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Show Wendell rhlUtps' Curious Career. Wendell Phillips was a natural aristocrat, aristo-crat, liis father was tho iirst mayor of Boston, nud tho famous schools at Audover and Kxotor rocoguizo his family as their founder, llo was reared in atll nonce, and at Bchool was on athlete as weU as a student. He loved to bos. and to run and to row. 1I was tho bitterest opponent of the first temperance association formed In Harvard collcgo. In his early life he lovod all tho good tilings of tho world. He was fond of tho physical as well as tho intellectual. He loved the beautiful, and admired women abovo almost any young man of his class. Yet his whole lifo changed as he grew older. Ho married a drl on her sick bed, who never got well, and ho devoted his whole It jo to her cure. Ho became an advocato of toinperanco, and when he saw William Lloyd OarriBon dragged through tho streets in tho anti slavery agitation, he dotermined todovote his lifo to redressing tho wrongs of the black man. "Why don't tho mayor call out tho militia," of which ho was ono, ho cried. From high class surroundings ho then moved into tho lowly quarter that he might carry out his ideas of protection to the poor. What a curious career followed. fol-lowed. Frank A. Burr in Philadelphia Times. |