Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-04-06

the HERALD.
something About Jones, OF FLOR
Ida,
Just now there is good deal oil
chaff floating through the press oi
the country which is directed towards
Jones. of Florida. The Senate OF
the United States is really the most
exclusive body in the world. Com
pared with il the House OF Lords OF
England is tumultuous mob ana
the Senate of the French corps legs-
latif is something like town meet
ing. The seventy-eight gentlemen
who sit in this august body represent
sixty millions OF people. Even the
Senate OF the old days OF Rome had
nothing comparable to this peculiar
distinction OF the American body
AS A consequence, the Senator OF the
limited States has come to be looked
upon as something outside OF the
common, He has been supposed TO
be diyested OF all the human frailtles
and weaknesses, and even the most
amiable of the traits OF the man nave
been regarded az evidences oil de-
generacy.
Now, we don't believe in this, and
we propose to stand in with Jones, oil
Florida. By all accounts he is an eS-
ce eptionally gifted man. His name
would indicate that he belongs TO the
Cimbrian type OF the Celtic race, and
all developments OF this race are en-
thusiastic and emotional. Jones,
who halls from the country OF Ponce
de Leon-from that land of flowers in
which the Ponce aforesaid pursued
his unavailing quest after the fount-
ain Of Youth--has cared to show that
even in the mellow aftermath OF life
he dares to love woman. The TACT
that he is willing, even after the
mad heyday OF the passions has
measurably subsidized, TO write SON
nets to his mistress's eyebrows, is set
down as something against him. For
our part, we think it is all in his Ia
vor. There is one phase OF Luther's
career as poet which those who DO
not believe in him rs n prophet VIII
concur in. II is when he says
Who loves not woman, wine and song,
Remains fool all his life long
The fact that Jones, in his mature
manhood can love, and love wildly
and madly, is very much in his favor.
1t shows that he is an amiable and in
teresting man, not Dryasdust repre-
sentative of the painful and long pro-
tracted evolution OF protoplasm. 1t
shows, In fine, that in different vein
from that OF Joseph Surface, which
the old Uncle Oliver objurgated so
heavily, Jones of Florida is a man OF
sentiment.
Why should not the heart OF Sem
ator of approved age not light up with
the ardors OF passion? "Grand We
nus is shut out from the sanctuary
of no mans heart as long as, in the
language of Hamlet, "this machine is
to him" Why should not Jones OF
Florida, in common with multitudes
of poorer and baser men, be allowed
to see but two localities in this work
n lay world? Why should he not he
permitted to exclaim, with Moore's
lover, that the universe has but two
points
The one that dear, that clnseerated spot
Where Lea was the other that
I,ude. wild waste whore she was not
Why, we would ask, should the
mere fact that Jones is approaching
the fiities, or has perhaps passed
them, rule him out Of the list OF pal
pitating gallants who must furnish
the class from whom the admirers OF
Sappho, OF Abelard and Heloise and
of Paul and Virginia have been re.
cruited in the past and must be re-
cruited in the future.
Jones of Florida is evidently man
OF elevated soul. The fact that he is
still responsive to the charms OF
woman is certainly in his favor. He
sees in the softer and lairer sex some
thing beyond the ken of ordinary
man. Like Tom Moore, he is ready
to accept the theory oil a special crea-
tion for this precious sex, and TO en-
dorse the sentiment,
You both remember well the day
When unto Bdcn's new made ,wers,
Allah convoked the bright array
OF his supreme angelic powers,
TO witness that one wonder yet,
That crowning OF creations birth,
When midst the wonder and surprise
OF circling angels woman's eyes
First ope'd on heaven aud earth.
No, really, instead OF derision Jones
of Florida ought to encounter the
sympathy of all properly organized
human beings He has ranged him
self amongst those OF whom the poet
says,
Better to have loved and lost
Than not to have loved at all.