New-York tribune., 1903-03-05

John scott Co.
THE HEsIERIAE TREE An. Annual q .,tft The
3utbor Of sTdyis and Lyrics Of the Ohio Val
ley," etc. ouarto. pp. <sO. Columbus. Ohio:
s. r. Hartman.
In these Two volumes the editor offers maga-
zine Of prose and verse. accompanied by re-
productions Of paintings. sculpture and draw
tngs by writers and artists native 70 the Ohio
Valley or identified with it. The books have
been put forth at q time when the cities and
States Of the Middle West are celebrating their
= centennial anniversaries, in the thought OF AZ
fording a At souvenir at the beginning OF the
century. The literary contributions. with few
exceptions, have been written expressly for the
collection In makeup the volumes present q
pleasing appearance, being well printed on good
paper. Among the contributors are John James
Fiatt. William Dean Howells John Hay. Helen
Hay. James whitcomb Riley, Robert Underwood
Johnson Edith M. Thomas. John Urf Lloyd, the
late Mary HartweH Catherwood. Madison Ca
vein and Maurice Thompson. An essay on An
Ohio Valley Poet" Forceyihe Wilson, which the
editcr contributed to THE Atlantic Monthly"
twenty-five years ago. T. included In the first
volure- Mr.. HowelIsrs contributions consist of
two poems written in 1850. Success and Un-
success and Success Parable: letter
written from Venice in January, 1862: light
study OF summer heat. called Hot" and char
acteristic discussion The Mulberries in Pays
Garden apology for delaying in writing
the paper on muIberries promised for the
nual- In this last contribution he says:
One trouble with mulberries is that, to the
casual or careless glance, they look so very
much Ike q certain kind Of caterpillar That
matters very little to a bird, who would lief
eat caterpillar mulberry any day; but
boy. foragfng in the grass stubble for the
fallen berries. has to be more crcumspect. Then,
any very large and fat mulberry is apt to be
covered with ants almost soon as it touches
the ground, and a boy has to dust 1t off pretty
thoroughly before he pops 1t into his mouth, If
he minds the taste of ants. In my day, I am
not so sure that he always did IN the Miami
country. Flies, of course simply swarmed
around mulberry tree, and made a humrninE
1ike bees when you ventured in under its
branches But never noticed that any or all
these made the slightest difference to the boys
Wherever there was a mulberry tree, the boys
Rbounded; and If there had not been single
hey in the whole region, believe that soon
as the muloerries got ripe. boys, in full panopIy
n shirts and trousers, torn straw hats and
hare feet, would have sprung up out of the
earth to eat them.
John Cri Lloyd adopts strange device. He
contributes chapter originally written for his
story 'Stringtown on the Pike" which he de-
votes TO this collection because Of its local alIu-
eiOns. It is called ''River Shore Tramps," and is
illustrated by photographs of the scenes men
toned.
And So day after day, they passed down the
northern shore Of the Ohio River past Bellevue
Middle Creek. PorkerviIIe Rabbit Hash. Ris-
3ng Sun. Indiana and Fast Bend, in Kentucky
with each OF which the seer gave an historical
Teminiscence; the last. when they stood oppo-
site East Bend, being as follows
AT East Bend, known in the early days as
P1atts Landing, seVenty-fVe years ago lived
Major Robert Piatt, payrnaster in the United
States Army. His daughter married DR.. Candy
or Charlottesville, Ind. and was the mother Of
Major General Candy. who was born on the
Piatt lands at East Bend
To this Cupe made no reply.
A in
relative OF Abe Piatt, whose house we saw op-
poslte Lawrenceburg- This man Jones arose
one morning and told q dream. He said: In
my cream woman came to our house and
knocked at the door. opened it and she came
IN; ma and said that the Lord sent her to be my
WIFE He described how she was dressed
We were then married. as the Lord directed
Just as he finished telling his dream a knock
stepped the selfsane woman, dressed exactly
as Jones described. No person in the nejehbor-
hood knew or had ever seen her before I have
been sent by the Lord to be your wife, she
said 70 Mr. Jones and they were married as
the dream predicted"
Mr. Hay contributed paper on The Sewers
Of Paris and Their Origin" in which he de-
scribes visit to the French system OF city
drainage. and traces the history of its accom-
plishment In closing he says:
/ have told in a few words the story Of a
brook running through several hundred years
70 me II has strange pathos and meaning,
cings TO its life; how degradation and corrup-
tion and enslavement not to living thing
SO awful as death, because there is hope of sur
vfving them: and how, when prisoned thing
breaks forth. A poisoned thing infects the
crime and the punishment his who enslaved
or corrupted.
In "A Note on Abraham Lincoln Murat Hal
stead recounts several anecdotes Of interest Mr
Halstead confesses that he was one who did not
see the greatness in Lincoln for a long time
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for President. and hesitating to support Lincoln
for the second term. But he came to know his
stature before the assassination, and writes
from that standpoint Mr.. HaIstead thinks that
It was the Cuban propaganda in the Gulf States
which gave Buchanan his majorities and de-
feated Douglas whose election would have
postponed indefinitely the conflict that followed
the constitutional choice of Abraham Lincoln
10 the great ofTice-' From his personal notes We
take this:
One summer day j saw Mr. Lincoln on the
ground north OF the White House, in his hand
his big silk hat, covered with Grape Gn mourn
ing for his who died in the Executive Man
eiOn), reviewing regiment which nlaTched
around the semicircle between the gates; and
there were remarks that he was not making a
demonstration OF his recognition or the conlpI-
ment he receiving: but saw him. still as
: statue, vet deeply moved. and himself una
ware. apparently, that tears were streaming
down his cheeks. The incident illustrates the
fstherly tenderness Of his heart, and the more
think Of il the more certain / am that his
death came at the moment he most needed
and was an imrneasurable misfortune to the
whole people, regardless Of locality or political
persuasion.
A recognition OF Lincoln's place in history. ap-
parentIy artedating all of the tributes by Amer
leans which followed after the assassination. is
found in this annual in the Sonnet in 1852"
priuted in Mr. Piatt's volume OF verse. called
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