, 1872-12-22

point, success. He might say, with John Ran
do1ph: "Who ever had such constituents? 2"
NewsboyB, generation after generation, arose to
learn tie tradition Of their predecessors, while
several men Of wide association continued to be
his worshippcrs, faithfully, and even humbly,
down to the time he closed his eyes. He ac-
quircd a fine fortune by his work, but, afteE bis
divorce, his heme-life was that of q recluse.
Probably bis most intimate friends Of character
were John ". Forney and Daniel Dougherty.
But, all over the Union, there were persons
who felt honored at the receipt ct
q line from him or q touch of his hand. His
tinguished people; and the pictures and busts
of himself in his best days showed really beau
tiful man, with features strong, expressive,
and sensitive, and . type, indeed, Of the great
human heroes of the old drama he was re-.
dundantly gifted with voice and sinews, but
that is complaint rarely made no#-a-days about
men Of the atage, who too often waste their
force in the frvolities Of such loose associations
as the drama often brings about it. Nothing so
frivolous exercises the same influence upon all
ages of men and women as the actor. Schoolgirls
see him in some heroic part, and write letters,
often to their own beguilement. Women with
means see their ideal often in the cheap lmper-
sonations of some noble authors Inauguration.
HIS BUSINESS GIFTS.
Forests greatest life was his buBiness-life.
He knew the value Of money, and the Tepose
which it's possession gives to old age ; and, while
he lived in the association Of pictures, good
voted himself steadily To entrenching against
time. He had animal passions in e1cess, but
they were not such as to rob his pocket. For
several years past, he had relnquished the ac-
tive rivalry of the larger stage, and consented to
appear in small, quiet towns. He was easily
touched by an affectionate and admiring
word, and grew finally moro amicable toward
people who yentured to have differences with
his greatness. He was q secret admirer Of
many men not known to him, and his desultory
reading was large aud constant.
ANECDOTES.
T remember three things about his house
which always struck one because he eulogized
them. One was faded handbil1 which was
this: . At the close OF the poll, Mr. Sheridan
will address the meeting."
"Now," said Forrest, ssthat was the great
Richard Brinsley Sheridan. That is one Of his
bills. See how modest it is Had he been an
American, he would have Raid: AT
our our noble l'@7'a and distinguished s: states*
man, the Hon. R. B. Sheridan, at the petition
OF thousands Of his countIynen will address the
multitude" I used to hear him Say so with in
wholly himself, and he had not particle OF
Sheridan's modesty about him.
Another thing Was IN enormous Bowie-knife,
With blade fully foot long; which. he said,
James Bowie had presented to him. Ho always
coupled the production of this knife with long,
winded story about one Of Bowies duels, which
related how Bowie and another man had tied
their left hands together, and how Bowie had cut
the other mans bowels out, SO that they
fell in way which Forrest described
with peculiar "whoop" and ''gulp," which
made people sick at the stomach.
The third article about the place WIS very
pretty painting, by German artist, Of two girls
going in to batho. They were quite young and
shapely, and, as one put her toe in the water,
the other looked on with a laughing BhiTer, as
if to say. SIS it cold? p
81 come down here often at midnight" said
Forrest, 'tand Light up the gas to look at that
PICTURE"
Ho was tho victim OF ldo1atry, and Of that deep
devotion to his profession which made all Bocial
life subordinate to it. He believed that for him
chiefly the great authors wrote, and that tho
world was not only stage, but nothing else, and
all human. nature attitudinary. But he Was
Eauch worried and harried by merely mean criti-
clsms, inspired and done by people whom he had
antagonized. He had the art to make men re-
PEELED by his coming. He WAS sayage-like
9 Metamora" in many things; and, although
Edwin Forres) Booth was named for him, I
believe Forrest never recognized him for his in
comparable success. Such 4 life was prosperous
and mean, inflated and moody, SCARED and
scattered by deep whirlwinds, and at last quietly
ended without a witness. Forests life 3, iu-
deed, "but poor player who frcts and struts
his hour upon the BtaSe-~ tale full
Of sound and fury, signifying nothing"