Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-11-22

century and half ago stocking, Han
nah More letter from London to her sister, conveyed this
savory bit of gossip:
have sTreP and We HT most 4gstRsr PSf1n hts ms
He above NINETY years old and the finest figure S TaP & s
knowledge He
Mansfield the intimate
he entertained me by ang
heroic omsnu nd of oil
this way GeOrgas founder and first governor struck
the ladies when he going hundred years old
In Wednesday, his likeness done into he,
be unveiled and for three together the historic city will give
festivities honor of his great The state
bration for of all colonial wrought better
for their people left behind them life story engaging
than did General James Edward Oglethorpe.
The children of Georgia should know of this good man
and who for what rich and yre human char
will find peasanter field biography than the SIX and
As soldier reformer and phlanhrops and as the buwar
English civilization the world when it mpered by
the Spanish from the south Ogethorpe less of tamil
figure histories and school But personality,
little of him. The glimpse catch of him at
through that newsy letter of Miss Hannah More makes
it certain that Georgas founder worth knowing for
himself regardless big crowded his HE
rOic romantic and full of the old gaantry more de-
ecabe view could commonwealth have of its pOneerY
Wapole did think very highly of General Oge
thOrpes he said of his appearance in parliament
now and ''1 Wfs
Those times remembered, when Oglethorpe
was pleading for prison reform in England and Ike
whose of their day. he frequently cOnd
wearsome and peculiar That Ogehorpe gifted with
very ready w.t. however indicated in the following story by
Boswell
va. ma S1y s s serving under p Re Ess" s
wgrtenbss Of wine andb flip
affrOnt
he took what had been done in & 0s eai P a@ at w s0G
affair ended in good
Why should we hear so much of John Smith (the captain.
mean Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett and little OF
explorer who into the wilderness about
Savannah He represented ideal true that OF the
Mayower pilgrims and which in its uiton brought just
much happiness to mankind What picture that eighteenth
century Georgia presnts There not only the Engshme
the doughty Scotch ghanders with their roadsword
bagppes New afterwards called Daren there
the sawart pious Sabugers at old Ebeneze chanting
their hymns and weaving gown from which at
court bv Queen Caroline; Weeys and Whitfield
Chch blessed Red Men, there were
danger and toll and life thrilling with fine endeaVor and as
the heart and soul of it all was Ogehorpe.
Once, is related when he went on visit to his Scotch
friends Daren, Captain Mackay the commanding officer in
But the general chose lie down by the entl
ne fire. and there he slept all night wrapped IN his PLAID such
were his simple and ugay which he retained despite his
wealth. the end of life 1t is noteworthy too that though he
of the colony he claimed OF its soil
for his Other gentlemen among the settlers built them pre-
entiou residences but Ogethorp was content with little cot
Simon with garden about it and orchard of or
anges and figs
Ogethorpe however, led hale life single bessedness till he
was fyfve 1t much to his credit general that with all
those wears behind wife the beautiful and richly
lowered daughter Sir Nathan Wright of Grammar Hail. He
ascribed failure earlier simply to lack of time
Dr. johnson asked the general why he didn't write
The that the life of private
public notice and BESIDES added the old soldier
81 don't know write book Such modesty has proved
the misfortune all the following Miss Harriet Cooper
life of Oethorpe that should be found
every Georgia library and she concludes his story with this bit of
trenchant character sketch by Bancroft:
BILE EsH ' to aPs r SlaEs Slightly
reodp expose his life
SiSed his tmesike a
and Of Charities heart Of "a