Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-19
thoroughly and cvoncisely.
Miss Peters paper follows:
WILLIAM PENN.


and religious persecution was born the
child who was to be a man Of peace.
Longfellow SO beautifully expresses
the influence left from a good and noble
| character in these words:
| When a good man dies.
For years beyond our ken:
The light he leaves behind.
| Shines upon the paths of men,"
| In a little court close to London's tow
/ er in the year 1914. Oct. IA. was born
| this child who was to seek the tr,tl,
OF religion. suffer many prosecutions, be
! pl cached. cavalier. courtier colonixer-
| IN truth the advance spirit of the time
| and one. or rather he and his sect. to
| whom We owe our liberty of conscience.
VIM. PENIS father Admiral Penn, was
made Seneral-atSea by Cromwell for
some bravery in the Dutch war; He is
described by Pepys as very sociable
man. an able man and very cunning.
Ills rise being due to large brides and all
sorts of irregular practices. That it was
by this means that he got himself into
that high office and by the same means
got himself out of the tower in Crom-
wells time.
In the civil war this historian saws
he was devilish nlunderer and in This
way obtained his estates in Ireland. in
tact this Pepys is never tired of calling
Aomlral Penn false fellow, and a
rogue. But as he. too, was also irving
70 enrich himself in the service of the
admiralty by every opportunity: and. no
doubt. Penn interfered with many of
ms schemes. so that with his hatred of
rem and his continual association with
hl11' II Is amusing at times especially
when he tells of his disgust at the bad
On ners he gets at the admirars housa
ana complains that when he gives Pen,
dlnner the stupid sailor is unable to an
ii eciate it,
Pepys morals were bad as were numer
Gus others in all ranks of that time and
ne was intriguing with the wives of
many OF his acquaintances In weishine
what he says we must remember thar nv
ms own statement he attempted fa.
hlllarities with Admiral Penn's wife
ana also had designs on his daughter.
Inc elder Penn secured strong hold
on the affections of Charles IL and the
Luxe OF York. which was the founda-
ton OF his sons career.
Inc adrlira! was about to be rewarded
ny pelns raised to the peerage under. tho
utie OF \lscount Weymouth: but his son
Niiiiam had by this time become j,
quaker and was protesting against all
'i.ies as Vanities of the flesh,
- seemed ridiculous to give title that
"Nuio descend to such a strange fanatic
~" 81 'he King good intentions were
ana SO the admiral through his
ee Oh son failed to attain what
Of
l'ls ambitions: bu: he had picked nm IN
one way and another a considerable for.
tune which he left to his deluded bow.
and most important of all he left him
the extreme good will and affection of
the king and duke, who became King
James H.
William Penn lived at Wanstead nm
VI ne was II years old and during that
time saw little or nothing of his father
VINO sailed to join the fleet on the Irish
coast two days before he was born. and
VINO was in continuous employment on
tht sea until he returned from the talk
ing of Jamaica.
The son attended school at Wanstead
ana seems to have received the regular
training in Latin. Greek and mathe-
flatlcs which was given at that time.
Nanstead and village of Chigwell near.
by We're pretty places with all the ad-
Vantages of country life and amuse-
'nents. Penn at college was fond of ath-
letic sports. The foundation for this was
laid. no doubt. in the fields and woods
OF his country home. This same neigh
borhood was intensely Puritan and this.
seems to have had an important inf1u-
eEce on the future Quaker leader It no
doubt modified his inherited royalist
opinions and it is not unlikely that dur
ing these twelve years he unconsciously
received from his surroundings that
tinge of thought which led to Quaker
ism.
In 1860 when William was IS years of
age ne was sent to Christ Church col
lege at Oxford. That college had always
been largely the college of the aristoc-
racy and the foster mother of some very
famous men. Besides Penn we find
among the Alumni, Locke the philoso-
pher: South. the famous preacher: Lid
dell. Ludlow Pusey, Gladstone, Goodwin,
Smith, the Prince of Wales, Lord Duffer-
III, Lord Salisbury and a host of minor
diplomats and statesmen and the his
torians Gardiner and Stubs,
Penn was entered as gentleman
ccmmoner and matriculated as a
knights son. The selection of the COL
lege was evidently part of the admiral's
plan of pushing on his son towards
prefermept and high career fitting him
for the position of a nobeman and a
cOurtier.
You all doubtless know the why's and
wherefores of his being expelled from
the college in about two years after en-
tering. On his return to the parental
roof he was beaten, prosecuted and final
| ly turned out of doors by his father He
was secretly supplied with money by his
| mother.
| At one time when his father had sent
him to look after the estates in Ireland
! he came very nearly being drawn from
his Quakerism. Public business and the
| accidental arousing of the fighting
| qualities he had inherited from his father
| uaco dra N.no him, ,-or,. lo.;laal.. f,,o.,,