Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-03-14
JEROME 3. BELL DIES
IN MIL LWAUkEE, WIS.
Continued from page

In 1870 no came from Elizabeth city, |
where his mother then lived, - WI
mington Having n strong inechhhlehi
turn Of mind. he first learned th'
trade Of a nnchiniat hi the plhnt 81
T. Morton Poole 90. He fulloWed thiH
trade only few years He never ios'
love for mechanics, and later III mn
llfe. was quite succesafu IN invennohH
for linotype and other machines NleI
finishing his trade, he was atiatl''
hy tho nenvspapor buHineHs. ana III ~
he spent nearly all the reHt o nv
fife.
Securing employment with hN".y
te,.cutpp bn eventually becam" lis
managing editor. with Merih iha.'''
IN tee2 be bought from Caleb = John
snn tho Daily Gazette. MeanWhii".
March Y. 1891. he had started pnhliea
| tion of tho Sunday 9inr ihe Hthi
Publishing 60. waa organized In lShh'
and thereafter IL conducted very ane-
coaaful publication of the star Infh MI
peli late IN hia lifo. diapoaed ~ his In
toresta in the paper. Aftet seN"tinh
his connection with tho star. MI hetl
| drvotod much 81 hla time to puhtie
service IN varioua directions For many
veora before his deceape Nc served q"
n Wilmington pntk Cammiastouer
Ttealton becoming n aucreasful hia'
nesa manager Of hlp newspapef ne VIM
ita most vigorous and feariess edif"t
| Tho fame 81 tho Sunday Etar depended
no, 80 much upou it's news ~ genefni
literary columns upon itH sh'otfa'
paRo No one ever charged MIN WV
selling hir pen or hiE editorial phses
Ito always espoused what he d""tnee
| a. be the side of IN cnliFhicued pnhlif
interest
Nj pen'r literary aciivltiea were hs
=, mean. limited ~ hla editorial wit
,,as Tarly in hia careev he doHf.loref
"a farlIity IN verse writing anJ was
frequent contributor of poetna - ies'
and other publications THE ineihe
fIon toward roofit fotn and eYIt tf'alt''
We. the Iogical coroilatv ~ an artiRtt
temperament md intellect fainfml
and must, wet" otier tna auiteafa atlaft
, | nf the Same forces of his rofaeoalff
| TbI. artiaiit hant however. fetin"d y
chlef axprossion ~ his poetry II -
= | lat-r veara n oouafituted hiH en-
mental diversion ilia poatHs give -
q rroaaion "a lie thoughts uron a1tie
$ reraoral ard reliRfoua themes he
I we're partially c"fnriled - hltu ~ fhf'
= Volumes ,nti,Ies arr'es - Hcilt ~
Nnr,l- and Other roefua The lone
. nst ~ the roetur is 81 'hs lnHf u'ef
8 tlooad volume sud ~ cailed NncSn
q , Moae,o uuhaitnt y ccurisf= pf y
,nasr,,plots trode1ei - afvie af'ef ~
= tt,,baivat ~ omar kha vvan r. = -
/" w,itarta conception ~ the taiatinns
man with o3od and - 'nan VIII uts'
: E,pd .re faarissslv dsalt wi'h n
= n,naaa ~ a.pre.aior ere shntetffn'
STARTLING 7orreti'uea aafftiz affs' -
. c.aietory. n- hea's the pc.rn's 'i'l
INT tauau, roitahed atid sftiatis
? emo can douht that these v.r~es -
bnlv A,ncare oxpraasiona - his aplri
: ual and r,eutal nrnda frrHn flfne
time As hn hitneolf aars oonaintast1'
10 No rart ~ HE in'eni
. = pon the Thought thst nosts ny pro
q ent uaed
~ Not give corafatancy a tnetnart.s h@s
~, II today give Yesterday 'ha iiA.
- 1heu Yesterday Is trit broken reee
IAha al thinking aenea'les. md u
u au iuatiu.ttyo rehala against - eeds.
1, vas aarrrtlatly "a religious nature II
+, 10 roitid not s~cn pa the opterrpi. ti
~ ~ religious thames IL indicated by :
#. freauoncy with which his poem@ u
i, with mems relations with God. snd
q. generation ~ the character of C'hri
Tho two poorna which may iilusfrr
an most intimately his reiEinua oanceptis
r arc tTo the Man Of j'orrows. and ]
ny Prayer.