The Washington times., 1908-11-15

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A few minutes ego. with rsehng O
sride and thankf1lness in my heart
was listening 60 the voicss OF my TWO
sons and their little sister who were
Ia the yard below. Then. moved D. q
desire 10 watch them at their pay,
was IN the act Of rising from lay desk
when my sudden movement caused
aevv book near my elbow TO fall to the
aeor. As 7 stopped 10 pick up the vol
uTne an old newspaper clipping slipped
from between its pages. where, doubt
less. Il had found iodEmsnt several
years before.
IN the story Of each human life there
are events-or only incidents. perhaps
that have the character of punCtua-
sion marks The finding OF this clipping
At that moment was one OF these: a
mark Of Interrogation, The clipping
told the story OF g crime-a story that
shs man who wrote the words that are
now bsfore me never pretended thor
oughly 10 understand. It was story
that had been discussed in a casual way
By millions OF newspaper readers
thzaughout the length and breadth o.
or great country.
II - a story. too, that in its sarbled
form one day VIII come TO the ears Of
she children whose me~Ty voices have
fust heard in the yard below.
And what Will these children say
when unthinking persons one day viii
ask them for the TRUTH How Will they
explain. even 20 themselves, the part
that their father and mother played IN
that series OF tragic events which con
stltuted a mystery the solution OF which
fs nov guarded as a secret by select
few?
have decided, therefore. that for
my children's sake Il is best that 1
should set sorth the facts Ny sons
and daughter will thus be able 20 sat-
isfy themselves that IN the lives or
their parents there L. nothing OF which
they need be ashamed.
nv father was a clergyman who. In
early life, welded Anne BurlinEhame.
the daughter OF one OF his parishion-
ers. ny mother died when was about
six years Of age. At fourteen I was
an orphan.
My mothers brother. Charles. who
had auaassed a large fortune from mis-
Brazilian coffee plantations, at once
assumed the responsibility OF my edu-
Of twenty-three found myself the
possessor OF & university degree and
was the junior partner in the firm OF
CrandaH & Dunistou, with offices in
the Workman Building. in Wall Street.
Prior 70 my tenth year the only forms
o. illness with which I had been at
tackled were those that are generally
regarded as being unavoidable during
the period of childhood. / suffered no
further disability until I was twenty
years old. when, during my last year
on my university football team, I was
so severely injured by a kick on the
head that I lay unconscious for more
than twenty-f0ur hours.
A careful examination Of my skull,
however, failed to reveal a fracture,
and no operation was performed. Dur
ing the week following suffered great
~ from headaches. attacks OF vertigo.
and periods Of profound mental de-
preston. These gradually decreased.
with the result that a fortnight after
ward / was my old self again.
The accident which I have described
occurred IN the month OF November OF
1893. In the following June 7 took my
degree, and in the autumn OF that year
7 entered the law school OF my alma
Mater. II vas IN the IecLure room OF
this school that the fate which was 10
lead ma 70 the very gates OF he'll first
found and marked me for her own
Il happened in the month Of No
vember when. sitting among my class
mates in 4 lecture room. / suddenly
became conscious Of a burning sensa-
tlon IN MP brain Ny vision grew
cloudy. Around me heard the mum
OF many voices.