The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-14

Nep.une ne swept through the world like
Mnlriwind. Every boy knows how
easily he disposed Of the Nemean lion ion.
sts. Ie saaa hydra, the golden-horned
snJ ~, ne WHO boar. the centaurs
nose days. But the classic prohle and
oare arms of Iole, daughter Of Eurvfns
were TOO much for Hercules. and his wife
~ prevent any serious complication sent
.ne nero robe which consumed his flesh.
anu nc sailed away from q troubled world
4 melancholy example which NJ p,-
nell might have remembered ;s fa,,nd :,
sle case or Lonis XIV. Louis is reported TO
nave had faithful wife, plain but good
ana ne himself is spoken OF as HAVING been
unusually decentn till he came to an ace
Mnen ne should have been ashamed 10 Be
ddny.nlng else But alas, there was n Pompa-
oour, and poor foolish Louis. in spite OF the
warlike blood of his father and TIE circum-
spectlon with which he should have car
ried himself as the head of a family al
lowed low himself to be captured by her wiles
nat vivid sketches the keen satirists of
the time have drawn of the enervated
iI'onafch In ms Par aux Cerfs surrounded
~ nevy OF beautiful girls who had been
stolen from their homes for his delectat;on
history has no more unique picture than
!hat OF the dissipated old monarch teach
ing these girls to read and write. pravinp
with them and generally concerning him.
sell LOT their spiritual welfare.
Mui.itudes OF ladies, we are told. were
Candidates for positions in this Partisan
harem, and the history of the government
at TINS period is little more than a history
OF the changes of the kings mistresses.
w nat pair OF shears were those of Pom
padour.. From harmless mediocrity the
monarch degenerated into an object of
ridlcuie for gods and men. Then down
L.
Wolfe captured Quebec; the victorious
gilve banished the eagles of France from
India; Hawke demoralized and scattered
the navy, and Voltaire and Rossea,,
laughed out of existence all respect for
cnurch or state, and paved the way for the
bloody revolution.
Meanwhile Louis conducted "a nraver
meeting in the Par aux Cerfs.
In Central Park, New York, stands full
length statue OF man whom America de-
nghts TO honor, but whose locks. if not
shorn, were at least trimmed by the shears
reserved for greatness. Boston, too. has
marble memorial of him, and ON
me pedestal is inscribed alexander
Hamilton-Orator, Writer, Soldier. Jur
ist, Financier." The ambitious barber
mas seldom assailed loftier head. The
man whom Thomas Jefferson characterizes
with the title of Colossus of the Anti
Republican Party" whose genius origin
ateu the pol1cy which made possible the
greatest republic of all time, who as a strip-
ling could coolly face rampant mob.
whose brilliant dash at the British
redoubts at Yorktown put to shame his
French allies. who stood first in the legal
profession of his time, whose writings
swayed the nation and are the textbooks
OF the children of another country, had
his Delilah, and the prints of her fingers
stain his character forever No CLEOPATRA
caught him. Before the imperiousness of
no perfect, ravishing beauty did he bow
his naughty head; no perfumes of the
Orient stole away his soul: no fine spun
SILKS or cloth of gold enmeshed
her limbs, while languid luxuriance
lulled him into dream-heaven. 1t was
Maria Reynolds-illiterate Maria Rey-
nolds, the wife of an adventurer In 1850,
while secretary of the treasury, Mr.. Ham
ilton admitted his frailty in one of the
most remarkable confessions ever pub
lished by u politician. In future disasters
and even i'll the causes which led to the
duel, can be discovered the work of the
shears
Within the experience of Mr.. Parnell
one prominent figure occupying the same
arena, has disappeared with suddenness
that was startling. Everyone remembers
the story of Sir Charles bikes intrigue
with Lady Colin Campbell. He was a
leader in society, q powerin politics, with
in easy sight of the goal of every English
statesman's ambition. But the shears of
Delilah had been ut work; the scandal
cloud burst and the titled aspirant to the
premiership faded from the political hori-
zOn