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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
APRIL IS, 107.
s ci Edward Everett Hale
Now York Times: , Another of those
young octogenarians is the Rev. Rr.
Edward Everett Hale, chaplain of
the United States senate, whose eighty
fifth birthday comes next week. Alert
and active, he is as busy today as he
ever was, and the back room on the
second floor of his "Washington house,
which he ases as his workshop, bears
all tho looks of one.
Octogenarian as ho Is, he is not
white-haired. His hair and beard are
iron gray. The hair is retreating over
Jils massive head, but there is plenty
of it, enough to make many a man of
.forty envy him. Under his big dome
of a forehead his large light eyes look
out keenly, and twinkle at a joke. lie
talk! in a rapid, easy-running flow.
So he talked last week to the Wash
ington correspondent of the Times;
looked back over his eighty-five years
and reviewed them, with suggestions
for the youngr generation, drawn
from that experience. Ills talk
abounded in warnings against provin
cialism, which he seems to consider one
of (ho besetting sins of tho nation.
That tV.is is a big country, worth
knowing, - nd that its citizens do not
take '.he trouble to acquaint them
selves with those portions of it in
which they do not live, is the burden
of a good deal of what he has to say.
New York he considers a main offender
in this way; it isa provincial town,
lie says, and its , provincialism is re
llocted in its papers. He was driven to
subscribe to a Chicago paper to get a
wider a lew. He commends the London
Times for its wide view of the earth,
and subscribes to it for the sake of ita
large amount of space given to .nat
ters not local.
"In-a book called 'A New England
Boyhood,' " said Dr. Hale, "I have
given quite a full account of my early
training. My school education was
conducted at the Boston Latin school,
which takes pride in its history be
cause it dates back to an earlier tcr
iod than any other school now exist
ing in America. From that school I
went to Harvard college, and in 'A
New England Boyhood' are my impres
sions in some detail as to the college
life of that time. Unfortunately for
me," added Dr. Hale laughingly, "the
day that the 'New England Boyhood'
was to be 'published was'' the day' in
which the head of the publishing firm
disappeared with the funds of the arm,
and in point of fact my poor little bio
graphy of myself was never really
published until it appeared in the
standard edition of my works.
'Trobably of more importance in the
make-up of rry life afterward was my
rood fortune that I was cradled in
the sheets of a newspaper. My father,
who was the proprietor and editor of
the Boston Daily Advertiser for half a
century, conducted through much of
that time the largest printing house in
Boston. In the office, therefore, I was
able before I was twelve years old to
learn how to set type, how to make
up a form, and how to work the hand
press of that day. I am rather proud
now to say that I could earn my living
as a journeyman in some country of
fice where they have not yet intro
duced the modern improvements."
And he looks as if he could. The
brightness of his eye and the rapidity
of his talk and the general alertness of
the man suggest that if he ever went
buck to the case in that country office
the i younger printers would have to
look alive.
'VMoro than this, ana neuer man
this." continued Dr. Hale, "I was
traflied in the newspaper work of that
day. This involved shorthand among
other things, which the young gentle
men of thK feneration are apt to de-fptsi-.
luu which I have always found
a great convenience in active life."
Dr. K;il in fact, has no patience
with the modem reporter who looks
down in shorthand. Whenever he finds
on of t.iese the reporter Is treated to
a piece of hi mind. He callti it the
first requl lie of the newspaper busi
ness to be aldo to make quick and ac
eurntrt iU;.t, and Is scornful' of the
contention f tho latter-day reporter
tl .it he .an he quick unci accurate
wlihoti. a knowledge of stenography.
"Thix. Iiottevtr," ho rc.-umed, "Is
only oio d.-tall. I regard the habit of
thtnklnir while you write and writing
while you think n a very Important
ju,t,it. It t.ut hardly bo acquired In
any other v, iv s mirely an it 1 ac
quited when yu are writing lit at
t.Uht with a boy wItir for your
h. .'H of ofv wtnVb y n ar never to
In a.hUi otin tl'ii.MiifM I nut
pi t U i '. oi t form lh habit of
fyf ;ii:l- ic imi-r Hitr. .. thn t I.,
th,. b u st .f thtnktn up"" oir feet
j.od U oih i t. it.lt or wrttln quite
fi ., o Mlv for the For they ran
critic I their " W whn thy
ha Hit : down bl U Uh
to say better than any other person
can criticise it, unless iryjeed they are
fools. - .,
"I would be sorry not to be remem
bered first as a minister of the gospel.
I was ordained to my profession in the
city of "Worcester before it was a city,
in the year 1846, and remained there as
minister of the church of the unity for
ten years. I then rernoved to Boston,
where I have been ever since" the min
ister of the south Congregational
church. Both of these are Unitarian
bodies.
"I" have always been glad that I
chose my profession as I did, and haye
always been glad to welcorne into it
young gentlemen of spirit who want to
be of service In the world. Indeed, I
should never have tried my hand i.i
national or social reform as much as I
havo done in later years but for tLe
necessities brcught upon every man of
spirit by the civil var. I was Inti
mately engaged in provision for the
great immigration which began with
the Irish famine in 1815 and 1846. I was
afterward clcsely connected with the
work of the New England emigration
aid society in colonizing Kansas aftar
1854, and after .the war came every
earnest man's life every day was filled
with duties forced upon him by the ex
igencies of the time.
"I advise all youag men to do what
I was forced to do in those days of
trial and to acquai;.:; themselves as
largely as they can with the condition
of every part of the country. I ha.e
always attempted to keep up my corre
spondence and friendship with the Pa
cific coast and with the great interior
states, as with the region of hte Atlan
tic in which I was born. This is more
and more easy to do. every day
r iw, whe n San Francisco Is close to
New York and Alaska is no longer an
unknown region.
"I am fond of citing Dr. And ;w
Peabjdy, who said in a public address
some sixty years ago that every man,
besides his vocation, should have an
avocation. To which Instructions it
would be well to add that every man
should havo 'a third. s
"In my case my cation, first, sec
ond, and last, is that of a minister :
the gospel. My avocn'.lon has been lit
erature. I have always tried to write
on ' Subjects' "or"- whicH "I' knew some
thins, and I have the greatest scorn
for what i- called literature where the
writer throws himself into the field as
a fencing master might do, or any sol
dier of fortune; where the writer
knows how to write and has nothing to
writ j about; where, in short, he has
nothing to say. But to say wl.Jit a
man has to say, to tell what he has
men, that is the real province of litera
ture.
"There'ore I have always main
tained as close a connection as a pro
fessional man in other lines caa main
tain with the periodical press. At this
moment I furnish a weekly article for
the Christian Register and ev .y
month furnish a leading article for the
Woman's Home Companion. I thin'.:
that the correspondence with the whole
country which these engagements give
me becomes an element of good train
ing. "No one can read the work of what j
is called literature, whether in newspa
pers or magazines, without being an
noyed by " a certain provincialism. I
am qnlte conscious of such provincial
ism In my own work, but there is dan
ger in it which is to be avoided if a
man wants to do the duty of a man,
and I am very glad to be on intimate
relations with people in all parts of
this country, and indeed in all parts of
the world.
"There is a special satisfaction In the
duty of chaplain of the United States
senate, because it brinps me into com
munication, not simply with the con
gress of tho United States, but with
intelligent men and women from every
part of the world who find it agreeatM
to spend a shorter or longer time In
th city of Washington."
That last if mark Is characteristic of
Dr. Dale. There have ben many Ben
at chaplains; it it doubtful if there
have been many who valued their of
fice because of the opportunity It gave
them for learning thing, for broaden
ing their views by contact with tran
ters, and for overcoming tnat tendency
to provincialism which Dr. Hale no
heartily hat. Ulfhty-flve yearn old,
ho It still learning; his thirst for nw
knowledge anil new viewpoint Is un
sitUted und Insatiable,
It N not every man of rlghty-tlv
who value new experiences for th
'training" they may glvp him.
Henry It. Rjffr. of th standard
Od oi'i.pinv N injruln of n rontinu
anc of prosperity In this country, if th
people it not Interfere with th men
who pm ft lh author of th present
Srt"". t !!", To wbuld country, hfl
CUBAN MINISTERS (J.S.
Recommends Pe-ru-na.
Senor Quesada, Cuban Minister to the United States.
Senor Quesada, Cuban Minister to the United States, is an orator born. In
an artiple in The Outlook for July, 1899, by George Kennan, who heard Quesada
speak at the Esteban Theater, Matanzas, Cuba, he said : "I have seen many aud
iences under the spell of eloquent speech and in the grip of strong emotional ex
citement; but I hre rarely witnessed such a scene as at the close of Quesada's
eulogy upon the dead patriot, Marti." In a letter to The Peruna Medicine Com
pany, written from Washington, D. C, Senor Quesada says:
"Peruna I can recommend as a very good medi
cine. It is an excellent strengthening tonic, and it
i's aiso an efficacious cure for the almost universal
complaint of catarrh. "Gonzalo De Quesada.
In hot countries as well as cold conn- j
tries catarrh is an omnipresent scourge.
Catarrh afflicts the old and the young,
the rich and the poor, the lowly and
tho famous. ' '
Nearly everybody has catarrh at some
time in life. It is the general preval
ence of catarrhal diseases that has
brought Perunain to such fame through
out the world.
Peruna ha3 been used as. a catarrh
remedy so long thatit is regarded every
explains "has had a taste of the bles
sings o prosperity, and in a provid
ential sort of way I believe the peo
ple are going to eliminate the factors
that would stand in the way of con
tinued prosperity. Continued agita
tion, the people will see, unsettles con
ditions. You cannot move loads with
a team that won't haul with horses
or mules that will not pull together.
The people must see that settled con
ditions are necessary for progress and
development, and I believe that the
sentiment of the country will have ko
crystallized within a few months that
there will be a practically united de
mand for the strongest conservatism
inl the conduct of the government. We
must havo settled conditions, and 1
believe we will havo them."
If he means that men of the llarri
man typo are to be allowed to balloon
railroads and contribute for tho buy
ing of elections forever he is douimtd
to disappointment. . If he moans the
conservatism of a strong and square
man like Roosevelt, he is righi in his
prediction,
With piano players as with any
other new matidne, tho period of de
velopment is a trying ono t the
economical buyer. He has no as
surance that the machine he buys to
day 4 id not be superseded U Wffk
benco with one so much better that
hi is useless, rifteen year ? peo
ple who valued Ktylo at all had tn buy
n new bicyeM every year. Now they
rlda a whl till it wear out with
nevr a nub from tin critical mall
boy. Automobile buyers nre In much
th am case now, Tb owner of
piano plavcrs if laet year mk,- nr
deprived of the device for mibordtnnt
Ing chord to air which Roe wSih th
tateat machine-. Now It Is announced,
a wsu bMVlUbte from th t!mt, that
where as a standard remedy for catarrh
in all forms.
Mr. Theodore Lang,Dalton,Ga.,form
erly Commander of the G. A. R. of the
State of Maryland, writes:
"It is a special pleasure tome to rec
ommend Peruna to all who may' be af
flicted with that most annoying and
dangerous disease, catarrh. I have
taken six bottles of Teruna, and I
confidently believe my cure is permanent."
a new invention puts the labor of
pedalling upon an electric motor at
tached to an electric light wire, leaving
the player entirely free to devote him
self to the interpretation of the music
ho plays. In this machine the notes
are struck by the attraction of a
magnet instead of the force of an air
current. - . - .
Japanese exclusion under the new
law promises to be not less trouble
some and difficult than Chinese exclu
sion has been. The ? Japs are pressing
for admission In considerable number
along the Mexican border, and sub
mit to their rejection with bad grace.
When these return to Japan to dissemi
nate their feelings there will be in
creasing opposition to .the United
States, for there is such a thing as
"public clamor" there. The clamor, as
a mutter of fact, is already in evidence.
A member of the Jttpaneso parliament
wrote recently to the foreign minister
suggesting that there would be no such
thing as nntl-Japancse sentiment in
the United States If only Japanese wer
permitted to bo naturalized. Ho meant,
no doubt, that political parties would
be too eager for the Japanese vote 'o
breathe of Japanese exclusion. This aj
sumptlon I not born out In the case
of the negroes, but the comparison Is
not an exact one. Tho negroe hav
sacrificed much of their political in
fluence by their free adherent tj a
stnglu patty.
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