The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-02-14
ADELBERT'S SAD END.


| the common, or domestic, variety of
stories, the sort which sometimes cheer but
never inebriate, and his productions never
brought the blush of shame to the cheek of
the most delicate fabric He entertained
many and harmed none, wherefore. con-
tend, that he deserved better fate than
! that which befell him. l fancy he was more
siHned against than SHINING when he got
himself entangled in the meshes of the
speciai-day story. and thereby eventually
became slave of the subsequent.
The special-day story, dear reader, is q
tale appropriately favored for publication
near unto certain time or day of the
year. There are numerous varieties of it,
viz: The immaculate Washington,s Birth
day story, the mellow St. Patrick Day in
the-morning- bedad story, the hugely -humor-
Gus April Fool story, the Fourth of July
story, the Thanksgiving story, wherein the
| repentant prodgal renigs on hlIsks and re-
turns for pie and long-deferred glee, and
most of the rest of US are thankful for what
didn't happen to us. Last, but by no means
least, comes the joyous. full-stomached fes-
tai oe'asion wherein everybody comes home
to listen to the groaning of the board and
to get forgiveness and indigestion, and SO
on. This latter, and the greatest favorite
| OF them all, is the Christmas story.
| BE it understood, that the special day
story is usually written about six months
prior to the date of it's publication, and,
therefore, in radically different weather
and an entirely antagonistic season of the
year. For instance, the Fourth of July
story, with it's hectic midsummer warmth
and patriotism, is penned when the boreal
blasts are signing and soughing through
tina rime-fringed whiskcrs of the belated
wayfarer; and the Christmas tale. with its
trimmings of sleigh bells and arctic winds
clawng in impotent rage at the stout oaken
door, while the flaming yule log beats the
baffled cold back with tropic heat, is writ
ten in summer by copiously perspiring pen,
which YEARLY waves palm leaf fan in one
hand the while it earnestly wishes for rain
with the other.
| Thus it comes to pass that the author 10
| either six months behind the time o year
and the climatic conditions he is endeavor-
ing to portray, or else his Imagination is an
equal length Of time ahead Of his surround.
| ipgs. If he don't feel what he is writing.
he is that far in arrears; and if he is Of the
sort who live in the midst of their creations,
he is to that extent ahead of himself and cor
respondingy prior.
| Now, Adelbert j. Psnworthy was a con-
scientious party and an smotionsl-hs felt
that he must feel all that his characters
| were supposed to feel, and when he felt
| that he wasn't feeling as he felt they ought
to feel, he would feel that he must toros
himself to feel as he felt it necessary for him
| TO feel in order to make his characters feel
as they ought to feel As it is well known,
tais thing of feeling is largely. if not wholly.
. matter OF temperament or imagination II
We are suneiens!y emo'iona! ana possess
she rsaars0 sehsi'i'ensss Oh 'smP:'smsH''
we eau lee s'iaoss any way He ossHs w. VI
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consiHce oet:SiVes' io1' instance, InAt We
are aappy,- way, We Are naepy. !" nes We
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iio'. aus. as me case may pc: II II all mat,
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' , t'''se ~ ~. ha1n !. ''i''
anu az '"s' nc eun "''p IT,
rreseh.y ieh"ol'hy iahcies pecame
reaiitles TO NM ana rea!ities oniy iaheies;
ne isncied That ms 1ahcies were 1aets ana
| the facts were only iancies, ana tnougnt
tnat what ne tnousht was reality was ohiy
""as ne t"ousnt was reai WINE the leai
Ieaiity was wnae ne ehousnt was oniy "nat
ne thought; ne got SO tnat ne couian ten
whether what ne thought was really what
ne thonght or only just what ne thought ne
thought. sometimes ne tnougnt that what
ne thought ne Thought was only wnat ne
thought ne thought No thought, ana then
again. ne didn't.
In natural sequence. ne became unable TO
determine whether the time and season OF
the year then on hand was the past OF the
iuture, or only Just the present. lie didn't
know whether now was really now, or
wnether ne was dwelling IN fancy SIX months
| AHEAD OF where he thought he was, or
whether where ne thought ne only thought
! he was was really the correct date and he