eman of the chateau with his fine
features changed to stone, and the messenger at Tellson's Bank
gnawing the rust from his nails; all there are the creations of
genius, and these children of fiction will live as long as Imagination
spreads her many-colored wings in the mind of man.

_Question_. What do you think of Pope?

_Answer_. Pope! Alexander Pope, the word-carpenter, a mechanical
poet, or stay--rather a "digital poet;" that fits him best--one of
those fellows who counts his fingers to see that his verse is in
perfect rhythm. His "Essay on Man" strikes me as being particularly
defective. For instance:

"All discord, harmony not understood,
All partial evil, universal good,"

from the first epistle of his "Essay on Man." Anything that is
evil cannot by any means be good, and anything partial cannot be
universal.

We see in libraries ponderous tomes labeled "Burke's Speeches."
No person ever seems to read them, but he is now regarded as being
in his day a great speaker, because now no one has pluck enough to
read his speeches. Why, for thirty years Burke was known in
Parliament as the "Dinner Bell"--whenever he rose to speak, everybody
went to dinner.

--_The Evening Express_, Buffalo, New York, October 6, 1892.

WOMAN IN POLITICS.

_Question_. What do you think of the influence of women in
politics?

_Answer_. I think the influence of women is always good in politics,
as in everything else. I think it the duty of every woman to
ascertain what she can in regard to her country, including its
history, laws and customs. Woman above all others is a teacher.
She, above all others, determines the character of children; that
is to say, of men and women.

There is not the slightest danger of women becoming too intellectual
or knowing too much. Neither is there any danger of men knowing
too much. At least, I know of no men who are in immediate peril
from that source. I am a firm believer in the equal rights of
human beings, and no matter what I think as to what woman should
or should not do, she has the same right to decide for herself that
I have to decide for myself. If women wish to vote, if they wish
to take part in political matters, if they wish to run for office,
I shall do nothing to interfere with their rights. I most cheerfully
admit that my political rights are only equal to theirs.

There was a time when physical force or brute strength gave pre-
eminence. The savage chief