Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1881-07-11
Departed Greatness.

NOON ltIt, llt JcSOtI SdIu, Wllcll
the train was rolling on to Oberlin,
"what did the brakeman call this
town."
"OBerlin, sor," said the land Lacquer
who got on at Fremont.
81 see," the Jester replied; "a sort
of Irish capital of Germany. We will
be there just in time to be too late for
dinner, and we didn't stop long enough
in Fremont to take dinner with Hayes"
"With whom? 2" asked the sad passen-
ger severly.
"Old Hayes" the Jester replied,
didn't you know him! Used to be
president of the republic. Three
months ago people were calling him
His Most Excellent Excellency, Ruth
erford b. Hayes, president of the
United States of America, and COM
mander-in-chief Of army and navy
Then he got on the cars one day to ride
west; and, when he got US far as AL
toona, people were calling him Ruther-
ford b. Hayes, ex-president of the
United States When he reached
Pittsburgh they called him Ex-Presi-
dent Hayes When the train got as
far west us Cleveland, the papers an
nounced the arrival of the Hon. II. y.
Hayes And, the day after he reached
Fremont, an old Misunderstanding
a Springfire of an ancient pea-brush,
and blighted boots, and blasted over
sfoes in his back yard-said to his
neighbor, with little grammar and less
reverence. old Hayes is got rich Sic
transic gloria United States of Amer
lea. 1t takes the children of freedom
to let a man down easy. Yesterday a
mar would call HIM a tyrant, a destroy
er of national liberty, a constitutional
holocaust, Il Caesar with his mailed
hand upon the throat of freedom, and
chase after his carriage fifteen miles
through mud and dust, hOofing it along
at the speed of an Indian carrier, to
beg him for a little Missouri corner
p%ostoiice worth 1865 II year and pay
your w rent. To-day he appears at
the Body house, and the clerk says
ch%eerfully, Want a sample room, Nj.
Hayes?' He goes to the bank and the
cashier, looks at him pleasantly, but
with intense scrutiny, he says, Gould
you get another name on this for us,
please?" Yesterday the rustic of one
rich black silk dress in America thrill.
ed the columns of the press, and the
presidents family went to church.
To-day, the Hayeses' were or were not
out to metin',' as the case may be.
Verify, my brethren, all is vanity; Man
cometh forth like a flower, and is cut
down; he tleeth also like a shadow,
and continueth not The joke that is
new to-day, doth it not pass into the
tomb of the circus of the embalming
hands of the end man tomorrow?
There is hope Of a tree, if it be cut
down that it will sprout again, and
that the tender branch thereof will not
cease; but the song that We all sung
but yesterday, and |applauded with
Understanding and long continued
encOres, do we not lift our hands
against the man who singeth it to-day,
and smite we not with a weapon of
iron the man who whistleth Little
Buttercup?' So is the greatness of the
MAJ who has been president. lie is
like grass which groweth up; in the
morning it flourisheth and groweth up;
in the evening it is cut down and with.
cred Happier is the nan who is yet
to be president; happier yet is he who
thinketh he will be; but who is fore
doomed to be left,-for he hath all the
roses of anticipation, without the har-
rowing thorns of realization; and hap
pier by far than all others is the cheer
full fool who laugheth long and
laugheth oft, and careth not to be king
or president, and yet seeketh the low