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Show Why Mackay Lived Abroad. (New York Tribune.) The late John W. Mackay passed most of his time abroad after the attempt at-tempt upon his life in San Francisco in 1893. This fact has been wrongfully Imputed to a fear on the part of the millionaire or a dislike for the country taken in consequence of the attempted assassination. But in reality the cause lay much deeper, writes "Holland." "You see," Mr. Mackay once explained ex-plained to a friend, "a man is nowhere so lonely as in a place he once loved and returns only to find it changed i j - : . i rrv.n lo f v. ueyunu ict'ugiuuuii. inau jo iuc with me. I was born, as you know, in 1831, and I went west with the high tide of the gold seekers. I roughed it with the rest, in the sole ambition to make myself an equal to the hero of. my boyhood, a man I used to see hurrying hur-rying through City Hall square, in New York, as I played there as a boy, a man with a hurried step and a bundle, bun-dle, of newspapers under his arm James Gordon Bennett. "Well, I learned to love the rough place as I've never loved any other. I got my gold, but I lost my home. I could hardly recognize it; that, indeed, it my west had died with my youth. So I've wanted to get' away from everything that recalled its passage, as some men want to live everywhere but in the house they were happy in before the death of a wife. "You see," Mr. Mackay added, "there is a drawback or two even to the best sort of luck. It's simply that you can't eat your pie and have it." |