Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1882-10-19


as are and have always since their
first acquaintance been warm person
al friends. Nevertheless. they never
meet at social gathering that they
do not lay for each other and set the
table in roar BY their mutual chat
eng On the return Of brother Col
ton to Baltimore FROM his Eastern ira.
Eels some eighteen months age. at q
Press Banquet given in bis honor,
Mr.. Thomas was guest. and ethere
and then he ssesgfor hia,old adxer.
ssry i prose and Sverse and carFFisl
Of The laugh with flying cOlors. But
Cotton is irrepressible and bided his
time with patience for favorable OPP
portunity 10 retort. Ii came at last.
Mr.. Thomas started out on kis travels
and published several interesting let
ters TO tell people about them. and on
his return home. be also was honored
with a complimentary feast. Cotton
was On hand and the following ac-
count from the american shows how
he got even with Thomas
Mr. George Cotton was next brought
up ont Of his seat st the corner Of the
table Of honor, in response to the
toast to '0ur Foreign Relations. =
Here was his chance to retalitate on
Mr.. Thomas for the excruciating game
worked off on him some time ago at
banquet. His response was excee,l-
ingly humorous and catching. and
brought out call for Three cheers
for Cotton" He said:
Upon an occasion like this. when
forlnality gives place to the warm
glow of friendship aud all differences
OF opinion ARE forgotten in a generous
flow of soul. | shall not attempt 10
weary yonr patience with lengthy
speech; yet no one can be more sensi-
bic than of the true worth Of the dis
tinguished guest in whose honor We
have assembled to night. Nv rela-
lions toward him are different. per
haps. from the most of you, for. If not
my bean ideal, he is my genius-but
not my evil genius.
You all. no doubt. remember how
he followed me some eighteen months
IN my travels around the old world.
Wherever | went there be was sure
to be. If | stool at the Sea of Gal
lice. he would say, This lake ought
to be bedded with oysters then fol-
lowing me to the banks Of the Jordan
he would exclaim, Hadn't you heller
= 6u-tl,is- river with carp from the
Maryland Fish CommissfAn?'' If |
gazed awe-sirRck on the frownino
peaks Of Hermon, or the lofty noun
tains of Moab. he would break NV
reyerie by saying, what place TO
plant Eastern Shore huckleberriesl'
and when weary and traveIworn. and
disguised with the shams Of the world.
i retired without the walls of Jeru-
salem and sat me now down beneath
the shadow of great rock to medi-
tate. he portrayed in glowing rhyme
the thoughts that were passing
through my mind. How beautiful
and graphic were his pen-portraits OF
the Maryland Democratic ring
and every member of it ! Bnt as
may refer to this again, will pass il
by for the present and speak Of my
own travels and discoveries.
There can be no doubt, gentlemen.
that my travels in the East were OF
great benefit to the world, and added
much to the archaeological literature
of the present age; the fact il, al
though it NAV not be generally known.
l was the first traveller that discovered
the grave of Moses; / bowed nv head
with deep reverence rs stood beside
the resting place of the greatest law
giver the world has ever known, but,
unlike Mark Twain. shed no tear.
knew it was the grave Of Moses,
because an old Greek patriarch, who
travelled with me from BsthIehe m
down the valley of Kedron and
through the wilderness Of Judea, told
me 70, and you can always rely upon
the Greeks when they don't come
with presents land they don't come
that way now. But coming back to
Moses grave-or rather going forward
TO 1.-THE only thing that staggered
my faith in regard to the matter WAS.
how Moses managed to get on the
Jerusalem side of the Jordan. The
Good Book tells ms that be assembled
Nebo and was no more, and "No man
knoweth his sepulchre 10 this day."
therefore. the only theory upon which
/ can account for il il that there must
have deem two Moses. Any way /
saw the grave Then see with what
keenness of vision looked ont from
the top Of the Pyramid Of Cheops:
how towns and cities and ruins
hundreds Of miles away were as per-
ceptible 10 my clairvoyant vision as
were the SphyBx and the desert nc
my feet. So wonderful indeed was
my critical penetration. that il made
the Washington Star see stars in crit
iciaing IL Bit il was all true, gen
tlemen: and il has afforded me much
pleasure in reading the account Of the
little unpleasantness that has lately
been going on between the British
government and Arab Pacha, 10 know
that have Travelled over the same
rrnalnd that cnrnlifnfaa fha scene "a