Sunday Washington globe., 1901-12-29

hand In Baltimore last Friday week recalls
his early life here
Being a brother-in-law of -
-familiarly known as Boss
and owner of the EgeHing Star in what was
perhaps its most vensl days, Mr.. Young
was employed there
A most amiable, genial and generous man
with afamilY having the usual fever to be
lin society"-that is to run after people of
ability to give free luncheous to their
equals, to social strugglers, to casual
strangers and intruding government
clerks-he fell into ways of extravagant
living The result was that he lost his
place, and not long after a domestic separa-
ton occurred
viudictive female, Tin the outward form
of woman, followed him and caused him to
lose several places where he had found
work. Discouraged, thus, in pursuit of
living, and in creditable effort to regain
his standing he went West with varying
fortunes following him. In California he
fell into difficulty, as he had here, but Mr..
-- and Judge - Of the local
Supreme Court, extricated him, it is sup
posed
Meanwhile his wife, who had obtained
place in the famous sixth auditors Office of
the Treasury, sued for divorce, but there
was probably no ground for the suit to rest
upon, as upon his showing a readiness to
meet it, and that too, with countercharges
of material character, the suit was never
pushed. 1t is now on the 'stet" calendar
A few years ago he returned here for good
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church choirs as he was a notably good
tenor and in giving vocal instructions in
music. He was also a good bookkeeper
and found work occasionally in that CALI
ing, and for a while in the Treasury Depart
ment.
After 1893, during part of which year he
had employment in the Treasury, his for
tunes seemed to wane. and, being very sen.
sitive he fancied that his relatives we're
weary and ashamed of him SO after
spree he then attempted his own life.
Then some one, interested, perhaps, in
his being effaced, as it we're, had him incar-
cerated as an insane person and he was held
in the government asylum in Anacostia.
As he was never insane lie was employed
there as bookkeeper, and for awhile
seemed to enjoy the seclusion As he could
not be retained there indefniteir against
his will, being we'll he was allowed to 90.
Not succeeding in business, being well-nigh
onto sixty years, not hoping for anything
from his fashionable relatives, nor from his
summer-day friends Of former and happier
days, he formed the dread resolution of
going out to meet the pale messenger in the
Valley of the Shadow Of death
The "Old Washingtoniaus "a class which
makes amusing claims to aristocratic de-
scent and whose members for some unex-
plainable reason pretend TO think scoru of
the claims of more generous people, of later
advent whose free oyster-scallops and pink
tea they would fain consume, and do con
sumo with great concupisceuce and ami
mostly" as the famed father Thomas
Maguire's phrase goes, call for a word or
two.
The members of this class of 'pretentious
are obstinately prone to cast
their burden upon the Lord and on the Gov
ernment
If Mr.. Young was actually insane. within
an honorable understanding of the term,
and its honorable application to him, it was.
perhaps pardonable to send him to the
asylum. AS his brothers-in-law, Mr..
, Judge and Mr..
-- and the Youngs are men Of wealth;
his wife for twenty years on n salary Of
81, 500 or soi his son for years and now a
government employee, and his only daugh-
ter self-sustaining at teaching music and he
a cripple, persons Of the stricter way Of re-
garding things will be apt to ask why these
people, some rated as millionaires, others
revelliug In inland and seaside villas
might not have given this poor kinsman,
handicapped as he had been from his youth
up by loss of his right arm, care in a pri-
vate sanitarium which might have saved
the last Of the wreck Of a once-houorable
name, as it would have spared his sensitive
spirit. What though he had cost his kins-
men nearly $4,000" as is said, what
though these had forgiven him three or
four times2 Some Of them are ostentatious
church-folk, whose great exemplar COM
mands forgiveness, not three times, not
even seven, but seventy times, and seventy
times seven.
Even while on his last wandering, which
ended among the dead some who might
have denied him bread, we're reveling and
feasting; some Just from idling in cool sea
breezes, others from the hesh-pots Of
Gotham, "Nourished with meat and strong
with purple wine" The up-to-date would
be fashionable woman, struggling for prece-
dence and the notice Of the rich, or Of those
already 'arrivee, would let her old mother
perish, even on her doorstep, rather than
let her enter in among her fashionable
friends - mostly social strugglers them
selves. AT this blithe season, bending for a
brief hour in rich churches, let such Offend
ers as those to whom these remarks apply,
recall the story Of the prodigal and swine
herd, whose father 'ne'er forgot, "but weep
ing beheld him afar off, and ran with speed,
fell on his neck and tenderlY kissed him.
In the Limbo Of Vanity in Milton's Hell
are many social strugglers, and in another
place the poet tells US Of the vision Of
Ezekiel, Of the Infected Daughters of
Zion" with their dark idolatries - the
fashiouables Of Judah we're they Belial,
as Milton tells us, is the idol of the lewd
and luxurious, and Mammon himself is less
iusatiate.
Let brother Talmage grid up his loins,
having on the breast-plate of faith, aud,
taking the Sword Of the Spirit, make a
whack at some Of the scaudalous people Of