New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-07-12

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Call my women !! wish to put on my dress Of
spider webs trimmed with love- 81 must inform
yOu, Princess, that all your toiettes are dreadfuy
out of fashion" "You do not know what you
saying They are in the latest style and come from
Paris."' ayes, from the Paris of hundred years
ago." Shall dress my hair in the peacock or the
hedgehog style:" "1hose styles are no longer
worn" "Throw over my hair little cloud OF
powder" Powder is no longer put on the hair"
Just now we Were playing at Pharaoh THAT
game is no longer Played This evening we will
dance minuet." Nothing is danced now but the
can-can.' "Then shall 60 TO Paris, quick! my
carriagew "You only travel now by railroad"
"YOu are mad. | shall write to my mother" 1--WE
communicate with our friends only by telegraph"
"Where are my vassalsi" "Thcre are more
vassalsf" as there news of the kngP There
are no more kings" "What are they doing at
Vcrsailles'7 Making the laws of the Republic"
"Why this is the end of the world" Eyes, it is the
end Of the world that you have known" "Give me
pillow, am going to sleep again."
Thus Esquros buries the Goodman Formerly, and
after the eptaph, he calls to mind that poet Of Me
Great Republic, Longfcllow, has taken for his de-
vice the Latin word Excelsior, higher, always
higher" Every one who has crossed chain OF
mountains knows that after one summit is reached
other lofticr nights declare themselves above the solid
mass of rock To these nights others succeed. Who
is it that will scale the ultimate peak
This is an image of the ascending march OF socie-
ties Higher than the programmes of $50. higher
than the traditols of philosophy higher than the
eighteenth cen n, higher than the ideal of all the
ancient political assemblies. Nevertheless sufficient
to each day is its trouble Let us first attain these
two sacred SUBMITS the Republic and Liberty; fu-
ture generations Will take care of the rest. To them
the office of exploring the infinite; to the austcre
duty of opening the approach TO the mountain, ana
of transmitting to successors the device EXCELSIOR.
An old Indian poem, the Ramayana narrates how
Visbnu concealed under the form of a dwarf, asked
of Ball. an evil god, the permission to measure the
earth in three steps. Blinded he was by the SEN
timent of his strength, the proud BAH answered
aughingy, Let him try" But rs soon as the dwarf
had obtained that favor, he swelledintO prodiglous
giant FORM With the first step he passed over the
earth, with the second the of the air, with the
third all the heaven of stars. This says Esquros.
is the history of the people and of the human race
Grant it three steps, and it will be master of the
earth. Ii will measure the stars floating above its
head. 1t Will seize upon the universe of ideas. Its
enemies know this well, and therefore have they
bound and strangled it for centuries. But to-day II
is too late The first step taken in $50, and after
this gigantic stride there is no going backward.
Hight and space are opened. The human spirit
mounts and will mount forever, Excelsior"
In this upward flight Esquiros counts no falls.
The route of the human spirit is dangerous one.
The great Pascal saw the abyss always before him.
Politicians do not see it often enough. Joseph de
Mastre said, "The earth is quaking and you want
to build" When the earth quakcs and one must
build it is best to take Heaven as a foundation.
Esquiros who during the war governed the depart
ments of the South is to be elected Senator i'll the
Bouches du Rhone. But what will he do in the
Senate The hour of his ideas has not yet struck
Esquros now never appears in the tribune Whyf
He has a sovereign eoqucnce, learned and vivid
speech and bodness of expression. But so far as
ideas are concerned compared with him Gambctta
is reaconary He lives Versailles i'll front of the
park of Lous XIV, bat he never enters it, As he is
unforgiying toward the past, he is not willing that
the past should give him hospitality, even the hos
pitality of its shadows. He said to me, Ihcrc IL
nothing but upas trees in that park. If passed
through it, should be poisoned.
ARsFNE HOUssAYE.