The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-11

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1903 T.. Broad Street.
Oldest Music House in Vir-
ginia and North Carolina.
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/ the fraiI BODY after all is 1othing--a
/ mere rickety tenement. a bare handful
| of worthless dust. But the mind and
| the spirit, they alone are everything,
! and in such man as, the one was
observing. they shone with all the tran
! quiz radiance OF an August sun, high
| above the fogs and clouds OF physical
| sumed the attitude OF one who keeps
the left hand uplifted to protect him.
J. self for the moment from the stroke Of
fate, while, with the right, he COM
/ pletes with mistaken serenity some
patriotic work which he has begunt
and which he has firmly resolved TO
4 finish There was no thought OF self
in that work, not even natural yearn.
ing for literary distinction as some
solace for his arrested career. His
I motive was that OF the most disinter.
ested patriotism. He had an over
shadowing duty to carry out before his
strength should ebb entirely away
this duty was to defend his native
state from historical aspersion. Never
| was a hlial service more nobiy pei
formed, never with more moderation.
more calmness. more reasonableness,
imore urbanity OF spirit and language,
and vet with such burning earnestness,
such lofty convictions. and with sucn
unenswerable thoroughness.
II was my good fortune 10 be
brought, for some years OF my NE
:. into familiar intercourse with TWO
men who have always seemed TO me
TO represent TO an almost uhexainplea :,
u degree. all that is most to be admlre'
In the life OF contemporary Virginia
The one was the late Joseph Bryan: inc
other the late Beverley Munforo
! Their Municipalities were rernarkapie
because they were. to an extent ne"
very rarely observed, the distinct pro
] ducts OF two eras. the era OF ante
belium virginia. and the era of pos,
bellum They resembled hlsh M
lin the reaches OF a landscape, upoi
I which two lights OF an entirely di1et
character, IduldlsH LINN NPFON--
. directions are simultaneously fallihe
: me lipht from the dead past and tn
] light from the living present Or .
: very the figure, they We're ike SOM
I ene symmetrical bridge spanning Wit
:. GRACEFUL arches a river which dlvide'
. land belonging to another age itoi'
r an. belonging TO our own In IN
g veins OF both flowed the very pes
G blood OF colonial times upon ehe iea
J, lures of both was stamped iaenase
n ahlv the unmistakabie seal OF paetie It,
Y descent. while their whole bearing vi
u dor all circumstances reflected lne Iui
4 u. 49,. is more often inherited thar
> acquired. .e,anc
IN, the subtle current OF infuehe
7 from ancestral springs was not restrie.
: "a RI feature and manner. They reS
: arencad with all the intensity OF thei
e t.thers If the old regime the prom
n ices and hopes Of religion. the strens,
! and courage of true mannooo, tne ~.
y Nv Of wonanhood. the sacredness OF ~
II domestic hearth, devotion 70 ial.i.
Hove of kindred, the claims Oh nosp..@.
q itv the fellowship of friends. the coui
+ .ss,as ~ general intercourse. the re
J, wards of high political service. In
r eolaee Of books and the distinction
: literary achievement. But above. a
e ,hev reyerenced that supreme ideallt
y ~ st,ul which looks upon naked prit
-.ELnle as the one beacon that can sale'
snide men along the dark and treacl
erous coast of life. II was TINS Zee
ing which made Mr.. Munford the mo-
sympathetic of historians when ne car
TO describe the sacrihces OF the W,
II ginians for the sake of principle
: 1ss1 II was this feeling also whic
Il made Mr.. Bryan such an enthusiast
II and interchangeable preserver OF ever
Il memorial that would remind the pre-
II ant generation of our people of u
great qualities which their ancesto
Il 5isnlayed in every crisis of their nj
Ilitory AS an Aeolian harp responds u
Il Simultaneously to the gentlest curre
Of air. so they, too, responded to evel
II high call of the past
But all the light that fell on the
was not from the past alone The liz
from the present was even more ln "
Il gent. Both were exceptionally ale
Il saeacious. ar-headed and experienc
men Of affairs. Both had that practic
II Insight and breadth Of view VIII
Il comes only from a irst-hand know
II edge OF the material side of their o,
Il times. Their personal influence. ca
Il working in his own way, was direct
Il continuously and unWeariedly toWar
II lbuilding up and broadening all the
Il dustrial interests OF their communl
If may use an apparent parade
\ both we're practical idealists-mc
practical than most Virginians of t
Il old regime, more idealistic than M
Virginians of the new; combinatt
" Of two types that made them the gre
- citizens that they We're; great in WI
a they accomplished; greater still In
Il shirt which animated them, but gres
est of all in the example which tn
set to their fellows. II feeling
: Iapprehension sometimes arises sthat
are soon to be entirely submerged
sea Of sordid commercialism. Il
feeling subsidies when we recall tt
these two men We're respected and he
| ored by their own community, not
much for the accumulation of fortu
- not SO much for practical efficiency.
-, FOR those. fine Qualities of charac