The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-30

In "A Retrospect of Forty Years"
by William Allen Butler, the distin-
guished lawyer and the author of
Nothing to Wear" which is edited by
his daughter and issued by Charles
Scrlbners Sons, are many interesting
"reminiscences of the great men be-
tween the years 1925 and 1865; among
them this of Andrew Jackson, then
eX-president, whom Mr. Butler visited
as boy in 1914 with his father old
General Jackson was living on his
tate THE HERMITAGE" in Tennessee.
1T was a square, two story brick
building" says the author. thanked
by wings with a pOrtico in front and
tail pillars the entire length, after the
prevailing fashion of the day for coun-
Try houses North and South.
We found our aged host quite feeble
in body, but mentally very bright and
active. He occupied one of the wings
of the house and did not come to the
dining room for his meals, but left
that spacious apartment for the free
use of his guests, u long table beins
set plentifully supplied with the
products of the plantation and equal
TO the necessities of all corners at all
times. The generals habit was TO sit
in a large arm chair in one corner Of
the great fireplace OF his sitting room,
on the ground floor, where he SIN ok ed
his pipe and talked with his family and
visitors. I think it was the very night
of our arrival that an old clergyman
named Balm. seated at the opposite
side of the fireplace. in some way
started as subject of discussion the
doctrine of election, in which he de-
clared himself a firm believer The
general listened in silence Tor some
time and then taking his pipe from his
mouth gave utterance in a decided
tone to the following: Brother Balm. F
do you mean to tell me that when my
Saviour said: Come unto me. all We
who labor and are heavy laden he
didn't mean what he said p Brother
Balm was effectually silenced, and We
heard no more of the doctrine of cleo (
ton that night
stewart Edward White. after hav-
ing spent more than year in Africa
hunting big game and gathering
material a few days ago returned to
his winter home in Santa Barbara
Cal, and Immediately began work on
his new book which will deal with the
dark continent. Mr. White brought
back with him a mass of phOtOgrap hlc {
material which he prizes as highly as
he does his trophies of his marksman-
ship. He viii use these photographs
in a large part of the matter that he
Will write about Africa.
Virtue pushed to excess can become
a vice, A Maurice Low epigrammat-
ically observes in the second volume
of 1.-The American People: A Study in
National Psychology, just published
by Houghton Mifflin Co. Individual
ism. he says. when America first gave
II form ana maze II pOllllCdl DFlnCl-
pie. was virtue, but today the inter-
probation given to individualism by
Americans has made it a clog to
progress because of the theory that
the right of the individual is a right
more sacred than the protection of the
community. Much that Americans
complain Of this British author con- I
unlimited power of wealth.
the greed of capital. the corruption OF
politics. the brutality of the relations
between labor and its employee .
would be impossible or at least miti-
gated if individualism had not been
made an idol. !
There are MANY clever portraits of nota-
BILE people in Mrs. Burton Harrison 8 !
ssRecolIections, Grave and Cay (Scrib- !
ners). Here for instance is one of Jeffer- +
Tie might be seen daily walking
residence to the executive office in the !
not to return until late in the 7
or riding just before nightfall !
TO visit one or another OF the encaTn1- !
ments aeer the city. He was tall, erect :
slender and of dignified and soldiery I
hearing with clear-cut and high-bred !
esst,,-es en5 of q flenaeanor of stately l
to all He was clad always in
confederate gray cloth, and Wore soft
felt hat with wide brim- Afoot, his step
was brisk and firm; in the saddle he Tode q
AZ admirably and with martial aspect His I
early life had been spent IN the Mlhtary I
Academy at West Point and upon the 1
hen northwestern frontier in the Black I
Hawk war and he afterward greatly dis Q
inguished himself at Monterey and {
Buena Vista in Mexico; at the time when /
We knew him everything IN his appear
ance and manner was suggestive OF mil I
tary training He was reported to feel Y
Iuite out of place in the office of presi- n
lent with executive and administrative 4
iuties in the midst OF such a war; Cen $
raj ZEE always spoke of him as the best i:
i military advisers; his own inclination \
vas to be with the army, and at the first i;
idings of the sound of a gun, anywhere ii
within reach of Richmond he in the II
,addle and off for the spot-to the dismav
II his staff officers, who never knew at
What hour of the night or of the next day b
hey should get back TO bed or to a {
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