Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 26, 1913, Page 9

: “4 erences j ; | PAGE EIGHT SNAPSHOTS AT CELEBRITIES Judge J. W. Gerard Named Ambassador to Germany. Photo by American Press Association. | The appointment of Justice James W. Gerard of New York to the impor- tant post of ambassador to Germany is generally regarded as a recognition of special fitness for the position. The} new ambassador, those who know him | best say, is a man of strength, charac- | ter, ability and culture—a worthy rep- | resentative of Uncle Sam. | The new envoy to Berlin is a native | of the Empire e and is forty-six | years of age. He graduated from | the New York Law school in 1892 and | began the practice of his profession in New York city. He went to the front| in the Spanish war, serving as an aid- | de-camp on the staff of General Me- | Coskry Butt. After the war he resum- | ed the practice of law and in 1907 was | elected to the supreme court bench on | the Democratic ticket for a term of| fourteen years. Justice Gerard is pres- | ident of the Mexican Society of New York and was one of the three civil- | jan commissioners appointed in 1910) by President Taft to represent the} United States at the centennial cele bration in Mexico. During the precon- vention presidential campaign he was| an active Wilson man. Justice Ger. | ard’s wife is a daughter of the late| Marcus Daly, one time copper king of | Montana. Minister to China. Dr. Paul S. Reinsch, . professor of political economy in the University of | Wisconsin, who has been appointed | minister to China, is a writer of recog- nized authority on oriental topics and far eastern politics. His works on those subjects have been translated into both Japanese and Chinese. | Born in Milwaukee in 1869, he was | graduated from the state university im 1892 and from the law school in| | | | DR. PAUL 8. REINSOH. 1894. Going abroad, he studied at the University of Berlin and also at Paris and Rome, returning to continue his graduate work at Wisconsin. In 1911- 12 he was Roosevelt exchange profes- sor at the University of Berlin, where he delivered a series of lectures on “Present Conditions In America.” Dr. Reinsch bas been active in pan- ‘American conferences and in societies for the study of international law and historical research and has won wide reputation as a lecturer on interna- tiona! politics. He has been head of the department of political science at the University of Wisconsin since 1908. Youngest Railroad President. J. M. Fitzgerald, head of the West- ern Maryland railroad and the young- est railroad president in this country, began as office boy for the Columbus, Sandusky and Hocking at the age of geventeen. After various experiences he went west and put in a year in the engineering department of the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf line. Then he turned eastward, to take eharge of the Virginia and Southwest- ern, a seemingly hopeless proposition. ‘Within fifteen months he had it on a paying basis. MARK TWAIN AND 0. HENRY. Humor of Their Column Writing In Old Days. In the old days writing columns was a noble business. It was generally re- garded as a preface to literary achieve- ment. Mark Twain and O. Henry were columners and were working along the good, old safe lines years ago. They were both particularly strong for answering imaginary cor- respondents, Here isa sample from the work of each, so you may judge how far the columning art has backed up. The first paragraph is Mark Twain’s: Arithmeticus, Virginia City, Nev.—If it would take a cannon ball three and one- third seconds to travel four miles and three and three-eighths seconds to travel the next four and three and five-eighths to travel the next four and if its rate of Progress continued to diminish in the same ratio, how long would it take it to go 1,500,000,000,000 of miles? I don’t know. Follows O. Henry’s: Who was the author of the line, “Breathes there a man with soul so dead?"—G. F. This was written by a visitor to the state saengerfest of 1892 while conversing with a member who had just eaten a large slice of limburger cheese. Both Mark Twain and O. Henry were writers of burlesque too. They burlesqued novels. Eleanor Glyn and Arnold Bennett would have beep sau- sage and wheat cakes for them if they had been unknown columners when the two last named got into the strong literary light.—Chicago Post. Enthusiasm, Let us beware of losing our en- thusiasm. Let us ever glory in some- thing and strive to retain our admira- tion for all that would ennoble and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify our life.—Phillips Brooks. Did His Best Anyhow. Mrs. D’Oyley Carte used to tell this story of the olden days at the Savoy, in London. when her husband was staging Gilbert and Sullivan’s operas: A seedy looking individual applied to Mrs. D’Oyley Carte so persistently for work that at last she referred him to her husband. At the moment the latter was busy trying some candi- dates for the chorus, but this did not prevent the applicant from interrupt- ing to ask him for work. Mr. D’Oyley Carte waved him off impatiently, but LIFTED UP HIS VOICE AND SANG. | after the applicant had repeated the request once or twice he gave in and handed him the words of a song. “Sing that,” he said, and he motion- | ed to the pianist to play the accom- paniment. “Go on!” After some hesitation the stranger lifted up his voice and sang, and the result was so awful that the manager interrupted hurriedly. “Stop, stop!” he shouted: “What do you mean by this tomfoolery? You have the confounded impudence to ask me for a job?” The stranger looked hurt. “Well, I | didn’t want to sing,” he said with an injured air. “I ain’t no singer. I’m a stage carpenter, an’ I only sang to Please you, cos you asked me to!” Came Out Unhurt. A Kentucky colonel of the old school | nad made a proud boast that he hadn't drunk a glass of water in twenty years. One day as he was riding to Nashville on the old L. and N, the train was wrecked while crossing a bridge and plunged into the river. They pull- ed the colonel out with a boat hook, and when they got him on shore one of his friends rushed up, crying, “Colo- nel, are you hurt?” “No!” he snorted. “Never swallowed a drop!”—Everybody’s. Turning the Tables. Here is a West Point story, told about one of the awe inspiring sentries who halt everybody who approaches after 11 o’clock at night. Old black Rob, the servant of one of the academy instructors, gave his ver- sion of it thus: “Mis' Margaret, yo’ knows dat cul- lud girl w’at works fo’ Captain Smif? Waal, she were comin’ home late ias’ night from der city, an’ when she clomb up to der top ob dis yere tall hill one ob dem dere little sentry boys yell out loud to her an’ say: ‘Halt! Who comes yere?) Josephine, she’s not a bit feared ob anything, so she jes’ speaks up sorta quick-like an’ say: ‘Now, don’t you be scairt, honey. No- body ain’t gwine to hurt yo’! ”—Wom- an’s Home Companion. And Boost For oe NER pened tee pt tte ener pm They are selling fast. 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