New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-28
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| 4 fight NAV be as glorious as fight. This
is a truth which history recognizes and which
poets have often cmbalmed in immortal verse.
| The good news that was carried from Ghent
10 AK BY a particular friend OF Mr.. Robert
Browning, though the bard was careful not to
diylrlpc the nature of it, was extremely precious
and gratifying, and it could not have been
| communicated to those who needed 1t 80 badly
| except for the sublime fortitude and zeal OF a
horse and his rider. Therefore their feat VIII
| fire the hearts and crack the voices OF rising
| generations for centuries to come. Paul ne
| we're gave the alarm to MlddleseX IN the most
agile and gallant manner, and the achievement
/ has made his name as impershabe as the
| sacred Goldfish of the Massachusetts state House.
| General Shcridans breakneck galop from
Winchester was a condition precedent to saving
the Gay M q point some twenty miles from
where he started and is therefore amply en-
| titled 70 its distinction. Numerous iIlustia-
tons of the same character might be adduced,
but these will suffice. There are great rewards
in store for those who fec at the right time and
in the right direction.
Harbrcadth escapes are also thrilling. By
deyout persons they arc uscfully employed for
pioris purposes, and they may often be recount
ed even by the parties of the first part with
perfect proprioty merely to enlivcn n convcrsa-
ton. They do not, however as rule lend
themselves with especial grace to the fabrlca-
ton Of heroic verse. They have a SAVIOR OF
crcrmspcction and scfisbncss which olsen
chants the muse, however grateful it may be
to the domestic circle. The man who has fed
across a cn-acrc lot before swift and turbu-
lent steer and fallen exhausted but triumphant
or the safe side Of a stout fence has every
reason to he personally pleased with his per-
Torrance, but he does not expect the laureate
of the vicnagc to make him the hero OF an
epic or even a ballad
And so We do not sec how David b. Hits
literary bureau is going to utilize his escape
from the senate Chamber on Thursday with
the roll call on Il FrccCoinagc bill at his heels
There is no doubt that he did escape, and that
in doing so he made remarkable time. No
body denies that he got away, or that his flight,
simply as 4 feat OF locomotion, was mastery.
The emergency was sudden and momcnt0us.
The Senator had no time for dcliboration. BIT
he left his scat as the arrow leaves the bow.
70 use "A technical phrase. his "attack" was
superb and the impulse was continuous. Ii
carried him straight over the brcastWOrks OF
the Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge and down an
INSTRUCTED and trcachcrouS staircase. and land
ed him behind pillar in the senate restaurant.
lie was out of breath, but he was safe And
we do not doubt that rs he ran his eye over the
bill OF fare he felt pardonable glow Of pride
in his agility, and was willing to pay large
price for something which he did not want to
cat. II Mr.. Hill had Il wife and children they
might possibly share his pcasurablc emotions
and if they did no one would rcproach them.
The family tic conSccrltcS such transports |
Bat the relation Of constituents is less close and
tender and sacred and citizens of NCW-Yofk |
may be pardoncd If they do not Offer a prize |
for the most graphic and mclodious poem on |
the escape of their junior Senator from vote |
ON the stewart resolution