Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Seventh Annual Meeting and Banquet of the Pennsylvania Scotch-Irish Society, at the Hotel Bellevue, Philadelphia: February 13th, 1896
It was on this gala day, in the midst of this rejoicing and noise, that the future singer insisted upon lifting up the first wail of his infant voice. It is Sometimes inconvenient - to others at least - to be ahead of one's time. We may well imagine the uneasiness with which the gentlemanly host greeted the guests who had come at his bidding, and how great was his relief when his bowery dinner was ended, amidst the congratulations of friends that another son had been born into his household. Small wonder, indeed, if' those who trod the paths and roads along the hill slopes to their various homes that day had caught the spirit of ancient oracles and augurs, and predicted for the child whose birth had been attended by such martial and patriotic scenes a future of stirring activity in camp and field or in the halls of State. Yet nothing could have been further from the facts, for the ambition of the man was as far removed from the pro'gnostications of his birth as is the Star of Bethlehem from the fires of Moloch.
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