Dr. Jones Before The Unity Club

The entertainment offered by the Unity club, Monday evening, was as interesting as it was novel. Dr. Samuel A. Jones, the appointed speaker of the evening, assisted by tiis daughter, recited a number of fragments of verse, set forth as the "Roadside Rhymes by a VVayfarer." They represented the feelings and thoughts of an ordinary man subjected to the ordinary circumstances of life. They were but the outbursts of the thoughts and feelings of an ordinary man, and during the progress of the entertainment their sentiment changed from the fancies of youth to the thoughtfulness of oíd age. Th us we see the "VVayfarer" getting himself into the very usual habit of gazing at a girl's brown eyes, and like most other youths, though persistent in searching, he fails to find his lessons there. And since he was of that turn of mind it is not surprising to find him losing his head altogether and taking midnight drives to Ypsi., and going about the day after with his left arm limp and lifeless from the effects of the strain to which it had been subjected (the night before), and with his face distorted beyond recognition by the unnatural pucker which his lips had found it necessary to assume so often the night before. But he is not always a self-convicted fooi, and after surviving that portion of his life, which the narrator divided into childhood, boyhood, and the most critical part ol all, booby-hood, and has dragged his form upon the solid land oi manhood, his rhymes become more thoughtful and contain tions aboat Ufe and death, immortality, etc. The selection of the thenies for these little poems, together with their order of arrangement, afforded a most beautiful character picture. On December 3, the next entertainment of the Unity club will consist of an illustrated lecture on "Constantinople and the Sultan,' by Rev. Lee S. McCollester, of Detroit.