The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-15

CeuJ mas very nueTdl pdrlsuiOucr III w III.
e. Dodge, who subscribers $4,000 for the
above mentioned fund. When we consider
that this is but part of his liberality, 1t Is
an encouraging feature. James Lenox
formerly fixed his figures for the same OBJ
ject at So, 600, but recently he doubled the |
sum. He is getting old, and desires to i'm
prove opportunities. When such donations |
are mentioned in connection with missions, |
objections are sometimes made against send |
ing away money, when there Is 80 great |
need at home To this it may be readily |
replied that those who contribute most TO |
the foreign effort are those whose benefi- |
cence is most constantly felt at home.
MAN AND HIS DOUBLE.
Speaking of Mr.. Balch's resemblance to
Lord Byron, it may be considered mat.
ter of surpaiscsthat such similarity does not
more frequently occur. When we contem-
plate the narrow limits of the human face
II is astonishing that so great a variety ls
afforded. There have been noticed some
striking resemblances in this city, which
were constant subjects of remark. For
instance, there have been three limitations
of Napoleon, one of which was an actor
named Mason, who married the daughter
of Jacob Cram, the rich distiller, and was
pensioned off the stage. Washingtons
countenancc was reproduced by the once
noted preacher, S. II. Cox-a man of great
beauty and dignity of form. Those who
remembered the general were struck by the
resemblance which the preacher bore to
him. VIM. 7. Sammons, formerly sheriff
of Montgomery county, was sometimes
taken for Henry Clay. Greeley had a
double living in Herkimer county, who
has more than once been sauted by the ed.
itor's name. Raymond was closely repro
duced in Benjamin Smith of Canajohar'e.
Abraham Lincoln was in appearance much
like Abe Soles, the horse dealer, who was
proud of the resemblance. Tilton has
double who, it is SAID, marched in the COM
mune procession, and being taken for the
unluoky editor, the latter was compelled to
bear the stigma. 1t would be well If he
had nothing worse to bear. Even the writer
of this has double somewhere in this city,
and this, by the way, is very convenient
arrangement as if any ill-considered par
agraph appear in his corner in the Times,
it can be thrown upon the other cookbook
ing man. 1t is great pity that Beecher
cannot use the same plea that Tilton makes
concerning the commune procession, viz
that all this trouble Is the work OF some
wretch who persohates the great preacher
in other words, that it is his double and
not himself who is responsible. This would
explain all the difficulty and remove the
Plymouth church man from the ragged
edge which he now occupies.
DOUBLES AND DANGERS.
1t is an old story that mans double Is
bis most dangerous enemy. This idea has
been handled in mastery manner in a
play ascribed to the Spanish dramat!st
Caderon, and which is now obsolete.
Washington Irving when in Spain sought
it in vain, though he searched every library
in the kingdom. He was told by Medwin,
the English literateur, that the play was
called El Cdpitddo or the Mutlled Man, but
Medwin probably erred In ascribipg it to
Calderon, for Irving did not find it in the
wo ks of that writer-indeed he never found
it at all. The plot was concerning q young
man who was doggcd all his life by mask
ed and mysterious person who thwarts his
plans necessarily, and blasts his hopes at
the moment of fruition. When on the
point of consummating happy marriage
| III Cdpitado again opposes him. They
draw and fight. Digging the conflict the
mask falls from the mysterious foe, whose
antagonist is horror stricken to see his own
countenance exposed to view and dies in
agony. Medwin described the play to
Byron, who was deeply impressed with the
idea and intended making it the subject eff
a drama. He omitted doing so, but when
Poe heard of the idea he dressed 1t IN all
the colors of his wierd genius, and the read
err will and it in the tale called William
Wilson. The lesson is the same one taught
by our Savior when he said "a mans foes
shall be of his own household" M Capt.
tado was simply personication of the vic
Tins passions.
BEECHER's DOUBLE.
Carrying out this powerful idea, we may
easily perceive that Mr.. Beechers greatest
danger lies ia himself and his own conduct.
l need not analyze his character, or point
out those lifelong error s which now come
upon him with painful retribution. A man 8
sins, like his body, cast an increasing shad-
ow as he walks toward life's sunset.
Beechers frivolity in dealing with sacred
things, his pulpit levity, his impotence with
all reproof or instruction, his indifference
to public opinion on social prophecies, his
reckless mismanagement of an enormous IN
come, displaying fast and loose with per-
sons and with promises, his facile adapta-
ton to the gospel on Sunday and during
the week to the dirty crew that hung round
and he finds FL CdpitadO his worst enemy.
Admitting his innocence of the great crime
charged upon him, he is not innocent as
respects the duty due to himself and the
pastoral office. Tilton, too, is the victim
of "M Capitalo" He has destroyed him.
self. AS Byron makes Manfred reply To
the evil spirit
al have not been thy dupe nor am thy prey,
But was my own destroyer"
Most of the ruined men who abound in
society will find the same experience when
they reach the end and look back on a
wasted life. They are murdered by EI
Cdpitad0, the muffled man.
cowPER AND HOMESTEAD.
Noticing in your columns the suicide Of
Miss Bonestecl, 1 am led to the parable
found between her case and that of the
poet Cowper. If it be true that the feal
of appearing before Jury, OF which she
spoke in such terms of dread, led to self
destruction, it is just what Cowper attempt
ed from similar reasons. His uncle, who
was man of great influence, obtained fol
him very desirable clerkship in the serv
ice of the house of lords The work could
easily be done by deputy, and all that was
required was to 90 through brief exam
ination ON the point of competency. Tht
dread of this ordeal so mastered the timid
and nervous poet that he concluded to es
cape his troubles by suicide. He tried tC
drink poison, but found that the nerves OF
the throat prevented the act of swallowing
Then he hung himself by the door of hi
room, but the cord broke and he fell to The
floor, where he was found in an excitement
which was the beginning of his insanity
Death to such person were less dreaded
than the exposure of his imaginary weak
ness and deficiencies. The tortures endured
,, by the sensitive are often made matter o
ridicule, and yet they are as real as an,
other torture. The fate OF such poets al
Henry Kirke White and John Keats, proves
this, as do other instances which might b,
quoted by
THE HERMIT IN NEW York.