The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-30

such were the early fathers who prose-
lyted a world.
The bungalow is crammed with souve-
Mrs Of travel in out-of-the-way corners of
the earth; the photographs of celebrated
people, presented to Mr.. Stoddard with
. highest expression of regard; with me-
inentoes OF Tenneson, George Es..;,tt
Holmes, Whittier, Robert Louis Steven
son and other great souls, most of whom
nave passed to the higher life; and then
OF Dooks-more than 5000 volumes in one
small house. Every room has its picture
or statuette of st. Antony, and the whole
mouse IS strewn with sacred relics. in
glass cases. Among the latter are crowns
OF thorns, FRANCISCAN rosaries and
scourges, the beautiful bust of a young
Capuchlna monk, whose life was a sad ro-
nance; tAe veil and maniple used by Faith
er Damien in celebrating mass for the
lepers and his well-worn crucifix which,
even to unbelieving eyes, must be a holy
Ihlng. The little parlOr is as odd a place
as one may find in a years journey-w til
IT'S hanging cocoanuts from the Fiji
Islands, fans and feathers from Hawaii.
savage weapons and dancing skirts from
lamti, and other relics from the south
seas.
The story of Mr.. Stoddard's life is not
generally known. Ills lonely childhood
was scarcely ended when he went to work
as clerk in book store in San Francisco
and never ceased attempting to write
verses with one hand while dragging
custer along the bookshelves with the
other. Being discharged as utterly worth
less in business, he undertook to make
living as an actor, became i'll ana was sent
10 honolulu. Here, he says, he first began
10 ilVe where summer is eternal. and even
when it rains the sun is shining and the
skies clear, and the falling drops are like
dazzling lines of gold he found the rest
and is !,
ana the beauty he had always craved.
AFTER time he returned to San Francisco
ana began his active work of writing
Ihen came his long Years of travels in
Europe as correspondents his visit with
george Elliott; his night in Anne Haw-
thorne,s cottage in that famous second
pest bed'-the numberless experiences
winch nave filled his life with happy mem
orleS. But he had left his heart in his he
loved islands of the Southern Pacific and
again and again ventured to them. and
gave thelr Intangible spirit to the world
IN way that has never been equaled
says he; i believe that the spirit of a
south sea islander has reincarnated itself
IN mind. Nowhere, save in the far islands
OF the Pacific, do l feel at home will I
pc happy. Yes, everything in WASHINGTON
Is ueIlghttul-eXcept the weather Wash
lngton and Boston are the most beauti-
Iul cities of the world and | have seen
Is too far inland. The Chesapeake is NOT
within sight or sound and, if it were
II would not be the vast illimitable sea
that stretches to another world. There
IS something indescribably thrilling 10
near ana behold the Great Deep whore
each wave makes an unbroken circuit
around the world. All! l cannot be haDpv
without the sea. :" ~
Inc other day party of senators and
tner ladles made pilgrimage to Month
cello, the Virginia home of President
JEFFERSON. At Charlottesville they left the
cars ana TOOK the waiting taily-hoes. each
with its negro driver which the citizens
mad provided Rain had fallen the dav
before, and the proud darkies. wishing to
snow OH their teams, could not be per
Suaded to so slow. Ye gods and littla
lshes, how the mud flew. Presently every
BODY was spattered with sacred soil"
from top to toe!-but even Senator Hoar's
uncertain temper was not once mislaid
he merely remarked that there must have
been more mudholes than now in the davs
When Jefferson Travelled between Char
lotteSVllle and Monticello. "Then if nust
nave been pretty much all mud-holes."
salr Senator Mason of Illinois Senator
Aldrlch of Little Rhody," told the story
OF an eastern capitalist who lured out vvest
by the glowing advertisements of a land
syndicate and finding the site of the future
metropolis in liquid state narrowly es-
capped lynching by inquiring whether the
lots were to be sold by the fathom or the
gallon. Senator Hawley of Connecticut
ana senator Bacon of Georgia, rode in the
same carriage. The former was a general
IN the union army. the latter commanded
a brigade of confederate forces at the bat
tie OF Bull Run; and they discussed the
great tragedy and related many long-for-
gotten incidents and anecdotes as they
sped past the historic stream land climbed
Little Mountain" The jefferson man
sion is not unlike Mount Vernon. Airing
ton, and other old-time Virginia manor
houses nearer Washington
The hrst thing the visitors were shown
on entering the house was the great box
Ike clock, high over the door three or
four times the size of the ordinary grand
fathers clock of a century ago, and
made, so it is said. by Jefferson himself
The weights consist of a dozen huge iron
balls, the cord being carried from the
CLOCK so that the weights hung from pul.
leys in opposite corners of the room.
These would hardly be the things for a
modern reception hall, but are singularly
attractive IN this high-ceilinged apart
ment. Beneath the clock depends
weather vane which moves with the
wind, rod connecting it with a Vane on
the roof. Jefferson was the first weather
observer I'm the United States, and this
contrivance of his-by which he could
KNOW the direction or the wind on the
stormiest days without going out. into the
yard and looking up at the roof-was only
one of many inventions Of like charac-
ter. In another corner of the room is his
big spy-glass, with which, from the top
of his house, Jefferson used to supervise
the work going on in the various fields of
his extensive estate. No portraits of any
member Of the Jefferson family now adOrn
the walls of the Monticello. The person.
al effects were all removed when the estate
was sold IN 1913. 1t was purchased. at
forced sale, by man named Barley who
soon sold It to Commodore Levy, the un-
Gle Of it's present owner.
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SALTPETER CAVES OF VIRGINIA.