A Story Of Senator Carpenter

u .Malt iarpenter had Dot been a great lawyer heniigbt liave beuougreat novelist, (ir port, (ir actor, or tavant I Ie had all llic vcr.-atility whieh can make a man graal in any ui' a imiubcr of' vucutions, and tbat botter kind of wit wliich enjoys and giveseiijoyoii-nt witliout besiuvriog wounds tbs) rank U' and do not lieal. Perhaps the tbo saddtat dops in tlie uni . verse at tintel are professional humorista. lun they enjoy taey enjoy lo the utmi-t, but when the út of melancholy corner, they are the nddest of men. [n a degree this is characteristie ofmoM of min la known as brilliant, anJ Carpcnter's was a bfiUiant mind. The best of liis thouglits at times was woll illnairated in ¦ speech delivered nearly ten years ago, at a bantjuet to the (Jrand Duke Alexis, [f the wordt q noted below could Le heard by the dead Hmperor, he would unduubledly declare them to be a picture of bis owu experieuee. Said Mr. Carpenter : Tho invi-.s ui. 1 frlendHhlpsof ImlividuuU partake of tlie frall charsolerof human liíe; are brief iiiid DneertalD. Tlie ezpcrleooai of huliliin lile inay he shortly Munmcd QD: Alillliloving and a Kood deul of lorrowlDg; loBie briglit liopes and nianv linter disHppulntmi'iits; some gorKeous rbaradayi, vaeo 1 1 ¦ - skles are brtght aud the heaveiis blue, when I'rovidi-nce, beiiding over us ín bleaslug, Kluds the heurt almoct to nnidness; inuny disiniil Frldays, wlien the snioke of torment beeiouds the mlnd8, und andylng ¦orrowi guaw upou the heiirt ; some hih amtiitlons and inany 'at'rl(K) detrats, Ulltll the heart hecumes llke the eharnel house, tllled wlth dead ftflteotlonn, eintialnie.l In holy hut sorrowful inemono; and thell the OOrd Is loosened, the golden 1 4 ? v ] is broken, individual lite - a dood, a vapor - passeth awuy. This U peeuliarly the case with ganius ; the capaeity to suffer seemingto keep close pace with the capaeily to enjoy. Hiero are njuny incidí nts of interest in the lite uf Senator Carpenter wbii:h wili probably flnd their way into print at odd times, but one story ot' liis last hours, told, as we undorsland, by kis l'amily phyuoian, is wortb a place beside ihe cool saytngs of nieu whose death bed utteratices have beeanie famous. The Countess of llouen is reuieuibered for her politenew, whieh reached the extreme of courtesy when )tv begged to be excused to a caller as she was " eDgaged in dying." It is kriown that Mr. ('arpenter watched tlie progresa of the fatal disease, that was so surely destroyinj; his lifê, with au interest independent ut' that which ooncerned him s vitally. Thera iOemed to be all the curiosity of the tuil(;nt in some of the questions addrniwad to kis physician, and a witty reinarle con cernins? lus conditioD was not unlrequcnt. An kour or two btfore he died Mr. Car penter was seized with a very painlul paroxysin of the .stotnaeh, which w:is ¦ pain new and uuusual to kis case. Me incjuired as to the cau.-e, and whence it [irciceeded. The physician aotwered tliat the pain oriinated in a portion of the largo IDtottÏM known as he colon. Mr. ('urpenter, who had evidently thought tliat thia was pcrhapH his final ttruggle, looked at t)ie physiciau with ¦ twinkle in his swiftly fadinpeyesand said: " Then there'a a little tiuie jet ; we bever come to a Í uil ItOD at thé colon." No man living woulJ eDJoy a müy ofthis kind more tlian Senator Carpenter bimself, and, even with the light aluiost out, we have no doubt the pleaMD'iy Jtve bio au instant's sitist'action.