New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-06-05
Johnny BOUQUETS WALKS.

coxp.pYD-A GLIMPSE OF THE DEAIli-|nA"
OF HAMILrONs MURDERER-IhE LA'i
NV florist associate, Maryantha, asked me s''V''
A., Tho meaning of a phrase she had heaIu anione
.oms of her grand customers. Inc sur'Na "a .no
B,tastn She asked if it meant INN VINO III .no
hardest for said she, all the prize-hgh'e'7' Inv
gnenan. die early and leave several wives ap'o00'
Even there Maryantha" said l, the ht'cs' SUI
xive No doubt when Samson was uilnse
temple down, Dclilah was still al the h"',
,rode her household upholstery stuffed with elaui'-
tors boards" soia Mary
A.. tr;,m;,g down the last nosegay ana prepai-
,ro 70 oo ON her rounds &" TO my nlihu' johnny VI"
sns, J;e and the cunning live Courage goes aoeao
.nd scaes the ramparts and falls IN the ol'en'
Cowa dice skulks and popuates the earth .
She waved he- basket at me. fastened her col'ar
,r;tb Pompeiian pin and said ta-ta- was ei'
In what the Carthagcnians call n haopcls"'' -. ~,
1it;on felt by all men when woman has got Ill 'n0
last word.
THE FITTRsT TO LIVE
auho arc the dttcst T. asked. Gam one OF
Fam, Why sixty years of exposure have beaten Oil
- head and | can say with more truth IMAM
Dan:el Webster that Il still live. Inc m!r'io
dead that was grown for my grave; INC So"rs %
econ il dead who boosted thirty years ago th,l ne
,xould cut me up. / survive, my Uod! ou' ny my
care for the sparrows anu helu l'li'S' N'' y
fitness" 5,;,, baunts
.youdered il the fttcst were the living vi 'no ~
rrhoro ,vos Old Parr Tommy PaT, the johnny
rouorct nj the sixteenth century, who survived HIS
,;r,h nearly 1853 years. yet never did any Vnhs VA
cent till a little farm and drink ale anu III 'no "S
of 100 he married again, married wluo"' 'oo' o.
xxavs the survival OF the httest! lie oouIu ho' "0
Yill they took him court, in the time Oh CnacS "
and being of importance there hhlsncu ,in, "i
Dorn before Columbus discovered America, nc i''eu
till MARYLAND was settled and Roger " illiS,is ""e
hop;sbed Why did he live, not even 10 Keep
d;arv, Yet Henry Jenkins another obscur"y'
,;oS En- bc 100 Sir John Sinclair said the only
.h;nc dope in common by all these long-liveIs WIS
40 rise early Old Parr lived through seven reighs'
Tho lives of n few men hard-workeu' passcu ',V
.o,n,,on like Titan. whom only the plague could
till nj ninety-ninc, or Louis NV, VINO Ice"ou
seycpty-tlree years, or John Adams ana JeneiSon
who thrived Oh quarrels aud died at ninety oic
and eighty-three respectively both on the roui'"
~ Julv amongst the fireworks. John quincy
Adams and mis- father together lived 1s2 years ana
t,har,es Francis Adams is seventy-four, making OF
.hos lives il; direct succession 256 years up 10 TINS
moment. ..;.o y, tho
arrival OF the fttest, for Aaron Burr surviving
hamilton. whom he killed all of thirty-two years
the one diving at fol y-seven the other al egnly
THREE RENEGADE NEw-I oRKERs.
Aaron Burr has been compared to MT CohAi'he'
oven by the defenders of the latter but the suescS
+on probably arose from want Oh comparison
within the limits of our State to anybody eSc'
Physically typically. there is not the least reseih-
silence Bnrr maturcd early; Conkling has never
maturcd Mt all. That bread spread with sugar on
both sides he is crying for now as at the age OF
nah n maj standing
n third of n century, placid and unresisting, Ike
VICE President Burr of whom i have heard n living
witness saw that the boys in Albany used u throw
stones at him Conklng is Puritan, little miNeu
with Scotch. Burr probably was OF German eN-
traction distanty, but otherwise OF clear Iuti'ah
English many generations down. The Uaehc In
aammabillty of the living politician Is onset ny
cool. almost phlcgmatc philosophy and depor'-
mont in the dead one. Probably Conklng has seen
I,nrr without remembering it, for he was AN Albany
hov at eight wears of age when Burr died and Burr
often haunted Albany and its courts OF law nearly
to the last Mr. Sc ward met Burr there III his family
circle and relates Burr's assurance, hattery ana
duplicty In the quality OF furious senslohlty anu
revenge, NJ Conkhngs antelope is more nearly
General Arnold than Colonel Burr. Since Arholu
uaye ND his post in the Highlands there have been
two great dcsertions in this state; Burt oetrayhg
the Republican party of 1901. and Conkling be-
traving the Republican party OF 1881 The time
batycen the events was Just the age of Burr. An
unboly ambition consulting neither prudence nor
r;ncnle and vet nsensibility TO the verdict OF his
tory. marked all three lives Each was susceptible
In high degree of female influence; neither had
the ouality of reverence OH Washngtons military
,taA Rurr was Ills bettler, COnkling Allotted
yincoln's rivals Promoted to be q lieutenant
colonel at the age of tweny-one Burr wrote TO
Washington that be was constrained to observe
that the late date of his appointment subjected MN
20 the command OF some officers who were his
minors last campaign, and he should like, with sub
mission. to know whether 1t was misconduct IN him,
or extraordinary merit IN them, which had given
than the preference" This might have been COnk-
iino's own language and Is Enthusiastically his tenn
perament At the age of twenty-one when APP
bontcd. not elected District Attorney of his county,
he looked about for something to take offence at
instead of feeling humble gratitude Arnold, too
was always in a wrangle about his rank, az referred
20 some fellow officer, and always wanting more
staG patronage ratiOns and appointments. The
Injurious parvenu shines through tine uneasy adj
yancenent of all three in all was the quality OF
audacity whether in peace or actipn. Arnold, long
after his treason being captured in the West Indies
md fearful of his treasure put it in empty cask
which he let down into the sea with a letter i'll
closed. saving that the property belonged to him
and was to be given up when demanded and after
Il had Aoated ashore he jumped into the sea and
sva am ashore-a performance much like Dir. Conkllng
setting his Senatorship adrft but labelled to be
reclamedn and swimming after 1t desperately.
Burr's departure from Washington City in 1901
with the dream of coming back Emperor of somo-
thing but returning TO be tried for high treason,
had the same egotism and audacity.
Neither of the three men am considering had any
clear idea of the limitations of their rights. Arnold