Bisbee daily review., 1912-01-23


 races of the imperial palace 10 do little meditating. Marc, as he is well known, was full of medita- tions when he wasn't full of choice Falernian; and, though he was Roman. did his classiest meditating in Greek, just to show some of the hammer-throwers round the place that he had an education, and with the end in view of putting his thoughts into a book and making 1t a best seller-which was a cinch, when you come to figure on 1t, for the Greeks might buy it and the Romans would have to or it would be the galleys for theirs.
 The emperor was feeling very fit Things were coming his way. His campaign for renomination was go- ing along smoothly and there were |, no disquieting rumors that the T.. R. of the period had it in miAd to be a candidate against him. Natur- ally his meditations took on a pleas ant turn and, instead of reflecting on death as was his wont in many instances, he qualified for member ship in the s. P O. R. Optimist and
 
 terrace and listened to the haunt ing melodies that came floating out on the soft Italian air from the atri- um, where the royal Hungarian or chestra was playing, he meditated as follows: This is pretty soft. Mare. old scout. they are coming m carriages for you. The ways of the gods are full or providence
 Commentators differ about the first part of that L.editation. hold ing, in some instances, that the text ls corrupt; but the last part of t stuck, being vouched for by that well known disseminator of the classics, H. Altemus, and appearing in all editions Of the Meditations put out by him. The ways of the gods are full of providence. And, strangely enough, not so long ago another Marcus Aurelius, walking out of the club at Tucson, Arizona looked off toward the old mission and meditated along similar lines. There, in the brilliance of Tue son night, Marcus Aurelius Smith, removing broad-brimmed hat, took a twist at his handsome mus tachios and murmured: The ways of the gods are full Of providence" ;"
 Which, dear brethren, is the charming fact, so far as Marcus Aurelius Smith is concerned-not, of ,. course, that the gods had anything to do with the particular circum- stance that evoA-- the murmurous thanksgiving from Marcus Aurelius Smith, but that in a broad, general sense the term may be used as ap- plying to the free aud untrammeied voters of Arizona, the same being a new star in the flag-an imperial commonwealth, a little stranger in the glorious galaxy of states-and Marcus Aurelius Smith having been chosen as United States senator therefrom.
 United States senator, Think that over for moment in view of the years and years when Marcus Aure- Illus was merely a delegate in the house of representatives from Ari- zona, territory-a delegate-an imitation legislator. who could talk until he was black in the face and introduce bills: but who, when 1t came to the real excuse for being in the house-the yoting-had to sit silent as the roll was called. 4 voice without q yOte-a pipe with out tobacco-a thirst without drink-a cause without a result an automobile without gasoline,
 The Essence of Arizona.
 And now. at one jump, Marcus Aurelius has landed in the senate, where he. can vote without let or =Vd house without stopping to be a rep resentative; has leaped from neu- ter to nectar, from trammel to tOga "a senator! The ways of the gods are full of providenee"-and that goes double for Arizona-andMark.
 Many persons have observed ter ritorial delegates in the house Ot representatives sitting round on the edges. having none but vocal func- , tions-excess baggage in the legis- lative halls-and wondered why. To what end should a man persist in coming to congress from a territory when his coming meant nothing to anybody save the salary for himself and an occasional chance, by cour- tesy, to make a speech? lie has no functions. He is an added mem Der of committees, always at the bottom, and merely a noise at com mittee meetings if so be he chooses to be noisy. To be sure, he can help some in getting legislation for his territory fl he is popular, but it is all by personal solicitation and not by any power Of voting that he may have.
 To what end, did ] ask? Well, in the case of Marcus Aurelius Smith. aforesaid, it has been to the end just attained-the United States sen ate, 10 be exact; and maybe Mark didn't know what he had in mind Maybe he didn't and then again maybe he did, The aids have it. He did, Arriving in Washington as a territorial delegate, with a voice and no vote. Marcus AuTelius didn't bore anybody with his voice He just moved round and watched de- velopments.
 He first cane to the Fiftieth con gress, a soft-spOken, genial, pleas ant man, who soon developed as good stOryteller, a likeable compan- ion and a CifiZor of uarfg Ho Wae