Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-01-13

]
 ,o .av that man is aroused to thought or action only by ease, pleasure or .aoon,nense Something higher, mo- ,7er more imperative, impels the inn pulse of Soul. to If becomes my duty to be just to the departed and to tread not run lessly their ashes. The attack o.i '.e N and my late father and hiS l"i1li's Ill Mcclure's Magazine, January l'oe ooonols me as a dutiful child ana the eader of Christian Science to SpedN
 McClure's Magazine refers to i's fathers "tall, gaunt frame anu a;cturas .the old man tramplnS doggedly along the highway fesu- larlv beating the ground Wl'h " bnob walking stick" My 1ather 4erson was erect and robust. lie never used a walking stick. 10 IT. lnstrate:. One time when my father was visiting Governor Pierce, ffesl- dent Pierces father, the governor handed him gold-headed WalkihS stick as they were about to sedie for church. My father thanked the governor. but declined to accept the stick. saving: "I never use cane.
 Although McClure's Magazine at tributes to my father language un- seemlv. his household law, con- stantlv enforced, was no profanity and no slang phrases. Mcclure $ Magazine also declares that the Bible was the only book in ms house. On the contrary, my father was a great reader. The man whom McClures Magazine characteriZes as ignorant. dominating, passionate fearless" was uniformly diSnliled 2 Well-informed, intellectual man. cultivated in mind and manners. He was called upon to do mueh business for his town, making out deeds, settling quarrels, and even acting as counuel in a law suit lh- yolyine a question of pauperism De- tween the towns of Loudon and Bow. N. H. Franklin Pierce, after ward president of the United States, was the counsel for Loudon and Mark Baker for Bow. Both entered their pleas, and my father won the suit. After it was decided, Mr Pierce bowed to my father and con- graduated him. For several years father was chaplain of the New Hampshire State Militia, and as recollect it. he was justice of the peace at one time. My father was strong believer in states rights. but slavery he regarded as a great sin.
 Mark Baker was the youngest of his fathers family, and Inherited his fathers real estate, an eXten- siye farm situated in Bow and Con- cord. N. H. It is on record that Mark Bakers father paid the largest tax in the colony. McClne's Magazine says, describing the Ba' ker homestead at Bow: "The house itself was a small, square box build ing of rudimentary architecture. My fathers house had slopins roof. after the prayailin" style o architecture at that date.
 McClure's Magazine states Alone of the Bakers, he tAlbert received a liberal education.
 Mary Baker passed her fi,st f1fteel year at the ancestral home at Bow It was lonely and unstimu1ate existence. The church supple tie only social diversions, the dis ty,ct ahcol practit,. /" al the 1T tellectual life
 Let us see what were the trait of this lonely and nnstilaulatln existence" All ntv fathers aanSl ters were given an academic educ; tion, sufficiently advanced so th; they all taught school acceptab
 at various times and places. \
 brother Albert was islineu.shi
 lawyer. In addition to asy acadcm
 training, I was privately tutored
 him. He was member of the Nc
 Hampshire legislature, and W
 nominated for congress, hut ai
 before the election. McClur,
 Magazine calls my youngest brot
 CT, George Sullivan Baker, "a wol
 man in a Tilton woGlen laitl
 matter of fact, he was ioi
 partner with Alexander Hilton, a
 together they owned ia"se mal
 featuring establishment in Tilt
 N. H. His military title Of coio