Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-11-21
Il O1 GIlO FOL l1O
REPLY,TO EUREKA.

Music hath cnarmS TO SOoCHe Iue
savage breast.
TO the truth of that old maxim l
undoubtedly owe my life.
1t certainly seems strange to me that
enc can no longer write simple little
story without having somebody take
exceptions to it, and pounce down on
the writer's character like those
gloomy birds that gnawed at the vltals
of Prometheus, as he lay on the noun
tain-rocks bound hand and foot.
I cannot, for the life of me, see one
word in the Legend OF Staunton" that
would be calculated to cause such an
out-pouring of the Walls of wrath, as
has been showered around my unlucky
head.
..When Nero persisted by the 1ustest doom
Which ever the destroyer yet destroyed,
Amidst the roar of liberated Rome,
OF nations freed, and the world overjoyed,
Some hands unseen strewed flowers upon his
perbsns the weakness of a heart not void
Of feeling for some kindness done, when
power
Even though some fair charmer says
to herself, have found it. and fond
ly imagines she sees some fancied re-
semblance to her own lovely self, is
there anything in the Legend but
praise and admiration for the beauti
full heroine?
When the Legend was written l i'm
agined no one knew the circumstances
but myself, yet it seems as if some one
did know them, and was far more faml-
liar with the details than myself.
Were it woman, I should think her
vanity would be soothed and fiattered
by the description given of the hero
inc, and would have been kinder in
her reply, if a reply were deemed nee
essary.
have heard that there are many
vain people in the world; that they
are as plentiful as leaves in Vallom-
brosa. yet the vainest of them all are
the ones who imagine they know the
heroine of my little romance.
She dwells in Ethiopia. | give this
information for the enlightenment OF
those who were SO kind as to criticise
the Legend of Staunton.
"Even as broken mirror, which the glass
In every fragment multiplies; and makes
A thousand images Of one that was
But | feel confident that the pure
fingers of lady fair never penned lines
that would be SO utterly insulting, did
they not so forcibly remind one Of the
weapon with which Samson slew the
Philistines.
LIPS that touch wine can never touch mine. >
''If, when Christ came upon earth
and gave His life for SHINING humani
ty, He had said: ''If any one commits
sin he can never enter the Kingdom O
Heaven" how many would spend ar
eternity of happiness?
..Sinful Mary walks more pure in heaven
Than many who sinned not and were for
given.
mot all the footsteps of that hurry
ing throng of Christians pressing on
ward to the gates of pearl can blot our
the words He, STOPPING. traced in the
dust,-''Go thy way and sin no more.
Methinks I can see the light of di
vine love forming a Chinese wal
around this little pet of Omniscience
as it once shone in front of Moses
But this little pet, unlike that Holy
Man of God, could look on it with eyes
uncovered, while he, though favored OF
God, could not bear the light of Divine
Presence.
But that was because his lips touch
ed wine, suppose.
Eureka failed to give the prayer that
went up before the Superintendent
throne. Here it is =
''Our Boss, who sitteth in the Super
intendent's chair, respected be thy
name, thy orders obeyed, thy will be
done ON 6 as it is on A; forgive us our
neglect of duty, as we forgive those
who call us names, and lead us not in
to matrimony, but deliver us from
misery, for thine is the Band for years
and years. Amen"
Had known that the name Addie
was py-righted, would have used
some other. I was under the impress
sion that it was common name, but
see my mistake, as there is only one
Add1e in the universe, and Eureka
says =
z IF he that order will obey,
The love of Addie he can retain
And she will proudly bear his name''
What glittering promise the Royal
Decree holds out to me Mrs. Erma