Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1907-01-09

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II ia caiumny on Christian Science to say
that man is aroused to thought or action only
Nv ease, pleasure, or recompense. Something
higher, nobler, more imperative, impels the
impulse OF Soul.
III becomes my duty to be Just to the de-
narted and to tread not ruthlessly on their
aashes. The attack on me and my late father
and bis family in McClure's Magazine, Janu-
he Leader of Christian Science to speak.
McClure's Magazine refers TO my rathers
tall, gaunt frame. and pictures .'the old
man tramping doggedly along the highway
regularly beating the ground with huge
walking- stick.
NV fathers person was erect and robust
one time when my father was visiting Gov
ernor Pierce, President franklin rerce's
tssSs watiussick as they we're about to
Governor Cove but declined to accept the stick,
Although McClure's Magazine attributes to
my father language unseemly, his household
law, constantly enforced, was NO profanity
also declares that the Bible was the only book
in his house. On the contrary, my father was
Inc man, whom Mcciure,s Magazine char
acterires as Ignorant, dominating, passion
ate, fearless, was uniformly dignihed-a
weil-informed, intellectual man. cultivated in
mind and manners. He was called upon to
do much business for his town, making ont
deeds, settling quarrels. and even acting as
counsel in Lawsuit involving question Of
Resident PUs, Of the United states. was the
counsel for Lcu don. and . Mark Baker f'r Bow
won the suit. After 1t was decided, Mr..
Pierce bowed to my father and congratulated
Of oiI the New Hampshire state Militia, and as i
recollect it, he was Justice OF the Peace at
one time. My father was a strong believer in
states rights. but slavery he regarded as a
Marx Baker was the youngest Of his fathers
family, aud inherited his fathers real estate,
an extensive farm situated in Bow and Con-
cord. N. II. 1t is on record that Mark Bakers
father paid the largest tax in the colony.
Moclare,s Magazine says ..r describing the
mentary architecture" MY fathers house
had sfoping roof after the prevailing style
OF architecture at that date.
McClure's Magazine states; ..Alone OF the
Bakers, he tAlberr received a liberal educa-
ton. Mary Baker passed her first
was a lonely and unstimulating existence.
The church supplied the only social diver
sion the district school practically all the in
Let us see what were the fruits Of this
"lonely and unstimulating existence" All
my fathers daughters were given an AGA
demic education sufficiently advanced so that
they all taught school acceptably at various
times and places.
Ny brother Albert was distinguished law
yer, In addition to my academic training,
was privately tutored by him. He was d
member of the New Hampshire Legislature,
and was nominated for Congress- but died be-
fore the election.
McClure's Magazine calls my youngest
brother, George Sullivan Baker, "a workman
in Tiitop wooden mill" AS a matter OF fact
he was joint partner with Alexander Tilton.
and together they owned a large manufactur-
ing establishment in Tilton, N. H. His mill
MI. Nttrvx
on the staff Of the Governor OF New Hamp-
shire.
Ny oldest brother, Samuel d. Baker, car
ried on a large bushes in Boston, Mass.
Regarding the allegation by McClure's Mag
axine that all the family, excepting Albert,
died of cancer win say that there was
never death in my fathers family reported
By physician or post-mortem examination as
caused by cancer.
McClure's Magazine says that "the quarrels
between Mary, child ten years old, and her
father. gray haired man of fifty, frequently
set the house in an uproar," and adds that
these "hts" were diagnosed by DIR. Ladd as
.hysteria mingled with bad temper.
My mother often presented my disposition
as exemplary for her other children to imi-
tate saying: "When do you ever see Mary
angry" When the first edition OF Science
and Health was published, DIR. Ladd said to
Alexander Tilton; Read 1t, for it win do
you good. II does not surprise me, 1t so re-
viii relate the following incident, which
occurred later in life, as Illustrative of my
While was living with DR.. Patterson at his
country home in Rumney, N. H., n girl totally
blind, knocked at the door and was admitted.
she begged to be allowed to remain with me,
and my tenderness and sympathy were such
that could not refuse her. shortly after.
however, my good housekeeper said to me:
IF this blind girl stays with you, / shall
have to leave, she troubles me so much"
IL was not in my heart to turn the blind
girl out and so lost my housekeeper.
My reply to the statement that the clerks
book shows that Joined the Ttlton Congre-
CATION Church at the age Of seventeen Is that
my religious experience seemed to culminate
at twelve years ofsage. Hence a mistake may
have occurred as TO the exact date OF my first
church membership.
The facts regarding the Mcneil coat-of-
arms are as follows:
Fannie Mcneil President Pierce's niece,
afterward Mrs. Judge Potter, presented to me
my eoat-of- arms saying that 1t was taken In
connection with her own family coat-of arms
l never doubted the veraeity OF her gift.
nave another coat-of-arm which is OF my
mothers ancestry. When was last n WASH
ington, ID. c., Mrs. Judge Potter and myself
knelt in silent prayer on the mound of her
late father, General John Mcneil, the hero
OF Lundy Lane.
Notwithstanding that McClure's magazine
says. MARY Baker completed her education
when she finished Smiths grammar and
reached long division in arithmetic" l was
called by the Rev. X. s. Rust, ID. D., principal
OF the Methodist Conference Seminary AZ
sanbornton Bridge, to supply the place OF his
leading teacher during her temporary absence.
regarding my first marriage and the tragic
death OF my husband, McCiure's Magazine
says; He George Washington Glover took
MS bride to Wilmington, South Carolina, and