The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1907-01-19
all the intellectual lIfe."

Let vi see what were the fruits o
this lonely and unstimulatins
existence" All my fathers daugh
tiers we're gwen an academic education
sufficiently advanced so that they al
taught school acceptably Ut varlou.
times aDd places.
Ny brother Albert was a dis.
tinguished lawyer. In addition to MY
academic training, l was privately
tutored BY him, He wal a member OIL
the New Hampshire Legislature, and
was nominated for Congress but died
before the electi n.
McClure's Magazine calls nv
youngest brother, George~Sulllvan
Baker, "a workman in a Tilton
wcolen mill" As matter OF fact
ne was joint partner with Alexander
Tilton, and together they owned q
large manufacturing establishment 10
Tllton, N. h. HIS military title of
Colonel came from appointment or the
staff of the Governor of New Hamp.
snire.
Ny oldest brother, Samuel D
Baker, carried on a large business u
Boston, Mass.
Regarding the allegation by
McOlure's Magazine that all the family.
''eAceptlng Albert, died OF cancer"
will say that there was never . dealt
in my fathers family reported BY
physician or post mortam examination
as caused BY cancer.
McClure's Magazine says that .'.be
quarrels between Mary, a child ten
years old, and her father, a gray.
haired man OF fifty, fir, qasntly set tie
8 In an uproar,'' and adds tha
these fits" we're disgucsed by DR..
Laid as ''bysleria mingled with bad
My mother often presented my dis.
position as exemplary for her Other
children to initiate, saying "When
do you ever see Marp angry P" VINE
the first edition of Science and Health
was published, DR.. Ladd said to
Alexander Tiltor: "Read 1t, for it
will do you good. 1t does nn
surprise me, it so resembles the
author"
l will relate the following lncidenl,
occurred later IN life, as
Illustrative of my disposition:
While l was living With Dr..
Patterson az his country home IN
Kumney, N, e., a girl, totally blind,
knocked at the door and was admitted.
She begged to be allowed to remain
me, and my tenderness and
sympathy were such that | could not
her. Shortly after, however,
my good housekeeper said to me:
ut this blind girl vt avs with you. |
shall have to leave; she troubles me so
uch
1t was not in my heart TO turn the
blind girl out, and so I lost my house.
keeper.
My reply to che statement thst the
book shows that 1 joined the
Congregational Church at the
age OF seventeen is that my religious
g r%perience seemed to culminate At
twelve years of age. Hence a mistake
may have occurred as to the exact
date OF my first church membership.
The fact regarding the Mcneil coat.
Ct arms are as fallow:
Fannie Mcneil, President Piercs,s
niece, afterwards Mrs. Judge Potter.
prescribed to me my coat.of arms,
that it was taken in connection
her own family coat.of.arms. !
never doubted the %veraclty of her gift
| have another coat Of. farms, which
IS OF my mothers ancestry When I
was last in Washington, D. O., Mrs.
Judge Potter and myself kneli in
prayer on the mound OF her late
% her, General John Mcneil, the hero
Luudy Lane.
Notwithstanding that McCIure,s
magazine says "Mary Baker CON-
'leted her education when she finished
grammar and reached lone
vision in arithmetic 1 was called