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Show WHO SAID ; "In truth there Is no BUCh thing in man's nature as a Beetled and full resolve re-solve cltluf for good or evil, eXCCfH .a tiic very moment f execution." Nathaniel Hawthorne. the great. American romancer, who made the name of his family one that will bj long remembered in the literary history his-tory of the world, is responsible for the present spelling of the name. The ancestors of the great writer came to America In 1830 William Hawthorne aeoompanied Governor Wlnthrop. Ho and his descendants spell'd their name "Hathorne." A couple of generations passed and Nathaniel Na-thaniel arrived on the scene He had scarcely attainod his majority and begun his liter irv career when he decided de-cided that Hawthorne ' was a much more distinguished spoiling of the family name and he forthwith ndopt-ed ndopt-ed It. During the Revolutionary war two of the ancestors of Nathaniel served as ptl it Bremen. The father of the novelist was a sea captain and the lad early showed the effects of his Inheritance in a lovo of the sea and a disposition to solitary walks and quiet thinking;. His father died when Nathaniel was but a boy and at the age of H he was taken by his mother to live with an uncle In Maine. Hs showed but little disposition to study In school and his spare time was spent In the woods where he soon acquired ac-quired a wide knowledge of nature. Hawthorne entered Bowdoln college col-lege In 1S21 and he made a good record for himself especially In his mastery of tho classics. Two of his fellow classmates were Henry Wads-worth Wads-worth Longfellow and Franklin I Pierco. the future president, j Hawthorne spent most of his life Salem. Mass. He was for a time j collector of the port of Boston. His I death occurred In 1864. WAYNE D. M'MURRAY. |