Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-10
Melville Stones Rea,iaesceaces

Period In Golfers wsskyl

was born at Hudson. nine miles
north Of BLOOMINGTON. H.. on Aug.
%. lSts. 1t was an interesting year.
II the period OF ones nativity has
anything to do with his career, II
was q good year for a journalist 20
be born in. All Europe was ablaze
with revolutionary fires. Louis
Philippe was dethroned In Paris:
Louis abdicated In Bavaria; Ferdi-
nand OF Austria under compulsion
handed over his sccpter to his son
Francis Joseph. whose long reign
ended in death at the moment OF the
complete debacle OF the Austro- Hun
garian empire. There. were revolu-
tionary uprisings in ali the German
states, in Hungary, and in Italy
Great Britain was not free. for the
year saw the break of the Chartist
outbreak in England and the Smith
O'Brien rebellion in Ireland Carl
haldi, Kossnth Gladstone nt.-ncli
were achieving many things on the
European stage. and a long. lanky.
ana somewhat uncouth countryman
in Illinois, one Abraham Lincoln. was
serving his first term in our federal
congress. 1t was in that year that
peace was signed with Mexico. and
we took over that southwestern terri
tory which has ultimately developed
into the great and prosperous states
OF Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and
Arizona. Gold had just been dis
covered in California. The flood OF
European immigration to our country
bad suddenly leaped from Zoe, 900
souls in 1912 to 100000 in 1S49. It
was year of notable mechanical in
ventlons. McCormick's reaper, Hoes
rotary printing press. and Morse's
telegraph were given TO the world.
and I may be pardoned for laying
some emphasis on the fact that in
lS4s, the year OF my birth. the first
Associated Press was founded.
The Early ltinerant Preacher.
Ny fathers life as an itinerant
minister was almost that of gypsy.
Under the rules of his denomination
he could minister over one charge
but two years and more often was
limited to one year. The compensa-
ton was necessarily beggarly: It
was missionary work. With little
more than a horse and saddlebags
containing n change of clothing.
these pioneer evangelists rode from
place to place, pleaded their cause
in schoolhouSes, or wherever DOS
sIble: were housed by their adher-
c"ts, and thus o5eying the divine call
ana injunction. they took no thought
tnr the morrow. They uncomplain-
irsly endured great hardships. and
when they repeated the Lords Pray
or their petition for their daily bread
was by no means meaningless ap-
peal. At best their hire was a pit
lance in money. sometimes supple
mented by a donation party" at
which they received curious collec-
ION OF more or less useless trumpery.
New and then there was a parson-
age to live in. but this was far from
being assured. Their household be-
longings were scarcely worth moving
from place to place. Frequently, IL
not indeed as a rule, the preacher
was forced to add to his meager In
come by something in the way Of an
avocation. At one time my father
manufactured and sold stones Chi
nese Liniment for Man and Beast"
AT another he took daguerreotypes.
AZ still another he sold lightning rods
None OF these efforts was thought
10 be "infra dig" The little earned
| by these outside occupations was too
small to be the subject of criticism.
| TIE members of this noble band OF
God fearing and God serving men
enjoyed the profound respect Of
every one.
He Was Horace Greeley.
It was because OF my mothers fail
ing health that we moved TO Chicago
in 1854. Moving was a primitive af-
fair. for the itinerant minister had
gathered but little furniture. There
were no railroads, and the trip had
To be made in what was then known
as light democrat wagon. We drove
from house to house, stopping with
tire brethren OF the denomination and
putting up at stations on the Under
ground Railway. very much as II we
Chicago was then less than twenty
years old as municipality. altho it
had been a trading base established
b.: a French negro as early as 1904.
When we arrived, it had about $4,000
people, but even then it manifested
indications Of the rapid growth which
made it later a marvel among cities.