The Cairo bulletin., 1904-11-02
TREASURES OF MEMORY,
The Kind of Wealth That no Bank
Eaiiprc .cr Shift In Vaults Can
Ever Take Away.
(ey /. z. veer.)

Special to The Bulletin
st. Louis. Nov While wander.
ing through the palaces and plazas
Of the Ivory City, drinking in its
Beauties, listening to its harmonics,
floating on its blue lagoons, learn
.ng its manifold lessons, conversng
gth its strange inhabitants, and en-
ioying a thousand and ono unique and
de ic.oua experiences possible no
whorc els9 the thought that has come
to me again and again, How delight
ful it viii be to look back upon these
glorious days!" When | reflect uron
the many fc.mer worlds fairs that
nave attended and tho amount OF
pleasure have derived from revert,
ing ID thought to the incidents Of
these visits. ] realize that the incom-
parably richer store OF memories /
am now taking in will be worth more
to me than u dozen fortunes.
After all, what can the greatest for
tane give us, over and above what
the modest competence affords, save
enlarged opportunities for creating
past that will be the soiace and de-
light Of our future? Most Of MS can
cat. drink, sleep. read and enjoy all
the ordinary pursuits of life, but a
mGltimillionaire Is able 10 accumulate
limitleSs stores CT the interior riches
Of experience, such as we, under or
dinary circumstances. entirely lie.
yond the reach Of his poor relations.
But here and now we are all ma.
timllionaircs Tho wealth of Col
conda has been lavished in providing !
for our en-, ,ertainment beauties and !
wonders Of which not even the might
ct emperor of the past had ever
dreamed; and at every tara we are ,
offered that which win throw ray |
of sunshine ieto all our future years. |
may lose my fortune. | may lose ,
my frieras ana all the qualties taat /
can win frienaebip, may lose ny or /
iginaiity may lose my health, but as
long as consciousness persists my i'm.
agina'ion VII never fail TO create
anew. wherever my soul turns back /
again upon itself, the stately facadeg.
the dreamy viotas, the heaycnpierc-
Ing fountains, nc labyrintbs o. pc. I
gardens. The intoXi
eating strains Of chnicsst music, uD1n
which II has here been feasllnc O1ce |
again will / sip ten OF The garden;
u the Flowcry Empire. or voGka CT. |
the Siberian steppes, or coffee 90 /
the divang Of SiaMboul or In The ca. Il
of the Arabian Cescrt. II
once again viii be pilgrim
through Jerusalem and eat pistaclio
nuts profanely IN m. mosque Of
Omar; once again viii haggle in the
nar,s Of Calcutta and Beyrout and
Ispahsn: oDce again will climb tho
'now-clad Alp and in fair Tyrol drink
Gy fll Of beauty an Cf joy; ones
again will bid .imc turn back in its
hight and see all the past ages Of
he. world live again before my as
oniGhed eyes; oRce apain vi I'll
'land beside the stadium acciainlng
he victor IN the Olympiaa games:
,nce again will descend tato the
,owels OF the earth. or traverse .he
lepths of the sea. or soar through tao
lpper regions of the air. or venture
With Dante and Virgil across tha
river Of Death. II
can say like Monte Cr.sto: IAN
he world f. mine" OF whatsoever "
my ono may hereafter speak ! have
cen or experienced It. have been
n all l-n1u. participates in all arts
md all industrics. heard al great
music. lived among I'll peoples. seen
N famous ellnce and all historic
sllcs. tsiksd With all great men. and
lreamed vita the poet and the in
-sufor and TIE seer el Dire ms of
deal futuri'y
Wheu ST % 4 and decrepit. IN my
silent for long hours
j. tulc. my -rar lchildrea viii
NOV that 7 am ono. mnrc rowing
u neu8or- from arch t1 afch through !
.rc ess-T e. hrr lf tL- ya-f palaces
lat -gsarC ~. ~ magic for
ear and a day. IN the sly OF the
aintef king in that faraTay year %
S04 As tie miser counts his gold
% viii ard many another Octoga-
arian and nonogenaEf@ y II that time =
cunt cur raemoriey< d that wonderful
ear. decminE all other a. poor in
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