The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-11-25

eth us upward and on He recounted
the services of women in time of war,
their deeds in the days Of peace. and
in the end he became involved In an
allegory about the exclusion OF the
roses from the garden.
The senators had begun to pay at
tention TO him as soon as he talked
about things they really understood
and were interested in. and now they
shouted to him to go on. II was spread
abroad over the third floor of the
statehouse that some one was making
a big speech in the senate, and rep
resentatives came rushing over from
the house. The correspondents Of the
Chicago newspapers came over also
to see If the Associated Press man in
the senate was getting the speeL
down fully. All the space on the floor
was soon crowded, and the applause
shook the desks and made the glass
prisms on the chandeliers jingle. The
lieutenant governor tapped from time
to time with his gavel. but he did 1t
perfunctorily, as though he enjoyed
the applause himself, as vicariously
expressing his own feelings: his eyes
twinkled until 1t seemed that, were 1t
not for certain traditions, he would
join in the delighted laughter that
made up most of the applause.
Once a page came to Vernon with
glass of water. and as he paused to
wipe his brow and to sip from the
| glass, he glanced again at Maria
| Craapa uar foca wac cnIa,pp apd a
wonder was growing in her eyes Be-
side her sat old doc" Ames, scowling
| fiercely and stroking his long white
beard. There were sharp cries of go
On! Go on!"
But Vernon, not accustomed to
| thinking on his feet, as takers love to
! phrase 1t. and having stopped. could
not instantly go on, and that awkward
halt disconnected him. He was con.
scious that the moments were slipping
| by, and there were other things
many other things-that he had in.
tended to say; but these things evaded
Intoxicated off, tantalizingly, out of
reach. And SO, for refuge, he rushed
on to the conclusion he had half
| formed in his mind. The conclusion
was made up mostly from a toast to
which he had once responded while In
college, entitled 1.-THE Ladies'" The
words came back to him readily
enough; he had only to apply them a
little differently and to change his
figures. Thus 1t was easy to work up
to panegyric in which Illinois stood
up as beautiful woman leading her
sister states up to new heights OF
peace, of virtue and of concord. He
had a rapt vision of this woman, by
her sweet and gentle influence settling
all disputes and bringing heaven down
to earth at last.
The senate was In raptures.
This is the face" he cried, THAT
launched a thousand ships and burned
the topless towers of Ilium.'
she is wholly like in feature % the
deathless goddesses!'" So he vent
on. "'Age cannot wither, nor custom
stale. her infinite variety"
He was growing weary. He already
showed the impressive exhaustion OF
the peroration. He had sacrificed col
lar and drunk all the water from his
glass He fingered the empty tumbler
for moment, and then lifted 1t on
high while he said:
| filled this cup to one made up
OF loneliness alone,
woman, of her gentle sex
The seeming paragon
Her health! and would on earth there
| stood
Some more of such frame,
That life might be all poetry
And WEAKNESS a name.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)