New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-29

gravity and reticenee OF the red man. HOOK,
the liouor-dealer around tho corner, seeing
the faultless fit of his boots and gloves, and
the thoroughbred grays he drove, sneered at
him every morning for "bloated arist0crat;"
the eolporteur and tract distributor looked at
bric-a-brac and horses and inquired why
these things were not sold and the money
given to the poor. Some of US, perhaps, in
bitter mood, watching him come out OF church,
might have questioned whether he and his
class were not serving God and Mammon.
Neither Rock nor colporteur understood that
to Philip paintings, luxurious surroundings,
and well-ftting clothes since his birth, had
been commonplace necessaries to be assessor
or dispensed with as little as daily air or iight'
If Philip was a hero, he had none OF she ear
marks by which that genus OF men are
known in novels or ordinary life. lie
was not biliously cynical nor boyishly enthu-
siastic apparently he had never discovered
human nature to be corrupt or society based
on falsehood and tyranny; he had not evolved
from his inner consciousness the ghost or
theory TO set the world right; be had never
limited reform in book or a lecture, or even
leading article; he was not member or So
ciety of any sort his name never was found
on subscription list; the apparent tenor OF
his life was strictly that of his class; be read
law enough to enable him to manage his es-
tates; he was a hard student in such branches
of science as suited his whim; his compan-
ions were well-bredl men,, refined, beautiful
women; he had keen appreciation OF the best
music; he went to balls, to the opera Id
Winter; he hunted or sailed his yacht in Sum
mer. If any of his compatriots had been asked
for Philips story they might have quoted;
"Story, God bless you! there is none TO
tell. Sir.n But few of them noticed the one
singular trait in the man, the entire absence
| in his talk or thoughts of all mention or re-
membrance of himself. Whether the peculiar
ity was hereditary, or whether some unwonted
accident had given to him In early Ire the
second sight, which showed him how insignia
cant each human atom was before God ana
among his fellows, no one knew; but the re-
suit was a quiet lifelong ignoring OF Phlllp
| nv Pbilip as far removed from conscious hu-
mlity as vanity 81 saw him mentioned In
can English journal as one of the first three
"chess-players in this country" said one
friend. 81 had been intimate with him for
"nine years, and never knew before that he
understood the game" "He had the
"healtbiest, sweetest moral nature ever met
"with,n said one of the first Of our Christian
teachers, "but no man ever heard him taiK
"of his religion or his creed"
There was to be a private concert one
| Winters evening, where none but critics ana
artists were to be present. They waited for
Philp. for his verdict was important tG tie
debutant; more than one far fastidious face,
too, turned impatiently to the door, watching
for him. Some one then brought the word
that Philip lay dying dying of foul disease
contracted in visiting jail. The shock Oh
surprise was as great to bis friends as that Oh
main. we can easily believe. These fair, deli
cate women could not associate jails and
death from foul disease with the Philip they
had known. After he was dead it was told
quietly people spoke of Philip quietly, alive
or dead) that there was not jail, nor aims
house, nor purlieu of vice and misery In the
city with which he had not been familiar for
years. How much of his income had gone to
| his poorer brother, only God remembered.
The story is, after all, one of negatives.
Assuredly Philip made no mark IN the world,
no bruit among men as Americans are
taught it is the highest aim of life to do.
Bat we tell his story because we believe this
| type among his class of our countrymen is
| not uncommon, ana in trese days, when a
man so easily becomes his own demigod, it is
as worth while to suggest its to our boys as
| those vanished with cheap glory, or adver-
tised philanthropy. Nobody would call Philips
a successful life; the mention of him in the
newspapers even was the briefest; he dropped
silently out of the circle of his friends; but
they who knew him are startled even yet to
find how his memory remains, unlike that OF
others who are dead; how, remembering him,
it is easy to do right, to take their proper
humble place before God and among his
creatures; how he seems even in the silence
of the grave to live with Nature, fulfilling
| Gods word with the breath of every Summer
day, healthful, potent, calm.
| great time they have had in Oldham England.
Contrary TO all precedent and in defiance of settled