El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-24

nent BOstonians and address to them
in turn this question. "In what capa
city or calling is Everett Hale mosl
distinguished? you would be answered
"Editor,' "Philanthropist," 'Teach-
er," "Poet "''Social Reformer," AND
so on until fatigue or confusion over
came you.
An hour ago a bright woman who has
an editorial position on one OF the
score or two Of periodicals DR.. Hale Ii
more or less intimately connected with
assured me that he would be bes,
known in history as political prophet
because in a sermon he preached in
Washington ten years ago he outlined
as some thing, not which ought to exist
soon, an intern stional peace tribunal,
in character very like that hoped for
by those who expect the best results
from The Hague conference.
DR.. Hale, now in his seventy-eighth
yeur, resigned this week as pastor OF
as he has there christened, religiously
instructed and married large and i'm
portaut element of the "Bleck Bay
set" during a pastorate OF forty-thr ee
years, Boston is just now somewhat
Hale daft. With true Boston fervor
an effort is being made to decide in
Whist nlcbe of fame DR.. Hale shall be
stantiy increasing the extent and
variety of his renown, must fail for
reasons suggested above. And besides
the venerable citizen Is quite as like as
nos-and l say this, of course, with all
possible respect-to break out In an ut
terly new form of genius and upset all
previous clsssiications.
To be sure he has already written
the best and most widely known Amer
iao oh a
Coun try;' occupies more lines In Ii
bray catalogues than any other Amer
lean autho-, dead or living; created
through his story, "Teu Times One Is
Teo," church work clubs in every
Christian an6 many heather lands; has
founded go many papers and maya
zipes-among them, by the way, what
is now The Century-that they are be-
yond computation, but now that he has
q little leisure on bis hands be is like
as not to turn his active, vigorous
mind toward electricity or compressed
air and do as much for transportation
as did his distinguished father, the
promoter and builder of the first New
England railways.
What have written serves to recall
to readers some of the work which has
actually made him known throughout
the civilized world; but he ia more in
teresting, it seems to me, to the
present generation of Americans as the
sole survivor of that amazing group of
intellectual1giants who gave such q
tremendous impetus to literature and
TO social and political reforms in the
first half of the century-Holmes,
Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Lo-
we'll, Motley, Whipple, Sumner.
deed, the complete list of Mr.. Hale's
early contemporaries, men he knew
intimately and worked with
would lack but few names of those
who have won permanent fame in New
Englsnd's Intellectual history.
Today saw this notable survivor of
those days he helped make great, saw,
ty, in his handsome old house on the
nights of Roxburv and then I ceased
70 wonder at the many new works I al
ready learned he had undertaken, and
almost ceased to wonder at the enthu-
sissm of his admirers. He is hand
some old man, tall, straight grizzled,
and wrinkled, as one would expect and
rather hope, indeed, to find him, with
clear kindly gray eyes, over which
just big brain box of forehead and
with deep, strong, rich voice that is
the vocal expression o. his eyes one
might say.
AS he came from his library toward
the sitting room into which l had been
nshered he met unexpectedly in the
hall toddling CHILD whom a visitor
had left there to its own devices and
was much bored.
DR.. Hale stopped, regarded the
pouting youngster eravely and said,
with much pretence of ceremony:
"Good morning, little woman. 1 hope
you are very we'll and are able to tell
me who your people are and if you are
having nice time. If you are not
having a nice time 1 can tell you where
there is a room with things In it little
folks like to play with"
The little daughter of Eve, with
gravity equal to the DOCTORS, accepted
mans business to entertain her sexs,
and the sound of fretting was heard no
more in the hall.
When l made known the worlds
wish to secure expressions of DR.. Hale
regarding some of his early contempt
raries it was suggested that these
might be obtained with accuracy by
Haug hton. Mif1in & Co. 3 "James Rus
sell Lowell and His Friends
This led to some enlightenment. The
book. which bears this years dat, is
already leading in it's sale any OF the
three or fonrscOre other books by the
same author, but this is only because
readers have discovered that the title
is a misnomer. Nearly all of Dr.. Hale's
works are badly titled, by the way, but
even with this in mind. how is an out
slider, mere New Yorker, to know
that this latest work of the DOCTORS, 80
clumsily named, contains the very mat
ter his friends have long hoped he
would put between covers?
This is good place to mention that
in 1892 w. II. McElroy compiled a list
of fifty-two volumes of which DIR. Hale
was sole author, aud eight in which he
cola borated, and this did not include |
volumes of sermons, occasional adj |
dresses and contributions of periodicals |