Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-04-13
ATTORNEY GENERAL PALM.
ER'S FUTURE.

Attorney General Palmer occupies
modest residence on Franklin street
this city. 1t is furnished with raj
good taste, the educated ideas of tn
Attorney General being very largel
reflected in the articles of virtue, al
and bric-a.brac which are observabl
In the adornment Of parlor, drawing
room and library In the latter, oC
cupying a conspicuous place and rest
ing npon stand made especially 70
the purpose, is a magnificent NINA
ture engine made entirely of glass. l
is in every way q superb affair and o
much ingenious construction The per
sonal friends of the Attorney Genera
have been informed that this beautiful
piece of crystal mechanism was wor
years ago, while tho Attorney Genera
was still in the innocence of adolesoen
years, in prize essay contest among
the students of the Poughkeepsie law
school. Even in that early day thu
Attorney General gave evidence of &
strong prediction for composition, ant
it is not to be wondered at that the
pathway along which the feet Of the
Attorney General have passed since
the classic struggle on the Hudson, i:
studded with the graceful flowers ol
his rhetoric aud gemmed with the
dainty titbits of his visionary fancy
1t is true that they crop not out in the
reports of his legal efforts before the
Luzerno bar, and we can only account
for it upon the hypothesis that the At,
torney General, in bis supreme recog.
milton of the unites, has held il vain
to east his pearls before the common
herd. He blossoms best in the col.
umns of a newspaper, in the ponderous
pages of State document. We have
it on pretty good authority too, that
be is occasionally addicted to poetry,
and when he mounts his Pegasus he
rides with a free rein into the ambro-
sial realms of fairy. land where no Wis.
ions of an indignant Legislature are
permitted to disturb the tranquil flow
Of his divine reflections. Judging,
however, from his latest efforts in
prose, we are forced to conclude that
the "deep diapason' of his tuneful
muse has been somewhat Jared by the
cruel storms Of fate. He has been
"cribbed and cofiined" as il were in the
narrow confines Of petulant temper.
The sweetness Of his lines have lately
been turned into the very gall of Bit
terness, and it is said upon authority
that even his common speech is marred
more than ever by unhallowed paren-
thesis of profanity.
The world ever pays homage to
genius and usually overlooks the hu
man faults that accompany it. IT,
therefore, the Attorney General in
dulges in unusual profanity just now,
he may lean with perfect confidence
upon that public sympathy which is
never ehary OF its pardon, especially
when genius is hedged about with dan.
gers and difficulties. 1t is told of the
great sculptor Powers, that the art
that was in him was brought out by
the cruel demands of advolsity. That
his first conquest was forced because
his family cried for bread. There are
other instances of accidental discov.
cries and triumphs similar to the above.
This leads us to remark of the Attorney
General that the possibility OF his dc.
capitation in the near future may be
only one Of the methods which Fate is
ievising for the dissenthrallment from
Embarrassing gsurroundings OF a great
mind destined for other fields than
hose political. 1t is already shown in
he brief political history of the Attor.
ley General that his is not the soul for
such as are demanded at Har.
'isburg. There can be no afliliation
between tno eagle and the sparrow.
There can be no true affection between
he poet and the prize fighter There
wide difference between the halls
# Parnasus and the halls of the Penn.
ylvania Legislature. IT. therefore,
he classic soul of the Attorney Gen.
raj rebels, who shall blame him for
making WARP
One thing, however, must not be for.
often, and that is that while the State
nay possible lose an Attorney Gen.
raj, our city may be enriched by an
ccomplishod poet editor if the decapi.
lted could be induced to accept a DO.
Ition on that PAPER here, to which he
as lately contributed some OF It's most
otent and brilliant editorials. Let
i'm but leave Harrisburg and he will
e welcomed with open arms to his
ONE in Wilkes-Barre. Here there IL
oom, and scope, and sympathy for bis
enius. Here the past will not be re.
'lled, and he may pursue the even
NOR Of his classical way without in. ,
eruption. Surely the State Capital ,
not for such as he. The conflicts {
&c all too gross, the conquests all too
W. Let him HE him hither where
D may once again catch the rays that {
'e reflected from the crystal prize
lat beauties his library, and by close /
tention TO the work of his heart. rise =
glorious heights which were prophc. q
ed in his student days upon the no. /
c Hudson,- Wilkes. Barre Leader. I
NO MORE TREATING" IN WISCONSIN.
Tho Governor Of Wisconsin signed
% bill recently passed by the Legisla- !
re prohibiting the practice of "treat. !
g." The bill provides that any per.
n who shall hereafter ask another TO '
ink at his expense, or any person q
10 drinl, at ann, ,hor,s 49,