St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-11

say frankly. Let US eat and drink and
make money: the world is muck heap,
but let Us get what we can from 10. and
crow while we may. for tomorrow we
die and that's the end Of IT,. Most %
them will not say this. for. In truth.
they do not think it; they are merely
playing with their theory. But 10 Is.
none the less. Immoral and degrading"
Balxac's materiaism Is OF a different
kind Possibly" he saws. material
ISM and spir.,uallsm express two
stiles OF the same thing. When. on
entering life. he saw the condition OF
woman. tie pass 20 which She had
been brought. partly by her own act. he
sat about helping her. Not by sweet
words and meaningless gallautries. but
Oy holding the mirror up 10 Nature. that
she might see the depths to, which she
could OF had fallen. and then by object
lessons that ran the whole gamut OF
human experience from COusine Bette
up through Eugene Grandet. Eve Sich-
ard, Marguerite Clacs and others ike
them, To Scraphlta. which NJ. fame
calls the 'cOuSummatlOu OF BalxAc's
work"
The great author had long loved an
ideal woman. In ISL be met One who
was so near bis ideal that h. called the
after seventeen years OF respond
ebce and intimate Acquaintance. "a
compensation that fully repaid all tho
priyaii0ns and loneliness OF childhood,
the disappOiutuents OF manhood. tho
perfect flower 81 all my desires But,
alas that robust life In which hc aud all
lis friends had trusted was near rs end.
The pathetic Homecoming when he
brought his wife 10 the myely home he
had secretly prepared for her close by
the church OF 81 Vincent dc Paul (hs
selected this place because She had once
said that she would like To live there
1--WE should be near 10 God, aud Tar from
the wOrld"). was followed in a short
time by his death.
Standing nj the head Of his grave
that dreary day when 1.-The heavens
wept," there on the spot where he had
dreamed OF tine crown OF success ho
should vet wear Victor Hugo said
these WORDS: No. u is not the unknown
10 him. No, have SAID it before. and
shall never weary OF saying it-no. iJ IS
not darkness To him; IL is Hight. 10 Is
not the end, but the beginning; not
nOthlngness. but eternity Is not this
true, We who listen 70 mc3 Such collins
proclaim immortality. In presence
OF certain lllustriOus dead We feel tho
divine destiny OF that Intellect which
has trayersed earth 90 suffer and be
purified. DO We not say % ourselves
here, today, that il IS impossible that a
great genius iu this life can be- other
than great spirit after deaihY'
He once said: The uublest epltaphs
are the single name, Lat0nlaine, Mo
liere' -namr, that tell all and make tho
passer dream"
4 broken column and single name
now mark lis grave in Pcrr ia Chaiso.
The Question of Silver Is a small
but instructive volume 10 those who
would understand this perpleXing sub
jet. II comprises several paper, that
were read before Il literary cOtere IN
Colorado. and which pleased the hearers
so That they desired their publication.
IL comprises a brief history Of the leg
iSlatlou on the subject la the uited
States. with an analysis of the present
situation and of the arguments OF tho
advocates OF free coinage. which the
writer disagrees with very radically.