The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-01-18

etn US upward and on" He recoun,.h
me services Of women in time NJ v.r
,neir deeds In the days Of peace. and
IN the end he became involved IN an
ailegory about the exclusion Of ths
roses from the garden.
Inc senators had begun to nav at.
'entlon to him as soon az he talked
ABOUT things they really understood
ana were interested In, and now thex
shouted to him to go on. It was spread
ABROAD over the third floor Of the
statehouse that some one was maxine
plg speech in the senate, and rem
resentauves came rushing over from
tne mouse. The correspondents of the
Onlcago newspapers came over also
10 see II the Associated Press man In
,ne senate was getting the speech
GOWN 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
10 time with his gavel, but he did II
perfunctorily, as though he enjoyed
the applause himself, as vicariously
expressing his own feelings; his eyes
twlnkled until 1t seemed that. we're IL
not for certain traditions, he would
JOIN IN the delighted laughter that
made up most of the applause.
once page came to Vernon with 4
grass OF water, and as he paused to
wipe his brow and to sip from the
glass, he glanced again at Maria
Greene. Her face was solemn and 4
wonder was growing in her eyes. Be-
side her sat old DOC" Ames, scowlinR
hercely and stroking his long white
beard. There were sharp cries of Go
on! Go on"
But Vernon, not accustomed ia
thinking on his feet, as takers love to
phrase 1t. and having stopped, could
not instantly go on, and that awkward
malt 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
him-fioated of, tantalizingly, out Of
reach. And so, for refuge, he rushed
on to the conclusion he had hall
formed in his mind The conclusion
was made up mostly from a toast to
which he had once responded while In
college, entitled The Ladies'" The
words came back to him readily
enough; he had only to apply them q
little differently and to change bis
figures. Thus it was easy to work ur
to panegyric in which Illinois stood
up as beautiful woman leading hel
sister states up to new heights Of
peace, of virtue and of concord He
had 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 thousand ships and burned
the topless towers of Ilium!'
she is wholly like in feature . the
deathless goddesses!'" So he ~'ent
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 tumblel
for moment, and then lifted It on
high while he said:
l filled this cup to one made up
| OF loneliness alone,
A woman, of her gentle sex
The seeming paragon
Her health! and would on earth there
stood
| Some more of such a frame,
| That life might be all poetry,
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