Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1892-11-17
What His Mother Most Cared FOR.

talked about, and il will be interesting to
recall now some of the incidents IN ih.. lie
Of the busy and accomplished preacher
and author
What His Mother Most Cared FOR.
When nine wears old be was sent TO the
Boston Lalin School which Ben Franklin
John Hancock. both the Adamses. Everett
Sumter and Wendell Phillips have made
30 famous. At the end Of a first month
Hale came home with report that showed
hi rank TO be the ninth in class of Is
He showed il with considerable trepldation
70 his mother and was shaking in fear Of
parental disp!easure, but inst ad the good
woman declared that it was very salts
factory report. probably the other bows
are brighter than you" she said God made
them SO and you cannot help that. But the
report says you are among the boys who
behave well. That you can see to. and
that : ali care about"
Alone Reported Webster's Speech
Yes" said DR.. Hale, in conversation
with q reporter one day, II was reporter
wnep | WIS young man, and | think
WAS better then than most of them now a.
days | could write shorthand, as think
every reporter should be able to do" DR.
Hale commenced journalistic work before
he left Harvard, and during the years 1889
and 1872 he reported legislative proceed
iDgs for the .idrertiser.
As he referred TO those DAYS, DR.. Hale
seemed to warm with the theme. He pro-
ceeded to tell about a scoop" that might
well Ill his r,portorial heart with joy. He
said IL was the Only reporter in Boston
who took Webster's speech delivered in
$50. in which he denounced Massachusetts
for her attitude after his famous It'll Of
March speech. | wLs in the crowd that
| gathered IN front of the Revere House,
and a. | saw no other reporter near me,
| took Webster's speech in which he said
Massachusetts must abandon her prelude
es, etc. As it happened, | was the only
one who took the speech. and but for my
notes, the words might never have been
printed. The speech was telegraphed to
| our New York correspondents and to
Europe. That was work prompted BY
| youthful enthusiasm. l have often wished
since, as sincere admirer of Mr. Webster,
that had not done it, for the speech is a
/ blot upon the record of the man"
Found a Rare Map on a Bend.
The work of DR.. Hale in the Kansas
troubles just preceding the Rebellion en-
titles him to rank among the foremost of
the snti-slavery fighters of that trying
]
his devotion to the cause of the negro in a
practical manner by going South and help
ing to organize schools among the colored
people. S. J. Barrows, editor of the
Christian Register, tells an interesting H.
cdent of that period which throws light
on DIR. Hale as bibliophie Some years
before the Government purchased for So
900 a map made by German of the island
on which Columbus landed. 1t had. how.
ever, been lost, but DR.. Hale found it in
an old bond where some careless official
had probably stored it. and at once appre-
ciated its value and returned it to the prop
er authorities.
His Stirring Speech at Faneuil Hall.
Mr.. Barrows also recalls a story which,
perhaps better than any other. illustrates
DIR. Hale's unique personality as a speaker
and his occasional startlingly original
methods on the stage: AT the memorial
meeting in Faneuil Hall, when Charles
Sumner died, Edward Everett Hale was
one of the speakers. The enlogies that
were delivered were all formal, and in
nearly every case were read from manu-
script One speaker, who was not well
posted on his theme. was obliged to pause
while he searched in his pocket for the
concealed manuscript. When it came
Hale's turn to speak he rushed on to the
platform with swift strides and roared
out impetuously, while he thrust his arm
suddenly forward: How many times has
the dead man stood before sea Of faces
like this, with every face expressing hos
tilityr Then he plunged headlong into his
discourse, and at the close cited Summers
contented expression toward the last of
his hope that he had always done his duty
When he was done, he whirled about
and, facing the company Of ministers on
the platform who had spoken or who were
about to speak. flung at them the question:
Who among us will preach sermon like
that tomorrow (Sunday)T With these
words he rushed off the platform and was
pOnep