Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1902-01-22
WHITELAW REID.
Editor Richmond Palladium

Editor Richmond Pslladums
When | read your interesting edi-
| torial one evening last week about
the appointment of Whitelaw Reid
as am bassador to represent this ma
ton at the coronatiou OF King
Edward it brought to my miad a
very pleasant visit | once made to
his country home two miles from
Cedarsille, 0 as travelling CORES
poudeut for different papers. He had
| Just gone to New York to engage in
his work on the New York Tribune.
| | found his aged mother at h0m4. and
after had informed her of the par
pose of my visit she urged m to stav
ali night With har, and sindly gave
me Wnitelaw 5 room during nv STAY.
AS the great journalist was a man
! much d nire1 | was very glad to ac-
| ceps her invitation, aud | shall never
| 70 GIT the pleasure | experienced as
| she showed me over the house and
| around the premises, talking all the
time as only loving mother can of a
| worthy son. Though she was
widow and bowed beneath the weight
of years she kept so carefully the
home he loved so much She
showed me with pride huge Ency-
clopedia OF Religious Knowledge
which the little bow had read
when be was only eight years old.
SO small, she said, THAT be could
not hold the great book, but lay en-
| the floor to read it, " She was 76
| years old then, and she told me that
| she was descended from the Puritans,
L hn Of ha IL
| Ii n Is. She had Just finishing a cur
Gus patchwork quilt for her son
| Sle had buried two children, aud the
New York editor was her only sur
viving child. She informed me that
ner husband, Robert C.. Reid, was
Covenanter of the sternest type, and
she dwelt with tenderness and pride
upon his many excellent qualities.
AS We went from top to bottom of the
far famed, well ordered house there
was d ok at the library of the
father, where the atmosphere was so
serene that l felt like one standing
within the holy place. Then a
long visit to Whitelaw library
which was sacredly kept just as be
left it, filed with choice books. and
many sacred relics. One of the
sweetest memories of all my life was
the dav We sat together there and |
heard her tell of the energy and up
rightness of har son. We walked
out through the orchard, and sat un-
der one OF the apple trees he had
planned and loved, and | picked up
two of the most p rfect apples | could
find to send away back to my little
boys with a hope in nv heart
that some of the spirit of
Whitelav Reid might inspire them to
noble manhood. She gave me a pic
ture of the me, ard the portrail of
Whitelaw and his father which | have
kept all these years among my sa-
cred things. President Roosevelt
has paid compliment to American
newspaperdom as the PALLADIUM has
SO Well SAID in the APP ointment, and
the man who went "a the special rep
resentative of the Uuited States at
Queen Victoria S golden jubilee, aud
performed the duties with such dig
nifty and grace that all who saw him
felt a greater reverence for America.
and confessed that we had right to
feel proud of him, will do us honor
again. and furnish to the world a
brilliant example to be admired and |
initiated. | am informed that if |
President Mckinley had lived he
would have given the honor to Mr. |
Reid. for be had intimased some time
last year that be wished him to do |
the donors at he browning of the |
new king for the United States. |
am certain that we are all satisfied |
with the appointment.
MARY FRAME SELBY.