Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 4, 1909, Page 8

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1909. on all ocoasions, enabling him to become an expert in detecting an error or false- hood in other people. That is one of the secrets of a great lawyer. Quaint Notlons. It was one of his ideas In hygiene that fruit should not be eaten after nightfall, and therefore he commanded the occupants of "fll household to observe this rule The | idea provoked a great deal of merriment among the youngsters, who thereupon took delight in concealing apples In their beds and eating them immediately before golng | IOWA'S PIONEER LAWYER Recollections of Judge James Grant, “A Model American.” Omaha’s Fur Emporium MEN’ XMAS TIES 811k four-in-hand styles, in a varlety of this newest Collapsible Toy Go-Carts Buy them now for Christmas, as we only have a limited number of them on hand, and the price being 8o exceptioually low, you make & mistake if you do not. eteel rods, %-inch in width and are firmly riveted. The wheels are also HAWKEYE FOR HALF CENTURY | They are made of all Participant in the Making of Terri- State—Distinguinhed season's made of steel and latest Fur Specials for Saturday LOT 1—Beautiful sets of Russian lynx, large rug muff and Russian shawl to match; worth $15.00—price for Saturday, QUlY oo i iiinile neid .$7.50 LOT 2—Canadian marten sets, rag muff and large neck pieces; worth $15.00—our price ...... $10.00 LOT 3—Marmot sets, rug muff, nmmal shape, five heads and tails, Russian pelerine neck piece; regular price $20.00 —Saturday ..... i $12.50 LOT 4—Beautiful bluck Canadian marten set, new shapes, collar with six tails on back, wide shoulder, lurge open rug muff, 12 tails, shirred lmmg, worth $25. OO—pnce for one ddy . $17.50 LOT 5—Black Japanese lynx sets worth $35.00 and $40.00 —in q.nelot%aturdav..‘..‘.”. 5 $25.00 LOT 6—500 Jap mink sets; all specmlly priced at bargain prices. This is the great opportunity to buy Christmas presents. Make a small payment and we will keep them until called G. E. SHUKERT 401 South 15th Street. ' for. CHINESE TONGS RED HOT Romance with Agmosphere of Classic Tragedy Stafts Trouble in San Francisco. The tong war now being waged in San Francisco is a Chinese version of the old tale of the Montagues and Capulets. Two clans in our Oriental quarter, in dignity,” the Yeés and' On Yioks, treated each other with something of high disdain; but in the heart of & maiden jof the Yees there was' a tender sentiment for a young clansman of the On Yicks, and this being reciprocal, the two fled to- gether, while the families stayed behind {0 .shed each other's blood. All the yei- low Tybalts and Mercutios, Benvollos and Parises are out of their dark alleys and, &8 In old Verona, there are wounds given and received which, though not as “wide a8 church doors” or “deep as wells," are Indeed “enough!” Today the Yees are falling; tomorrow the On Yicks are gath- ered to ‘their fathers. WIll the lant- eyed Romeo and the little-footed Jullet continue the tragedy to the ‘accepted end and bring on a family reconciliation over their common tomb? Or will the war not cease until all the long-queued Montagues and Capulets are passed from nature to eternity or held in durance vile. It is an anclent tale that {5 belng epacted. here, as in the Verona of the play. Tts plot may have been old to the Romans; It may have been famillar to the Phoeniclans and its skeins. may have been entangled with the romances of the Nile. The feud of rival families, the loves that should have softened it, the anger and the clash and the catastrophe—these have been the setting of tragedies as old as the human race itself~8an Francisco Chronicle. o ———— If you have anything to sell or trade and want qluck action, advertise it in The Bee Want Ad. Columns. Mail Order Houses A mail order house in Chica, or. some other city may be able to sell you anything from a paper of pins to a house and lot, simp! to their catalogues, good watch that way. you a by referring you ut they can’t sell ‘Watches are very delicate machines that may be })ut out of order in a dozen ways lfter eaving the factory. how to put the watch into shape, won't sell one without doing A jeweler knows and he it. Mail order houses do not want to bother with that, and, as a matter of fact, they can- not if they would. Waltham Watches are the best in the world, but whether you buy a Waltham or some other kind, go to a jeweler, tell him what you want, and he will sell you a watch in running order. good Do not make the mis- take of trying to buy by mail from any catalogue; you won’t know what you are getting if you do. Waltham Watch Company Waltham, Mass. “James Grant, a model American,” a ploneer of the legal profession In lows, “‘one of the most sterling, worthy, helpful, interesting and delightful characters that ever ornamented the profession of law, cr blessed any commonwealth by his work and labors." These glowing, appreciative words intfo- duces a character sketch of Judge Grant In a late lssue of the Green Bag. Judge John F. Dillon supplied the inspiration for the sketch of his old-time but departed friend, to whom he paid this hearty tribute | “Cireuit Court Raeports:” “For five thirty years we have lived in town,.and during the latier half of that period much of my time was spent in your library; It gives me pleasure to avall my- | self of a graceful usage to record my high regard for you as a lawyer and a citizen, and my sincere attachment to you friend.” The formative perfod of the west brought to the front the best qualities of men of every vocatiorh Courage, backed by brain and brawn, was a prime requisite for the primitive conditions of ploneer. days. Pr fessions were incidental of winning a if ing from the soil. When settlements spring up and towns took shape, men of profe: sional training, tested in the crucible of hardship and privation, were by character and - training, fitted to give direction ploneer ideas and shape the destinies’ of cities and states. Judge Grant, accord- Ing to his blographer, loomed large in this class of men. A ploneer of lowa settlements west of the Mississippi were mighty scarce, he ¥aw the reglon or- ganized into a territory, participated in the making of its laws, assisted in its de- velopment into a state, helped to draft the constitution, served six years as judge in the days of judicial circuit riding, was one-of the early presidents of the Rock Island rafiroad,” and left a record as a lawyer second to none in the galaxy of distinguished pioneers of the Hawkeye state. and Bound for the Northwest. Judge Grant was.a North. Carolinian, born December 12, 1812. He graduated from the University of Chapel Hill, high up in the class of 1831, and especlally dis- At 21, delicate health and an aversion for slavery, caused him to set out on horse- back for the northwest, with Chicago in his mind's eye. Here he landed at the end of elghty days and was licensed to practice law in a community of 600 in- habitants and a future. That was in 1834, The “justly celebrated” lake breeze was doing business In those early days and playing havoc with delicate constitutions. Young Grant was obliged to move back into the high lands and dry lands, crossing the Mississippi in 1838, and settled down as a farmer near what is now Davenport. Shortly afterward Davenport was born, and Grant moved Into the young town that was destined to be the scene of his labors for the next half century. It was part of his plan’ of lite, says the blographer, to posses all the implements of his profession and to have them easily at hand. He seemed to realize that truth of Sharswood's maxim, that the lawyer's difficu’ty “is not so much to know the law as where to find it” Therefore he commenced to accumulaté ‘law books and in the course of time possessed the largest and most satisfactory library In the state of Towa. It was indeed the largest law li- brary in the northwest and contained more than 6,000 volumes, which were accumilated at an expense, since most of the volumes were extremely rare, of something like $50,- tising attorneys of its owner's acqaintance, and many of them freely consulted his books when working up cases against him. Con- the following Interesting fact: the supreme court of the state to be heid twice a year at Davenport, it was made a condition that it should be without cost to the state, a species of economy, by way, which has nothing to recommend ft. The better to accommodate the court and the bar, Judge Grant fitted up a room for the use of the court above his library, and set it apart for them for several years, neither receiving nor expecting compensa- ton. The judges and bar of the state can- not But fee] how much they are Indebted to him for access to a lbrary which was until recently the only one in the state at all complete.” Worker and Helper. He was a great and tematic worker. It was his habit to rise early, sometimes as early as 4 o'clock, and he was often found, by members of his household, delv- Ing into books by candle light. The wonder is that he had time to study so many things and become thorough in them. It is surely a great task for any man to master the professlon of law, but he became, as we ing and mining and smelting also. was not and experimenter in anything, but he was a schooled and graduated expert in law, metallurgy and rallroading. One would think that his time was all devoted to work, but it was not so. Under the roof of his Davenport home, after the war, he had a household ‘such as has seldom been seen in this or any other country. The following account of it was given by his nephew, Hon. Witaker M Grant: “When I went to his house in 1568, the family consisted of himsef and wife, his mother-in-law, three of his wife’ nephews and nieces and two of his own; T made three. Within a year he had three more of his own and one of his wife's and besides these he had three more of his own off at school, who some part of that time were at the house.” All of these nephews and nleces were under age, and the eldest a great task In undertaking to care for and educate these children. He had, in the south, and his offer was to each and every one of them that he would provide for them amply if they would emigrate to the west. Twelve of them accepted his offer. He was not a rich man at that time, and his fortune did not exceed §75,000 when he undertook prodigious work of kinship manity. He threw himseif, with his accustomed zeal however, and for all his who had accep the golden ‘west nephews and nd grow up with it. would rules. One of those rules w in the dedication of his second volume of | the same | as a| to | when | river | tinguished in mathematics and the classics. | 000. This library was offered to the prac- | cerning this library, Judge Dillon relates “When the legislature required a term of the | shal! presently see, a master of railroad- | He | whs 17. Judge Grant had surely assumed to be exact, twenty-four nephews and nleces transplant them at his own expense and this and hu- thor- oughness into the duties of pater familias nieces his offer to come to He lald down certain hard and fast rules by which they were to be governed, and he tolerate no departure from those that the to sleep. On one ocecasion, his suspicions aroused that his o not being obeyed In this particular unoxpectedly burst into the while several of the children about to go to sleep. They at his appearance and tried to concea among the bedclothes the apples they were eating. They were fairly caught, | the Judge suppressed a broad grin left the room immediately, saying, "1 | vise you to keep the rest of them breakfast."” | In all essential things he was adamant; |in things desirable, but not vital he haa | the softness and sweetness of a rose. A Student at Sixty. Of three nephews bearing his name, favorite was James B. Grant, one of the governors of Colorado, and founder of the |Grant Smelting company, which in years | past controlled the Omaha smelting plant. The judge educated this nephew as a min- | ing engineer at Cornell and Frelburg, Ger- many, staked him in several mining pros- pects that fafted, and furnished the capital, | some $40,00, with which James opened the | tirst smelter in Leadville and made a for- tune for both. An extraordinary ecircum- stance In his life was that when he was past the age of sixty y. Boston Institute of Technology and took course in metallurgy, placing himself an equal footing with the other students !and reciting with them. This required, of course, s€veral months. Afterward, one. of _his: friends : inquired why he did this extraordinary thing, he stated that in the course of his dealings with his nephew, James B. Grant, while they were operating a smelting property at or near Leadville |that gentleman politely informed him that he knew little or nothing about that busi- |ness and that | interests if he would return to Davenport and devote himself to his chosen occupa- tion of practicing law. He said he could not stand to have any nephew of his say that he did not know all about any busi- ness in which he was engaged. Public Activities. In 1841, after he had removed to Towa, he was elected a member of the house of |representatives of the Fourth Towa terri- |torial legislative assembly, and in 1844 he was elected delegate for Scott county to |the first constitutional convention, and in 1864 he was the sole representative of that | county to the second constitutional conven- tion of the territory, and it Is hardly neces- sary to say that in | rendered noteworthy services | pointed by Governor Chambers against his protest, prosecuting attorney, and in the year 1847, after. the adoption of the constitution under which Towa was ad- mitted into the union, he was elected a |Judge of the district court of Towa and |served during his term of five years, de- |clining a re-election. His last appearance upon the stage of life as a leglslator was in 1852, when he was speaker of the Iowa legislature. He had now tasted all the sweets of officlal position, and being full of the expanding enerzy of his day and generation, and realizing the great de- mands of the time in the great west, he set himself to do a much greater and more enduring work as a map. He returned to the practice of his profession, giving spe- _cl.l attention to rallroad cases. He also became personally and financlally inter- ested in rallroad enterprises, and was the first president of the Chicago & Rock Island Railroad cefpany. From that date, during some twenty odd years, he devoted himself with unremitting energy to his professional and business matters, and had at one time the largest practice of any man In the United Stutes, and ad- until | | a on of Towa, ington, He made at one time in a railroad case a fee exceeding $100,000. Wise Saws and Sayings. No record of Judge Grant's career would account of some of the Infirmities of his chaiacter. The very celerity of his‘mental |operations made him sometimes intolerant of dullness or sloth in others. He was full beset him. One of his maln maxims was that “civility and pollteness cost nothing, and pass current in all the markets of the world,” which he often quoted in his office and at home. Another ane of his firm be- llefs was that cheerfulness and good humor should always go with a good appetite to the family table. He insisted that there should be good humor and merriment al- ways in his family at meal times. theless, temper, he could not always control and on one occasion, his when his |baving a hot altercation with a man, he called the young man aside after the affair was over and said: ‘“Son, turneth away wrath. You should not have scolded that man, but let him think he was having his own way." that the man with whom the nephew had had the altercation came back and had an angry dispute with the judge about same subject-matter. Judge Grant lost hiy temper completely and knocked him down, whereupon the nephew, who could not re sist the temptation to have a laugh at his uncle's expense, approached him and said, “Unele, why didn't you try the soft answer on him?’ The judge immediately regained his composure and laughed, saying, “‘Yes, yes, 1 should have done so.” He was a constant reader of the Bible and often quoted it, but, like most other men, he was not quite able to live up to its pre- cepts In the year 18, realizing the commence- | ment of the decline of his powers, Judge Grant moved to Callfornia, taking up resi- dence in Oakland, where he passed awa: March 14, 181, in his seventy-eighth year. WANTED—To lease building containing seven to ten thousand square feet for fac- tory purposes. Address Friday and Satur- day, L. E. Roberts, Rome hotel. Bronc Diphtheria Cresolene is & Beon to Asthmatics. ‘weom more effective \a'::r‘:l.a ine the judge had | ders were and he room | were gasped | but | the | rs he went to the | when | it would be to their joint| both conventions he | He was ap- | perbaps, befo e the supremie court at Wash. | be rellable or honest which did not take | |of wise saws and sayings and tried to con- | fine his life to them, but temptation often | Never- | nephew, Whit M, Grant, was found by him | a soft answer | A few days after | the | Ladies’ $40.00 Suits—now. Ladies’ $30.00 Suits—now. 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Each a sepa- box— neat Christmas present; regular 50c value: epecial for. 25c one dark green comes in faney makes a rate 1t folds up fil Cheerfully Extend Liberal Credit To All Sea Tragedy at Singapore Pro- nounced an Exaggera- tion. The destruction of the steamship La Seyne near Singapore last week calls up in the mind speculation as to the ability of |anyone to prove, to actually demonstrate by first-hand evidence, that a shark was ever known to force the fighting, so to speak, and attack a living man in the water. There is a good deal to say on both sides. The dlsaster to La Seyne, in whatever light it 1s viewed, can be contemplated only with a sensation of horror. The plcture in the mind is vividly dreadful. On one hand we have the Frenchman steering to the northward, bound into Singapore from some port south of the line, on or méar which the accident occurred. It was one of the units of the great Mas- sageries Maritimes de France, perhaps the most important of all the ocean lines un- der the tricolor. It was in the Straits of Rhio, in the archipelago of that name. The hour was 4 In the morning, which, on the equdtor, would Indicate the darkness of midnight. ' All suddenly, out of the blackness, arose the iron hull of the British steamship Onda, which, having left Singapore at midnight, was hugging the Bintang shore, thundering on into the south; and In the | @aik it stepped on the Seyene as a man would step on & mouse that ran athwart him. That was all there was to the trag- edy, for in two minutes the Frenchman filled and foundered, leaving its human | cargo battling with death on the surface. That Is, those who were not sucked down into the warm whirlpool that spun and wriggled above the sinking ship. Then came the tales of the sea monsters that were cruising about, with a weather eve lifted for dainties of any description; here was a feast ready prepargd, and from all the cardinal points came the sharks, in | seas that are famous for their ferocious | citizens. We are told that in the attack men fought furiously in defense of Lhe women, fought till they themselves van- [1shed in the lambent fires of phosphorus that sleep in the tropical sea, the lithe bodies of their murderers -twisting and darting among their victims. Reports arrived that nearly 100 persons lost thelr lives through the sharks, which, it true, would summon visions of the hor- rors of foundering slave ships in the West Indies a century ago. But, looked at coldly, who Is It that has actually seen a shark bite a living man? Plenty of examples of dead bodies being consumed by sharks may be cited. But the shark, In spite of | his reputation and the sinister sound of his very name, is somewhat of a coward, like his distant land relative, the grizzly bear. The late Hermann Oelrichs of New York, probably one of the best amateur swim- mers in the world, made a standing offer |of a large sum of money that would be | pald to anyone who could testity and sub- stantiate his statement that he had seen a | shark bite a living, struggling man. Mr. Oelrichs always Insisted that sharks had never been seen tc attack & swimming person or one still alive; and his reward for the man who could prove he had wit- nessed such a spectacle held good in any part of the world. This reward was never paid, for the reason that no one could prove that he had seen the Incident. On investigation the claimant for the reward invariably fell back on the statement of some one else when it narrowed down to proof. “I was told so by an eyewitness," was the customary conclusion. SHARKS ATTACK ONLY DEAD| Sald should have been forbidden? Port Sald, Port Jackson, at Sydney, Australia, and the waters around Singapore are prob- ably the most dangerous localities for sharks. When steamships passing through the Suez canal reached Port Said in the past young Arabs would come up over the side and offer to dive overboard for silver colns, or to swim under the ship and come up on the other side, which was a much more perflous undertaking. Nassau, In the Bahamas, is another spot which, while not comparable with the other localities In its baneful repute, s vet looked upon, especially by the local population, with every manifestation of dread. The L X a———————— sponge fishermen and others who do busi- ness In the adjacent water are, Always willing to talk about the ‘harbormaster the glant shark, usually a hammerhead, that guards the bar and never sleeps. And In truth you can frequently see down in the transparent water the broad back of some one of the tribe sauntering sullenly about just above the floor of the harbor No authentic case has ever been run down In the Bahamas, however, in which a man lost his life or even any blood through the medium of & shark's teeth.—New York Herald. Novelties~FRENZER—15th and Dodge Buy Today or Christmas Two good reasons why this is good advice. You will have the one big present bought and settled. And the Grafonola “‘Regent’ is the newest and last word in musical instruments—going fast and can’t possibly have enough for all who will want one, The Columbia RAFONOLA ““Regent”’—$200 Genuine mahogany. Not a mere ““concealed-horn’’ grapho- phone but a completely concealed graphophone. ooomoumonnoooonooi : y [ children were all to be In bed at 10 o'clock at night; anether more important one was that they were to render an account to him of the expenditures of all the money he advanced to them. He had no patience with deception or duplicity of any kind. It is highly profitable to note that. his demand upon himself was for.the truth Of course this does not prove that mo shark has ever atticked a living man. On the contrary, where the most wolfish of the tribe most do congregate, it is much more than probable that proofs could be ob- tained by eye witnesses, If sufficient trouble were taken. Otherwise why Is it that diving for shillings at Suez and Por¢ N. B.— When buying a watch always ask your jeweler for a Waltham adjusted to temperature nnd position. Columbia Phonograph Co. .. Burr, Mgr. 1311-13 Farnam 8t. Schmoller & Mueller Bldg.,