Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-04
Star Gazers at Bar Harbor


Senator Harris. of Tennessee, is member
OF the United States Senate Committee on
Rules, which met at Bar Harbor last summer
He and the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate
went to Bar Harbor day or two before the
rest of the committee arrived. A wealthy
and prominent resident at Bar Harbor in
vited these two gentlemen to visit his house
one evening. and gave them a lunch. The
lunch consisted of something besides crackers
and cheese. While Senator Harris, who is a
convivial old gentleman, and the Sergeant at
Arms. who is equally convivial. but not sc
old, were on their way home. a star shot bril-
liantly down athwart the sky.
Harris stopped suddenly, looked at the
heavens, then looked at Bright, and said moth
ing. The Sergeant alarms stopped sun
denly, looked at the heavens, then looked al
Harris, but he. too, said nothing.
They walked slowly to their hotel and went
to bed The next morning another Senator
arrived. At breakfast he picked up morn
ing paper and remarked casually: 81 see
there was a brilliant meteor last night"
whats that?'' both Harris and the Ser
geant-at- Arms eXcItedly asked at once.
Il see by the morning papers that brilliant
meteor fell last night"
81 saw it," said the Sergeant at Arms
quickly.
You saw it, you rascal-why didn't you tel
me?" exclaimed Senator Harris.
Ibid you see itS''
Yea"
"Why didn't you tell me, you old rogue?"
Then the pair of star gaZers had to relate
the circumstances under which they gazed.
The Imagination.
From tho North american ReUieoo for January
The man of imagination-that is to say, Of
genius-haviDg seen a leaf and drop o.
water. can construct the forests. the rivers
and the seas. Ia his presence all the cata-
racts fall and foam, the mists rise, the clouds
form and Goat.
To really know one fact is to know its kin
dred and it's neighbOrs. Shakespeare King
at coat of mail, instantly imagined the sOci-
ETY.. the conditions, that produced it, and
what il produced. He saw the castle. the
mOat, the drawbridge, the lady in the tower
and the knightly lover squirting over the plain
He saw the bold baron and the rude retainer,
the trampled serf, and all the glory and the
grief of feudal life.
The man of imagination has lived the life Of
all people, of all races. He was a citizen oil
Athens in the days OF PerlcleS; listened to the
eager eloquence of the great orator, and sal
upon the cliff, and with the tragic poet heard
''the multitudinous laughter of the sea-" He
saw Socrates thrust the spear of question
through the shield and heart of falsehood; was
present when the great man drank hemlOck
and met the night of death tranquil as a star
meets morning. He has followed the peripa-
tetic philosophers, and has been puzzled by
the sophists. He has watched Phidias as he
chiseled shapeless stone to forms of love and
awe.
He has lived by the slow Nile amid the vast
and monstrous. He knows the very thought
that wrought the form and features OF the
Sphinx. He has heard great Memnon's morn
ing song-bas LAIN him down. with the en-
balmed and waiting dead and felt within their
dust the expectation of another life mingled
with cold and suiocating doGbts-thechilQreu
born OF long delay.
He has walked the ways OF mighty Rome.
has seen great Cesar with his egions in the
field, has stood with vast and motley throngs
and watched the triumphs given TO victorious
men. followed by uncrowned kines, the cap
tured hosts. and all the spells of ruthless war.
He has heard the shout that SHOOK the Coli
rba.. he
gladiator's hand the short word fell, while
from his bosom gushed the stream of wasted
life
the forests silent depths, and in the desperate
game OF Ike or death has matched his thought
against the instinct OF the beast.
He knows all crimes and all regrets, all
/ virtues and their rich rewards. lie has been
victim and victor, pursuer and pursued, Sut-
/ cast and king; has heard the applause and
curses Of the world, and on his heart have
fallen ali'the nights and moons of failure and
/ success.
He knows the unspoken thoughts, the dumb
desires, the wants and ways OF beasts. lie
has felt the crouching tigers thrill, the terror
4 OF the ambushed prey. and with the eagles he
I has shared the ecstasy OF flight and pose and
/ swoop, and he has lain with sluggish serpen Il
/ on the barren rocks, uncOiling slowly in the
heat OF noon.
1 He has sat beneath the bo tree contemplative
/ shade. rapt in Budha's mighty thought. aud
| be dreamed all dreams that Light, the al
chemist, hath wrought ttrOm dust aud dew
/ and stored within the slumbrous poppy's sub
/ tie blood.
lie has knelt with awe and dread at every
4 shrine has offered eeery. sacrifice and every
prayer. has felt the consolation and the shud-
! dering fear,has seen all devils,has Knocked and
w0rshiped all the gods-enjOyed all heavens
and felt the pang Of every hell.
| lie has lived alfltves, and through his blood
and brain have crept the shadow ard thC
chill OF every death, aud bis soul, Mellepa'
/ like, has been laehcd naked 20 the wild horse
I Of every fear and lovoiRnd hate.
/ The Imagination hash n stage within the
/ brain. wherein he sets All scenes that he be-
tween the morn ~ Laughter and She night Ol
tears, aud where bic players body forth che
Z false and true. The Joys and grieie, the care
4 less shadows ana the tragic deeffa ~ oyorl
I life.
ItOHEnT g.. IsoEus0LL.
~ d only TIE bride who IL given awHy Al
I wedding n seems t0 boz taken Tor gran tof
/ that the youthful bridegroom hnE RiVeu hilni