The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-11-20
AMBITIONS
The Scape Goats of Fate, They Tum-
BILE and Crumble
(By Albertus Vogt.)

like unto prophecy. But, alack ant
alas!-
AS false the light on glory's plume
AS fading hues of even;
Poor wanderers of a stormy day
4 From wave to wave were driven
And fancy's flash and reasons ray
Serve but to light the troubled
way"
And now it's Kitchener,
Since the tabled days of Cain, one
half of man has been busy trying to
make scape-goats of the other, and
always lowly bred. billy goats at
that, and pity tits true.
This is most beautiful afternoon
with June skies, and zephyrs. warm
with the suns kisses, and the or
ange blossoms in a nearby tree, i'm
patient of the 60 days wait for
springtime in their anxiety to get
! into life and beauty and ornamental
ton and glorifcation of the CRATE
full atmosphere are blossoming white
| and dispensing a perfume, as sweet
as only Florida breezes bear.
And sitting here, l wonder how
many mothers sons are at this mo-
ment looking in agony for the last
tlme-because of man inhumanity
to man"-on the to my hearts glad
ening stars.
The horror of it, When God pur-
posed that all creatures should now
be as peaceful and contented as am
|. And yet in this hour there rises
up in and out of my heart-my
souls cry-in reiteration of the
death cry of the mortality of the
Christ-Father, for Europe. cannot
you let this cup pass. And then
comes into my minds ears the
faiths cry that makes Bramins, the
cry of the fatalist, and T am again
given to understand indeed is this
the hour of God Almighty's house
cleaning and in it he is brushing
away the empty cobwebs of mans
would-be greatness. of mans useless
vain-slorious vanities, and as | think
of the vanities of the earth's might
lest throughout all the past, I real
lze gratefully how glad am for
my noble wife, our healthful, SPLEEN
did children, our simple lives, our !,
few wants, our present touch with
nature, our freedom from all all !
ings. !
And we and I, we have so much !.
reason for and cause to commiserate
the miseries, the spites and the
puerile jealousies of the great.
Looking only little way into the
past. | see Caesar and the Rubicon, |
and Pompey. and his mantle over
his head as he met the Egyptian
rowers and his wife looking on from
the deck of his flag ship and again
see Caesar at Denderale and back
again in imperial and imperishable
Rome, and then lying in his con-
suls robes and Brutus' knife in his
side. and the scene shifts suddenly,
and I see Cleopatra in Anthony's
arms and Caesars caresses yet warm
on her lips, and then her last lone
with Anthony. And the
final alone with the fated and fatal
asp.
And fool-hardy Alexander beside
the sea weeping and maudlin, and /
then his last debauch and his hour
glass only half emptied, and of the
lesser and larger lights, until the
Christ, and of Mary's night ride in
the desert. and of the cheerless
manager, and of the twelve years !
aged boy in the temple, and of the
ships that go down to the sea-" and
the castaway fisherman, and the |
south shores of the Red Sea, and the
twelve years in Ahyssinia and the
absorption of their religion, and of |
the return to Palestine, and the |
teachings out of his great soul. unto /
his fellow men, all for their better !
ment, and of calvary and PLATE and
the last awful scenes in the life of
the noblest and truest to his CON
vlctions-c character men have /
known--the only man who both an /
tedates and sub-dates himself
And of Napoleon and his vigils in |
Egypt, and of his queer letters to
Josephine, and of mems whisperings
that the great captain connived at
his empress peccadiloes, or "hings"
because of fears for his ambitions !
even though he scourced her into
tears in his letters to her; and then
OF Moscow and Waterloo, and st.
Helena. And of Washington and of
his swimming his horse across the /
Hudson and of his sending of his
slave with a note TO the ship's can
tain. and please take Jim with Won
this trip; he is a worthless scamp.
and bring me hack for him two casks
of good old Jamaira rum"
And then rapidiy I review nc tbe.-