El Paso International Daily Times (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 232, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 30, 1894 Page: 3 of 8
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•WILLIAM QET8 MI8 INFORMATION ON
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Few remember that near the qniet
little city of Charlottesville, in Virginia,
on the wooded hillside, lies the dust of
Thomas Jefferson. Almost 380 years ago
his Welsh ancestry settled in Virginia.
His father, Peter Jefferson, was a sur-
veyor and planter and was known
throughout the new sbnth as a man of
great muscle. He introduced the early
v. red eye china bean and the grapevine
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overcast catch-as-catch-can “wrasfcle
holt,” which meant eight weeks in the
hospital and curvature of the spine.
Peter Jefferson was also one of the
first colonels in the south and for 10
years had little competition in that line.
He was also a member of the legislature.
He married Jane Randolph, and nine
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•hildrcn were bom to them. He died
when tho youngest child was 23 months
old, leaving 1,900 acres of land and 80
4) slaves.
Thomas ct this time was 14 years of
age, with thick red hair. He attended
William and Mary college two years
and then studied' law four years under
George Wythe at Williamsburg.
At the age of 24 he was admitted to
the bar. George Wythe, under whom
*t he studied, also gave Chief Justice
Marshall and Henry Clay their clear
and accurate notions of law.
Thomas Jefferson also studied the
violin, and after reading that “law is a
rule of action, prescribing what is right
and prohibiting what is wrong,” he
would turn to his violin, expectorate on
the keys to keep them from slipping
while tuning up, and then practice, so
♦I his biographer says, for threo hours at a
time.
And yet ho got votes enough in after
years to elect him president of the
A United States.
Thomas Jefferson was eminently suc-
cessful at the bar for eight years, start-
ing in with 68 cases the first year and
gradually working up to 480 cases in
,kis fourth year of praotioe. He studied
hard at tho law even then, and it is
4 said that his industry as a student was
something truly remarkable all his life.
When his father died, Jefferson went
at once to the store and bought 80 gal-
lons of midnight oil. I get this informa-
tion from Joseph Jefferson, who has
given me many of the points and con-
siderable of the data used in this littlo
sketch of the early lifo of Jefferson, tho
statesman.
4 Thomas earned at the bar as high as
£800, which was regarded in those
times as a groat income. He was very
eoonomical, and out of this income ho
managed to Nave enough for the pur-
chase of 5,000 acres of land, according
to James Parton, iu addition to what
he already owned.
Mr. Jefferson in 1772 married Martha
Skelton, a young, beautiful, wealthy
and childless widow, who died the fol-
lowing year, and thus doubled Mr. Jef-
A fersou’8 income.
i Iu 1769 he entered politics, having
been elected a meitiber of the house of
burgesses. These burgesses were men
who met occasionally to disouss the
previous question. He was noted for his
* liberality and for his disapproval of
slavery. He was not so ultra antislavery
as John Brown, whose soul is at present
engaged iu marching on, but he regarded
the institution with grief and solicitude
for the future.
Though strongly attaohed to the
mother country, ho united with Patrick
Henry and the Lees in denouncing the
course pursued by Great Britain toward
the colonists. He expressed himself
many times both by voice and peu rela-
tive to this matter in no uncertain tone,
and the samo spirit actuated him in
his early efforts ax is breathed iu such
glowing language and soul stirring sen-
timents as wo find in tho Declaration of
Independence in later years.
It is said that Jefferson’s ill feeling
toward the mother couutry originated
iu 1770, when a representative of King
George visited this country and was in-
terfaced to Jefferson at a plain Virginia
The Englishman’# name was Sir
ge Alderney, and he had a pompous
way whioh Jefferson did not like and
could not tolerate.
At the dinner, in conversation with
Jefferson, Sir George, who had turned
up bis hose at the simple food offered
him by his colonial hfiends, referred to
his ill health, and Jefferson asked him
what his ailment was. Sir tteorge re-
plied that he suffered a great deal from
insomnia.
"I used to have that a good deal my-
self,” said Jefferson, “especially while
in college, but one day I went to bed
and slept It off. Did. you ever try that,
Sir George?"
It is said that Alderney wrote home
to one of the pr.pers in London regard-
ing the above incident, giving it as an
illustration of colonial ignorance. This
made Mr. Jefferson so mad that
throughout his long and useful life he
never forgave the mother country.
After the dinner was over it is report-
ed that Sir George actually took Jeffer-
son aside and said to him: “I beg par-
don, Mr. Jefferson, but you* know I
couldn’t go away without telling you
that you made a terrible ass of yourself
at the table just now, and rather than
see yon repeat it, you know, I thought
I would call your attention to it. ,
“Yon know, I understand, of cawse,
that yon have had few advantages here
among the savages, and so yon know
very little of the use of words, and so
you made a very serious erraw just now.
Yon remembah that I referred to the
fact that I was troubled with insomnia,
dear boy, and you told me that uuoe yon
had it in college. And, me Gawd, Mr.
Jefferson, you said you went to bod and
slept it hoffl
“Don’t you know that the very trou-
ble with insomnia is that you cawn’t
sleep it hoff?”
“Is that possible?” said Jefferson,
with well assumed horror. “Why, I
thought it was something like colic!”
Ever after this Mr. Jefferson was
found upon all questions to be bitterly
opposed to a monarchy iu any form
whatever.
Mr. Jefferson was a poor orator,
though many people at this date put
him along with Patrick Henry, forget-
ting that Jefferson was a student and
not an orator. His greatest work was
with the pen and as an authority upon
all questions of law and statesmanship.
Though Patrick Henry was a most elo-
quent man, he left nothing to be com-
pared with the Declaration of Independ-
ence. There is a magnetism peculiar to
the orator which is marvelous for the
moment, but it perishes with the voico
that awakened it.
On the Fourth of July, 1776, the
draft of the immortal Declaration of In-
dependence was completed, and iu that
document will forever live the un-
quenchable spirit of the redheaded stu-
dent, while the spontaneous but uucon-
sidered outbursts of Henry have dwin-
dled down to a line and died away in
the remote corners of the echoless past.
Jefferson instituted the abolition of
entail and primogeniture and did a good
deal in the matter of reconstruction aft-
er the government fell into the hands of
“the rebels.’’ He also encouraged re-
ligious freedom, and to him is due the
VISITING JEFFERSON'S GRAVE,
rengons nnerauty wmen New England
so sadly looked at that time. Jefferson
had rather ‘“advanced” ideas regarding
religion, and it is said that he died
without the hope of a literal hell for
those who disagreed with him.
Jefferson is also responsible largely—
more than any other man, in fact—for
our decimal currency, the only proper
method of arranging money so that it
may be rapidly computed. No one can
fully appreciate this until he has labor-
ed with pounds, shillings, pence and
farthings.
In 1782 his second wife died, leaving
three children, and crazed with grief
Mr. Jefferson accepted the position of
minister to Paris. He was asked if he
would replace Franklin at that place.
“No,’’Saidhe. “Isucceedhim. Noone
could replace him. ”
He pitied the French, who were then
priest ridden and little more than slaves,
plundered by the nobility after the
church had taken everything it could
got hold of. Ho returned to act as Gen-
eral Washington’s secretary of state, re-
siding at 57 Maiden lane, New York
city. He and Alexander Hamilton were
bitterly opposed to each other on most
political questions, Jefferson sympathiz-
ing with the Freuch revolutionists,
while Aleek did not Jefferson was a
plain republican, while Aleck Was more
In 1790 he was elected vice president
and in 1801 became president He suc-
ceeded himself and declined a third
term in order to retire to his beantifnl
home at Montioello, where he died on
the fiftieth anniversary of the Declara-
tion of Independence, a few hours Before
the death of his contemporary,! John
Adams. He is buried at Montioello,
where I recently visited his grave One
reaches it by diligence over a corrugated
road. Montioello is visited annually by
quite a number of people, who pay a
quarter of a dollar each to an old darky.
This money is said to go toward the re-
pair of the roads, but as the roads get
deliberately worse, and as the darky at
the box office rode back to town with
me and spent the money paid him by
our party in the purchase of gin at a
colored hell in Charlottesville, I am iu
favor of an investigation.
“Timid One,” Delhi, Ind., writes:
“I am to be married in October, and I
write you to settle a trifling question for
me—at least I presume that you will re-
gard it as trifling, but it has worried
me a great deal. I am of course pre-
paring my trousseau, and there is quite
a lot of it—in fact, there is a whole
trankful of linen for my own wear,
and I will have to make|it. Should I
make it with my own maiden name or
tho surname of my intended?
“I ask this because I was engaged
four years ago to a young man who
took advantage of tho low rates and ex-
cellent traveling facilities over the Big
Four and Santa Fe routes to strike out
for California on the day set for our
marriage. -Since then I’ve been almost
ashamed to send my clothes to the wash
with his name marked on them. I have
barely worn out those garments, and
they have been a perpetual reproach to
me. Now I am again engaged to a geu-
tlomau friend. What should I do?”
I need hardly write you, ‘^Timid One, ”
that you have no claim on the name of
your intended at the present time. You
did very wrong before in utilizing the
name of your betrothed, and possibly he
heard of it iu some way, fleeing like a
bird to the mountains when he got the
information. Possibly he feared that
you might bo running up little accounts
at the stores in his name also.
You should remember that a good
name is rather to be chosen than great
riches, but you must not help yourself
to it until tho parson has given you per-
mission.
“Timid One” also asks in a postscript
whether it is proper or not for hex to
ask her intended to break off some bad
habit before they are married. Certain-
ly you might try it, but you will have
to be the judge of how much influence
you have at this stage of the game. It
might bo well to ask -him to break off
stealing horses or any other noticeably
bad habit, of course, now while you are
both in the heyday of bloom and fluff
of life’s young morn, but you always
ran the chance of arousing his ill temper
and prejudice. You must be yourself the
judge of this. Some young girls under
such circumstances also pave the way
for criticism and are a little nonplused
to be asked if (hey will not break off a
bad habit, such as saucing their moth-
ers or allowing their fathers to go look-
ing sad and seedy in order that the
daughter may wear “wash goods” in
warm weather and ran up a tall laun-
dry bill while the old gentleman wears
a colored shirt for economy.
‘ ‘Judge uot, that ye be not judged, ’ ’ is
one of the best maxims that Shakespeare
ever got off, “Timid One, ” and you will
do well to remember it all through your
life, which seems to bo opening so aus-
piciously.
Some grooms are glad to have their
errors pointed out to them seven or eight
times per day, while others are a little
sensitive about it. • I cannot give yon
advioe without knowing the person quite
well. For my own part, I make a
specialty of pointing out the shortcom
ings of others and shrink from criticism
myself almost invariably. Mark your
clothing with your own name and go
easy on your criticism for tho first six
weeks at least. A girl friend of mi no
had her clothes marked iu a singular
way before her marriage. She became
engaged to a petted and spoiled darling
whose parents were wealthy, and she
had promised to marry him iu order to
reform him, for he was a sort of roucy,
as the French say. One evening he call-
ed upon her as she was juBt returning
from a seaside resort, and in a playful
mood he shot twice through her Sara-
toga trunk, which stood near the door,
packed for the journey. Then he pointed
the weapon at her, but she hit it with
her parasol and knocked it out of his
hand. In falling it was exploded, and
the ball passed through his person just
below the oigarette pocket.
She went home and patched the places
where the bullet had marked her trous-
seau and lives cheerfully with her par-
ents now, while o’er his sudden grave
the bumblebees are bumbling.
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20 PARTS HOW READY!
EHTIBE SERIES COMPLETE!
A Glorious List:
PART I.
The Administration Building, from the Southeast
MacMonnies Fountain, from Grand Plaza,
Peristyle and the Water Gate, from Grand Basis.
Government Building and Wooded Island.
PART II.
General View, from the Lake.
Agricultural Building, from Colonnade.
Fire Boat and Agricultural Building.
View Southeast from the Illinois Building.
PART III.
State Buildings of Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania
The Caravels from the Bridge.
Golden Door of Transportation Building.
The Obelisk and Grand Vista North from Colonnade.
PART IV
Machinery Hall, from Colonnade.
MacMonnies Fountain, from South Terrace.
The Fisheries Building.
. La Rabida, from Southwest Side.
PART V.
Choral Hall, from Wooded Island
Interior of Choral Hall.
Horticultural Building, from Wooded Island.
West View of Manufactures Building.
PART VI.
The Woman’s Building.
Main Entrance of Woman's Building.
Interior of Woman's Building
View from Balcony of Woman’s Building.
part v;;.
View North, between Manufactures and Electricity BtrWings.
North Lagoon, from Mining Building.
Mining and Electricity Buildings, from Transportation Building.
Manufactures and Electricity Buildings, from Squatter s Hut.
PART VIII.
Manufactures Building, from Casino.
Manufactures Building, from Horticultural Hall.
Columbia Avenue in Manufactures Building.
View Northwest from Manufactures Building.
PART IX
Main Entrance of Art Palace. t
South Facade of Art Palace.
North Lagoon. Art Palace and State Buildings.
Bird’s-eye View of the State Buildings
PART X ‘ *
East Facade of Machinery Hall.
Machinery Hall, from Northeast.
Looking South, between Electricity and Mining Buildings.
Transportation Building, from Wooded Island.
PART XI.
Electricity Building, looking Southwest.
Electricity Building and Fountain.
Interior of Electricity Building.
Looking North, between Mines and Electricity Buildings.
PART XII.
Statue of Liberty.
Lake Front, from Manufactures Building.
Rear View MacMonnies Fountain
South Colonnade. Colonnade
PART XIII.
Peristyle from the Lake
Statue of the Republic.
The Water Gate
Statue of Republic and Peristyle.
PART XIV.
German Government Bid ding
Panorama of State Buildings from the Northeast.
Administration Building, looking Northeast.
View of the Lake Front
PART XV
Main North Entrance Agricultural Building.
Northwest Corner Agricultural Building.
Agricultural Building. Full View
Agriculture Building, at Night.
PART XVI.
Administration Building, from Southeast.
MacMonnies Fountain, Side View.
The Midway.
Ferris Wheel and Bird’s-eye View of Midway.
PART XVII.
Statue of Columbus, entrance Administration Building.
Group of Statuary. Transportation Building.
Main East Entrance Horticultural Building.
View North from Colonnade.
PART XVIII.
South Entrance of Mining Building.
North Facade of Mining Building.
Stutue of Cowboy.
Statue of Indian Scout.
PART XIX.
Statue of Plenty.
Statue of Industry,
PART XX.
Court of Honor from the East.
Court of Honor from the West
Administration Building at Night.
The White City at Midnight.
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Chicago Day.
The Immense Crowd.
His Pet Story.
“You don’t seem to think that was a
very good story I just told you, ” ho
said in a disappointed tone.
“Ob, yes, indeed I do,” replied the
Bostou girl reassuringly. “But I was
just trying to think when that was
probably translated from the Greek.”—
Detroit Free Press.
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El Paso International Daily Times (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 232, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 30, 1894, newspaper, September 30, 1894; El Paso, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth540095/m1/3/: accessed June 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.