The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1918-11-22

good and holy that Lieut. John Fitch
, of Bardstown, Ky. one OF the volun.
,, teers Of the revolutionary rrny. was
the first inventor of the steamboat
anticipating Robert Fulton fully ten
years. 81 die poor and unknown. :"
says the inventor. but others will
reap the benefits of my labor"
Rev. c. F. Wimberly. D. D.. writing
the "reminiscences of Bar5etown. the
! birthplace of MY Old Kentucky
Home" in the Southern Methodist
Advocate. says that in little pool
Of water under an oyerhanging rock
in the big ravine Of Stewards creek.
running just at the edge Of town, is
| the exact spot where John Futch
sailed his first miniature model
Then Mr. Wimberly says John
| l9itchs villa curious document in
his own handwriting may still be
seen in the clerks office Of Nelson
county There is lodged in this will
the strange testimony concerning
himself. and brings to US the fact that
domestic infelicities are not the re,
sultant of modern conditions
The will says
Il know Of nothing so Dcrplexing
and vexatious to a man of feelings as
a turbulent wife and steamboat buila-
ing, experienced the former AMI
quit in season and had I been in my
right senses should undoubtedly
have treated the latter in the same
manner; but for one man to be leased
with both. he must be looked upon as
the most unfortunate man OF this
world
OF all the sanity men that ever
lived. Richard Hooker. learned and
highly gifted theoIogian, born of poor
but respectable parents about the
year 1915, it is said is entitled to the
worlds record. He filed many emf.
nent stations and was the author of
five books on the Laws of EccIe-
siastical Polity." which display an as.
tOnishing amount of learning. sagac-
ity and industry. and is still regarded
as a masterpiece Of reasoning. el0.
quence and research. and perhaps is
unexcelled in all the range of litera.
ture.
or his gentleness it is related that
he hac' the misfortune to be entrapped
into a marriage which would have
been as a thorn in the flesh" to say
any other less sanity person. Hav.
ing been appointed to preach at Paul's |
Cross in London, he put up at a house
set apart for the reception of the |
preachers. On his arrival there from
Oxford he was wet and weary. but
received so much kindness and atten.
ton from his hostess. that, according
to his bfOgrapher, in his excess of |
gratitude that he thought himself
bound in conscience to believe all she
said. So the good man came to bs |
persuaded by her that he was a man
OF tender constitution, and that it was
best for him to have a wife that might |
prove a nurse to him-such a one that
might prolong his life, etc. The good
man, little apt to suspect in Others
that guile Of which he himself was so
entirely free. became the dupe of this
designing woman and commissioned
her to select wife for him, promis
ing TO marry whomsoever she should
choose. The wife she provided was
her own daughter. described as a silly.
clownish woman, an almost worse
than Xantippe, whom. however. he
married according to his promise
With patient resignation he resigned
himself to his fate, but his wife was
anything but comfortable. When Wis.
tied by the famous Cranmer he was
found reading Horace and tendine
sheep. In his house Cranmer receiy