Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-04-16

ages on tho Concord and Mci rimne riv.
ers He also wrote n bools on Walden
This contains Il chapter ON wood sound,
which lovers of nature. ought to know
by heart.
Thoreau was shy OF strangers. III.
fnvorite guests were the children, ana
he loved to teach them the secrets Of
nature. His friends were dear: but. best
OF all. he loved his solItudes and always
turned his back on cities after his lee.
turing tours, overjoyed that no wan Inv.
Ing to his woods.
What could he not tell of the note,
of insects and birds! What couie ho
not interpret of the tones of the fou,
footed animals! What did he not know
of the scarce and curious flowers rrov.
Ing In most infrcquented places, Iov
many plants did he discover in Concord
woods that no one had ever Observed
before! One in particular waa IN,
climbing fern. Then there was the Nod
snow tarctic) that he found in ono n,
his walks, so elatns him that he told
F, Emerson he even expected to find thu
| Victoria regia In these prolific soil.
tudes.
Dear. simple. grand Thoreau VIII,
was not even afraid To mako u s,cccb
| FOR old John Brown after his arrest a,
Harper's Ferry. in spite Of the adyics
of his townsman, as public sympathv
was then entirely against his old friend,
Well has Emerson compared him 10 ths
Swiss edelweiss TINT rare flower who's,
! qualification IL noble purity, and hs
| further wrote that Thoreau seemed lIv.
ing in the hope to gather this miami
which belonged TO him OF riEht. ia
quote from this seer of Concord "Tha
country knows not yet or in the least
part. how great son II has lost"
When the Alcotts owned The Wnv.
side, they called II The Hillside. Frnr
1915 TO iS4S they resided there and then
removed to Boston. In 1851 they return-
ed and settled in the Orchard Ionas
which was next The wayside. Soon MI
erward we find him superintending Inc
| public schools of Concord, successfpu,
cultivating the few acres nbout HI,
house, instructing, philosophzng and
holding his famous "conversntlor,n
upon divinity, human nature. dietetln,
and wide range of practical question,
Also he was one of the originator,
of the Transcendental club. Among tha
leading spirits We're George RiDev
Ralph Waldo Emerson. James Freeman
Clarke Theodore Parker, Margaret Full.
Ter and William II. Claiming.
During this period of transcendentaI
agitation Mr.. Alcott passed through
certain stages as reforiner, He rave IN
animal food, Joined the antislavery 70.
ciety. was active as an aboltionst and
became interested in the establishment
of a community at Harvard Mass. Thl,
community. Brook Farm, although I'm.
der the guidance of such persona az
George Ripley, Margaret Fuller and
Nathaniel Hawthorne. foil through
which was probably the best thing that
could have happened. Its failure laugh,
Mr.. Alcott a severe lesson. says ,ha
chronicler, as afterward he had "less
desire to change the condition Of men
upon earth than to modify and en-.
tighten their inward life"
Mr.. Aicott was ever hoping that
school OF the first philosophy would 10
established somewhere in New England
and as early as 1912 began to colec,
books for the library OF such school.
Moreover an English gentleman, NJ.
James Pierrepont Greaves a dls,lpe
of Pestalozzi, actually bcQueathed him
collection of curious volumes, which
were subsequently deposited In ca.
cord to await the blessed time whcnM
school of philosophy should spring int
being.
And spring into being II did after
these volumes had stood for years on
the shelves of the Orchard House. The
school was opened informally at Con-
cord in 1879, with its faculty OF philoso-
ply and members from many different
localities. the Orchard House being the
place of meeting Mr., Alcott was the
dean and Mr.. L. 3. Sanborn the Sec
rotary.
Concord has erected fine monument
to those OF her soldiers who fell in the
late civil war. 1t records on a bronze
tablet the names of all the heroes. Tho
motto Is, Faithful Unto Death"
Close by ia the old elm under which
Rev. William Emerson made his IA
nous address to the minutemen on
the morning of the Concord fight, and
here nearly hundred years afterward
his grandson, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
delivered the dedicatory address OF this
monument. his most distinguished u.s.
teners being the descendants Of those
mnutemen who had but just returned
from the battlefields of the south.
The graves of Hawthorne, Emerson,
Thoreau and the Alcotts are In Sleepy
Hollow cemetery. Yes. here, together
in their last sleep. lie those who have
made Concord ''the star in the east 10
those OF us who are fired with reveren'
tial love for goodness and genius com.
bined. These are classic ashes. Tfeau
your softest, but let the heart swell In
joyous thanksgiving that America has
such spot of ground!
Happy are we, we river worshipers, IN
that lovely river that. as your Thoreau
says. moves through your historic VAL
leys with the moccasined tread OF an
Indian warrior" Happier are ye IN
your houses breathing of the times OF
old. in your historic associations, IN
your monuments. in your meadows
streams and groves that have so often
rung with the tones OF genius. in your
hills, engraved as they are with the
lasting Impressions OF great minds. but
happiest in your dear Sleepy Hollow,
with its graves of the immortals, AZ
Mr.. Il. b. Sanborn wrote of this:
These waving woods, these valleys low.
| Between these tufted knobs
| Year after year shall dearcr grow
! To many loving souls 49,
1 And flowers be sweeter here than DO"
Elsewhere between the poles.
EIJz Ar,r,TII IeIDEMAIER.