Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-05-15

How strange, The very grasses growth
Around 81 seemed forlorn ana ioa'h
The very ivy seemed 10 turn
hskance that wreithed the ncighbor urn'
The slab had sunk, the hcad Declined
And left the rails wreck behind.
No name you traced "G"-a"7"-
Part OF hfiIctinn aud OF ' Heaven
Aud then In letters, sharp and clear.
hun raad-O Irony bu.teto -
mo tos 10 Sighi, 10 Memory dear"
That may or may not be an argument for
cremation. "s,ver take tho ashes from the
shelf ~
Senator blackburn says there are two men
I'm Congress whom ho knows from expert
ence and observaiion and report cannot bo
builied and he will never try-again. one
is Logan and the other Randall.
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There il some guying Of Congressman
Everhart in the newspapers, and there was
some, no doubt, on the iioor OF the House
for the high -iautin speech he made ON the
river and harbor bill Tie scared with Soc
rates, ripped with Euripdes, roamed with
Romulus, aud cantered, with Cantharides
aud when the members crowded around
him and gave him time 40 literally they
were simply amused; aud IL was all the more
connicai because he did not seem to notice II.
1t IL not to Everharts discredit, OF course,
that his audience did not understand hrs
talk about the imprimatur OF the Elzeyers,
inc DlnuIDR DI baskefNllle tallHVSests vi
the Vatican the Splendid Shilling, or the
Adventures of a Guinea But | guess Geo.
Martin has the facts of the case about right
when he says Of Everhart aud his speech
Everhart Is a specimen of the congressman
who is gradually fading away. lie used TO
be a pretty bright talker in the Pennsylvania
Senate, and on the stump had kind OF trem-
ulous eloquence that made those who did not
understand what he was driving at think ho
was making great speech. lie came TO
Congress with pretty high ideas oil the duties
and high position of a congressman, and has
been loading up with learning ever since.
He is the one member OF the House VINO
knows something about every bill offered IN
the last three sessions, and he ~ certalnl y
the only member who has sat IN
his seat every day through good meas
ures aud bad, and important ones, and those
which were not worth attention. he knew
how every member stood on every bill, aud
what bills he had particular interest in. lie
even knew the merits Of every pension case ;
and yet he did not know that the House dlu
not care 10 hear about " Calypso Atlantis y
1t Is pretty well known that they are max
ing fight for the seat up in Chester county,
and that he is likely to be defeated. That
seems to be the fate Of classical men IN these
degenerated days They are not appreciated
like " Pig Iron advocates, for instance, and
possibly 1t is Just as well. Maybe the next
statesman from Chester county who talks
about the river and harbor bill can get an
appropriation for the Delaware.
1t may be pity, but it certainly is true,
that the days of the classic orator in Congress
arc over. McCreary, of Kentucky, was the
last of his line Everhart cannot hope to
succeed him. The glory that was Greece
aud the grandeur that was Rome have little
interest for the modern statesman and even
Everhart will not revive them.
SINDBAD.