The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-05-07

~ lie law, not IN He
was a good lawyer. but an unwilling
practitioner. He understood legal
principles thoroughly. He loved the
hiSher lessons of truth and Justice.
- IiSht and wrong which they IL
tos'idted. out he bent himself to the
uetdilS or professional labor with in
creaslng reluctance.
Al opportunity to speak and
write what was most pleasing 10 his
taste. which set him free as a liner
Ated prisoner of thought. his un-
mme and wandering imaoina-
.ion e"xtraVagantly Interviewing scien-
VIC principles. natural forces and
elemental facts, with some witches
oance of fancy. where he dissolved
IN us alchemy earth. air. and water
ana created a world Of his own. or
destroyed that beneath his feet. was
OF more value to him. though it
rough him no gain. than a stiff
cause IN courts which bound him TO
uFy details OF weary facts and legal
presumptlons. though every hour of
MS tlme bestowed a gilded reward"
HIS personal popularity elevated
nlfn 10 the important office Of Probate
Judge in Galveston. He filled one
term Of this office with honor and
at its close he returned. after a brief
sojourn in New York City, to his old
nome in Windsor. There he prac-
tlced his profession until 1850. His
relatives and friends hoped for his
permanent location among them. He
had. however. seen the vision of the
great West: and he caught the spirit
OF the ~argOnauts Of forty-nine, and
the inspiration Of adventure in the
New EldoradO and he sailed around
The Horn" for California. He on
tinued a citizen Of hat State. where
he was widely known and universally
respected. A fellOW-attOrneY said Of
him: civilian Henry Rhodes will
long be remembered by his contem-
poraries Of the Bar of California as
a man of rare genius, exemplary
habits. high honor. and gentle man
ners, with wit and humor uneX-
celled."
Here. too. the responsibilities OF
) life kept him at the law. but he was
a constant contributor to the press.
He became editor of the True Cali
fornian.' He wrote for 1.-The Bulle-
; TIM and other San Francisco dailies
5 He was a brilliant editorial writer.
l and his newspaper work had. great
literary merit. Under his nom de
: plume of "Caxton' he wrote many
4 curious and novel stories. AS l have
4 said. he had a fondness for the julie:
; Verne style of literature. He reveleo
in scientific fiction and acquired {
great deal Of literary reputation BY
several imaginative articles of tha
kind which came from his pen
= After his death there was wide de
mand for an edition of his writings
!, The Bar Of San Francisco generousl,
# aided his widow in the publication O
"Caxton's Book" which contains hi
= best productions. | note only, a few
Of the. leading articles. The Case 0
Summerfield. the Nan With a Secret.
that secret being a preparation b
which he could ignite water, and S
n the Atlantic and Pacifi
7 oceans destroying he world. was on
of these Pigments Of his brain. An
other notable one was Phases in tn
! Life of John Palloxfen,' being tn
superstitious Investigations and eS
y periences Of a photographer who de
"A voted his life to the discovery Of tn
carbon process by which cOlOred pic
lures are painted by the sun; an
who in the course of his researche
|. purchases from a girl, Lucille March
~ mont. her left eye to be used as
"a lens. 1.-THE Aztec Princess is q nal
~ rative of explorations in Yucatan an
Chiapas, Central America, which b
al was inspired to write by stories {
"a John Lloyd Stephens and his a:
IF sociates of what they found anon
~ the ruins Of Uxmal and P~alenque.
II the same archeologically interestin
country. This is a remarkable eSe1
else of the authors imaginative fat
~ ulty. So is the story Of The Earth
10 Hot Centre" where some miners
Belgium are supposed to have pen'
IN trated to the central fires and |
h. loose the molten lava. which threa
ems eventually to completely fill I
ID the bed Of the North Sea and COZ
meet again the British Isles with tt
continent. ''The Telescope Eye
"a the story of Johnny Palmer, who
10 parents lived in South San Francisc
lie This was a flight of fancy quite tt
rit eouai u ~ aro. ~,
sensation some three-Quarters of
TO- century ago. The basis Of the sto
,or was that with his naked eye the b.
,is could see in space a distance OF ne
,ra q quarter Of a million mile