The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1920-10-22

I& WAC ranks among
the mighty satir-
lists of all ages
and all lands, was
born in HOey's
l& 49, Court, Dublin,
November 80,
n - 1867. He died Oc-
II Il tOber 10, 1745.
L This most brill
M liant witt genius,
hater OF rascality,
I* mi master of irony
rs MI and invective, and
true Irish Patriot,
Il ~ was born to pow
~ erty and depend
encej he started
life embittered and he ended @dying
of rage like a poisoned rat I'm hole"
to suse his own expression. His life
was a failure, though he played q
mighty part. "GOOd God, whaS O
genius I had when i wrote that bOok!'
he said when he later reread the ''Tale,
4 a Tub" Asd the world has agreed
Nth him. Yet failure ever tracked
him. He never received the prefer
aent I'm the church which his ability
would have brought anotherg by his
,oIltIcaI pamphlets he largely formed
Ihe public opinion of his time, yet that
was the end OF Il for hint he had the
strongest attachments for two women,
"stella,' to whom the famous Journal
was written, and "Vanessai' but little
happiness came to him. "TO think of
him." said Thackeray, els like thinking
Of the ruins of n great empire"
"Gulliver's Travels" (1726), though
a satire ON courts and statesmen, has
survived its temporary and local pur-
pose, and, especially In the nrst two
parts, IL considered TO be one OF the
great possessions of literature.
= WAS of a Nottinghamshire fam
lily and educated at Cambridge.
= Likewise was / educated in medi.
cine, and preferring a ships surgeon
cy to any preferment ashore. 1t came
about that after several deep-sea voy-
ages / found myself surgeon Of that
ship, the Antelope, which was wrecked
in a violent storm on coast north.
west of Van Diemen's Land.
OF all the ships company I alone
escaped to the land, where. In utter
exhaustion, / lay down and fell asleep.
I awakened to find myself bound hand
and foot, and surrounded by swarms
of the tlniest human creatures. They
brought me food and drink and con-
veyed me to their capital, where the
king, Of a majesty a full half-inch
taller than any of his subjects, came
with his court to view me.
In time learned that was in the
kingdom Of the Lilliputians. BY them
1 was kept a long time in captivity.
Being ultimately satisfied OF the harm
lessness If my intent, also adding
my word of honor to do them no In
fury, they released me, and set aside
six professors of education to teach
me their language. For.my bodily
sustenance they allowed me a guam
tity of mea; and drink sufficient for
.724 of thei; own people; for so, be.
ing exact in their mathematics, they
estimated the proportions of my bulk
to theirs. Three hundred cooks and
one hundred end twenty walters were
named to dress my meals, two hundred
seamstresses were apportioned to
make my linen, and three hundred
tailors for my cutter clothing.
with my wants thus attended to-
I was DESTROYS to be Of service to
them. My first service was not to
damage their people or their property
as walked abroad, most likely dan
ger when the men were Of such size
that could secrete two or three OF
them In one Of my coat pockets. In
walking the streets, were ! to. step
heavily, there was danger Of my shak'
ing down large buildings; or, by NOT
having an eye below me. I could cas-
lily tread to death half dozen OF
their cattle.
One day the king. who was most
friendly to me, came to me In great
trouble. The emperor of the neigh
boring kingdom of Blefuscu had
threatened to lay waste the kingdom
Of Lilliputia. The Blefuscuan navy
consisting Of fifty great ships of war
was even then about to set sail; but
/, by wading and swimming. reached
their chief harbor where they were
yet at anchor. With my pocket knife
cut the cables Of their fifty ships OF
war, and then. tying each ship to Q
piece Of irvine, drew them after me
/ 10 dry land. and so compelled the
capitalization Of Blefuscu.
While this. deed redounded to my
glory, II also raised me up powerful
enemies one being the high admiral o.
the LiliiputIan navy. Had I wished
could have crushed them ami theil
entire kingdom under my boots bu
there was my pledged word not Il
harm them. So when by secret In
trigue they had me tried and con
demned to the loss of my eyes. Their
was nothing left me but escape
went to Blefuscu. where was given {
great reception and where they wosls
have me stay; but I was weary o
kings and princes. and told them TIA
desired nothing except that the
would provision for me boat, whiei
had found drifting On the shorA sns
SLOW me to 70 my way.