| Show I NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY I ITHE THE CENTER OF LEARNING THAT IGNORED RALPH WALDO EM EI ERSON EBSON Dy Bs J 3 E E Edwards This dally daily serl series 11 ot of anecdotes and incidents Incident that throw now new interesting nd frequently en dramatic c light on famous u events t and I of the past rn l It have been lc by Edwards d dunn g nearly e forty o years rr og of more or less s male mato with many of the coo cou leaders ginco the tho Civil war r Each anecdote or Incident Is fresh tresh from Mr notebook and either In whole whelo or lo In part It New News ot of Yesterday garnered from limo tho men who made tho from equally sources As lot Im Important portent contributions ot of the tho Human Interest sort Bort to American th these o articles have a value nil all theIr own Since the publication of the first In Installment of the journals of Ralph Waldo aldo Emerson no doubt It ha haS oe oc occurred to some of those who sa san him himat ut at the tho timo of hi his last appearance lit In InNer New Ner Haven Conn that perhaps he made some entry In the tho later journals that told of his somewhat humiliating In that city tho home of Yale university I believe that until now time the story ston of oC that has remained unpublished Mr Ir Emerson Emeron was announced to do de deliver doliver liver a lecture In Ne New Haven Havon In the early seventies In the wInter I thInk of 1870 although It may have hao been beena a year ear later Ho He was the Idolized philosopher of oC the high highly cultivated group which made Yale Yalo college tho center of Its activities Emersons essays and his career had been the theme of oC many II a Yale composItion or address Therefore It was presumed when whon the announcement w was made that lie he was to appear appeal as a a lee lec lecturer tImer the great musIc hall hail would be thronged by those who wished to see and hear him himA himA A da day or two before the night of the tho lecture I met mimet the or of the hall bali hallI I cant understand what time tho matter Is Ito he said laid Hero lit Is Ralph Waldo Valdo Emerson announced to lecture and It looks to me as though there would not be tickets of sold sufficient to pa his fee and the rent of the hall What Is Yale college thinking about Yer Very likely people are waiting un until Until til the night ot of time the lecture expecting to pay their wn way at the door I re no replied plied No lie he said I know aU all the tho toms tonis The Tho fact Is I think that not notwithstanding withstanding nil all the talk of Emerson Emersonn n a good many of oC the people up there thereat at Yale Tale had rather talk talle or of him than hear hint him talk It was as time the hall hail manager had pro pre predicted hen Emerson appeared at atthe time the lecture de desk k upon the tho stage time tho audience scattered hero and thero throughout tim tho hall bali was so small that If collected dIrectly under his eye ec it Il probably would not ha have 0 filled the tho first tour lour rows o seats Beats Em cast ono one swift Intuitive glance glanco around the Itoh then quietly began arranging his man manuscrIpt manuscript It If there was In his breast that so row fea In that uni university university town had come to hear him he did not show It ItHe ItHe He began to read But Ito ho must have hao felt the tho depressIng effect of oC those Vacant Beats gradually hI his voIce olce Cd ito he thumbed hIs imis manu manuscript scrIpt and not nol at nn any time looked up front from It Towards time last ho he actually seemed to be hurr hurry almost mumbled his words And all the while not It a movement In the tho way or of tribute or of or even of oC a hInt of with him passed front from the tho audience to him The last sentence spoken he gath gathered ered up his manuscript and turned and passed out of tho hall with not tho faintest suggestion of n a demon domon ringing In his imis ears cars The nIght was a moist and chili snow waR wait chill of oC It seemed scented to have penetrated time the great hall hail Not Nol until ho had the private entrance or of his imis and was feel log Ing hIs Wa cautiously with feet reet through tho th slush front from lute his car riago to time tho door loor was he shown nn any sign of cordiality A stepped up UI and greeted him and the great and venerable philosopher looked grate full fully into Inlo the others eyes ees Mr Emerson said timo tho friend r I Iam rama ama am BOrr sorry there were no more to hear you tonight I suppose it Il Is time the had bad weather thal tha has imas kept people home Mr Emerson shook his head sadly No the w weather ther and I were not lit III opposition Imo ho sal said It Is what Inevitably comes to time the oman man of words and to time tho man of his old ago I havo rend read my lesson leMon lit In time tho experience of life But your cordiality warms me And so 50 he went Into hula his hotel and time the next day departed front from that edged town unaccompanied I |
