The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1891-07-25
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ulusicai armament Iails 10 reconcile
me to the fact that Emma Abbott
died and / never even saw her
Each generation seems to contain
Statesmen in sufficient quantity and
quality to manage the affairs of gov
eminent, but one never feels that &C.
quaintance with the succeeding men
can quite atone for the absence of it
with those at present most prominent.
In fact, one finds himself rather
distracted with sympathy as he reads
the kilograms announcing the illness
of some noted divine, the failing
health of some grand old man." or
the retirement of some eminent TRACE
dian, but the sympathy is largely
with himself, that their work seems
to have been finished ere his oppor-
tunity came.
1t is true that great men belong to
the work, and the world is sorry for
itself when it loses them, and in APP
probation of the great general loss,
the deeper sorrow for the individual
in his relations with individuals is
swallowed up. The public mourns
for him, pays for his funeral and
erects his monument, and naturally
feels its right to sympathize with it.
self.
1t has seemed for the last two or
three years that the great men were
all dying, and now, while we realize
that some of them survived, we are
impressed with the fact that those
who were left are all sick. Perhaps
we will continue to discover great
men either dead or dying to the end
of the chapter.
One sees from afar so many things
that would interest him, so many
lecturers he would hear, so much
music, such inspiring sermons, so
many historic places he would visit;
and so he would if he had only a few
weeks in which to do it, but if he
had grown up in a place where such
things abided, or il he had made his
home among them he would be rath-
er astonished that the rest of the
world found them so interesting.
| was talking to native Boston
woman not long since, and when |
asked her something of Phillips
Brooks she said, Il never saw him.
or course he is quite eloquent, but l
never happened to go to hear him."
She further said that although living
all her life in Boston, she had never
been within several squares of Bun
ker Hill Monument.
That all seemed very surprising to
me, but when she opened upon me a
battery of questions as to the loca-
tion of gas wells, the drilling for oil,
the refining of it, when she asked
me to describe the inside of coal
mines, the management OF coke ovens,
when she evinced decided interest in
the different sorts of brick, in fact,
when she started out in a search for
information which | should have
been able to furnish, but isn't,
decided that all the world away from
home is a remarkably interesting af-
fair, but that nearness to places and
people has great tendency to make
them seem ordinary.
~.
People are very much alike in ev.
cry day life. The difference is only
pronounced when we see one man
reach limit and another rise far
beyond him. Up to that limit, how.
ever, men are not such very different
creatures.
After a man has left the majority
of his fellowmen behind him, | be
lieve prefer to view him from afar
OF course we cannot expect him to
live in rare atmosphere all the time
and he must come down and get his
share of oxygen, but l prefer to moi
meet him down below. If cannot
climb up to him, | am content te
look.
| 1t seems to me it is a mistake tc
take the world into great mans
confidence so deeply as we do. He
has a perfect right to relaxation, but
it is certainly not necessary to tel
everybody in just what form he takes
it. l never much enjoyed that wide
! copied story Of James A. Garfield
activity. 1t was all right for him tc
turn handsprings with his boys, bu,
there was sort of incongruity about
it when one had been accustomed to
think of him in his public character
No one would dispute the right oil
any one of our Univcrsity's dignifiet
Faculty to play leap-frog with his
fellow professors, yet if he should en-
gage in any such exercise, and thu
public be treated to glowing de
scription of his activity, it would
probably seem to some people al
scarcely in keeping with the dignifieG
character he had to sustain.
There are few people about whom
we want to know everything, and WI
feel scarcely grateful to the indivi
dual who, in his excessive zeal, tell
us too much.
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This letter has drifted from tn,
matter | most wished to mention,
matter which strangers questions
brought before me rather too promi
nently for comfort. We live in al
interesting country ourselves, ant
perhaps there are others who know
no more about it than | did. Their
is no particular reason why three O
four men should monopolize tn
knowledge Of the leading features o
our State, and especially of this sec
tion of it. We can master the thee
ries in reference to the location o
oil. even if we cannot find the oil T.
illustrate the truth of the theory
We can understand the processes b,
, which our resources arc being devel
oped, and if we don't, people will
think us wofully ignorant-just a
| that Boston woman very right
E thinks of the BARBARIAN
Laurel Iron Works.