Show rASS cnnISfLlN in HI Home Upof iiivis jeffcr IC < lIff nst notable residence Peril andy sea bank is thai alo I 1 11 r t iVvis They oJ call him Presi of Jcufts1 wre j They speak of bin lent JefFOIt ° Jefferson Davis it l cpet ffith great T J ag some writers foolish wllh1 t n0t t domed l j n p 1 t he I is greatly re lygay Bt bear in mind ly jcll you jpcotctl 1 JjI tone r these ten million that then is II ome sort of sac i t pl1 I cli people l 1 I who > f i tliern opinion lficc 01 I tIll 1 This man 111 r roll Will I JOt n tv 1 ui Personally 141flt1S lS I tkktull little 1 OJ I iJl and know tlijiik they l iM mothers I 1 grey m04thers these grl Itl of 151 I little of dow m Battle these vhosc sons Wlnt the ouHi whose fathers ti of ieautifhhl girls but hea1 hwk any 11111 they never Cnl anu heir l traditions I n their nieiiione and will have I iy pltJiU Oai8 They call him lo g0 vvhilo he lives A let 111 IC to Northern people 1 visit Mr peat mu not flit with the noblest 1 mon I mo-n IS Jw n told hc 1 iuls 1 many more visitor i tleron1 1J North han from the South I from the oj f tIns 100 or r is no a jarj long 4 C1Uoir l1u p strictly speaking nor IS and ro ° mJT place > tm old 1 plantation watering Ilawat great Mississippian the 11 l lIll iicathwHo j1Ce It IS1 beautiful 1 Hot iHaiH YtHS rIll Mine lllll IHU vines Imf 1Q spot I arftfato Davis is a poor man f ailIy told Jill 11 lnnot afford to keep the I 1i It is sot ll little back from the 1I1 IIJI the railroad IM and not too close to t1 It course the desire to see this man v historical and Va the last days his fetuous 1 life is irresistible when aIr tnr11l0US within call And in spite of all nformer r 1f resolutions I yielded For iy that whether good admitted itinnst t be bad whether entirely wrong or entirely en-tirely or right this man has been is and 1iiiit t forever remain a colossal figure in jnu American history and to have seen and converged with him is sweet to remember remem-ber as the years go on Mr IXivis i is at this writing in poor health I fliould say from what I have von and then from the course of nature toowith his threescore and ten years behind him that he will not long be a subject of either love or hate for in I fjiite of this kindest of climates he has found the winter terrible He cannot survive another such I JOAQUIN MILLER |