Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-21

to his own surprise think, that he was
great engineer. I am apt to think that
and my children inherit from him GER
tain tastes and habits which our nearest
friends sometimes venture to call bohe-
milan what ] know 90 that I was born In
the month Of April. 1S22, and that before I
was 4 months old he had taken us all 70
Dover, n. II. There he left his wife and
four children while he went on a horse
back ride with friends, through the north
Of the White mountains. This expedition
was the first bit OF travel which I ever
took outside Of Massachusetts,. This initial
experience was followed by the trips in the
succeeding year to nearly all parts Of this
country. in which DR.. Hale has such a deep
and abiding interest.
His birthplace was Boston, in whose
Latin school he prepared for college, enter
ing Harvard when only 10, in care Of an
elder brother After graduation in 1889 he
was for two years a tutor in the Latin
school. and did work of various sorts on
the newspaper of his father, and then was
the latter's private secretary for half
year while he was engaged in promoting
the building Of railroads in Pennsylvania.
Meanwhile he had been preparing for his
chosen profession. the ministry, and when
% years old received his license. After
four years OF hard service he became
pastor I'm Worcester and ten years later
went to the South Congregational CUni-
taran) church of Boston, from which he
resigned after more than half a century
in its pulpit but remained pastor emeritus.
His theory of the ministry is The men
who preach to men OF affairs must live
among them; read what they read and to
a certain extent know what they know"
Active in Public Affairs.
DIR. Hale was active in the anti-slavery
agitation, the Kansas trouble and the civil
war. AS an editor he has been connected
with the Christian Examiner. of which
his father was one of the founders; the
Sunday School Gazette, the New Eng
land Magazine, the Commonwealth,
Lend-a-Hand and The Women's Home
Companion, with the last two of which
he is still connected. The most ambitious
enterprise with which he was connected
in the publishing field was the monthly
magazine Old and New, founded in 1862
and which was merged in Scribner's
Monthly in 1875. In it appeared DIR. Hale's
The Brick Moon" which rivalled the
stories of Jules Verne in scientific i'm
agination. This was reprinted in His
Level Best and other Stories" Another
notable story, which gives it's title to the
volume in which it appears, is "Crusoe in
New York" a tale of lonely life in the
heart Of a great city. OF his longer works
of fiction, Ups and Downs" is the principal
one. Dr. Hale's few poems-few in COM
parison with the great amount of his prose
have been gathered in a small volume
under the title, For Fifty Years" Most
of them were written for special occasions.
DIR. Hale has always been in great de-
mand as a lecturer and orator on special
, public occasions. He has spoken several
| times at the annual conventions Of the
Greek letter afhllated literary society,
! Alpha Delta Phi, of which he is a member.
His volume of addresses, What Career? p
Ten Papers on the Choice Of a Vocation
and the Use of Time" is dedicated ITO
my brethren Of Alpha Delta Phi"
| In THE Memoirs of a Hundred Years."
issued four years ago, he told the story
of a century from his own recollections
and those related to him by a former gen.
Grafton. There are not wanting those who
term DR.. Hale the foremost American Of
today.
OF this veteran philanthropist editor,
man Of letters, educator. orator, historian
and Christian minister. whose patriotism
has been the dominating motive of his long
life President Roosevelt wrote: ITO have
written The Man Without Country by
itself would be quite enough to make all
the nation his debtor" There was a great
revival Of interest in this story at the time
OF the Spanish-American war, and only
last year a handsome birthday edition,
with portrait Of the author, was Issued