The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-01-27

less fool would insult them they would show pretty
! plainly that they knew how to resent the insult
Tney were not "ignVrant'' nor ''uninteilec ual.
II is true they we're what Is called educ red
but their natural good sense taught them early
that your reporter Will inlorm you that IN thei
library he found we'll used copies Of the works o
Scott, Byron. Cooper, Dickens, and more than one
edition or Shakespeare. And few persons IN 0ul
cities have Kept themselves as well posted on the
pubic AFFAIRS OF this and foreign countries as die
the TWINS.
Even in naming their children they exhibited
q better knowledge OF noted people than have
most persons with larger opportunities l can only
recall from memory the names OF u lew OF their
chidren-James Madison, stephen Decatur, Chris
TOPPER Wren, Josephine Albert ana Victoria The
latter is a deaf mute. who has been well educated
al Kaieirn, aud was recently married to a gentle
man VINO Is also mute. All their children VINO
are old enough have been well instructed. Thls
does no look as IL the parents were 'boOrs" or
"haf ldlotlc."
Alter not very short experience with human
nature | can truly say That never met ant man
whom believed to be as positively honest, truth
ful. mii OF the true courage OF gentleman aud
strictly scrupulous In all his dealings Is iound
the WINS TO DE.
In another column OF your Sunday nsRALD ap
pears letter siened 10y ~. NJ. DE Hyton, NJ d.,
No Us East Thirty-elghth street." This expert q
proves conciusiveiy, 10 his own satsIacti II at
least, that 1t would have been as easy to nave cut
those men apart" without any more danger than
1t would have been to have amputated hnser
and tnat III the physician in attendance al the
time death severed the ligature the lie OF tue
other would nave Deen preserved"
Excuse the bad Lngllsh. 1t is the Doctors; not
mine. And men there Was no phySiciau III ~
tendance at the time OF death.
1t has been my good fortune 20 have enjoyed the
society and Tree converse with Sir Ashley Cooper,
Sir Anthony Carlisle, Sir Benjamin Brodie; DIS.
Warren, OF Boston; Physc. OF Philadelphia; Ma
gruder OF Washington, and many Others whose
names are kDown 10 some members OF the pro-
essIon All those gentlemen examined the TWINS
with great curiosity and care-not once, put very
many times-and not one of them ever EXPRESSED
a beie MAT 1t was quite possible 10 separate the
TWINS without endangering the lives Of both. But.
unI ortunately Tor those gentlemen ana the cause
Of science, they went To their premature graves
without having known or heard OF T. NJ. DE Hyiton,
NJ d., No. us East rhlrty-elghtn street, city Oh
New YORK.
/ became acquainted with the Twins the day
alter they arrived in the United states when they
could only speak very lew words OF our Ian 5nage
1t was who taught I'm to speak and to write It,
was absent from tlfcm very little, DAY or night,
for about i've yea a. ter they landed In America
N $50. and 1T ~ only lair to suppose that am
somewhat familiar with the matters upon winch
have written.
After having studied them very closely for about
year had the honor OF stating at d meeting OF
the hoyal society IN London in 1880 "that did
not believe It was possible that one could live two
hours after the death OF his brother" was right.
Respectfully yours, JAMES w. HALE,
No. 6s Wall street, New York.