St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-05-01

vote, and Miltiades addressed him, say
ing:
1T now rests with you, Callimachus
either to enslave Athens, or by insur.
ing her freedom. to win yourself m i'm.
mortality of fame, for never since the
Athenians were = people were they in
such danger Is they are in 1t this mo.
ment II they bow the knee to thesa
Medes, they are to be given mp to Hip.
pias. and you know what they will
then have to suffer; but if Athens
comes victorious out Of this contest.
she has It In her power to become thu
first city Of Greece. Your vote is to do
eide whether we are to Join in battle OF
not. II we do not bring on q battle
Fpresently, some factious intrigue will
disunite the Athenians, and the city
will be betrayed to the Modes, but il
we fight before there is anything rot
ten in the state Of Athens, 1 believe
that, provided the gods will give fair
field and no favor, we are able to get
/ the best Of it IN the engagement"
That won the vote Of Callimachus,
and soon the battle opened, and in full
run the men Of Miltiades fell upon the
Persian hosts, shouting: ION, sons OF
Greece! Strike for the freedom of your
country! Strike for the freedom Of
your children and your wives; for the
shrines of your fathers gods, and for
the sepulchers of your sires! All, all
are now staked on the strife While
only 19e Greeks fell. 6, 400 Persians lay
dead upon the field, and many Of the
Asiatic hosts who took to the wa yes
sels in the harbor were consumed in
the shipping. Persian oppression was
rebukcd, Grecian liberty was achieved,
the cause of civilization was advanced,
and the western world and all nations
have felt the heroes Had there been
no NIiltiades, there might have been no
Washington. u s
Also ut Thermopylae, 500 Greeks,
along : road only wide enough for q
wheel track between q mountain and .
marsh, died rather than surrender.
Had there been no Thermopylae, there
might have been no Bunker Hill. The
echo of Athenian and Spartan heroics
was heard at the gates Of Lucknow,
and Sebastopol, and Bannockburn, and
Lexington, and Gettysburg English
Magma Charta, and Declaration Of
American Independence, and the song
Of Robert Burns, entitled, "A Mans
= Man for a That" were only
the long-continued reverberation Of
what :. swas >. raid and done
20 centuries before in. that little king
dom that the powers of Europe are now
imposing upon. Greece having: again
and al hin shown that ten men in the
right are stronger than . hundred men
in the wrong, the heroics of Leonidas
and Aristides and Themistocles will
not cease their mission until the last
man on earth is rs free as God made
him. There is not on either side of the
Atlantic to-day = republic that can not
truthfully employ the words of the text
and say: Il am debtor to the Greeks"
But now, comes the practical ques-
ton. How can we pay that debt, or =
. part Of it? For we can not pay more
that ten per cent Of that debt in which
Paul acknowledged himself q bank
rupt BY praying Almighty God that
He will help Greece in its present with
MOhammedanism and the concerted
empires of Europe. / know her queen,
. noble, Christian woman, her face
the throne of all beneficence and
loveliness, her life m example of
noble wifehood and motherhood.
God help those palaces in these days
of awful EFFICIENCY! Our Ameri-
can senate did well the other day.
when, in that capital building. which
owes to Greece its columnar impress
siveness, they passed hearty resolu-
ton of sympathy for that nation.
Would that all who have potent words
that can be heard in Europe would
utter them now, when they are SO
much needed! Let us repeat to them
in English what they centuries ago de-
clared to the world in Greek: blessed
are those who are prosecuted for
righteousness sake, for theirs is the
kingdom Of Heaven"
Another way Of partly paying our
debt to the Greeks is by higher xppre-
citation Of the learning and sclf-sacri-
flee of the men who in our own land
stand for all that the ancient Greeks
stood. While here and there one comes
to public approval and reward, the
most Of them live in privation or ON
salary disgracefully small. The
scholars, the archaeologists, the art
lists, the literati.most of them live
up three or four flights of stairs and
by small windows that they do not let in
the full sunlight You pass them every
day in your streets without any recog-,
milton. Grub street, where many OF
the mighty men Of the past suffered, isl
long enoakh 10 reach around the world.
No need Of wasting our sympathy upon
the unappreciated thinkers and work
ers of the past. Though Linn@us sold
his works for = single ducat- Though
Noah Webster's spelling-book yielded
him more than his dictionary. Though
the great psinter, receiving
for long-continued work payment of |
Bs9, died from overjoy. Though when
friends visited him they
were obliged to sit in the window, n
be had but one chair. Though Samuel |
Boyse, the great poet, starved to death.
Though the author Of 'sHudibrasn died !
in . garnet. Though Paradise Lost" |
its author only SIS cash down,
wit b promise Of $50 more if the sale |
war ranted It; SO that SIS was all that |
was paid for what is considered the |
yrcatest poem ever written. Better |
turn our attention to the fact that |
here are at this moment hum
lreds Of authors, painters, sculp-
;ors, architects, brsin-workers with
,ut bread and without fuel and
without competent apparel. As far rs
1ou can afford it, buy their sculpture,
cad their books, purchase their pic
,ures, encourage their pen, their pencil,
heir chisel, their engraver's knife,
heir architects compass. The world j