The Florida star., 1901-05-24
4 MANY MINDED MAA.

Special Correspondence Of The Florida Star.
CINCINNATI, May 2O.-Professor John
Uri Lloyd, Ph. D.. Phr NJ. lives In this
city. English reviews give his latest
work. "Stringtown on the Pike" en-
thusiastic praise. The London Acade-
my pronounces IL superior in workman
ship TO "Alwyn."
But this book. famous as IL is, Is only
a very small part OF the life work OF
John Uri Lloyd. His boyhood was
passed In northern Kentucky. in the
country. fortunately. .Stringtown" is
the village OF Florence. John Lloyd
was a solitary little lad. Until he was
10 years old he had asthma. He says:
"An winter lay in my cradle or trun-
die bed. dreaming OF things that came
TO one OF my age so afflicted. Then
came the war and war scenes into my
life"
Alone so much. John Lloyd studied
nature and dreamed dreams. He learn-
ed the ways aud read the soul OF every
weed, tree and fiOwer-botanist and ma
ture student before ali else. The three
Lloyd brothers became bOtanistS. They
own and operate In Cincinnati the lar
gest botanical and chemical drug man
ufacturing establishment in the world.
Many of the herbs used In the labOra-
tory are grown and collected personally
by the brothers. Al the authors home
I'm a suburb is n botanical garden main
talned for This purpose.
Asthma and a naturally delicate,
rather shrinking nervous organization
drove John Lloyd To the study OF wood
and field growths. lie went as a boy
10 Cincinnati To earn his living. many
odds against him. He possesses that
intense affectional nature which is the
bane and blessing OF those endowed
with H. In his lonely bOyhOod struggle
In the then pork and coal SCOT city
Lloyd made the acquaintance OF DIR.
John King. a physician and professor
in'the Eclectic Medical college. He was
in every way worthy the devotion the
aspiring. dreaming boy poured at his
feet. The influence OF Dr. King still
further determined LlOyd's bent to-
ward chemistry The youth worked
like a hero. studied and experimental
all the time he got and dreamed and
aspired always. He had. moreover dur
ing those years a constant struggle
with the very real specter or poverty.
There were hardshlps the famous man
OF science and the successful author
does not often speak OF.
AT length the difficulties were over
come. When John Lloyd was only 22
years Old. he was made manager OF the
laboratory Of a manufacturing chemical
and drug firm. Life seemed opening
out in fair bloom before him. Then.
like a thunderbolt from clear sky.
crashed upon his head a blow OF grief
from which the man never will wholly
recover In brief. il was the loss under
circumstances the most melancholy of
one very dear To him.
For n time even his powerful soul
seemed To succumb. Then he recovered
partially. worked all the harder dream.
ell more and more and shrank more
than ever from the common life of men
and drifted toward the realms of mys-
ticism. As if To mock him fate gave
him everything else in life than just
the one he had most desired--gave him
knowledge. fame. wealth and power.
AS chemist. butanist and pharmacist
his name is a shining one in the scien-
tific societies of Europe and America.
He is professor in two colleges. and his
work on pharmacy is textbook the
country over. His scientific writings
comprise scores of pamphlets aud es-
says.
Al length about five years ago ap-
pearcd his first diSiinctivCly literary
work. that strange hrwildering. daZ-
Zling book "Eiidurhpa" - AphrOdite'
spelled backward cOEfoundiug the
conclusions OF science. uphoaVing the
comfortable TutS in which we intclli-
gent people have logged on 80 long and
agrcrahly either hooks are The Ri ght
Side OF the Car" and "Stringtown Oh
the Pike" In the last named Mr. Lloyd
has gathered up and preserved the fast
fading rites and supcrstitions OF slave
life In northern Kentucky. survivals OF
the weird practices OF captives who
were known in Kentucky. Virginia and
Maryland as Guinea niggers."
Mr. Lloyd's stories are written with
out effort. They seem 10 write them
selves the moment he touches pen. 1t
is as II he had tapped the universal