The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-11-21
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u have picture of John Wilkes Boo,t SSssess
said Curiously enough, | found It in an -, . lsrs.
DOCK store IN New York city. It was IN ss'aad !,
heap Of miscellaneous odds and ends The ,Fs vi
store did not know OF whom it was Do,tp '0pTlslg N
would not have sold it TO me, but would M
the street, so great is Northern hatred y
killed Abraham Lincoln. The picture !, =. NV q \
type in one of those little velvet cases 4 va di,
them in before the war, with a cover fold;s usS
brass hinges and little brass hook and y, "eF 4
with. II is an admirable likeness Ns ts
Booth play several times in the antebellur '0nn Vi
vouch for that 1t is three quarters leng,h ~ VI
in the wide lapeed froek coat with lou III -4p SOW I
the fashion in the sixties. The hair IL ~. ~ ~ 4
has slight mustaehe. John Wilkes Boos 0'g VI
larry handsome man. There is certainly 60
natingy loveabe about his face OF eo,,,s pft q
prove Of the assassination OF Lincoln, bur ~
thought Booth believed himself to be in the r;ss,
he was playing patriots part as Bruh,s d;d nv Y I
Sic semper yrannis that he shouted wh.r !. Z, os
coin perfectly sincere. have ALWAYS h,,. sls
Booth escaped The stories that are told 81 H. y
by his pursuers if you compare them, are er,..
sittent There not many pictures Of Iohr Nh,
in existence. The one have value very biohi.s
a never knew but one literary genius o..a.
served, land he Lafcadio Hearn II ,o.. Sss
living in New Orleans that ] met him, when i.
beginning to be celebrated. ] met him at Grand Is
used to he extremely fond Of swimming For h.. |
time he would stay in the water floating IN IL =
serving the sea and studying color You mus, NJ
in Chta and Youma, and, indeed in ali ~ e.
how fond he is OF color and how adept at d.scrh,..
was sunburned from this swimming habit a. h
brown to his waist while his legs which rem,;.,,
water, were white like the ordinary citizens u II
small man, we'll built, exceedingly handsome IN .i n
fact that he had lost an eye, which was not yerv NJ
and which did not dshgure him. His feature, III
Greek mother were pure Greek with the no,. =, Il
head on a line as in Greek sculpture He w,,,y,.
man. but an excellent conversationalist once WIN
quairted with him. Everywhere he went he wa, ~ i
a chiefs amang you takn' notes He made ir.na
the Malay fishermen and their wives talking a \.
their own language. He wonderful linpuIu !, 4
great fondness for the languages, literature and p.r
the Orient This Doubtless is the reason he has NJ
his residence in Japan
do you believe in afinites?" gentleman s,sd A
course, people each other and fall in love eyu
mean do you believe man can have an AFFINITY \
girl he has never SEEN with whom he falls IN Low, VI
by looking at her picture. I had such an expers.
other day with the picture of young lady from vh,r
Ind published in ST. Louis paper. There were h
OF number Of young ladies OF Vincennes and WI II
leSsly turning over the pages OF the paper when t
ticular one caught my eye. felt like Gauthiers hal I
he first sees Spuite. heard of the young b 7
fore and have never seen but this one newspaper pi
her Her face haunts 1t IS beautiful, but Hr L
that If say it has charm is feminine, is loyebs
more than what be said Of the faces of scores Il
girls 1t is my affinity. That expresses it better hn B
thing else Goethe had lots OF experience in affair /
heart and better than any other writer could bit II
mot propre. / know how it is going 70 end VI l
laugh at if will, but I going to get on staf
journey to Vncenues, Ind, and try my fortune"