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Show T : An Intellectual Paradox. About the same time that Senator Hoar passed from this world, Lafcadio 3 learn, a strange genius and picturesque writer, departed from this world. He was half Irish and half Greek. His father I must have been originally a Catholic, for his pious Irish grandmother wanted him to be a priest. He j had no vocation and drifted from one belief to another an-other or to none at all religiously, until he landed in Japan, married a woman of that country and ostensibly adopted the Buddhist or atheistic cult there. Possibly, he became a rationalist, indifferent indiffer-ent to all- religion, a sensuous worshipper of pantheistic pan-theistic beauty. He was a sorcerer of language, a word-enchanter. He was apparently a slave of intellectual romance and mysticism. He was blind in one eye, weak-sighted in the other, and an ungainly un-gainly creature physically. He gained an earthly reputation, but what of his soul? Of what use was all that gift' of language, if he lost the heavenly harmonies? Randall in Catholic Columbian. . black beauty. Imagine, how Jim felt to be offered seventy-five dollars for him the other day. Well, that was how kindness paid for once; but it did more. When the teamster saw the wonderful wonder-ful effect a hat was having on Prince, he concluded con-cluded to get hats for all his horses, and found they stood the hard work and the heat twice as well as thev did before. 4 Someone has said that if you look deep enough into life you will find that it shapes itself into an interrogation point. 1 Lis is no doubt true. All deep things connected with man's origin and destiny des-tiny are veiled in that, semi-twilight which spells en eternal question. |