New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-05
HENRY or NAVARRA-HiS PLUME.

The past at least is insecure You never can tell
what its fu ure is gong be. There IS chance OF
everything that has being revised, and the
REVISION may bear no NOR, resemblance the old
version than Cog and Magog bear to venus ana
Adonis True, tho revised version OF the blDle IL
not substantially different from the Bible with
which people have become familiar. But the Bible
Is The golden exception to dsheartenlng rule
DshearrenIng is the word. Read me anything
but history" said Walpoe. :" for that is certain
to be false" He had found out by many
bitter experiences that if there is thing more
than another that not secure, 1t IS the past. An
item OF current news forcIby recalls Walpole III
is perhaps we'll for his peace OF mind that he ala
not survive 10 this day. For II Is stated on inc
auihoni OF a gentleman whose name IS not men
toned. but who OF course Is professional lcono-
c at. that the plume of Henry of Navarro. famous
in song and in story was not white but black! The
announcement will amazs tho whole round world
AS 1t has not been amazed before since
It was gwen 20 understand that william
Tell aud the apple were simply curious
MYTHS OF the Middle Ages What fall was
there my country man-Henry Of Navarro, the dir-
ling OF yonng romance. revealed as wearing black
plume a. If he was simply genteel UndertakeTs
gentee young mau! Picture the revulsion Of out
rag feelings shat will tend the PRONUNCIATION Of
thls abnormal piece of III diligence OF course, and
o their credit, che moro enrnu iasuic admirers of
Henry will ut once set their heads together TO
see If they cannot break his fall. Per-
haps the will explain that he meant
to wear a vD..e plume but that. owing to color
liudnrss not under his own control. he picked out
a black one.
The theory is plausible and may be accepted as
entirely 81 isfactOry by persons OF pronounced
marine sntecedenis. Bat wicked and adulteFous
genera ion will shake It's head and scout the color
bind suggestion. saying rs they think OF the black
plume another good man gone wrong; wnile
history will the poetic necessity OF recs ling the
ashes of Henry from tho golden which they
have 80 long been rrposlng and catering them to
the four winds of noayen and me cyclones of the
northwest II Is simply impossible to expect man.
Kind 10 readInst their impressions To take
kindly TO bacS-plumcd Henry OF Navarro. 1t
cannot be zone or the aesthetic properties done
for
From the data now in his possession the philo-
sophie n lent OF the pass may well feel warranted
H. terminating the generalization, Whatever Is
ISN'T WHY noti koscIusko did not tall that
iime wnen the poet Campbell said that
Freedom shnekd." CsmDronne denied that he
bal ever exclaimed: Tho Guard dies but never
,nrrondcis" A wiL awake traveller some ears ago
rep Tied that people with coIsciences would do well
to qui: saving, by cool Siloam's snady rll."
since there no raj. shady or o hcrwise. IN the
neIghborhOod of SLOAN. IL was only "A few months
since that the ATTEMPT WIS made to prove that
Daniel WrbslcTs ast words not e" still live
but Il sull live-more brAndy!" aud to-day some
PERSONS arc 9 ing around offering odds in support of
their assertion that Lawrence never said, Don't
give up the ship
Ii is an erroneous world