The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-10
E H. DILLON & co.
Famous PubIicist' Tells Story of
 Life, by Request
To the Editor, sir:-

Tn response to your request for ar autobiographical sketch, would say that I agree with Thoreau who de. mands in good round words to know of a writer what he. thinks, his per sonality is sufficiently expressed there. by.
 However, as accessible data for in scription in the Hall of Fame, or the reverse side of a Carnegie medal, per- init me to obtrude this much of my personal and psychic anatomy.
 was born in Boston, March 2s, 1871 s--died--no, I'm getting ahead of my story.
 By the way. did you ever read Mark Twain's. Autobiography ?'' He starts off by saying that his earliest histor- ic ancestor was a friend of the fam fly by the name of Smith and why they afterward adopted the name o1 Twain was one of those sentimental little tendernesses that no one pre- sumes to inquire too closely into.
 He goes on to say that his family has always been conspicuous in re- spect to the noted character of it's
 
 ington Twain, Julius Caesar Twain. George Francis Twain, Napoleon oBn- aparte Twafne, Alexander vain and Balaam's s ass was also a member of the family. Mark charges old Froissart. however, with deliberately maligning uthe fam fly, by asserting that the family tree and coat of arms had only one branch and tsuck out at right angles and bore fruit winter and summer. He accom- panies this charge by a little illustra- ton of one of his noble ancestors suspended by the neck from a gib- bet ss.s.f | tssss,sss - s5 some pathetic little incident. told in his dear, quiet. intimate style brings the quick tear of sympathy and love. I wish I could have known him. ii would have been a rare, rich experi- ence.
 But to return to our moutons.
 T am quite fair violinist-havine time: a to1erably pasable physician (although this 'ad'' isn't worth cent to me- as am now representing the Chas. H. Phillips Chemical Co, at tending medical and dental conven- tions and calling upon physicians and dentists in the interests of milk of magnesia, etc, am somewhat familiar
 
 totle down through Kent, Nietschze, Haeclxle, Hegel. Schopenhauer-to Dar- win, Tyndall. Huxley, Spencer, Locke Hume1, Fiske, Emerson and William James.
 Have pottered some in >dillittantish way with synthetic religion. reading Max Mueller's translation of the Bha- givad Gita, Upanishads, also the Book of the Dead (of the Egyptians ) Kings of Confucius, Greek, Roman, Scandinavian and Asztec mythology, and all the materialistic writers from Buchner to Ingersoll.
 Have been pretty well through clas- CT and Aeschylus to Dickens George Eliot and Washington Irving.
 Have read Arthur Brisbane's edi- torials for ten years past, and accum- mulated therefrom many shining mug gets to add to my little store,
 For many years have devoted con- siderable attention to psychology. read Kraft -Ebbling, Liebault, Hudson, F1ammarion, Lodge. HysIop, James, Harland, and the proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research
 Have done some little platform work for several years on the following sub jects:
 First. Eugenics. the science of child breeding. Second, Government owner ship of public utilities; the mal-dis- tribution of wealth Third "A consid- eration of the continuity of life af- ter death from the standpoint of the psychologist. Fourth, Health, from a political economic standpoint, with dietics, sexual hygiene, exercise, bath ing and recreation.
 Of late years have devoted consid- erable attention to Sociology and Econ omics, s(which consider the most es- sential and important studies concern prehension and application of them de pends nine-tenths of the happiness of the race.
 Here is my creed, in part:
 I believe Abou Ben Adhem was near the great Heart of Things when he gently admonished the angel to 'ePut me down as one who loves his fellow men"
 I believe we are under profound ob- legations to posterity, that unless we leave this earth just a little better for having lived we have failed in our purpose.
 I believe in cultivating humanitar- ianism in myself and stimulating Cby all the small means in my power) the same in my fellows. by developing a spirit of the Brotherhood of Man (which postulates the Fatherhood of God.)
 I believe in Eugenics. That all crim- inal degenerate and incurably insane should be vasectomized or corphorec. tonized before being permitted to mingle with their kind to the end that their Calibanish species be not per- petuated.
 I believe in the Dear Love of Com rades' of Walt Whitman, and also that "I want nothing for myself which 1fy1y fn other man on the same terms"
 Also, with Browning, in optimisim; Never doubting, the right was worst ed, wrong would triumph and That a mans reach should exceed his grasp. or what's a Heaven for?"
 I believe in the government owner ship of railroads, parcels post, water power, mines, forests and all the giant monopolies which now Oppress the race and fatten parasite-like upon their hearts blood.
 I believe that the greater percen- 7---- .