Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1910 — Sllenced the Critic. [ARTICLE]

Sllenced the Critic.

Charles Sumner, when in London, gave a ready reply. At a dinner given in his honor, he spoke of “the ashes” of some dead hero. “Ashes! What American English!” rudely broke in -an Englishman; "dust you mean, Mr. Sumner. We ■‘don’t burn our dead in this country.” “Yet," instantly replied Mr. Sumner, with a courteous smile, “your poet Gray tells us that ‘Even in our ashes live their wonted fires.” The American was not criticized again that evening. -