The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1824-03-17
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH II, 1924.

more Telegraph. ., is said to be In,
production Of JOSEPH LANCASTER, tn,
veDersted founder of the Lancaste rian
system Of education.
THE ENIGMA OF ENIGMAS.
ID Grea, Britain my figure ha. Been
seen Sut my shape and couptenance are
unknown and in Ireland my name is in
volved in "a tune, though ! have little to
do with Politics and PERHAPS less with
music II change colour like the came
leon, and my shapc.like Proteus. lam
found in many shapes and sizes, But with
m difference of effect whether small or
great.--My real name is SEMpER IDEM
In my early feriods I 5ef,iended A
dam, sheltered Cain and saved Noah -
! came uh with Josehh's wagons from
Egyft returned thither with the fat.
riarch Jacob. | hehed Moses against
Amalek, out was FIRST overflowed in the
Red Sea, when Pharaoh and I'll his cha
riots were engulnhed in death. Though,
as to size and stature I am ferfectly IN.
different, have my own characteristic
shahe. Bar it is all alike, whether found
in the wing of gnat, or the fan of a la
dy whether | ascend the elevation Of
mount Blanc, or become as lofty as the
fixed stars existing in the body of an ami
malcul9; am crowned with all the 6eau
tItul hues of nature before the sun, OF
rank the Alts and Cordeliers in com.
harison with my height, as Dery Hnle
things. always retain my name and
nature; and like disciple OF wisdom, true
to my PRINCIPLES, l never sacrifice one
thing which l ought to retain, or in any
instance defart from the line of rectitude.
My Antiquity is equal to my shape
was not only before the most ancient hhi
losofher, but assisted the sun to sf,reaa
his rays when he first shone on the solar
system In height am a giant or a
dwarf, at pleasure man intimately &C.
9uainted With my towers, may call me
forth in any shahe hehIeases. athear at
commando soldier,armed with as word,
gun, Shear or shield, or as a shehherd
feeding his 40 ok but feel no reluctance
at having my likeness taken under the
shape OF feBknife, hen coon or a
wheel6afrow.
PrIde is a PRINCIPLE with an elastic
shrlng, and vivifying flower that is all
most CAPABLE Of raising the dead.-Pride
contenss with me for my very name. 6nt
Proteus as am, am very often the vic
tor, and whenever l have made loft.
fr'de su6,end IN my pleasure, raise the
noad'ng crest or humble the towering
fIumes as suits my furhose, for though
high ana Greet, am low and hum6le.-
Htien to bend ana zDhen to stand uhrighl
are fhilosofthic foiHts, which are Eour,,
'rAyed IN all the multifarious forms of un-
ohaDgeaole nature and thus am fitted
nd to be the instructor of a sect, out the
freceftor of world have great in
interest in crystalIograhhy and fre.occu
med geology, before light itself was for.
medor man in being. I am settled in
America, and never deserted the Ohio or
Mississippi, that great American Ganges,
the father of many waters, yet am to be
found on every chord Of the Irish harm.
and lexhress myself in the words erin
maO0rnin, Erin go 6ragh'
My changes of embodied forms are
not only many and various, but Duplicates
OF myself are continually multiplied with
more accuracy than stereotype, with as
much shesd as time. The wind blows
my likeness over the earth, still remain
unknown and increase m countless mum.
Gers am invisible and visible daily to
every man In the world, sometimes on his
person, and sometimes not but have
long been SUSPECTED Of Cs6slistic arts,
ana not quite without reason, for I have