Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-06-05
HERE AND THERE.

| The death of stephen Pearl Andrews lately
occurred in New York with scarcely "a pass
ing notice from the press Of that city, so vigil
Ian. of every new subject for sensational
journalism. And yet some fifteen years ago,
| when that co,erie of the apostles of new SO
| cial dispensatiun, which had such notoriety
| for time, was in the plenitude of its intu-
| ence, Andrews was the thinking motor of
the concern. | think he first limited at the
Beecher.Tilton scandal that brooded so black
and broke territcally Ia the social sky
| He was thick with all OF the circle that was
flooded So luminously with the new Ught
aud love, regardless of law, and that sent out
| the evangelism of Woodruff and CIailin' lie
| was something oi a metaphysican, ana l
| think the scientific propagation oi tho human
| family was one of his hobbies lie projected
! aud published one or two numbers OF cos
mic sort of publication that the book-huuters
and curiosity collectors will yet come to re-
| gard with value for one mechanical feature at
least Its editor maintained, first OF all, that
| no topographic combination was so hurtful
to the eye and So repugnaut to the aesthetic
sense as that of black ink ON white paper.
This must be got rid ot. Then there was an
| inherent relation between color, or combina-
| tons of color and sentiment Hence this
| magazine was made up of variegated leaves,
each article being printed on paper and with
| ink peculiar to itself and supposed to have
| some relation to the subject matter of their
contents Thus one article appeared on
buff paper, printed in blue ink another on
green paper with red ink; alot of pink leaves
were printed in black, and so on through
dozen combinations. 1t was a curiosity in
all respects, aud the originality of the con.
tents was as great as the variety OF colors. 1t
WAS not success.
| find this story OF Andrews floating
around, Itis ascrbed to one of his old CON
temporaries
When l WAS member of the Boston bar
| stephen Pearl Andrews came there To prac-
tice law. he had logical mind, though il
| was rather too metaph ysical for rdiuary use.
Hewas learned in some rare departments of
the law, had carefully studied the United
States constitution, was cool aud lucid
| speaker, but he did not succeed in his profess
. sion in Massachusetts. This was in the
growing days of the Liberty party. in the
years lS4S and l>i4. Andrews held that
| slavery was repugnant 10 "A fair construction
= | of the Federal constitution. He supported
: | this view by powerful arguments. The eN-
, | ecuiive committee of the Liberty party was
a | in the habit of sending agents through the
| state in couples 10 hOlf meetings. 1t em-
ployed Mr.. Andrews and the Rev. Frederick
F. Tracy, a young Methodist preacher. W hose
| oratory was more glowing aud declamatory
| than learned and logical. Andrews had pre-
| pared and committed to memory "A long
speech in defense OF his constitutional opin-
ions on the question of slavery, which he
used to deliver very deliberately, and then
Tracy would close with one of his thunder
| ing MethodlstIcal performances. He had
| heard Andrews speech 80 often that he knew
II by heart One evening, at a large meeting
| in the western part of the state Tracy pro-
posed that he lead off, and that Andrews fol-
low with his constitutional argument
| Tracy then arose, delivered Andrews speech
word for word, and sat down. 1t would Toe
difficult To determine whether Andrews was
) the more amazed to see the wind taken out
OF his sails in this way, or the audience at
hearing such an address from the lips OF a
shouting young Methodist preacher.
} This may recall 10 brace OF our young
lawyers an experience they once had at a po.
litcal meeting within circle described by "a
radius ten miles around Lancaster.
Rev. Alexander b. Jack, the Scotchman
and Presbyterian, who died over in Hail eton
the other day, descendant of long line OF
theologians and pulpit orators, bad some
weaknesses that believe were kindly in
dulged 10y the generous charity of Mr.
+ Pardee, patron of the church in Hazleton.
Withal he was preacher: of rare parts. His
| brOgue was broad and his voice husky, but
he had fire and the rhetoric gtowed through
his address like lightning in dark sky
he made his hearers listen aud his speec n
had that electrical effect which is the best
test of the real orator, that outruns all con-
| FenuonBl tests and detieS the "Tules" of
| elocution. Bradlaugh has II. | think the
first time Rev. Jack was heard here was
when he made his address on THE Bible"
| IN the Presbyterian church, during the meet
| ing OF some assembly or synod. 1t was a
| brilliant rather than thoughtful effort but
| he came back some time afterwards, il !
| recolIect aright and gave his lectures on
| Burns and 90 Scott" Oddly enough when
| he came To the end of his Burns lecture,
| going at about forty miles au hour aud had
| to pull up, he seemed to be at a loss for a
| peroration, and suddenly grabbed that OF his
| Bible address, fired it Off aud the audience
| did not seem to mind its inappropriateness
| L had a printed copy and made the COM
| parison at the time. Jack used to stay up
| late and prowl around tho streets at all
| times of the night. He caught his inspira-
ton from the silence OF those hours and saw
| eloquent wonders in the glories of the mid
| night skies.
| II any college IN the country has, by
nature formed, a more beautiful and pictur-
| esque campus than La Fayettes, at Easton
| Pa, have not seen it. The bluff which il
| its site rises no precipitously from the town
and at its foot the swift flowing Bushkill
bears its message toward the sea. There
used to be long line of steep stairs leading
from the bottom to the top and no tudent |
ever broke his neck there. Now there is an |
easy ascent by roadway and various wind |
ing paths broken by tasteful stone stair
ways. Hallway up a granite monument,
surmounted by an iniantryman like the one |
on our ornament to Centre Square, keeps
guard over the memory of the college boys |
VINO fell in the war. Eighteen years ago, |
when made my last visit To La Fayette, We |
turned IN late an came out early; We were
not ON very good terms with the faculty and |
IL Is not sure went in the front door or did |
not come out the back window. But it is
all changed since them Pardee hall, built
ana rebuilt by the insurance conf mpanies after
1t was burned down aud out, is the most
conspicuous building on the campus, but
the old college has more of a Latin and |
Greek look. The jerks building obserya
tory and gymnasium, lot OF barrack sv- |
looking dornitories more or less adOrn the |
grounds. Fronting the area are some of the |
professors houses. The grass is well kept |
ana tho trees are thriving There is ample /
level space for base ball grounds and tennis |
courts !; ana in the neighborhOod quite a |
town is building up. The views are very
beautiful the growing thorough" of Easton
sleeps and wakes-mostly wakes-below
The heights OF Phillipsburg look down upon
me Delaware, and away up the river is a
picturesque gap where the river cuts through
the hills. The real Water Gap is not in
sight Up the Bushkill, more handsomely
located than either OF our cemeteries, is
Easton's common burying ground. There
are "A good many monuments OF taste the |
most notable of them Is that of the soft |