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Show of his little domain he ejqwriii: chopped trees and lavished mow; an open hand. Large outlays for and material, the use of costly feni and the laying of long drains t formed the spot from a wilderness i green and fertile meadow. Out t personal experiences grew Mr. Gw Look, "What I Know About Fan: "I am a man of many sorrows sky is black. I am not well." Pi: indeed, sound these sentences ta notes written to friends by Mr. Gi a few weeks befora he'died.aii knows what further records of tragedy went up in smoke k flames seized on the trunks of. lying in tho basement of the ! IT WAS A FAMOUS HOUSE, Something About Greeley's Home, Recently Re-cently Destroyed by Fire. The destruction by firo recently of Hillside, the old home of Horace Greeley at Chappaqua, N. Y., is to be deplored for many reasons, the chief one being that the flames reduced to ashes a large . . M Hillside? Mad they been spared destruction and served their destined des-tined end in being be-ing published after af-ter the animosities animosi-ties and strife of all to whom they , related bad been y buried in the grave, a future ,,mi; , , GABRIELLK M-generation M-generation might ual"" have gained new light on thee"' stormy period in the history oft public. Not even an autograph was nearly a roomful of corresponded Miss Greeley has to thank a f she today owns a scrap of li l: handwriting. Referring to the i her home she said the other day: strange, but it was on Good Frwi our other residence was destro?' the second went on Maundy Tt-just Tt-just one day before Good Fw. both occasions I was at chum tilings lost are the last remnants' father's belongings. The bul most Taluable furniture was I New York city and was uW j ire some years ago." I THE HILLSIDE HOME. number of letters and manuscripts. These papers included the correspondence correspond-ence of .the noted editor with prominent men all over tho world, and wero intended in-tended to form the basis for a memoir. Mr. Greeley's books, however, were saved, as well as many historic articles of furniture furni-ture and jewelry and a bust of the former owner by the sculptor Hart, of Florence. The burned dwelling was built origi-nally origi-nally for an overseer, who never occupied it. When Mr. Greeley's other residence on the same estate the House in the Woods-was destroyed by firo in 1870, he removed his family to Hillside. The latter was an unpretentious two storied, French roofed dwelling, built upon the edge of the heights, which shut in the village from the east. For years it was the scene of much sorrow, and in later days of patient well doing. Mrs. Greeley died, and her husband, broken down, disheartened, and with mental visinn I THE HOUSE IS THE WOODS, clouded soon followed her to the grave. Then Mrs. Nicholas Smith, the married daughter, passed- away, and there now remains but one member of the family Miss Gabrielle Greeley, a woman whose gentle worth and charitable deeds have done as much to endear her to the residents resi-dents of Chappaqua as her father did to make famous the town that was his home. It was on this estate that Horace Gree-ZTM Gree-ZTM '"""aysand Sundays,and the few other holidays his busv life afforded. af-forded. In famine j formdhis |