Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-03-08
TWO AMERICAN MEN !: OF = LETTERS

| had q pretty good STOCK OF temper VI
hand for Instant use, Or, Hale IL MAJ
Of infinite patience and rarely, II ever
breaks forth into expletlye lie has OF
ten expressed himself-in print-al
going to do this and that to the Tools
who come to interview him and depflv'
him Of sleep or opportunity FOR work
but he never carries out his threats
Work and sleep, by the way, are MI
hobbies, and he has made them very
useful In his long ife Give one plenty
Of sleep, he says, and the disposition tC
do work, and there win always be some
thing for that one to do Nine or ter
hours devoted to sleep, three or four t'
continuous literary work In his hand
some old home In Roxbury, the rest Of
the day and evening to the varied ac'
tiylties incident to his life, such as his
torlcal research, lecturlng ana OF yoff
preaching or pastoral cals--these. with
n generous allowance for meals. make
up the sum Of his days allotment
If there Ii lesson to be learned from
his life, II IL that work may be made
into play by alternating one form WIN
another; that a prodlglons quantity OF
work may be performed by doing III
tie at time and keeping at IT. that the
busIer life II the happier II Is, all 9TH
er things being equal that human sym
pathy eyokes corresponding feeling IN
others; that ones religion requires no
other preachment than a life useful to
others; and above all else that II
pays to be patriotic and lnculcate q
love Of country
In fact as a preacher Of Americanlsm
pure and simple no other man has
equaled Edward Everett Hale. He be-
gan early in his long life, and he has
continued at II late No one can read
his Man Without q Country without
a tug at his heartstrings or moisture In
his eyes and by deduction taking home
the moral OF the story And II was pure
fiction, all of It. There was no Philip
Nolan, there was no man without a
country until the master wove his fc-
ton and put forth his cloth Of gold.
Then, the verlsImlltude was so perfect,
the dlctlon 20 simple and begulllng, that
all who read the work declared 1t true.
Well, II might have been true, and there
Is where the moral comes in! That our
country Is great and grand, worth low
ing, worth lighting for and worth living
ina truth that DR. Hale has forged
from HIS inner consciousness and ham.
mered out on the anvil Of his discern
ment, 1t Ia truth that cannot be too
often sent home either and 1t IL the
recognition OF this truth and the awak.
ened admiration for the man who has
enuncated It year In and year out for
more than O generation past that give
to Edward Everett Hale his national
reputation. He cannot travel anywhere
in this land, be It north, east, south or
west, without encounterlng some spon-
taneous outburst, some heartfelt tribute
OF affection from people, particularly
young folks, who have learned to love
him through his works.
AS already said, DR.. Hale has been
Identified with almost every forward
movement that has shaken America
His earliest companions were Wendell
Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison and
men Of their stamp. He lived through
the "transcendental" movement when
Dana, Hawthorne, Alcott and many
others sought a way OF living that
might lead direct to bllssful state but
Ne did not diyerge from the path he
himself saw so clearly before him. He
was friend OF Emerson, Webster
Holmes. Lowell, Longfellow, Sumner
Whittier. Freeman Clarke, Phillips
Brooks and all the intellectual lights Of
New England, the chosen companion Of
many and the peer OF them all. Yet he
never sought fame or fellowship; both
came to him unsought.
Or, Hale, despite the fact that he Is
almost the last leaf on the tree" Of
that great New England coterie Is re-
markably vigorous and Is today IA
milar figure on Bostons streets. He
has outlived nearly all his famous con-
one OF the last to go being
Dr. Holmes, over whom he read the
burial service In 1894. Only two years
at the banquet and recep.
ton rendered by friends on DR.. Hale's
SEVENTEEN birthday, the witty author
Of 1.-THE One Hoss Shay" and other
gems, himself then In his eighty-third
year, contributed a poem, In which,
with his peculiar style, he hit off his
venerable friends characteristics. II
was entitled
THE LIVING DYNAMO.
he ours to heed It's lessons while we may,
Look up for light to guide our devious
way,
Look forward bravely, look not weakly
back,
The past Is done with; mind the coming
track
Look in with searching eye and courage
stout.
But when temptation comes, look out,
Heaven grant all blessings time and earth
can give
10 him whose life has taught us how to
live
TIN on the golden dial Of the spheres
The twentieth century counts its gather
ing years,
While many birthday tells its cheerful
tale,
And the round hundredth shouts; can
hall All haill"
The witty DOCTOR" the ruling passion
strong to the last, could not stay his
pen from perpetrating a pun; but, this
defect aside, the poem Is an eloquent
tribute to the professor Of American
Ism" and all will echo the wish that he
may yet celebrate his round hun.
dredth" birthday, and more-beat all
existing records for longevity.
TRUMAN l.. ELTON,
HAN EASY AOlp9