The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-11

with mercy. Chicago people are not UNI
familiar with shirts; indeed they have
worn them for years. The recent dedica-
ton of the auditorium and tbs presence OF
Patti have furthermore given u great inn
petus tn song in that city. The Herald
saw somewhere am allusiOn to 1.-THE Song
OF the Shirt and being am authority
upon both songs and shirts the gredt
could not let the opportunity
pass without making an allusion Of its
own tn the subject. 1t il true no one ON
the staff knew the author, hut IL would
not do tn reveal their Ignorance. They
had heard of Tennyson and his sOnRs.
Like as not 10 was he who had composed
and sung this "Song Of the Shirt" AT any
rate he lived way hack In England, and IL
they were WRONG the chances were that the
error would not he detected. IL anybody
else came forward and claimed tn he the
author il would he easy enough to get rid
of him by charging him with having
pla9arized the song from Tennyson, the
original composer. Great il the culture
and great the nerve of a great Chicago
newspaper.
While the suicide Of Louis Hurts at
Atchison, Kan., has few claims tn origin
ality, either as to the causes which led to
it, ar as Ia the manner of it's accomplish
ment, IL IL still deserving n passing notice.
Mr.. Hurts loved Nellie Burleshani. who
rejected him and accepted the attentions
OF another sutton. Thereupon Mr.. Hurts
took u IDuStOl AII0 bI1Ot Iblbb1SelI I'LL I1e tsAT
Tragedies of the same character have
been Of so frequent occurrence hat the
taking Oft of this Mr.. Kurtz excites no
comment outside of the circle in which he
lived. Yet all human passions, motives
and acts difrerentiate, and since the proper
study of mankind il man, even il he he a
dead man, let us anil for a moment
the details of the case Of the late Mr..
Kurtz. In the first place il appears that
there was n disparity i'm the ages Of Mr..
Kurtz and Miss Burleshan, and that this
disparity was viewed by the young lady as
objectionable. For while Mr.. Kurtz had
cached the maturity and ripeness OF Is,
Miss l3urlesham was essentially u mere
girl, not having passed IL, conf ssedly an
age of INDIGESTION, fickleness and folly.
the abstract propositions involved i'm
the question; she simply said "No"
when the question was prOpounded. In
the flush and flower of her youth. age was
to her an abhorrcut idea. Naturally
enough, therefore, We find her giving Mr..
Kurtz the shake and encouraging the adj
dresses of IL gentleman Of her own years.
And the catastrophe which followed can
i'm 10 way he charged to Miss Burlesham.
Mr.. Kurtz himself was too broad-mindcd,
too much n man of the world not to rcc-
ognize and appreciate her feelings. He
was, moreover, too much of u gentleman
to cherish vulgar feelings of revenge. Old
AS he was, he seems to have been i'm pos
session of his faculties. 1t is with no
small pleasure therefore that we find him
taking his own life without first having
taken hers. His example i'm this respec,
is worthy of the emulation of all mon
d overcome by sorrow. disappoint
ment and ennui atsthe venerable age of Is
feel that on the whole life is no longeI
worth the living, and that there is no po
sition that they Ear MI with so mucf
credit tn themselves az that of lying toe.
up at the bottom of "a grave.