Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-07-13
KING INIO. HOBBS |
CHE Noted South Caro-
Ilial q King
A Leg endary Fighting
Chic % he Greatest
Living Traveller.
He,s1aLexington Boy-Educated B
in NeM-berry-Liyed in Edge
field, and is of Good Old South
Carolina tock-Twelve Years
aLiteral Ranlbler-He Gather
ed Fame, Fortune, and Health.

ed Fame, Fortune, and Health
Fearing that the illustrious
young Garolinian who is now well
known on three continents would
probably not reach Edgefeld on
his hurried visit to his native State
before proceeding to Chicago, the
ADVERTISER made special effort to
have him interviewed, knowing
that what he might say would be
read with interest in this State and
abroad. The great traveller was
surrounded by q bevy of admiring
listeners and friends, but grace
fully excused himself when our
representative called and solicited
the privilege of an interview. "He's
the same bright, brilliant, spark
ling John Hobbs Of old, only
more SO" writes our representa-
tive, "and travel and fame. have
not turned his head nor made a
fool of him. It never will. -
ssGol. Hobbs, on behalf of my
self and the Oldest newspaper in,
South Carolina, I am happy to
welcome you back to your old
State after your years of adven-
tdrous wandering"
s.Ihank xnn-- "a -
love this old State, and am happier
here than elsewhere
You must now be the most ok
tensiyely travelled man in the
world"
May be SO. I can't say. In
twelve years I have been in nearly
every nook and corner of the
world"
81 thought SO. I am requested
by the ADVERTISER to solicit an
interview with you on any matter
of travel or experience you may
feel inclined to talk about"
81 have high regard for the
Edge6eld ADVERTISER, and don't
mindsaying a bit as youhaye come
so far. I feel somewhat timid IN
dashing too recklessly into won
ders."
aWhy"
"I'n tell you. Travel is an awk-
ward and complicated piece, of ma
chinery. 1t teaches a man the
size of the world, and the small
ness Of the man on it. The indi-
vidual who has not travelled will
admit that the world is full of
wonders. But he has fixed the
size, color, and amplitude of
those wonders in his own mind,
SO he rejects any sacrilegious vio-
lation of his models involved in
descriptions by an eye witness
that shatter his own conceptions
of that same wonder. The eye
writes a thing on the brain and the
tongue talks it off. For this reason
ones description should be ac-
curate and his Impressions true,
vet, when a traveller sits down and
relates his own experiences, and
pictures what he has seen to the
average crowd they smile at each
other and murmur SNAKE They
don't believe you. Why, the other
day 1 was relating to mixed au.
dience of lawyers and educated
business men that / saw girl il
the New Britain group of islands
who was a mother at II years Of
age. Some one q believe it was 8
university doctor) said thumbs
up gentlemen i then related the
fact that the natives of the south
sea islands have never seen al
animal larger than a hog, and .
small one at that. So one day
was releting to them the fact tha
there existed an animal as big al
their war1is (huts) called an ele
phant, when one of them remarked
gentlemen, thumbs up My in
terruptor saw the point. That i
the trouble the traveller meet
among the untravelled. And tha
is why / feel atimiditY in stepping
too far beyond the experiences Q
my audience. The human mine
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