Evening journal., 1899-01-20

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knight-errant and correct these abuses.
% happy age! o fortunate times!'
cried he. I'm the language Of his Span
ish counterpart. "decreed TO usher into
the world my famous achievements
achievements worthy TO be engraved
On brass. carved on marble, ana dc
rneated in some masterpiece of paint
ing. as monuments Of my glory ana
examples for posierity And thou, ven
erab.e sage, wise enchanyer, whatever
be thy name; thou whom fate has or
daincd to be the compiler Of this rare
history. forget not, j beseech thee, my
trusty Rosinante, the eternal compan
ion OF all my adventures"
In the words of Cervantes, ITO these
extravagant coneoits, be added a world
Of others, all in imitation, and in the
very style OF those which the reading
of romnnces had furnished him with.
and all this while he wrUse so softly
and the SUMS heat increased SO fast,
and was so violent that it would have
been sufficient TO have melted his
brains. had he had any left"
He went TO the armory and got out
the armor OF his ancestors. Like Don
Quixote CT la Mancha, he found the
amor an right, but the head-piect
missing. Now a knight-erant is moi
OF much use without a head-piece, Is
pecially n he proposes to conduct q
crusade Of education. He needs some
thing besides the armor Of his ances
tors 10 make a reform movement a go
So ne made a head-piece Of question
abe utility out Of the Dover Delawar
can. Mounting his hobby horse, Party
Reconstruction, he sailed forth look
ling for the giants whom his over
wrought imagination had conjured mp
He got his Sancho Panza out Of ma
chine shop and called upon that out
ragged maiden commonly known as tn
star-eyed goddess OF reform to be MI
lady. Moving to the southwark h'
d met an unexpected foe on the bank
of the soft-nowing Alispi.lon, and wal
SADLY rcpulsed His retreat carried hin
UP the state as far as Wilmington
and there he obtained such a complet
laying out that his strong right arm
was incapacitated from using the wea
pom which is mlghtier than the SWORD
His head-piece was all battered, but re
spect for the armor Of his ancestor
saved IL from dents. His hobby-hors
was foundered. and stricken with poll
evn; -he star-eyed goddess Of reform
the lady of his knight sa
weeping beneath the dropping willow
on the banks OF the st. Jones rive
while Sancho Panza returned to hi
work as a scrivener. During the perio
b Of his convalescence "Don Quixote too
= the last bwo aside and, without min,
ing the matter, gave them an accour
/ OF his defeat, and the obligation he Ia
X under Of being confined TO his villal
for a year. which, like a true knieh
errant he was resolved punctually
9 observe. He added that he intended
pass that interval OF time in the inni
cent functions Of a pastoral life; an
therefore he would Immediately con
mence shepherd, and entertain himse
" solitary in fields and woods; and be,
: ged, If business Of greater importanl
a were not an obstruction, that th'
y world both please to be his compa
T ions, assuring them he would furnie
them with such a number OF sheep
: might entitie them TO such a profe
- sion. He also told them that he had q
y ready in a manner ftted them for Il
y undertaking; for he had provid
them an with names the most pastor
u in the world
- "Don Qulxotes last day came, aft
he had made these preparations (
: death which good Christians ought
~ do"
=, Thus died THAI ingenious gentiems
We shall omit sancho's lamentaioo
as also several epitaphs that We
made for his tomb, and will only gi
you this:
~, ''rhe body Of knight lies here.
SO brave that to his latest breath.
70 Immortal glory was his care.
ne And made him triumph over death.
N. See has his death the world deceive
"a Less than his wondrous life surpris
For IL DE Ike madman lived
IS "A least be like "a wise one died"
re- The career Of the Don Quixote
as Kent WIS net SO long or so varied
.he that of the Don Quixote Of Spain.
10 Il was, 10 all intents and purpos
OIL fully ais glorious.
ity In years 70 come DIR. Caleb r. l.
me ten can call his grandchildren to
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