New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-15

ence: she would do just the same II she were sens
ble-as sensible. that IS. as girls ever are They're
al alike in that respect. They won't look at the
decent fellows. and then they take up with these
beasts Of sailors who beat them and then desert
them"
But aren't you going a little too fast even now?
II you have never heard any more than the hrs'
s,anza Of the song. how do you know Ben Bolt was
a sailor at alp"
How do l know ne was a sailor? Why be-
cause his name Ben. Isn't man named
Ben In a song always sailor. and isn't nearly
every sailor in song named Ben? The last name
helps II out. too. can't tell just why. but you
can't hear the name Ben Bot wIthou, thinking
of a sailor II his name had been Benjamin Bolt
ne might have been bank president or car
driver or anything else. but not with such name
as Ben Bolt"
VERY well. even granting that he was sailor
he need not necessarily have been brutal"
He need not. OF course. but he was Why else
should Alice ,remble with fear at his frown' we
know. OF course. that she was morbidy sensitive
person. anyway and so she might be expected at
Ben Bolts frown to tremb.e with anxiety or win
sympathy or with sorrow. but no woman frembes
with fear at the frown OF a man whom she knows
WELL unless H. experience has taught her That his
frown is a thing to be feared. on the other hand,
Il Is clear that ne seldom gave her smile. else
she would not have wep, with delight when he
did Even In Alice's morbid condition. woman
does not actually weep with delight at pleasure
which she experiences constantly and regularly The
passage is perfectly TO interpret and 1t shows
clearly that general thing Sweet Alice was
ill-treated by Ben Bolt.
again I object to the statement that AlIce's
hair was so brown About how brown does the
supposed speaker singer wish us to believe tnat
1t was? Is hair brown when II Is brown. ana II
not that the end OF II? The fact Is. beheVe'
that Alice's hair was so brown simply because she
tremblcd at Ben Bolts frown. II she had rembled
xtnkh er hair
And while we are talking about things that were were
lab " "f the granite so gray which was ted in the
old churchyard. obscure ana alone. for Alice 70 .le
o onSsr stones snd besides did you sab
Of granite in an old county, churchyara' rans
be used in a region where IT abounds, but slate has
always been preferred In al the OLD cnurcnRn aI,s
friend really did not know the difference between
granite ard slate And then. what force u there ,
in his telling Ben Bolt that she was buried op-
scure and aIoneY Does ne wish to imply that the
neghbors were In c9nspiracy 10 wrong ana or 9R
harry country churchyard her granite slab instead
q of being sn%n s S-c ~Ss' De
You have made ms,aHe tho ss sonx 'f tsroSa
The last sianza is far the best. Listen to IT.
There I. change in the things loved Ben Bolt
They have changed from the OLD 1r 10 the the new
There never war change in YOU
Twelve month. twenty hays passed as, b ssn D0'
Thy e, s' salt .a A xa friendship
There, didn't 1 tell you ne was sailorT said
the disconnected man. ....u.., .,a
doesn't IL show that Ben Bolt was not the rufian
that you thought" ,. . .. ,,oa m
good as the first one. but II proves nothing IN
svor Of ben Bolt. II only shows that his friend
s o'id admire him must have been one OF his
GUN abandoned sort, as suspected before, because
Of his unknd and uncalled for ins'h"auohs against
the neghbors. an, o.. ,,.. ,h.,o ,udg
ments unnecessarily severe ana trir, on mo-
lille plea In mitigation Of damages. DO you not
rink = no said THAT the present vogue OF ms
snnn ia due less TO anything pretenous In the
song itself than to It's use In recent popular
novel; . -, Al. ,,.oo,,ocYod man "and
thai is another thing. Why should Amercans -
Inserted in an English story? Have they forgotten
,hot pen holt played an important part N george
" Cables Charming novel DIR. Sewer which VA, Vas
published some dozen or fifteen years ago. why
S5idn't they nave all these fits them?
II really use to -, sg Worst n H tne would aiSo be-
,on,amtnd ~ ne were going to Heaven, though
IL is fair to say that nobody else would De.