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Uhe Nebraska. Independent
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SEPTEMBER 7, 1905
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
ESTABLISHED 1889
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' The proper tucitf of mankind fa man. i
I r '" "' Pep6- j
Chief Justice Fuller of the United
States supreme court was mistaken
for an itinerant German musician at
the Savoy hotel, London, recently,
and given a poor room on this account.
The mistake was rectified.
Dr. Carl Peters, the well known
explorer, has just returned to London
after an extended tour in South
Africa, principally in Rhodesia, where
he has made some interesting historic
discoveries tending to confirm his
theory that Mashonaland is the ancient
land of Ophir. ... -
Gen. Alexander S. Webb, Gen.
Charles B. Comstoc:, Gen. M. Mc
Greeg, Gen, Samuel Breck, and Chief
Justice Nichols of the supreme court
of Louisana are the sole survivors of
the West Point class of 1855, which
holds its half century reunion this
year.
Amos Rusie. once a famous pitcher
of the New York cluD of the National
base ball league, is a lumber hand
and has been engaged in this busi
ness in the southern part of Indiana
for some time at $1.50 a day. It is
now announced that he has obtained
a better place in Cario, 111., where
he will receive $4 a day. Rusie re
ceived $5,000 a year while with the
New York club, but for the last two
years he has drawn only $1.50 a day.
It is not likely he will ever re-enter
the base ball field.
President Roosevelt's appointment
of Col. Oswald Herbert Ernst, corps
of engineers, U. S. A., on the Isthmian
canal commission, has been well re-
"celved. As one looks over the record
of this valiant and efficient officer
one sees that a service such as his
was duly honored. He was not only
promoted but entrusted with the re
sponsibility of more important enter
prises, all. of them having to do with
the country's good. After his gradu
ation from West Point, in 1864, as
flrRt lieutenant In the corns of en
gineers, he served as assistant chief
engineer, army of Tennessee, until
the close of the Atlanta campaign.
Here are some of the places of high
rank in which he has been found:
Assistant engineer on fortifications on
Pacific coast; astronomer with United
States commission to observe solar
eclipse in Spain; instructor in prac
tical military engineering, military
signaling and telegraphy at West
Point; engineer in charge of West
river improvements; in charge of
harbor improvements on Texas coast,
where he inaugurates tiie " great work
which resulted in the deepening of
the channel at Galveston harbor; on
duty as member-of various engineer
ing boards and cor.in:ssions; com
mander of troops in the affair of
Coamo in Spanish war; inspector-general
of Cuba and president of the
Mississippi river commission. His
salary on the Panama board will be
$7,500.
Soon after Andrew Carnegie bought
Skibo there was a circus exhibiting
in the neighborhood of the castle,
and one of the main attractions wa3
an orang outang. One night the orang
outang got out, fell over the cliff and
was killed. In the morning, two of
the keepers looking over the grounds,
ran across the body of the dead
orang outang. One of them scratched
his head and said: "He ain't ho 'igh
lander; that's sure. The other said:
"He ain't no lowlander; they ain't got
that much hair on 'em." After a while
one of them proposed to the other
fellow as follows: "111 go up to the
kirk and see the parson, and you
go to Mr.. Carnegie and see if any
of his American gentry are missing."
According tor the Boston Herald
former Secretary of State Olney, tells
this story on Justice Gray, who prefers
walking to riding, and a carriage to
a street car: In Boston he was pro
vided with a carriage by the United
States marshal. From Boston he .went
to Providence to hold court. He asked
the United States marshal there to
provide him with a carriage to carry
him back and forth. The marshal
said he could not do so without pay
ing 'for it out of his own pocket.
"Very well," said Judge, Gray, and
paid for it himself. The Providence
marshal wrote to the Boston marshal
and asked him how he managed a car
riage for Judge Gray. "Easily enough,"
wras the response. "I provided Judge
Gray with a carriage, and my account
went through without any trouble.
You see, I put the item under the
head of 'care and Iransportation of
prisoners.'"
Robert J. Smith of Terre Haute,
Ind., was a classmate of Sato, the
spokesman for the Japanese peace
plenipotentiaries, afDe Pauw univer
sity of the class of 1881. Three Japa
nese arrived at the Greencastle in
stitution at the same time, Chinda,
Kawamura and Sato. Senator Bev
eridge was in college at the same
time. A few years ago when the
senator was in St. Petersburg he was
waiting at a street crossing for the
carriage of the Japanese ambassador
to pass when from the carriage there
came the salutation, "Hello, Bev." It
was Chinda, then secretary of lega
tion, and he was calling the senator
by the college name. The two held
a reunion. Sato's career after leav
ing the Methodist institution is sum
marized as follows: clerk In the for
eign office, chief of telegraph bureau,
second secretary of legation at Wash
ington, charge d'affaires of the same,
second secretary of legation at Lon
don, chief of the bureau of protocol
of Japan, first secretary of legation
at Paris, first secretary of legation at
Berlin, minister resident and consul
general at city of Mexico in 1900.
Since then he has been in the home
diplomatic service.
The nearest that John Hay ever
came to. affirming thaf he was the
author of "The Breadwinners" was his
corection of the very full biographical
sketch that appears in volume 9, page
12, of the National Cyclopedia . of
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American Biography, says the Hart
ford Times. In that biography it is
stated that he is credited with the
authorship of "The Breadwinners.." A
typewritten copy and later a galley
proof were submitted to Mr. Hay for
the purpose of correcting any erors
of fact, and,, while he made some
changes in his family history and
eliminated some statements regard
ing his relation to certain world
politics, he allowed the above state
ment to remain.
According to English population life
tables, only twenty-two persons out of
every 100,000 born live to be 100 years
old. Of those who reach this great
age but a small part retain their
health and faculties unimpaired. Capt.
Jerome B. Osier, who recently died in
Chicago at the great age of 105 did so.
Until a short time before his demise
he was an active and enterprising life
insurance agent. David Wark, who
has just died at Fredericton, N. B., aged
101 years and 6 months, also did so.
Mr. Wark had long been the oldest
legislator in ; the world. Of Irish
birth, he settled in New Brunswick
eighty years ago. In 1832 he was elect
ed to the New Brunswick legislature
and he was almost constantly in pub
lic office from then until his
death. He had been a member of the
Canadian senate, a life office, since the
dominion was federated in 18C7, and
he never ceased to take an active in
terest and part in its proceedings. Mr.
Wark could distinctly remember the
conference of the powers at Vienna in
1814 and Napoleon's defeat at Water
loo the next year. He was a success
ful merchant as well as politician for
many years, and the commercial, in
dustrial, and political history of the
last century, which he had helped to
make, stretched out before his memory
like a great panorama. He never be
came a burden to himself or others or
got out of touch with the progress and
spirit of his time. His age was "as a
lusty winter, frosty but kindly." It is
worth while to live a century if one
can live it thus.
SUCCESS
Two ships sail over the harbor bar,
With the flush of the morning
breeze,
And both are bound for a haven far
O'er the shimmering summer seas,
With sails all set, fair wind and tide,
, "They steer for the open main;
But little they reck of the billows
" wide, . . .
Ere they anchor safe again.
There is one, perchance, ere the sum
mer is done, .
That reaches the port afar;
She hears the sound of the welcoming
gun
As she crosses the harbor nar.
The haven she reaches, Success, 'tis
said,
Is the end of a perilous trip;
Perchance e'en the bravest and best
are dead,
Who sailed in the fortunate ship.
The other, bereft of shroud and sail,
, At the mercy of wind and tide,
Is swept by the might of the pitiless
gale
'Neath the billows dark and wide.
But 'tis only the one in the harbor
there
. That.receiveth the meed of praise;
The other sailed when the morn was
fair,
And was lost in the stormy ways.
And so, to men who have won re
, nown
In the weary battle of life,
There cometh at last the victor's
' crown, ,
Not to him who fell in the strife,
For the world recks not of those who
- fall, .
Nor cares what their trials are;
Only praises the ship that with swell
ing sail
Comes In o'er the harbor bar.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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