The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-03

compare me 10 .Tohn the Baptist preach
ing in the wilderness; they might say that
| had come to preach honesty and in
dependence. pure living and high think
ing to a rotten generation, but Sandie
Macpherson knew better. Sandie sax
through me. 1t was no use posing as d
great thinker and teacher before him. ]
minded his words. 'Mony things please the
folk i'll LunnOn that would ma gang doom
IN Glasgow 1t was humiliaUing, to say
the least of it. Much a. despised the fel
low, his attitude of inyincible stupidity
was something Titanic. To the bedside OF
the heather emperor a slave used to come
each morning saying, Philip. remember
you must diep To my bedside for many a
day came the spirit of Sandie saying,
Thomas Carlyle, remember you're poor
creature, and know itp
Il thought TO have my revenge on Sandie
at last, the day they made me lord rector
OF the University of Glasgow.
More proud and exultant than you can
think, went down to My natal city to de
liver the rectorial address. was an old
man by this time, and had a great name
all over the world Such reception az
they gave me! AS stood in the large hail.
with the professors and citizens around
me, the students i'll their thousands cheer
ing me. fine ladies in the galleries smiling
down upon me, felt that | had reached
the height of my ambition. | addressed
them like man inspired. | spoke OF my
early days, my struggles, my fondness fol
the country of my birth, and was in the
middle of splendid peroration. when all
of sudden became conscious of a mans
face looking quietly uD al me.
One mans face in all that sea Of faces
But | knew it only too well-grim, cold,
hard as granite, yet with kind of plying
smile upon it-whCse face could it be bat
the one | had dreaded all my life? The
words went out of my mead and | ended
feebly, sitting down into my chair with
sigh Of relief when | had finished. The
next day there were columns in the papers,
and In the course OF the long report some
thing to this effect; AT this point of his
discourse, abiding to his early days in this
city, Mr.. Carlyle was visibly affected. His
emotion was touching TO witness and he
almost broke down. but amid the loud
cheering of his enormous audience he at
last concluded his magnificent address,
'Visibly affected, indeed Touching emo
tion' They little knew that my speech
Sandie Macpherson"
The great man paused, half amused, halt
angry at the remembrance of his odd ex-
perience. Reaching out his hand he took
down pipe from the mantelpiece, filed
and lit it, and smoked for some minutes in
silence, with his sad eyes fixed upon the
fire. l sat watching him, reverently and
wonderingly. At last he broke the silence
81 never saw Sandie again after that.
about year ago, however, an old
friend, minister of the kirk, coming on a
visit from Glasgow, informed me that my
former schoolfellow, who was one of his
congregation, had recently died Ny
friend had been with him frequently dur
ing his last illness. asked, not without
anxiety, if the poor fellow had still re-
membered me.
My friend smiled.
".Oh, yes, he remembered you WE'LL he
replied, and only few days before his
death he spoke about you
Indeed and what did he saye' said
carelessly.
shall giveyou his very wordsp asked
my friend.
Certainly
They're telling me- he said that Car
lyle has just written another book. Lord,
minister, surely the world has gone clean
daft! What can folk see in such a silly
sumph as yon?'
$50 Sandie passed away" concluded the
old philosopher, land now whatever hap
pens to me know that my career must be
considered a failure, for the one dream of
my eXistence-to make an impression on
Sandie NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. been rendered
forever robert Buchanan in
LOngman's Magazine.