Life — October 4, 1883 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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A LA CAMPAGNE. RATHER PICTURESQUE SORT OF OLD PEOPLE—QUIET LIFE—SIMPLICITY—OUT OF Cadmium (soliloguizing) : DOORS—NATURE. Old people in question: ‘TAKIN’ A PHOTOGRAM OF THIM DID APPLE TREES IS IT HE’S DOIN’? Is THE YOUNG MON IN HIS RIGHT MOIND, D' YE THINK, Mr. MULLIGAN? AH, IT’S WANDERFUL, MEssus MAGINNIS; THERE’S WAN HAS SET THREE DAYS IN THE LANE BELOW A DRAWIN’ OF Pat RILEY’s PIGS. T BATES ALL WHAT SOME IS WILLIN’ TO DO TO MAKE A LIVIN’, I , * ARCHIBALD GUNTHER upon the same intellectual plane, not- withstanding that the anatomist’s unsentimental scalpel might demonstrate the difference between them to be scarcely worth mention, There are lines of caste drawn by man as sharp as are those of latitude and longitude, and, in most cases, just as im- aginary. To steer for any one particular fashionable harborage, it is no doubt necessary to take most accurate observations with the social quadrant and port or starboard the cordial helm in ac- cordance with the result ; yet to neglect this precaution is neither to incur risk of wreck nor yet that of remaining always at sea. The compass of common-sense is usually a sufficient guide, ex- cept to that port most frequented by our friends the First Circlers, where of course it would not do at all. But here is another letter. Newport, Sept. 27th, 1883. To the Editor of Lirg.—Thanks for the socialistic sentiments expressed in your reply to my last letter. I might have expected them from Karl Marx, O'Donovan Rossa or Denis Kearney, but to receive them from Lire occasioned me at least faint surprise. I had known for some time that Nihilism was represented in this country by vagabond exiles, but I was unaware that among American institutions, pure and simple, I could find so zealous an exponent of its principles, or rather lack of them. Does Mr. Rossa own stock in your journal, and is Mr, Kearney an editorial writer? Kitt Von Kui. We regret to say, that notwithstanding most earnest solicita- tions, Mr. Rossa has up to the present time persistently refused to assume the control of this journal, and that none of Mr. Kear- ney’s editorials have yet appeared in our columns, owing to the’ hopeless impossibility of cold type doing justice to his vigor and general brilliancy of style. Mr. Karl Marx would be pleased to write for us, but for the unfortunate fact that "he is dead. The Nihilists write us from Siberia that they are too busy, trying to keep warm, to even think of American Aristocracy, much less write about it, and hence, fortunately, the pleasure of. replying to Mr. Kitt Von Kutu's letters devolves upon the editor. Now as regards Nihilism in this country. Recent reports from Buffalo would seem to indicate there is some. There may be a great deal. But an intimate knowledge of Nihilism involves a familiarity with dynamite, tri-nitro-glycerine, dualin, pyroxyllin, fulminating silver and other playful compounds, which are fickle and possessed of unpleasant habits. Hence the Editor of Lirr has been laggard in investigating the subject. But there isin this country a something which appeals more strongly to the American sense of humor, and that is a tendency to establish an autocracy, which is, of course, the natural offspring of the Con- stitution our forefathers framed. Mr. Kitt Von Kutt is responsible for the statement that ‘ Nihilism is represented in this country by vagabond exiles.”