The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-02
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couldn't go away without telling yor
that you made a terrible ass of yourself
at the table just now, and rather thar
see you repeat it, you know, thought
I would call your attention to it.
You know, / understand, Of cawse
that you have had few advantages hert
among the savages, and so you know
very little of the use of words, and sc
you made a very serious erraw just now.
You reInembah that l referred to the
fact that L was troubled with insomnia,
dear boy, and you told me that once you
had it in college. And, me Gawd, Mr..
Jefferson, you said you went to bed and
slept it hoff,
Don't you know that the very trou.
bic with insomnia is that you Gavin T
sleep it hoff?"
''Is that possible?" said Jefferson,
with well assumed horror why, i
thought it was something like colic.''
Ever after this Mr. jefferson was
found upon all questions to be bitterly
opposed TO a monarchy in any form
whatever.
Mr. Jefferson was a poor orator
though many people at this date put
him along with Patrick Henry, forget
ting that Jefferson was a student and
not an orator. His greatest work was
with the pen and as an authority upon
all questions Of law and statesm;.nship.
Though Patrick Henry was most elo-
quent man, he left nothing to be COM
pared with the Declaration Of Independ-
ence. There is a magnetism peculiar TO
the orator which is marvellous for the
moment, but it perishes with the voice
that awakened it.
On the Fourth Of July, 1870, the
draft Of the immortal Declaration Of In
dependence was completed, and in that
document will forever live the I'M
quenchable spirit of the redheaded stu
dent, while the spontaneous but uncon-
sidered outbursts of Henry have dwin-
died down 10 a line and died away in
the remote corners Of the echoless past.
Jefferson instituted the abolition of
entail and primogeniture and did good
deal in the matter of reconstruction aft
er the government fell into the hands of
''the rebels. " He also encouraged re-
ligious freedom, and to him is due the
religious Hberality which New England
SO sadly lacked at that time. Jefferson
had rather advanced" ideas regarding
religion, and it is said that he died
without the hope of a literal hell for
those who disagreed with him.
jefferson is also responsible largely
more than any other man, in fact-for
our decimal currency, the only proper
method of arranging money so that it
may be rapidly computed. No one can
fully appreciate this until ne has labor
ed with pounds, shillings, pence and
farthings
In 1882 his second wife died, leaving
three children, and crazed with grief
Mr.. Jefferson accepted the position of
minister to Paris. He was asked if he
would replace Franklin at that place.
mo, " saidhe. 81 succeed him. No one
could replace him.
He pitied the French, who We're then
priest ridden and little more than slaves,
plundered by the nobility after the
church had taken everything it could
get hold of. He returned to act as Gen
eral Washington's secretary of state, re-
siding at 81 Maiden lane. New York
city. He and Alexander Hamilton were
bitterly opposed to each other on most
political questions. Jefferson sympathiz-
ing with the French revolutionists,
while Aleck did not. Jefferson was
plain republican, while Aleck was more
of an aristocrat and ate pie with fork
till the day of his death.
In 1896 he was elected vice president
and IN 1901 became president. He sue
ceeded himself and declined third
term in order to retire TO his beautiful
home at Monticello, where he died on
the fiftieth anniversary Of the Declara-
tion of Independence, few hours before
the death of his contemporary, John
Adams. He is buried at Monticello,