| Show 1 V ritten for the deseret NEWS FROM THE NOTE BOOK 4 oll 01 AN OLD leporter lepor lEPOK TER 1 f MOT morl F ft fait t S L UPS PS the evil thata 0 a it tv I 1 v aber at i r them ahe thenn M 5 i I 1 ia is W oid old ri i IF with their bones itha ltha W in tu jas jai r rv m envy grows the che roan loan t gatmai u cilar cliar acter makes s foes foag 1 l 1 1 M ili lri 11 r fr frei frel n the of an lit lil 0 old oid 1 I note bool book it for foi forms cis in who a kind lind ol 01 autobiography fr on ont self alf alx all and to it life 1 i necessity necess noces sj lly IlY y include our companion i it esard contemporaries por aries As I 1 me ment I 1 I 1 t med ned med tim it will bowe boxe i t ld id 14 t the readers rea rca of the serana cra era into olne oine borne trait his appear an janto cliar cilar acter aeter as a lie wa a iiii man mon in of notoriety notoriety in the ciral circle ae in W which ii lic lie I 1 I 1 he ilo moved and wa mv 1 to say the 1 least eastok of him one among a thousand tim tinn vas was the son lit it a poor hidei industrious shoemaker and had bad wrought at the trade with his his father when a mere boy but owing to ilis his superior sur nor nur in intellect telle telie ct had been taken g notice ot by the prie priest t of oatlie the diocese and intro introduced introduce duc ed to the bishop who became beeance his patron and abt 1 i ned a bursary for him in the catholic seminary of dublin mr nir knissel senior had bad not neglected negie negle eted masons hla hia sons bons education prior to this time and tim tini ha having vinla vinia a natural inclination for learning had acquired a tolerable good knowledge of the english Engli sli sll language C ho lie was therefore ther eiore elore qualified to enter as stu student dent in ill the junior greek class at the commencement of ills his collegiate career it was the design of his patrons patrol is to educate him for holy orders havi having gone through the tho latin greek and mcabrew hebrew classes he was prepared to enter on oil hi his divinity tim all ofa of a ludden sudden became infidel and renounced the catholic profession this was a sad reverse for lor him and his hia fathers family who wilo were in great part supported by the tiie influential votaries vot aries of that religion ills his father tried every method to reclaim his son but all his efforts were in vain ex postulations entreaties and curses mixed up with le the tears of his mother were all buffed off with the eloquence of tims logical deductions on ou the tile hyp and absurdity of their desires the bishop and priest after finding all their threats and promises in in vain delivered him over to the lne luc devil in the due form forin of an excommunication and left him without a friend to console him in the tile midst of poverty and with yut a prospect but one and that was to become pedagogue pedagogue in the city where his ills delinquency had ad gained for him a notoriety anything but enviable for such a profession to gain a respectable living the press appeared a bank bankin in tims eye t therefore to this occupation lie he turned Ills his arduous attention but although lie he labored day and ni climbing up the tile clippe ry mount of faine fame yet not paid aid ald lie he anticipated lie he flattered himself that one day he would be remunerated andray and pay back with inte interest gest sest the hard labor of his poor father who tolled toiled late and early to procure for him the necessaries of life all their labors proving fruitless in m dublin mr imir senior who wilo still notwithstanding ills his sons solis apostasy apo stacy from the church loved respect respected eI and held on to him as a scion of his line who wilo would one day be a bright star in the galaxy of irish luminaries tiie TIle the green Groen isle of beauty however be became eanica canica a dessert sert pert of thorns determined therefore to try their fortune in scotland tim senior benfor and tim junior landed in lit glasgow in the year 1825 and found their wa way y to ic wll wit where ero ere le the father brou wrought 0 lit at his ills trade and the son assumed the occupation of writer for the press to it lie purposed to become entirely devoted z the aim and object of hla hia future glory and renown the commencement of our acquaintance was at the office of jinks where I 1 first saw him reading to this notable character a poem anthe on the wron grons wrongs bronga s of ireland rc land which was accepted aa na abrial a trial triai without pay published in the colu columns ninh of ortho tale dwarf we often met at the ou wiand liand and in time became intimate and ultimately chums to each other inthe in the dark dei dee ail arl ominous us tn track ek of thib this I 1 vain world verb tim had cil cli an antic physical cevelo development he lie measured five feet ono one inch in ill his shoes slices chidi did aid not deteriorate from hla hia real height being heelless lils liis ills nis head was precociously large and ind y metrically developed the which when seen looking over a half door or through the tile trap a pawn awn bro brokers kerta kerla receiving room he looked well though there his ills a tive ive forehead his ills finely arched brow ld and large blue eyes acquill acquilino ne noaa noba demand ud air dair broad chin cilin gave a navo favo favorably favorable rabi 0 linree res alon aion of the unseen author but when clevn eon in full por portrait rait it ho he looked for all the world like a A turned upside down with a primer period stuck on the tile tipper upper point of the reversed letter asater aa a termination mi nation to its malformation resembling very much the colossus at rhodes in ini minature nature often has lie he stood for hours in this I 1 attitude ills liis legs astride and his feet on a parallel ihl line of twenty four inches apart with his liis night right forefinger gey ger in the palin patni of liis his left hand arguing on the al absurdity of transubstantiation purga tory lory the invocation to angels and the imposition of granting indulgence etc of ill all lil lii of which doctori doctrines fles fies I 1 had little knowledge and less disposition to dis dig alfo lits his NN ife ier ife ift mary aho vho who eral emigrated grated and was wils to him about the time lie he landed in scotland was wad edeli inches ta teller I 1 ler ier than himself and taking I 1 the two arm in arm ariu as they often promenaded promenades to jinks office they were unmatched boeti poetically aily ally speaking ile he lad bad a low quirl quiri qui riess ss voice site she a roii rull toned lass bass grun grunt t a kind afkind of mund that to come como from som hom other quarter than her articulating organs I 1 have had it considerably on my mi mind ad that there ought to bo be some arrangement ran gement in the marriage settlement in regard to size short men and tall women seem to be unequally yoked joked perhaps it is a wise arrangement in the order of providence but I 1 gould could not think wink otherwise than admire the choice of general tom toni thumb of his wife miss lavinia lavini a warren stratton again there might be selfishness 1 I in ll 11 this in the anticipation of the tile production of dwarfs but in i the former amalgamation no inducement prospectively could be of any interest except to keep the human family on a proper standard of measurement although wo vvo are prone to laugh inwardly as I 1 have done a hundred times at mr and mrs Sn knissel issel issei she was as much above the common size of women as lie was below the ordinary height of men and this gained for them agrest amount of public notice the people would look out of every door as they passed assed at their strange appearance J sho she was like the curve of arain a rainbow stooping to hold his arm and catch the tile glance of his eye when speaking while lie on oil the opposite extreme was dikea like ilke a boy with a mans head on his shoulders gazing up UD at a weather sign 1 on a steeple comparisons are said to be ridiculous redi culous but I 1 am k that my readers could not haven havea a due duo conception i of tims outward man without this de lineation linia tion he might have been properly styled tiie tile the victim of fame inasi inasmuch nueh nuch as he had llad a longing desire from froni his childhood to produce something in the shape of literature that would perpetuate atch fils ills memory to future ages moore byron burns cowper and Camp campbeli beli belf were all read over and over again by heinit him until their works were so mixed laired u up wit with his hib own mentality litot that at he lecou could not speak nor write without commit ing plagiarisms all ail his ills productions savored go vao much buch of one or the otheron other othen of ills liis favorite authors that although his and prose writings were magn essentially his own yet in another sense they were not in consequence of this thib tio iio nothing thing fresh or original came from ills his pen he lc had taken the counsel given to young young aspirants of the muse namely to read and copy the best authors this was the great evil with tim and the tile cause of his pieces being rejected he had composed some highly colored fugitive poems which to tho those se of his admirers who were not conversant with the works of the authors mentioned thought them far above mediocrity and through their ignorance flattery and foolish admiration proposed that he should publish his poems never was self seif esteem more gratified and never col could uld there have been more ruinous advice given ile he consulted me on the subject when I 1 frankly gave him my opinion in the broadest terms of reprobation I 1 was angry with him as I 1 formerly had given him in my y opinion I 1 0 of f the tile absolute folly of such an attempt what ia hi fame I 1 would say who would know you personally a hundred years hence from any other dumplin dumalin headed fellow of me the same name uld wild nid what although you had a marble monument raised above your ashes who could know thep the poet oct from the rag gatherer or knissel who was hanged for forgery both bogli of these men livern lived in your own day and who could say eay or deny but that they were both poets give celebrity to a name and it belongs to the name not to the mani their very profession belonged to tile the muse the tilo one a the material body of literature and the tile other blotted the white sheet with another mans name to procure a living a th thing little worse woree than plagiarism indeed ir k te c Z the annals annais of crime will retain the forgers charad ter longer than your poetry or your sour nion mon the history of public crime out ont lives the obscurity of a virtuous life in this world tim rim said 1 I rather 6 sharply amply quit the thought forever I 1 I 1 foll folly itis worse than thau penny a lini liang n at madness ad nessi go and ta taker up a school tim that will gain y you u ann and your wife an onest honest li respect respectable abl abi living ving go and never let me ilear hear of such a proposal again he left the tile room deemin seemingly ly disgusted at my insolence and wor logic which lie ice lee edee enee iee attempted to refute reful if I 1 had gh gi en on him the chance I 1 heard no more of him till several weeks thereafter when I 1 had put into my hand a letter containing a pros prospectus pee of his intended volu volume wherein lerein IC f learned that he had obtained ethroe three throe hun died deed di ed saw fibers but qs As their names were not so conver convertible convert table ablo as the ready c eash cash asli lie he had come corae to the conclusion of or publishing in monthly parts parta forty eig cig eight 11 t pages octavo price one shilling to be finished in twelve months 4 formin r a volume of five hundred and six ix pages here is an undertaking I 1 thought to myself he lias has not calculated on the vast amount of matter required to nil fil fill I 1 forty eight pages neither r has bas lie for once onee e studied the question whether his ills friends fri enIs in scotland care eare any an thing about the repeal of the union or the wrongs of ireland or stanzas to mary 11 already read published or any other bamby danity pamby production of ills his heated imagination it was not iong long after receiving this letter till tim called upon me in n all ill the pomposity and nutter flutter of a avanof man of business bushless bu fire in lit each eye and his pockets fuli full full fuli of papers ar ing ung my boy said he 1 11 I hope you are calmed down now laking me by both hands and shaking them hysterically I 1 have come to let you see my progress in forming my forthcoming forth coming volume which 1 is now in the hands of the printer il he e then unrolled unroll pd lis liis ills its packages of papers and presented me with the title page which was neatly done up a border and three kinds of type printed with black red and yellow ink there said lie triumphantly lant ant that superb on the fly sheet I 1 read the poems ami and prose works of timothy knissel Sn issel late graduate in dublin college 21 on the other side a preface in ten short short sentences more like an apology than ally any thing else then the contents content viz for a leading poeira the child of fate and misfortune in six cantos jlove and matrimony land 1 etc CONCLUDED IN OUR NEXT |
