Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume04 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 04
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: Progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive Era social gospel
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champion of Cerro-Gordo continued ear-nestly : — 44 And now I wish to state to Colonel the solemn fact thatI had nothing to do with the job put up on him to-night. Iscorn to use such means in a battle. Colonel, you may beas bald as an apple, or an egg, yes, or a plate, but you canplay more checkers than any man I ever met, more checkersthan any other man on Gods green footstool.—With one-single, lone exception — myself. At this moment, somebody hit the dead-beat from Cerro-Gordo with a decayed apple, and as the crowd shouted andgroaned Robie turned down the lights on the tumult. Theold Colonel seized the opportunity for putting a handful ofsalt down Walters neck, and slipped out of the door like aghost. As the crowd swarmed out on the icy walk,Editor Foster yelled: — 44Gents! let me give you a pointer. Keep your eyepeeled for the next edition of the Rock River Morning Ca#.And the bitter wind swept away the answering shouts of thegang. Digitized by VjOOQIC Digitized by VjOOQIC
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Digitized by VjOOQIC THE ARENA. No. XXIII. OCTOBER, 1891. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. BY GEORGE STEWART, D. C. L., LL. D. With loving breath of all the winds, his nameIs blown about the world ; but to his friendsA sweeter secret hides behind his fame,And love steals shyly through the loud acclaimTo murmur a God bless youl and there ends. When Longfellow had reached his sixtieth year, JamesRussell Lowell, then in his splendid prime, sent him thoselines as a birthday greeting. Lowell, since then, receivedin his turn many similar tributes of affection, but none thatseemed to speak so promptly from the heart as thosetouching words of love to an old friend. To himself theymight well have been applied in all truthfulness andsincerity. Of the famous group of New England singers,that gave strength and reality to American letters, butthree names survived until the other day, when, perhaps thegreatest of them all passed away. Whittier and Holmesremain, but Lowell, the younger of the three, and fromwh

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