Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 20, 1902, Page 25

e Wi i Knights and Daughters of Tabor Picnic | UNIFORMED OFFICERS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF TABOR. KNIGHTS OF TABOR SOUNDS THE TRUMPET REV. W. L. GRANT OF KANSAS CITY, Kan.,, ORATOR OF THE DAY. LUNCH UNDER THE Photos Taken at Park by a Bee Staff Artist TREES. “UP IN THE AIR.” Episodes and Incidents in the Lives of Noted People HE Cincinnatus of Denmark is the I minister of agriculture, familiarly known as “‘Old Hansen.” He is a small tenant farmer, who, upon taking up his ministerial appoint- ment, made the smallest possible change in his manner of living. When the duties of his high office permits he returns to his plow and the foddering. His son remains on the farm and works for the same salary, in spite of the rich post to which his father has been called. >— Howard P. Frothingham of 2 Wall street, New York, hus probably loaned more money than any other man who ever lived. He represents leading banks and trust com- panies on the floor of the exchange and it is no uncommon thing for him to loan from $1,000,000 to $20,000,000 a day in times of money stringency at prices ranging from 8 to 180 per cent. On these loans he re- ceives handsome commissions and is today one of the richest brokers of the street. He has been long known for the perfection of his dress and the urpanity of his man- ners. —_—— A memorial awaiting congressional action sets forth that Dr. T. R. Timbly really in- vented the revolving turret, which was first used in the Monitor-Merrimac fight, and urges that Dr. Timbly, who is now a very old man, be given national recognition in- stead of Ericsson, who is said to have been merely supervisory engineer of the famous war vessel. The doctor registered his pat- ent and filed a caveat for it in January, 1843; he took out letters patent, covering all improvements in ‘“revolving battery tower, whether on ses 21 iand,” in Septem- ber, 18€2 (Pat. No. 36,593) The memorial is presented to congress in name of the Patriotic League of the Revolution. _.@_ Ex-Governor Pattison, the choice of Penn- sylvania democrats for governor, is looked upon as the mascot of the party, the only man who can lead it to victory. He is a democrat of the old school and believes in economy with a vengeance. At the Har- risburg convention of 1890, the year in which Pattison was nominated and elected, it was determined to give him a fitting reception on his arrival in that city. He came in during a blinding rainstorm and was met by the leader of the Dauphin county delegation with this greeting: “Gov- ernor, we have got a prize carriage wait- ing outside for you, drawn by a pair of blooded horses, dressed in the best gold mounted harness in the state of Pennsyl- vania.” “Well, take them away, just as quick as It's too rich a thing for me to I'm going to walk that's plenty you c¢an. ride in or even look at. up under a dollar umbrella; good enough.” It is an incident that indicates in a nut- shell what manner of man Pattison is and it foretells the Issue upon which he hopes to win the election. —— Y ‘“Lafe” Young of Des Moines relates a story about Henry Clay Dean, the famous orator of a generation or so ago. Mr. Dean was generally referred to as ‘“Henry Clay Dean of Iowa,” even long after ne had es- tab.ished a home in Missouri. He explained his change of habi ation in this way: *You s2e, they passed a nefarious prohibition law in Iowa and there's your whisky gone. Then they abolished capital punishment and there's your hanging gone. And now the whole population seems to be arirting to- ward universalism and there's your hell g:ne. I can’t live in a state that nas neither hell, hanging nor whisky.” —_— The son of a slave was this year the orator for the graduating class of Harvard university. His name is Roscoe Conkling Bruce, the son of Blanche K. Bruce of Mississippi, who, although born a slave in Vigginia, received a good education at Oberlin college after his freedom had been bought; became sergeaut-at-arms of the Mississ ppi senate for two years, and after the war was elected United States senator from the same state and was also registrar of the United States treasury. The father of Roscoe Conkling Bruce was a talented man, and his son inherits not only the talents of his father, but seems to have amplified them in many respects. Young Bruce was fitted for college at Phillips-Exeter academy. vard in the fall of 1899. He attracted at- tention by winning the Coubertin meda offered Harvard students by Baron Couber tin of Paris, to stimulate interest in th~ problems of French politics. The story of his Christian name is inter- esting. When his father first entered tho senate chamber no one at first appeared to conduct him to the vice president’s chair to have him sworn in. Senator Conkling realized the situation, jumped up, and taking the negro senator by the arm, es corted him to the vice president's desh and stood spomsor for him, as It were, That act made a lasting impression on Blanche K. Bruce, and when his son was born he named him after the famous sena- tor from New York. Bruce will become a teacher at Tuskogee. —_— A young lawyer from the south appearing He entered Har- before Justice Blanchard in the New York Supreme court on a motion became en- tangled in complications of his own crea- ticn and was flounder.ng along in a hop:less attempt to extricate himseif, when the Justice, who never misses an opportunity to assist a tyro in difficulties, interruped “If the learned counsel will go back and repeat a little of what he sald I will be better able to pick up the thread of his argument.” “I noticed you couldn't,” rapldly stam- mered the young attorney. “It is a very ccmplicated point of law, but {if your henor will give me your close attention 1 will endeavor to make it so clear that even your honor can understand it." —— A Utrecht correspondent tells this story of the way ex-President Paul Kruger spends his nights: He retires at 8 p. m,, but gets up at 1 a. m., “dons a dressing gown and a pair of slippers and sits down to read his bible, smake and drink tea The teapot is set over a little spirit lamp and he brews it strong. And thus he sits from 1 until 8 o'clock, reading a®d com- menting aloud on the bible texts. At 3 o'clock he returns to his bed to fiaish the night's rest until 6, when he rises for a fresh day's labors.”