The Russellville Democrat., 1893-11-23
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 + w4s late. Ilgag ago t1s band Lad broken ap aud marched u1z- seal.y hone, Q motley troop Of men and women. uereeaets and clerks navy of55cers 6zoe5rg .a 1as wake arms aoous aasst aud er9mDad with gaslauds. Long ago darkness and s1lenes had gone fr9aa roass @ house a0g1s ths tIDg, pagan esty. On1y tas street la1ps sB0Ds cn, making g g.9w worm halo ln tae uu5Fagso1s allsys or drawing a treu1lous image aB tse wassr 0t the port. 4 sound of sror5rg raa among the yIsz Of lan3eF Dy tue eogernmeut pier. l. was waited ashore facm the graceful, clipper bostomsd ssao0Bers, where they lay naoorsd close in ike eiD2eyg, and their crews wsrs stretched upon tns deck under the open sky CT hu5oled ln 2 rude tent amid the disorder cf merchandise
 But the uaea under the pBrao had no thozght Of sleep. The gane smpsrature in England would have passed without remark ia summer, bat t was bitter cold for the South Sess. Iuaniulass nature knew t, and the bottle Of eoeoanut oil stood frozen in every bird-eag house about the island, and fhe men knew t, and shiysrad. They were eirngy, cot ton clothes, tze same they had swested in by day and run the ga1ntlet Of the tropic showers and to complete their evil case, they had had n0 breakfast tO mention, less dinner, and no supper at all.
 h the telling South Sea phrase, toase three men were On the beach. Common calamity had brought them acquainted, as toe three most mis- eraple English-speakiBg creatures in Tahiti, and beyond their misery they knew next 10 nothing of each other, not even their true names. For each had trade long appren- iiceship in going downward, and each, al soue stage of the descent, had been shamed into the adoption of an alias. And yet not one Of them had figured in court of jus tiee. Two were men Of kindly yir- tues, and one, sg be sat and gbiyered under the purao, had a tattered Vir- gil in his pocket.
 Certainly, # money could have been raised upon the book, Robert Herrick would have long ago sacFi- feed that lazt possession, but the demand for literature, which ig SO marked feature in some parts Of the South Seas, extends not go far as the dead tongues, and the Virgil, which he could not exchange against a meal, had often eOngoled him in his hunger He would study it as he lay with frightened belt on the floor of the old calaboose, seeking fayorite passages and finding new ones, only less beautiful because they lacked the consecration of remem- brance. Or be would pause on ran dom country walks; sit on the path side gazing over the sea on the mountain of Eimeo; and dip into the Aeneid, seeking soytes. And if the oracle (as is the way of ora cles) replied with no very certain or encouraging voice, visions of En- gland at least would throDg the ex- ile'g memory the busy school room, the green playing fields, holidays at home, and the perennial roar of London, and the irsside, and tue white head of biz l father. t@4r 1t is the destiny of | those grave, restrained and classic | writers, with whom we make en forced and often painful acquaint. anceship at school, to pass into the | blood and become native in inc mem- ! ory, 20 that a phrase of Virgil speaks not 30 much of Mantus or Angus tus, but of English places anI the student own irreVocabls youth.
 Robert Herriek vas the son of an intelligent, active and ambitious man, small partner in considerable London house Hopes were con- eeived of the boy; he was sent to a good school, gained there an Oxford scholarship, and proceeded in course to the Western University. With all bis talent and taste (and he had much of both) Robert was deficient in consistency and intellectual man hood, wandered in by-patbs of study, worked at music or meta physics when he should be at Greek, | and took at last paltry degree. Almost at the came time tho Lon