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Show BEECHER AND TILTON. A New York "Bohemian" writes to the Chicago Tribune that nineteen out of twenty of ad the newspaper men in Brooklyn admit that 'filton has proved his case, that the best lawyers express the same opinion, and that eeveral clergymen admit that Tilton's lost statement has destroved their faith in Beccher altogether. The same writer adds: "Out ot a hundred and twenty reporters on the New York press, I do not know of three who, whatever their opinions j were at first, do not now believe Theodore Tilton's charges against Henry Ward Beecher. "Tn is man Theodore is a strange lellow, familiar yet unfamiliar, companionable yet distant, lovable, yet austere. "We call him 'Theodore familiarly, familiar-ly, yet none of us would dare make a vulgar remark in his presence, nor tell a story sveh as ladies might not bear, nor in anywise otll-ud the most scrupulous in thought or word. On tho other band, although none of us would think of saluting Mr. Weedier as "Henrv," yet we could go to him with the last new story certain that, though broader than the "Broad Church," he would be sure to give it a welcome; for the great pastor's genius is, after all, of the earth earthy, and so are his tastes." |