAherdAsher would turn round and count--sDd there were only seven. Two, four, six, ssven.' The hahsr- dashsr stares. There are only six. And Q on.
 At would require thick volume to detail the dramatic incidents, the tsT- ribls scesss, the passionats words and iesrf1l thrests exchanged bstvssn thsas two champions. Even st this writing the deadly feud is not o'sr.S
 nmy lsarped asd spectAsIsd frisnd is plnssd with the above rsmasA3, Dsxt week I will give my Meas on the heanfffuf Lam R0herf
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