Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-04

accounts of the queer, droll things he had seen in the streets and his quaint expe- riences in travelling from town to town. He was her faithful companion and most loyal friend, being to her what a loving father would be to his only child. His husbandship was a sacrifice he delighted in and deserves tho name heroic.
 Poor Foes Troubles.
 Even the eccentric, i'll fated, often lia- uor mad Edgar Poe, who at 90 rashly mar ried his cousin, Virginia Clcmm, as pen niless us himself, loved her passionatcly and did all that so unbalanced and wholly impractical fellow could do for her main tCnanCe. She exercised wholesome in- 1uence on him for awhile, but his poverty and turbulent disposition when drinking got him into perpetual trouble, Her death drove him to despair and finally to death from debauch at 10.
 Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higcinson had sad experience with his first wife not dissimilar to that of Wendell Phillips She had some derangement of the muscu- lar system which prevented her from nov ing without assistance though her fine mind w6s never in the least clouded. Her most intimate friends regularly called on her, the colonel on those occasions carrying her to sofa in tho parlOr, and listened to her sparkling talk, seasoned with satire on persons, places and things Her comments on current topics were so pungent that they were frequently repeated in Cam bridge and Boston and are said to have suggested some of the cleverest bits in her husbands essays. Shc was often urged to dictate articles for publication, but she invariably refused to, saying that when We are deprived of the use of cur limbs it is plain we are not intended to put our he fD Tssrrr those gatherings pleasant babble from the uncloSed tomb She was very urgent bcforc her death that the colonel should marry again. and he LOW has at =, n young wife and two young children and is himself enc of the youngest men of his age in tho whole republic.
 The Stoddards Richard Henry and Elizabeth, both poets. now well on in years, havO bCCn married morc than a gen. eratiOn and have always been close com paniOns and fellow wU5htrS Their trade prccludcs the possibility of an income from investment but they hayc always had full privilege 10 tuil fIV a livelihood and have exercised it eucrgctjcally, as all liter ary folk must to who would keep the wolf and the dun from the door.
 Edmund ClarrnCc Stcdman has been a husband and q father since carly youth. and now the gray iS in his thick hair and whiskvrs. But his home. though hc has had vicissitudcs, has been one 10 which his many friends have always been glad to resort for good company and good chcvr. None of the lablCd discOrIs of literary pairs has entered there. and the head of the household though q grandfather. re- mains much yUUu..cr in spirit and com radCry than in years
 Cases of Domestic Hiss.
 Thomas Bailey Aldrich, who by a series of lucky accidents Is prosperous beyond the lot of his class. could not look 10 in the nCighbOrhOOd Cf GO if matrimonial dis cord had ever touched his tuncful heart. His amiablc. cOntSnteI wife and his twin sons, now near if not past their majority, form joyous household when together Tho sky is ever blue to them, and the stars 4hine through tho passing clouds
 Tho family of William Dean HowrllS, some years residents of New York. share the tranquility of the genial CsSayist and stOry teller whom tho whole English speak Ing world knows SO well and is rcjoiced to read. No man who has been tried by ink, which is a sevCrer test than fire, has mOro kindness, oVCrtlOws moro with the spirit If humanity. Is murc modest in his claims as novelist poet and critic Such n man could not be other than loved by those he has made his uwnCst own, his dcarest of the dear.
 Charles Dudley Warner and his wife arc as much partners in affection and sympa- thy as they wCrT in their honey ymoOn, which will never end. Any one may i'm lginc what sort of benign influence and radiant personality such man as the late George William Curtis must have shed on those who dwClt within the sacred pri- vaCy where his Lares and Penatcs were held in reverence. Richard Watson Gil der : first muse is his family. wherever the rcmainins eight muscs may hc that by the natUrC Of his vocation Ie is obliged 10 woo.
 Thoroughly domestic men. too, are Don ald c Mitchell t1k Marven. now resting under tho shadow of tho laurClS he has won; :. l. Clemens (Mark Twainl, Ed ward EgClcston, Brander Matthews and the younger men of his day. as well as tho women of Harriet Prescott SpOffori's gen eratien and an earlier one. The literary people of this country would seem, on the whole, to be moro fortunate in marriage than the men and women of other call inGs. We seldom hear of those once joined dis joined save by death. Their bickerings and littlenesses must either have been in vented or have hCcCme extinct.
 PAUL R. CLEVELAND.
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 LULA. Miss Feb The little village of hometown. in Coahoma county. was completely destroyed by fire