Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1905-05-04
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Copyright, 1902
by Daily Story Publishing Company

The play was Richard H., and It
was during an intermission that l no
ticed him sitting opposite-a shriv-
elled little man, colored in faded sepia
tints, with blind-seeming eyes. By
those eyes l recognized him; for when
I had last seen him, fifteen years ago,
he had not been ~shrivelled at all and
that head, half bald and half gray, had
been well covered with rich brown
locks; but the same eyes-the same in
Prospective look that the Greeks gave
their statues by dispensing with eyes
altogether.
was filled with sympathy. What
could have changed him so? Ill
health? Trouble? My dear old profess
sort Chrysostom, Goldenmouth, Silver
tongue, as I had fondiy nieisnamed him
In boyish admiration. For Professor
Eustis had the rarest gift of %eloquence
that l have ever known, and could
pour forth an unprecedented flood Of
beautiful, classical English for a couple
Of hours at a time. He was that most
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ally a poet, but with a solid, labori-
ous%ly-acquired foundation and super
structure Of logic. So when he spoke
you would be sure of beautiful image
ry, sometimes springlike, Chauncerian,
with the delightful changing light and
shade Of the first fuller-lighted days
u March; again, there was never any
one who could be at the same time so
tropical and yet so chaste. Neverthe-
less, it was not for this that he spoke
or you heard him. There was always
a clear message, a profitable instruc-
ton.
His fault, and that an ineradicable
one, was a lack of sympathy with life
his life was entirely in his mind.
He was conscious of this, and had
tried to overcome it, l am sure, for l
have never known anyone more un-
failingly kind and cordial of manner.
But his refinement was SO far removed
from the crudity of ordinary mortals
that he was necessarily isolated. Yet
these same crude ordinary mortals are
honest enough to acknowledge real SUI
periority when it before them,
so that he had a goodly number of ad-
mirers and friends after all.
l crossed the theater, took the va
cant place beside him and was soon
listening to a richer conversation than
that of old days.
well John, l was quite proud the
other day to see that one of my old
boys had taken his Phi. D. 1 congrat-
ulate YOU"
Thanks, yes-and what are the
rights and privileges appertaining
therefor On commencement days
President c. utters that phrase
with a large and lordly air, as though
he were conveying to us some mys-
FERROUS wealth, a veritable treasure of
Monte Cristo; and at the same time he
smiles, a generous, yet slightly hui
morous smile-the same that one
wears in the game of Hold fast what l
give you What does he mean?"
why, the right to work Alright. You
know how to work in the domain of
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the mines, to plough the fields, to
forge the metals, to traffic in all the
marts and On all the seas, for the ben
eft of humanity. The privilege of
holding communion and intimate com
partnership with the great minds of
this and every age. Well may DR.. c.
smile to feel himself tho almoner of
such gifts as these, John; how noble
is the life Of the searcher for truth by
the inductiye method. Who loves the
truth so much as he who makes him
self a slave for the TRUTH"
Just then Richard did something
bad and the people laughed again.
why are these people laughing? A
high moral Indignation would seem to
be more appropriate"
"Ah, my boy, still good at asking
questions. Richard Crouchback is a
fairy tale to brighten children with.
King Shakespeare is only trying to
make our hair stand pleasantly on