Smyrna times., 1892-07-13
For the Smyrna Times.
PONCE De LEON-A TRIP SOUTH.

CORONADO BEACH, FLA, July 4th, 1892
In little while we were speeding
toward Alexandria Va. The ancient
and dilapidated town has nothing to
engage the attention save the memor.
les that cluster about the name Of
washington. Here is the church in
wnich he worshipped together with
the pew he sat in. How few men.
great and piOus though they NAV be
can retain the identity of the pew thew
sat in while the waves of time have
bent against it for hundred years It
you VIII notice in the Holy Scripture
every act of significant Importance
In the ministerial work of Our Divine
saviour was accomplished while sit.
Ting. The pew He sat in is recorded
Dy the evangelical writer's, in all four
oil the gospels beginning with the time
his parents found him sitting in the
temple among the doctors of the law
expounding with marvellous acumen
for a child of twelve years the intri.
casles of the Mosaic Law. Then AGAIN
the sermon on the Mount, the beautiful
discourse, that in drifting down the
centuries has lost none of the maonatio
charm, the subdued eloquence. the
power of humility, the principles that
enforced would level society to a COM
mon footing and sink business nur.
suits into a status that what is vours
may become mine for the asking.
then again the teaching of the mnI.
tltude as he sat in the bow of the fish.
erman's boat on the shores of the sea
OF Galllee, The wondrous legacy ofI
Vhe last supper was given while sitting
in the furnished dining room, and like
pail OF gloom we read of His sitting
among the soldiers in Pilates hall |
clothed in mocking purple and His
tender flesh tortured as no other
nesh before or since has been tor
tured.
Ihen how fervently should Ameri-
cans revere the pew in which the great
Commander sat. while listening to the
sacred text emphasizing the deeds of a
soldier in whose grasp the armies of
the world are swayed because of beino
indeed the King of Kings.
In leaving Alexandria the battIa.
fields of the rebellion are passed II
seems to me that the spell of war vet
hangs over this portion of Virginia
Ihe windings of the maj eslic Potomac
sweep along in silent and stately gran.
leur through the unpopulated country. {
Nature alone has the breach by inyes-
ing the trampled fields where brother ]
sought brothers blood with a mantel 1
u Verdant green that will not down '
he curse of blood that once crimonsed r
he soil of Virginia. t
If the shaft in the heights of Gettvs. @
'urg will 60 down in history recording g
ne High water Mark" of the rebel.
ION, Mayre's Heights at Fredericks.
'urg on the Rappahannock will for all
lme mark the epoch of the strong re. q
lstless force of the young food tide of
he rebellion. After the battle of Ans. c
erlitz Napoleon asked Desaix how his u
oldiers behaved under fire. "Sire. u v
eplled the general, "you could have :.
eard the bones of my men crack like u
lass" Never was there such a hone. IL
sss charge or hopeless plight as the ~ :,
mon troops found themselves into u
'hen deployed under the terrible hat. u
cries when the courtly fame of Burn %
ue tumbled to the dust and well nigh .!
'recked the cause of the Union. 'e
You get now nothing to eat between ~
our lunch in Washington and dinner =,
Richmond. Gradually the old time A.
and up feeds at railway stations of ~
le and milk and sandwiches are be- -
'mlng obsolete, The Pullman idea -
as thrown a glamour of aristocracv a.
'eF travelling nowadays that in the y, ~
'sured comfort one finds in dining in -
luxurious buffet car attaches a Ger. -
in amount of exclusiveness that -
any good old hayseed from Wav w
aek with bear mind a well filled
'cket book finds it extremely hard ~
sup soup with a fork and drink hot
flee from a oup-=what in the world
g knives and sauoers made for If not
use ? the the former for a miniature ha,
ovel the latter for shallow cooler. NJ,
O yea OF course, form has something w,
DO with it. | should say it is the r
attempt of ennui to create Fo
mething new. 1t matters not much ma,
'wever about form when one has ma,
ly twenty minutes to eat in. A me
ally good dinner can be had at Rich =
'nd served excellent but the cease ba,
IS noise out on the platform of shift the
feet and changing bells calls into I
" the shoveling capacities of the of
Die knife All aboard, and slowly at
train crosses the Appomatox, the deO
er OF peace, and slows up at Peters. Tos
re-. JAMES B. SCOTT. cor