Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-01-26
AUSTIN CORRESPONDENCE.


newspaper and make a note of the number o
names and places and incidents found in
single number which call up to your minc
faces and places and scraps of history, anc
little events, long since forgotten, or bidder
away unthought of in the curious cells in
which Memory holds her stores7 single
number has often furnished me with days Of
thought, and called up from their resting
places pleasant faces and happy hours to gaze
upon and live over once more. " Blessings
upon the man who first invented" newspapers.
He was t" the foremost man of all the earth
or should be. And now for few of these
atoms thrown ur by a copy of an Eastern
journal sent me by a friend. Not great
many years ago slab sided, sallow complex
toned, tow whlskered man, of perhaps five
and twenty, sported lawyers shingle, and
shufied to court every morning with his
green bag, about as important ~ Miss
| Elites" for | never heard him plead a case
He was an F. F." sang p,"; a gentleman
cheek belonging to that race most of whose
blood may have Run through scouudrels
ever since the food But he was undeni-
| ably gentleman, though lacking the fiery
assumption of the South, or the digni6ed
bearing Of the English nobltsse. He was ed
ucated and talented, without brilliancy, and
above reproack for honesty. Finding that Il
better field opened for him elsewhere he
moved his shingle and his gracious presence
to Wilmington, Del, where under the pres
ttge of popular name he entered the polt-
cal arena; has reached the Senate, and as
,,res to the White House. | refer to Thomas
/. Bayard. the 'nephew Of his uncle" JAS
\ 8aysrd: whn With salisbury. opposed,
turing civil strife, every effort to sup
port the Union, and wrote theirrecord on the
Hhited board, marking million of soldiers
gtaves. Thomas Francis, as have said, is
gentleman and All honest man. but would,
like most Democrats, make his honest con
victions balance with his political proclivities
He will not be President next time, so | will
drop him.
A tall man, with face like a Nevada
rancher, and frlnged with greyish whiskers,
red eyelids and inhamed eyes; dressed in the
extreme Of plainness, and accompanied by
small, very plain faced woman, dressed i'll
rusty black, comes into my Office and taking
1T his hat, lays it gently down, and III almost
hesItating speech, gives an order, lays down
mis- money, resumes his hat and with a polite
bow goes out and off dozen words have
o,l-O
We know it we'll already. Com. S +. Du-
Pont, Wilmington, Del His family have
resided there ever since his French ancestors
established powder mills on the Christiana
and supplied powder for the army of Wash
ington; patriotic, generous race. History
records the services of Com. Du Pont, ending
virtually with the command of the fleet be-
fore Sumter; plain, blunt man with no
"bigod nonsense about him.
In the office of the Village Reco'rI of West
chester, Pa, worked, in 1884, rather clum-
sy plodding boy of about eighteen. As be
munched his bread and butter and Lot
werk' lunch at noon, his eyes were ever on a
book He had sort of 'Boses" stoppage i'll
his nose, and though of clear, healthy com
plexion, and solid frame, there was nothing
striking i'll the appearance of the youth, but
he had the great quality of pluck and I'M
hiuching perseverance. There were bound
apprentices in those days, and he was one of
them. Strikers didn't make laws for bust
ness then. But he got his indentures can
celled, either by purchase or favor, and |
knapsack, and with few com
missions i'll his packet, from Philadelphia pa
pers, he went abroad, traversed England aud |
tho continent, wrote his first book, "Views
Ahoat, and has just ended long and event
full career as ambassador to a great nation.
The writings, the teachings and the extended |
travels of Bayard Taylor, are all familiar to
the world, but very few know how much of
persistent labor it cost to travel that upward |
path from the farm boy at Kennel Square to
the honors of an eminent author and for
eign minister at the court of great po,cer.
On the piazza of the Clarendon, at Allan
tic City, in the midst of group of after din
ner loungers, square jswed, plain faced
woman, her hair cut short and parted at the
vide, ID holding ali simulated conversation with