The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-06-22
SOME FLASHES FROM 1.-THE CONOUEROR."

The magnetism of the- inevitable em- braced them and knit their inner selves together, even while they sat decorously apart.
 The students of history know that while many mothers of great men have been virtuous, none have been common place and few have been happy.
 His mind by now, was so mature that he reminded himself with some diff culty, that he was only seventeen. He was as lively and as happy as ever, but that was temperamental and would en- dure through all things; mentally he had no youth in him, had had little since the day he began to ask questions.
 
 Women, Hamilton fancied sharply, and forgot quickly.
 But after all there is something mag nifcent in so absolutely identifying your self with cause that you go down to its depths of agony and fly to its heights of exaltation. Patriotism surely is the master passion. Nothing else can anni- hilate the ego.
 Passion Is the furnace that makes greatness possible.
 But when Burr was forced to accept the astounding fact that Hamilton had prepared himself for the bar in four months, digesting and remembering a mountain of knowledge that cost other men the labour of years, and had pre- pared a Manuel besides, he experienced the first convulsion of that Jealously which was to become his controlling pas sion in later years.
 The perfect friendship of two men is the deepest. and highest sentiment of which the finite mind Is capable; women miss the best in life.
 Of Hamilton Morris said: You are not mortal. I always said it. When Duane gave me your letter to read l remarked: He withdrew to heaven and wrote that letter on the knee of the Almighty; never on earth could he have found the cour- age and the optimism
 Hamilton said ''In the management Of men one of the most important things to bear In mind Is their proneness to work forward from the weak, and backward from the strong.
 But Mrs. croix knew them. In her
 
 mistakes, passionately as she loved him. It was in her secluded presence that he stormed himself cool, was Indignantly sympathized with first, then advised. then soothed. He was made to under stand that the more he revealed the black and implacable deeps of his na- ture, the more was he worshipped the more keen the response from other and not dissmilar depths
 But jealousy and suffering give wo- man, In a week. fill of knowledge and cunning that will serve her lifetime. Betsey developed both coquetry and sub- tlety.
 Burr said, "He who puts himself on paper with Hamilton is lost" | Of whom did Hamilton think in those | final moments? Not of Eliza Croix, we may be sure Her hold had been too su- perfcial. Perhaps not even of Elizabeth | Schuyler, although he had loved her long and deeply. What more probable | than that his last hour was filled with a profound consciousness of the isolation in which his soul had passed It's mortal l tarrying? Surrounded, worshipped, counting more intimate friends sincerely loved, than any man of his time, no mor- tai could ever have stood more utterly alone than Hamilton. There may have been moments when the soul of Washington or Laurens brushed his own. Assuredly no woman l companioned 1t for a fraction of sec- | ond.