The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-04-26
/ KINGS READING
I'D. Rockefeller's Liking For
J Marie Corelli's Novels

trains. at His Home or
Fhe'n ,-i,ipg, He Peruses One of
VIM lists WOrks-Admires Co
ihs ,,orcefuI style, but Thinks
Fs'r nos. Not Believe Her own Doc
'ps -auotations That Please Him.
-, Won happen to see John D.
Sl rs+slIer on a train bound FOR Lake
B0chSLS'r or coming out of his New
|Foou' , ~ or entering the Businesses
IoEh Hc+ondard Oil company In New
\ Tue cbances are he will have IN
orb ,I D arm one of Marie CoreLlTs
ef n@ ,ovs the New York World. Mr..
oons' so ol is now confessed admirer
o, sis writer While not a studlous
~ the oil king likes a goo % BRISK
[ 'aT. and seldom does he tackle the
as''. .,od his first Marie Corelli book
~ ,.oors ago after she accused An
pIss carnegie of Decorating STRAIT
Avon and a controversy fol
w This reused Rockefeller's inter
S' an5 her Romance of Two Worlds"
j. ' sent to the Tarrytown home OF the
.~Ionaire. From this grew Rockefei-
u. liking for her novels. His friends
amazed at his taste.
rockefeller defends himself by say
no does not necessarily believe IN
docrrines, and he does not think
:. che does but he admires her force
,trlo Mr., Rockefeller takes partic-
or delight in her semireligious work
a optep quotes her epigrams. There
ana CorpIism that is especially ap-
,nriote TO the tainted money" situa-
and Mr.. Rockefeller might con-
% his critics by sending them this
loatIOn:
Icod condemns nothing, because in
Iarvtbjng there is portion of him
L."
.apr the controversy between Miss
s,ou and Andrew Carnegie she wrote
follows:
Making money IS not a bad Occupa-
It is not so bad as idleness. If
we're Rockefeller, for instance, /
MD buv the whole Of StratfOrd-On-
Iou pay all its municipal debts and
;e it the happiest little place in the
br1 Then if | had the Rockefeller
tune would buy a fine steam yacht
with a few friends, would tour
coast Of Spain, the Mediterranean
the Greek archipelago-in fact, l
ud do the whole pilgrimage of By
s Childe Harold
This is COrelliS famous denunciatiOn
America and her millionaires:
As nation of bombast America is
Kind of Rarey show in the worlds
)gesS, but her strength is centered
efy in dollars, English society has
yulgarized sadly by the American
bit Wealth in excess, wealth in
nkS wealth in great, awkward, I'M
Oming dabs is plastered by the mer-
haphazard toss Of Fortunes dice
the backs Of uncultured, illiterate
sons who, bowed down like asses
eath the golden burden, are aSinine-
gnOrant of its highest uses"
aTe Corelli was heralded by her
pte publishers as Queen Victoria's
#Crite novelist, and it was said that
volumes were always in the queens
gate sitting room There is a com
set Of her novels in the Lakewood
e Of Rockefeller He usually takes
with him to read on trains and
e driving.
ERE are some quotations from Marie
PIlS works which. his friends say,
Interested Rockefeller:
religion one cannot appeal solely
Pc Intellect One must touch the
the emotions"
he lilies of France, emblems of
r. loyalty, truth and chivalry-
Smudscd and trampled blossoms
seem today"
rue Sp'ritualism is above all things
hy"
"a uncut God nothing is possible"
le loved her own husband. a fact
y considering the state Of society
rance ana England, rendered her
FupuDIe in the eyes of advanced
kerS."
e moving spring of civilization is
we Of nature and art"
'-ard $ Obelisk -four at Fulton's.