The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1886-01-03
THE LOUNeER ON THE AVENUE.


raj for distinguished services and eallantry In
action, ana when he became brigadIer general he
was the youngest oficer Of that rank in the Army.
In the very beginning of A career OF uneaualed
10 Haa stricken down With insanity, and
science could devise he orew no better, and now ia
near the end. Was there ever anything in the
history Of our gallant Army that ia sadder than thIs7
Here is Young orscer who was n major general Of
volunteers when ne WAS barely twenty-four. lie
had won every grade I'M to that, not by political
favor. but by the most distinguished ralau,ry and
dashine bravery In the face of the enemy. His
history ia more like page from the life Of one Of
Napolcon's Marsha,s than the smple career OF
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And now. alas! how hard the storv ia IN tell, |
What arouy TO those who knew and loved him an |
we'll IL ia to think that ths the most brilliant vouno
soldier of ,s years. tn,s falthfu, friend ,hs loving
dcyo,e, son, this ndu,qent brother. with womans
tenderness OF heart 10 those nearest and dearest
one who combined in h,s nature the courape Of
Richard the Lion heart and the courtesy Of Sir
Phllip Sidney And to think that such man "A this
ia lost TO the world forever and dead 10 tho Qrlef and
desolaton Of the aged mother who bore him, and
the heart broken sorrow Of the gentle sister who
loved him best! Is there ANYTHING in the irony of
Fate more utterly cruel and bitter than this9
notice In the Cincinnati En,ufre,. A statement
to the effect that Mr. Murat Hastead is an avowed
candidate for the United States Senate to oil the
place OF the Hon. John Sherman and the announce.
Enquirer has some reason to believe that the state
ment ia true 1t has long been known that there
were Republicans In Ohio who do not take kindly to
the reelection of the President OF the Senate and
would not DO sorry to see him defeated. 1t can
scarcely be true. however, that Mr. Halstead is
candidate for Mr.. sherman's seat In real earnest,
with any expectation of succeeding Mr.. Sherman
is undoubtedly the ablest nnancer In the Republi.
can party to-day, and his friends among the bankers
and railway magnates will not see him put down
without aqht. Governor Charles Foster Is believed
to possess certain Senatorial yearngs and II 1t were
himself. There might be something In his aspira-
| lions, but nalstead-well hardly, should think.
In all ages lowers have had a sentiment that was
part Of their being "Consider the lilies OF the eld,n
loved; 1t crowned the table at the Last Supper 1t an
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| ing OF the Third Day. You may well love II, mtg
nome, and bear it to where It's faint perfume will
mlngle with your prayers on the Morn when the
tidlngs, He is risen again., awakes the Christian
word, as 1t did the waiting Mother twenty centuries
ago.
There are other romances OF flowers, half truth,
half tradition, that have como down to US through the
ages so far away that history fades into the night Of
tradition. From Anacreon, the Greek love-poet, to
our time, the gentlest mnstrels Of all nations and
tongues have sung their sweetest melodies OF the
rose, for the rose has soul. Who that has seen
the Jacquemnot queen Of them al! by the divine
right OF beauty, burned In sunny garden closes,
or shone In gorgeous crimson on the bosom Of fair
woman, could not read the story OF Its birth In every
bud and flower, of how sprung into vigorous being
as Pallas Atheue sprang full panoplied out Of the
brain OF mighty Jove-from the life-blood that ran
resh anu warm ana RED from O true lovers neart?
What is fuller of tender romance than the dainty,
dewy blush rose-the old rose Of England-beloved
of the bravest and greatest? 1t was worn in modest
grace on the breast of Edith Of the Swansneck
thousand years ago. and 1t waved in defiance in the
forefront In the wars of Lancaster and York in
twenty stricken fields. Well does 1t hold the place
1t has won in story and song as 1t droops Its anguid
head 30 dantiy, and wears the same modest blush
so tender In its petals, that caused Dc Chastelar
(the gallant knight, who followed Mary of Scotland
to her Indictment Northern honey to say on the
Queen: "The blush rose, ali, It's the lovers own
fower!" This was the rose he held in his hand as
the cruel fell and 1t bore his secret at Its heart
when 1t was given to the Queen in the moment of
her supreme agony, but a woman whose true love
had been slain as by her own hand
The fair white rose, the first that bloomed In all
this world, sand nodded In the soft breeze that
evening of the seventh day when God walked in tho