Show WHAT THEY HEARD WHAT THEY FELT I We find the following in the Atlantic Monthly A prominent Shakespearean Iccturcr has playfully described Shakespeare recalled t earth making l tour of our recalcd ters He pictures the great dramatist ns charmed with nil tho perfect sLngc appli porCcct slge ppl ances delighted with our wonderful Im provements and viewing us with stoudilv Increasing respect and admiration nnd then the curtain rises and ho listens to one of our modern pieces first with curiosity curi-osity then In astonishment and lastly with disgust until he shudderlngly with draws marveling that folks apparently so clever really possess no npparenty al I Before reading that we had often pictured in thought the scene could I Jefferson and Jackson have been recalled re-called and given a scat In a private I box when the last Democratic convention conven-tion was held In Kansas City I Is easy to imagine them first surveying sur-veying tho great flagdraped convention conven-tion hal and to hear their conversation conversa-tion like this Great is it not Andrew There was nothing like this in our day Sure Tom was the reply and then look at the stars on the flag one two my God there are fortyfive while when I quit the world and that was but flftyflvo years ago there were but twentyseven That Is but the natural result of my expansion policy Andrew said Jefferson Jef-ferson I always told the people that with our laws the world would flock to us and that our country would within the century take on majestic Imperial proportions They abused mo when I bought Louisiana I wonder what they think of the prescience of old Tom now I Just then a band struck up the Star Spangled Banner and both the old sages doffed their hats and stood up What a band whispered Jackson And they still stick to the old anthem and the old flag By the eternal this is flneThen Then seated again they watched and listened and rejoiced at tho Increasing glory of their country from time to time maklug running remarks like these This is great said Jefferson I wish we had brought along Washington Wash-ington and Adams and the others How Franklin and Morris would growl at all this expense how Hamilton would ache to get down and make a speech to that crowd and show them what an oldtime speccli really was I wish I had brought Calhoun here said Jackson to show him what he tried to spoil and what I saved to the world But Clay could beat that fellow fel-low who is talking now and what a hush would come upon them could Webster once cross that stage and turn his somber e e upon thatxsrowd They beat the old times with their hall their crowd and their music but the people well it is a down grade from the Clintons to the Crokcrs Jefferson marveled much at the whistles of locomotives and the click of the telegraph whereupon Jackson said I dont remember the whistles but n crank named Morse had the telegraph tele-graph working on I small scale the year before I came away then he looked down on a row of pretty typewriters type-writers and sighing said That was something I wanted fearfully in my lifetime for it broke my heart to write and then I die not spell first rate but I was too early for It When the dusk came on and the hall was suddenly made radiant by elgctrlc lights both In the same breath said This Is great Tom This is splendid Andrew An-drew They wore there the first and second day and enjoyed themselves Immensely until finally It came time to read tho platform Then they bent their heads and listened intently When It was finished they looked at each other and rising Jefferson said Vlt IB time for us to go Andrew There Js nothing I left of our ancient DehiD tic except I the lees of discontent IfJ hVtibUom of > the golden cupIAnd Juckson assenting I i as-senting said I am glad Monroe did not come with > us for I recall the Instructions In-structions ho gave mo when he sent me to Florida a Governor I will not daro tell Polk what we have heard when we get back lest it cccm a reproof re-proof to him for having made tho splendor of California possible And as they went out the band played a rag time air and Jefferson said I gricVcd me a little to leave the earth the first time though the years were heavy upOn mo but there Is no sorrow in going now |