Show V all LETTER FROM JOSH v LINGS CLINGS he H do iris his tribute to artomia ja I 1 31 15 wara 4 ix to a friend 41 henry al shaw better known n to hc world sis na tile the humorous author t h or anil and lecturer josil jos ii billings ISil lingg died at Mont monterey crr cal suddenly Rud denly on ci morning oct 14 of mr shows whom we ire knew intimately for over thirty years was vas born in L 11 uns ainsa st in ij 1818 after he wim was 40 46 1 ears of age lie he commenced to write for the i press under tinder the lie non lion tic dc plume I 1 u ale a rth but lit without ig any great attention he then changed his methods of fitere ry woric wor kv commenced to spell badly and adopting the signature of f josh billings I 1 soon oon made his mark ile he arn wrote bior for some time for the poughkeepsie daily press of which we were part proprietor and one of the editors and afterward for the yonkers gazette after we ire assumed charge of this paper aper inre received 1 person personal al letter letter fro froin m sir mr shaw only a i few days before his death which will lie be found of interest in this connection tion it Itis is below little did he imagine when penning this letter that his eulogy of artenius artemus ward would through li his suggestion become a part of his own obituary HOTEL MONTE NTY cal calo oct 3 somo twenty 3 cars ago I 1 was asked to write something in remembrance of artemur Arte mui ward who he had then just lied died in england Eng lind it NY was suggested that my style be preserved ind and st still ii I 1 the matter matler be somewhat pathetic la I 1 knew that humor and bathos lathos were closely allied and I 1 irce re IN off tile the with a poncil pencil caid and a gave it to tile the pill party ty who re rc quested questa it it first appeared in the troy budget and I 1 never saw sair it afterward until last week in a paper on tile the pacific coast where I 1 have been since last may anti and intended to stay until next may will you allow me to mk ask you to io reproduce the tribute to arte arteanus Ar teinus inus with any introduction to it tha j way may please you 1 I hope belie you on will not look upon me as A vain man when I 1 tsuyou that hat I 1 niu alu not only delighted but astonished at the vitality of file lie old inktum luk Ink tur which I 1 have read lor for the last ast twenty three years ou on tile the road ill ili the first V place I 1 1 ce every line in ili it was published in 1 il the lie pipers pap e Is I s then tile ii his bis been put into more than newspapers as aa I 1 have delivered it ii then I 1 have reid read it in every city on oil hils continent that li has Ls peo people in ill it and hund hundreds redi of towns t that int lime we not 2000 in them and it alei or lias has had anything added to it but much cut arroy av 1 y from it and it i ii now read d from the same book it was first ly written ritten in ail and still the file brave old manuscript fights a good fight I 1 haye read it SIX six nights ni lits in aili cali forni i during 0 the lust seven weeks and been paid for it it seems to me that there must mua be some spud sand in the old words excuse E what looks look like vai vanity lity but all this only proves what I 1 betre never doubted that the nun who lipus lias a fair brain undoubted courage fearless truth and honesty cin cali get ill all lie should have in tins this world I 1 frend a i hort criticism front croni a small town up tip tile coast petaluma Pet aluina aluma which supports what I 1 11 ave just st written with I 1 kind re regards ards to yourself and n nd family lilly I 1 am alit yours s wi thou I 1 a struggle e TOSH nau sros here is the remembrance of oe ar ward referred to and i it t well veil lits fits also the writer now pined pi ned to the other shore JOHN BILLING OS ON S WAUD deth hex done a i cruel tl i lately deth seldom iz ini parshall this ia v ill all that ken be said in ilia his favor f vor lie ile moves his awl round the wild now iu in this field now in that wheat lowers flowers and weeds drop wilt ivila and wither for lie he early and lite late 11 citi and mi town by tile the haral stull and id away epli where tilt lie wanderers tire lire deth lie ie done I 1 1 I i c ruel t tiling I 1 1 i 11 lately ill t e 1 Y deth is bel hellom ilin kind I 1 1 it e r re L a f fatlich a ti I 1 1 1 I mother a avac small tiling thing but it a month on oil n visit eliere I 1 alq mary and charley 0 go go down in white w bite dollies clothes daib fields fieldi are arc all bare tor for de deth cuts cute clum as welt well as cruel deth liias to mow his lii stile lie ile ir old and nd slick klick with his sickle sick ia her ho mowed for able u void dand and for able uy deth monji strangely lud ind rogild fall the dimy dais slid grass ind ilone stands standa the hoarel C left fur whit what deth kint kant tell for god goa only knows will 3 ou oil have done a cruel t thing hill li itel 3 you have mowed where ili the a e wittiest one of all stood whose words have gone 0 awl over the world whose lieari waz v 1 z aix goell and az oft az a mother s deth you yon have moved where re my illy arsenin t stood tind lini noi ire 1 irs mourning dow for the child 1 of her heart I 1 am nail nil I 1 1 iain I sorry sony I 1 |