The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-09-22
VOL. 1.

Illus De White. He had inhabited the
same house ever since his childhood; for
il was the house in which his father and
grandfather, old>established princely
merchants of the princely city of bort,
were born.
Mynheer Van Baerle, the father, had
amassed in the Indian trade, three or
four hundred thousand guiders, which
Mynheer Van Baerle, the son, at the
death of his dear and worthy parents,
found still quite new, although one Get of
them bore the date of coinage of 1910.
and the other that of l6l0, fact which
proved that they were guilders of Van
Baerle the father, and of Van Baerle the
grandfather; but we will inform the read
er at once. that these three or four hun
dred thousand guilders were only the
pocket>money, or sort Of purse. for
Cornelius Van Bearle, the hero Of this
story, and his landed property in the
province yielded him an income of about
ten thousand guilders year.
When the worthy citizen, the father Of
Cornelius, passed from time into eternity,
three months after having buried his
wife. who seemed to have departed first
to smooth for him the path of death as
she had smoothed for him the path OF
life, he said to his son as he embraced
him for the Last time
Eat, drink, and spend your money, if
you wish to know what life really is; for
as to toiling from morn 10 evening on a
wooden stool, or a leathern chair, in a
counting>house or a laboratory, that cer>
tainly is not living. Your time to die
will also come; and if you are not then
SO fortunate as to have a son. you will let
my name grow extinct, and my guilders
which no one has ever fingered but my
father, myself, and the coiner, will have
the surprise of passing to an unknown
master. And least of all initiate the ex-
ample of our godfather Cornelius De
White, who has plunged into politics,
the most ungrateful of all careers, and
who will certainly come to an untimely
end"
Having given utterance to this pater-
mel advice, the worthy Mynheer Van
Bserle died, to the intense grief Of his
son Cornelius. who cared very little for
the guilders, and very much for his tsth-
er.
Cornelius, then, remained alone in his
large house. In vain his godfather Of
tered to him place in the public service;
in vain did he try to give him taste for
glory. Cornelius Van Bserle, who was
present in De Ruyter's flagship. "The
Seven Provinces" at the battle of South
void Bay, only calculated after the fight
was over, how much time a man, who
likes to shut himself up within his own
thoughts, is obliged to waste IN closing
his eyes and stopping his ears, whilst his
fellow-creatures indulge in the pleasure
of shooting at each other with cannon
balls. lie, therefore, babe farewell to
De Ruyter, to his godfather, and to glory;
kissed the hands of the Grand Pensiona-
ry, for whom he felt profound venera>
ton, and retired to his house at bort. he
possessed every element Of what alone
was happiness to him.
He studied plants and insects, collected
and classified the Flora of all the Dutch
islands, arranged the whole entomology
of the province, on which he wrote a
treatise, with plates drawn by his own
hands, and at last, being at a loss what
to do with his time, and especially with
his money, which went on accommodating
} at most alarming rate, he took it into
his head to select for himself, from all the
follies Of his country and of his age, one
of the most elegant and expensive,-he
became tulip fancier.
1t was the time when the Dutch and
the Portuguese, rivalling each other in
this branch Of horticulture, had begun to
idolise and almost worship that flower,
f which originally had come from the
East.
Some people from bort to Mons began
to talk of Mynheer Van Baerle's tulips
! and his beds, pits, drying-rooms, and
drawers Of bulbs were visited, as the gall
leries and libraries of Alexandria were by
| illustrious Roman travellers.
Van Baerle began by expending his
yearly revenue in laying the ground
work of his collection, after which he
broke in upon his new gulders to bring
it to perfection. His exertions, indeed
were crowned with a most magnificent
result: he procured three new tulips,
which he called the "Jane." after his
| mother; tina Ivan Baerle," after his
f father and the Cornelius" after his
, godfather the other names have escaped
US, but the fanciers will be sure to find
: them in the catalogues of the times.
In the beginning OF the year 1912. Cor.
nelius De White came to bort for three
}, months, to live at his old family mansion
} for not only was he been in that city, but
c his family had been resident there 70,
/. centuries.
Cornelius, at that period, as William