Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-07-26
Dead Statesman.

Dead Statesman.
Austerltz killed Pitt AZ surely as
Trafalgar killed Nelson. Each died for
his country, but that country mOurned
more deeply for the great admiral,
stricken down in the battle where he
was the victor, than it did for the great
minister who died of broken heart.
The last book he read, at Bath, was
Miss Owenson's lady Morgan's) "Nov-
ice of st. Dominic" That now unread
able romance, Pitt said, he could not
lay down till he had finished it, and
thence did the Novice" come to be
the rage for time. People almost
fought to obtain it at the libraries, and
nothing in literature was talked of but
book which has long since fallen ont
of literature and of memory altogether.
People, too, fought for another novel,
"A Winter in London" in which fash
ionable life was illustrated by an inca
pable whose name and works are equal
ly wrapt in oblivion.
Fox did not long survive his great ri
val, Pitt. He died on the 18th of Sep
TENDER, 1906. A week previously,
when he was already dying, he tranac-
ted public business. He gave an au-
dience in his bedroom to George Jack
son, with instructions as to how the
latter was to act on his new mission to
Germany. There was mixture of the
solemn and the ludicrous in the scene.
When jackson was announced, Mrs.
Fox, in complete dcsslabilyc, was in the
room. In her furry she slipped into a
closet, and, as the interview was pro-
longed, the lightly-draped lady Kept
signaling to Mr.. Fox, rs if he alone
could hear her, by little coughs and
murmurs, to warn him not to Over-ex-
ert himself, or to dismiss the envoy,
that she might be set free! At mo-
ment when there was pause in the
conversation between the minister and
his agent, the fair captive tapped at the
panel, and asked if the young gentle
man was not gone, and complained of
being cold. The dying statesman
looked at Jackson with a lsncuid smile
and with friendly wishes babe him fare
we'll, as it proved, forever. l..,
THB professor If the future is sup-
posed by Mr.. Quincy, writing in the
Old and New, to address his class in
this style: We hsve come together,
young gentlemen, to pursue some stu
dies in political economy. We shall
use Mr.. Mills work as a textbook but.
in connection with if;ISshall, from time
to time, advise you to read pc, tons of
the works of other authors. By free
interchange of question and reply we
shall make our study interesting. Some OF
the forms of the old recitation we shall
find it well to retain. From time to
time, l shall ask those who are willing
to be called upon to give in their own
language the results of our reciting and
conversations. / may answer a ques
ton abOdt the examinations that are to
be passed at the end of the term, by
saying that l have nothing to do with
them. For q statement of what will be
required, together with the penalties
for failure, refer you to the regula.
tions issued by the business managers
of the institution. will mention ONLY
that these examinations are minute. and
will be conducted chiefly in writing.
They will thoroughly test your real
knowledge of the subject of our study
by evidence as nearly infallible as the
experience of experts can devise. But
let this be the last word or thought VIC
will give to them. We have only tc
feel the interest and value of the science
as it opens before us and we need
trouble ourselves as little about the
tests of the examiners as the wise mar
is concerned about the ways in which
the world will find him out.