Show POOR HAMILTON FISH I 1 I 1 the death of hamilton fish jr was pitiable pit lable but anabe maibe it was best arter after all of 0 splendid stock clock he was as nevertheless born with an overmastering rn as bering infirmity hah no pride 0 f birth no hope of 0 an honorable new could subdue and the battle in which ho he died was nothing to the battle which lifts has bron been raging in his own soul tor for years ile he came from a union of two great families in u which hiell for generations all lifes proprieties had been adhered to with unvarying and severe correctness and these included the suppression of 0 every unruly appetite a honor which jill impressed upon every member that he or she must walk beaole the without even a suspicion of 0 reproach and that any shame was more to be dreaded than death itself the rule of 0 tho the community made it possible to enforce this discipline and ant to suppress the exhibition of every wayward longing in any chafing soul what struggles they a may have been to break away alway from froin the iron entil environment ron no one on earth knows but at last tile the suppressed longings reappeared as birthmarks birth marks on tho the soul of hamilton fish jr and no restraints of this generation nele sufficient clent to prevent their manifestation ills mat ter of fact father tried to control 0 I 1 them his 1118 dulled eyes could not ot 1 sec 00 that his defects were inborn and nl that h t ho he could no more conceal them than he could have concealed a curved spine or a deformed limb ills his idea was that any one who pleased could self restraint not having any overmastering passion himself lie he had little littie patience with ills his son having no comprehension of the stormy appetites and passions that were raging in that sons inner self he cast win him oft off ills mother still clung to him and tried to turn him into higher paths but ho he sorely tried her ile he cattle calno west and hero here the dual nature of the young man mail was often manifested A university graduate lie was besides being almost supernaturally bright exceedingly winsome and when his better self controlled he drew all hearts to him then when out on the road a stoker for a locomotive co engine he could meet the toughest of men and beat them at their own games as easily as a blood block hoise IN when hell turned upon the range n with ith a band of mustangs can distance the herd when lie he joined the rough riders we can easily understand that tile the inherent pride of his soul made mada him from the first conspicuous and when the details of the story of 0 hla his death come we shall expect to read that ho he made no attempt to take personal precautions that his moro more than elx dix feet of height made him a conspicuous mark tor for the enemy and that with his ace face full to the foe he ha died the record on the stone above him ought to be ilia his life was en ended ded by a spanish bullet while he was bravely lighting fighting find and the bullet was welcome to him for there was no other way to eraso erase from his soul the sinister minister birthmarks birth marks that held had been ills his torture all his life |