Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-16

with his copsnbines. SO died SArdAnsp-
alus, and with him with 1900 years OF
empire.
HERCULES AND IoLE.
Greece has contributed an equally fa-
nous victim.
The son of Jupiter aud Alemens,
while still an infant, with his naHed
hands strangled the serpents sent oy
June to destroy him. Clad in the ROBE
of Minerva and the golden breastplste OF
Vulcan, armed with the sword OF MeI-
curry, and the bow OF Apollo, and hold
ing the reins over the horses OF Neptune
be swept through the world like vhiri-
wind. Every boy knows how easily ne
disposed OF the Nemean hon, the hydra
golden-horned stag, tho wild boar, the
centaurs, and all the rest OF the nulsances
OF those days.
But the classic profile and bare arms
OF Iole, daughter OF Eurytus, were too
much for Hercules and his wife, TO
prevent any serious complications, sent
the hero q robe which consumed his
flesh. and he sailed away from troubled
world in thunder cloud.
LOUIS xv. AND NINE. PoyPADoUR.
A melancholy example, which Mr.
Parnell doubtless remembers, is foundln
the case of Louis XIV.
Louis is reported TO have had faith.
full wife, plain but good, and he himself
is spoken of as having been unusually
decent" till he came TO an age when he
should have been ashamed to be any
thing else. But, alas, there was Pom
padour; and poor, foolish Louis, in spit,
Of the war-like blood Of his father and
the circumspection with which he should
have carried himself as the head OF a
family, allowed himself to be captured
by her wiles.
What vivid sketches the keen satirlst
Of the time have drawn Of the enervated
monarch in his Pare auY Cerfs surround.
ed by a bevy Of beautiful girls who had
been stolen from their homes for his de-
location. History has no more unique
picture than that OF the dissipated old
monarch teaching these girls to read and
write, praying with them, and generally
concerning himself for their spiritual
welfare. Mutitudes of ladies, we are
told, we're candidates for positions in this
Partisan herem, and the history OF the
Government at this period IS little more
than history of the changes OF the
Kings mistresses. -.
What pair OF shears were those OF
Pompadour From harmless medioority
tho monarch degenersted into an object
Of ridicule for gods and men. Then
down came disasters upon his devoted
head. Wolfe captured Quebec the VIC
torious Give banished the eagles OF
France from India Hawke demoralized
and scattered the navy. and Voltaire and
Rousseau laughed out Of existence all re-
spect for Church or State and paved the
way for the bloody revolution.
Meanwhile Louis conducted prayer
meeting in the Pare aux Cerfs.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON AND MARIA RRY-
NoLDs.
In Central Park, New York, stands q
full-length statue of man whom Ameri-
ca delight to honor, but whose locks, II
not shorn, were at least trimmed by the
shears reserved for greatness. Boston,
too, has a marble memorial Of him, and
on the pedestal is inscribed Alexander
Orator, Writer, Soldier, Jul
rist. Financier." The ambitious barber
has seldom assaiied loftier head.
The man whom Thomas Jefferson
characterizes with the tide Of Colossus
Of the anti-Republicsn Party" whose
genius originated the policy which made
possible the greatest repubhc of all
time. who as stripping could coolly
face a rampant mob, whose brilliant dash
at the British redoubts at Yorktown put
10 shame his French allies, who stood
first in the legal profession of his time,
whose writings swayed the nation and
are the text books of the children OF an
other country, had his Dehlah, and the
prints Of her fingers stain his character
forever.
No Cleopatra caught him. Before the
imperiousness of no perfect, raylshing
beauty did he bow his naughty heed
no perfumes of the Orient stole away his
soul no fine-spun silks or cloth OF gold
enmeshed his limbs, while languld iuru-
rance lulled him into dreamy heaven.
It was Maria Reynolds-illiterate Maria
REYNOLDS, the wife OF an adycnturer:
In 1889, while Secretary Of the Urea
sury, Mr.. Hamilton admitted his frallty
in one of the most remarkable comics
sions ever published by politician. In
future disasters encountered by himself
and his party. and even in the causes
which led TO the duel, can be discovered
the work OF the shears.
SIR CHARLES dixie AND MRS. CRAWFORD
Within the experience of Mr.. Parnell
one prominent figure occupying the
same arena has disappeared with a sud
denness that was startling.
Every one remembers the story OF Sir
Charles Dixie and Mrs. Crawford.
He was leader in society, power IN
politics, within easy sight Of the goal OF
every English statesmsn's ambition. But
the shears Of Deiiiah bad been at work
the scandal cloud burst. and the titled
aspirant TO the premiership faded from
the political horizon.