Show PATHOS ILI vj C q OF HORACE TORACE 11 GREELEY AND FATHER arc aro we so soon forgot wen wien we aro are gone the tribune on saturday gave prominence to a telegram from corry pa which ran thus fire firo early today to day destroyed the old lomeo greeley homestead six miles from hero here in thia this house mr greeley spent the early years of his life all the years of ot horace greeleys Gree leye life up to the twentieth were spent in new hampshire and vermont after be ho had bad taken to the road as a jour printer he his father who I 1 ad removed to the place near corry pa and worked ua oa the farm there a little la in the intervals tennis In of his typographical taske tasks not only was the place in no sense greeleys early home but be he never really lived there it was eo 00 little associated with his name that his friends md admirers who knew bla his yankee beginnings well never connected him with it at all it was however long the home of that sturdy but unsuccessful and pathetic laborer and citizen zaccheus greeley his father it there over waa was a man hope leAy of the cant got along class it was this ato descendant ol 01 the now ramp shire scotch irishman and willing but a failure in everything he undertook zaccheus was hounded bounded for debt from place to place and would doubtlessly hato been turned into a hopeless tramp it it bad had not been for his innate virtue and patience of course the vorst of hie his troubles ended when his son horace came to mans maus estate although the boy with ith one unsuccessful bows paper venture following another long promised to duplicate his fathera fathers career naturally horace managed to ease his fathers declining years he lie was ever a dutiful eon son perhaps his own career instanced as much as his fathers the helpless noes of that nan man beford the winds of fate in ways brilliantly successful successful in other and important ways dismally unsuccessful posses possessing slag characteristics and abilities that made him feared bs us well as loved rising almost to the pinnacle of earthly honor for an american breele felt himself at st last scorned by his countrymen bud ud died of 0 a broken heart in horace reeley tho thoro ro was a good deal of at hh hn badly buffeted father after all the farm place near corry m may ily bo remembered for zaccheus Zacch eua gree lays eake sake and of course poor zac would never have been remembered at all but tor for his sifted gifted and nobie son new york mall blatt and express |