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Show WHY THEY GUI. HIM SUfJ- "Wliy." -l:sa corr:; .: Je:,t, ,:do vcu.eik oi Cun-man GoX as Mi: l Ci - ?" The name was givtn i i r-.-:.., "-u'r.T-n Cox years ago, :1: ' :- ;--b.d 1 -ik, for Cox is j iU'. ay-, lining. A-ide' f.-e-m hisdem-oei:ilic hisdem-oei:ilic p:oi Uvit'e ,; i:e :a a genial, p!e:'.-.uit man. Ik-- was U-rn at ',w. die, Goio; was graduated at Hrown unive!ii; ran t'nrouch the Cambridge law schoed; fiih.-i-.ctl his studies in Cincinnati; married a wealthy whe bom the h.art of Musk-ii'gum Musk-ii'gum county, Ohio, did Europe in lour moutl: and wrote a bona; went to Peru us secretary of legation; scrv.d several lemis. in congress from Ohio; removed to Xew Vork city and was picked up hy the democrats, alter a t-hort probation, and was again sent lo congress. He Mas an editor for a short lime, and M-y 190i, 1ST3, 1 he published in the, Ohio Si-:t-;siiiiii the tohon ifjg gorgeous article, to which he ow s his nickname : a uukat old si'.N"s:rr. What a storm fill sunset was that of !a.-t night! How gloriems the storm, and how sp!u:did i'ne setting of the sun ! Wo do tint remember ever to have seen the hhc on our round globe. The scene opened in the :We--t, witli a whole horiaon lull of a ! golden interpenetrating lustre, which 'calorid the h.liage and brightened J every object i:i its own lich dye s. The jcolors grew dicpirand richer, until ithe golden luster was transformed in jlo a storm cloud, full of the fturst J lightning, which leaped in dueling Ixic.igs all around ai.d over Ihe c ty. (The wand aroje. with fury, the slen jder shrubs and giant trees made .obeisance to bis majesty. Some even ! snapped before its force. The straw-j straw-j berry beds aud grass plots "turned! ,up their whites" to see Z- phyrus j march by. As the rain camo, anil 1 the pools formed, and the guilt ia hnr-iried hnr-iried away, thunder roared grandly, and ihe fire bells caught the .excitement and rang with hearty chorus. The s ruth and the cast 10-ceived 10-ceived tho copious showers, and the west all at onco brightened up in a ilong, polished belt ol azure, worthy of a Sicilian sky. Presently a cloud appeared ap-peared in the azure belt, in the form uf a castellated city. It became more vivid, rcvealmg strange forms of peerless fanes and alabaster temples, and glories, rare and grand iu this niuneiane tphere. Il remind:; us of Wordsworth's sple.alid verao in his Exclusion : , "Tho n)C"Ta:c' i-s'aniar.eou 1 'itctus-d v. ns oi .1 luULiy l-Hv i-uli'.:;- f,.y Anl 8 .i:"-nit'jJr:oTn'in":o ri'J re lis dfb . l'--f ii .kiuj; into .jili-nlur wan out otnl ' j l P.iit the city v.mUhed only to give ! place to another i-do, where tiio most lieautiftd forms of feli.ig.; appeared, imaging a paradi-e iu the ditia.nt and jiurilieii air. 'J i.o sun, wearied of t le-niental commotion, sank behind '.he green plains of the west. The "graM eye in heaven," however went mat down without a dark brew hanging hang-ing over it.; departing light. The- rich Lla-h of the unc srthly light h.ul pas'cel a:al tiie rain had ce-as'd, when the solemn church h,-lis pealvd, the liug'.t'T ol cliil.lren, out and joyous joy-ous after Hie .--torm, is heard nilh the caiol ol biids; while tlie forl;ul and purple weapon tif the skies stdl darted ihnminalion around the Starling Star-ling college, trying to lival :ts angels a: d leap into Us dark window.-. Cau-lil'-s are lighted. The piano strikes up. Wo feel thai it is eood lo have a home goo-d to be on the earth wivrc such revelations of beauty nnd power may bo made. Vnd as we c.m not refrain from remit'.ili! g "'ur rcAdrrs of everything every-thing wiMnierful in our city, we have began and ended our feeble etching of a sonet which comes so raivly thai il; glory should be com:niiid to im-; im-; mortal type. |