Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1880 — Didn’t Declare Himself. [ARTICLE]

Didn’t Declare Himself.

When Ralph Waldo Emerson was traveling in Egypt, with his daughter, they met an Englishman who did all in his power to make it pleasant for them, and, when the time came for their separation, said: “ You may wonder, sir, at my having overstepped my usual reserve so far as to become so intimate with you, but it is for the sake of a countryman of yours, one bearing the same name—Emerson—Ralph Waldo Emerson. He has done me much good, and I hope some time to cross the ocean to meet him.” And Mr. Emerson never told him it was himself whom he sought. An English servant girl was recently held for trial for holding a child 15 months old, belonging to her employer, before a fire and roasting it alive, for no reason that she oonld give except that she was dissatisfied with her aitna* tion end wanted to leave it.