Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-04

ing into flame Of Mont Pelee just as the
good people near by have sat down '''' 70
supper; see alarm in every face the Iur-
ried flight, the distress of the su 1s, '
as amid the mist of suffooating asAes
their cry is heard, sauve qui peut, anu anu
you will not be at loss to account 1oi
the sensation and alarm of the h1gn
priests OF the Republican party anent the
Henderson letter. No one has 1athoneu
the possibly deep design OF the 1o"af'.
Henderson is said to be not man U
lofty aims. If so the suggestion is tl1nely'
that he may be overlooking one great
chair for another still more poWerIul:
Though he abfors the trusts the recent
purport of his utterance is bld ZOE tllet.
support. An old dramatist has SAD VIII
some quaintness, but much truth ela >
q politician is the devils quilted an 'L',
he fashions on it what blows he likes anu
they are never heard.
"a wise man prevalent in power,
For he screeneth his battering engine,
But fool tillteth headlong
And his adversary is aware.
Had Mckinley continued to prevail in
unaware. He wrestled with it as the
sun is tabled. to have wrestled with the
old man In the road. Had the WHY
politician lived out his presidential term
the South might have DOTTED Its coat,
or at least, turned it to the sun. Mahones
and McLaurins might have, nay, Wouio
have sprung up in every southern STATE
to vex it's politics. Roosevelt, not SO sly,
or shall say not so wise, made his ad-
q 1f hi
giving him Booker Washington slap IN
the face. Too much gab-forglve the
slang-wil undo him as 1t has unoone
many brighter man.
An old lady of Edinburgh, who claimed
kin through descent from the ROSS WIN
Duncan, King of Scotland, was asked
by an American nephew for some proof,
when she produced a faded coat-tWo
lions rampant under the imposing effigy
Of crown, with the words underwriters,
"kings come of us; not we of kings.
Surprised at the mystic character OF the
legend our nephew further asked to be
enlightened, when the proud old dame
exclaimed, Duncan came of the ROSS
not the Ross of Duncan" The pride OF
the Scot is proverbia1. A sister OF this
very dame though living In London a
half century undertook to give the afore-
ing his sojourn in the modern Athens.
"Be careful of your purse in Edinboro
for there are thieves there, too but, =
she added. "they are all English
II hope that may find you well, and
in poetical activity, for after all that is
the finest condition that is given to man
% enjoy One poet writing to another
has said this. Would man not ideally
gifted agree with Goethe? Let your eye
scan the lowest human scale till it light
on the miser gloating over his shining
heaps and say if the poets eye scinti-
lates finer frenzy? Ascend the
heights, and contemplate Archimedes,
who wanted but lever to lift the world;
or Calico who first saw through optic
glass Jupiter's four moons; or Kepler,
after sore travail at length propounding
the true theory Of the planetary system;
or Newton rapt in the conception of the
fundamental Jaw by which the scheme
of the material universe is regulated-ask
I'll these mighty men if poetical activity
be the finest condition given to men to en-
JOY. Their answer will be nay, nay.
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