Young Iowa NEI,!,1R V. WAIJRn, T1IR IOWA SCULPTRESS AT WOHK ON HICR POriTilAIT BUST Or (JOVKRNOIt I'l'MMINS-SMK WAS I NTKltKUPTKD BY TUB FIKK IN THIi IOWA STATU CAPITOL. II IN TUB press of other business In- ciJont to the nssembllng of a legislature Governor A. B. Cum mins of Iowa found timo to give, sittings to an artist engaged in making a clay model of a lie:id and bust of the governor for exhibition ut the Chi cago Art Institute. The sittings were rudely Interrupted by the capitol tiro, but not abandoned, and the completed work h is since, been placed on exhibition In Chicago. Miss Nellie V. Walker is the urtist whose deft fingers moulded the face and features of liwa'i chief executive. Miss Walker Is fctt Iowa girl, daughter of a family re siding in Moulton, Davis county. In this unpromising village on the Missouri border Miss Walker became ami itlous and de veloped a wonderful talent for modeling In clay, and four years ago, with no help save that of her own industry, Hhe com menced life in Chicago, studying under Lorado Taft. Miss Walker is now one of Ms teachers in the Art institute, and she Is already famous for tho beauty of lines he puts Into the hands and arms she models. Some time ago she prepared a bust of Dr. Walker of Ottumwa, a relative, and this was sent to the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where it attracted much attention This encouraged her to a etill more ambitious effort and she modeled the head of Governor A. B. Cummins. Women at HK United States are not the only country In the world in which women have been permitted to practice, although It avails little In conservative England that a woman seeking to become a barrister should be well equipped. The damning fact remains that she is a woman, and that is held to be objection enough. Still, in spite of this, a Miss Williams of Oxford is mak ing a request to be allowed to practice. Accounts of her education and acquire ments show her to be well fitted. She was as a child specially trained by her father and taught to think, write and read In French and German before she knew Eng lish. Although not attending school until he was 16, she had six hours' tuition a day from university professors. She began law studies at IS. In the London B. F. examination she was second In the list of honors; in the Oxford B. A. she had a second-class In the school of Jurisprudence, and la now an LU D. of London, one of the highest degrees In Kurope. She says Of her intentions: "Yes, when I have sufficiently aroused public Interest in the merits of my case I shall seek admittance to the inner Tem ple. If, In the light of recent history, my application is refused, there will be Judges, and I shall eventually lay the case before Parliament. All over Kurope women are allowed to practice law, but here the priv ilege is denied us. I should join the Ox ford circuit and live here. Hut the whole of my work would be done gratuitously. I am to be a poor man's lawyer. Just because I am a woman I don't see that I can't do the work. Id the matter of la Sculptress W VJ-,Ss- - f 'v3 I ! On (he day of the fire in Iowa's state capitol Mbs Walker was busy In lier im provised studio In the attic over thj icnate chamber. II is a line place for such work, for the peak of the roof runs up rcirly forty feet above the attic floor and there Is a great skylight. Miss Walker was at work here with her clay when a whlff of smoke poured through a crack near the dome. She was too far away to hear any of the noise Incident to the lire fighting far below her. She made haste down the wind ing stairs and soon realized that her work was In danger. But she could get no one to go to the attic and rescue the lncomj leto work and nil she could do was to cover it with oilcloth and wait 8he barely had time to get back to the stairway and down before tho attic was so filled with smoke as to make It dangerous. Happily the clay was uninjured und she was able in a few days more to finish the head and bust. Governor Cummins, Incident to the fire and the legislature, was overwhelmed with work, but he insisted on giving the rest of the sittings, declaring that the hour of relaxation was not wasted. Miss Walker is a modest Utile woman, bright and cheerful, and thoroughly devoted to her work. All who saw the clay model of Governor Cummins declared that It was a fine likeness und u work of real art. the Bar bor my examinations have surely been a test sufficiently seTere." In Norway, for the first time in its his tory, a woman lawyer has taken her place in court and conducted the examination of witnesses. The magistrate said it was quite unprecedented, but he could not pre vent it. Another woman, after pairing with honors all the examinations In the faculty of law in the Chrlstlanla university, has been appointed secretary in tho law section of the department of Justice. Miss Florence Gllmore holds the position of assistant attorney general of tho Phil ippines, but never goes Into court to plead cases. It is her duty, with two other os sistantB, to inquire Into tho merits of par don cases and make recommendation to the attorney general as to the legal status of euch case. If the recommendation of the assistant is for pardon the opinion is signed and the accused goes free. Miss Gilmore, now at home In this country, was admitted to the bar in Ann Arbor, Mich., November 12, and this will udmit her to the bar In the Philippines on passing an exuminution in the local code. A Leap Year Episode "My affections are already engaged," he said. She turned pale. "I am very sorry," he added. Then he arose and took his hat. "Good night," he said. She looked after his retreating form. "That's my fourth failure," she said, "but the year Is young yet" Cleveland Plain Dealer. Two New Omaha Pastors ft .-w i Y J KF.V. J. R H I ' M M O N OF NF.VAPA. la, CALLKH TO HK PASTOU OF KOI'NT.'.K MKMtlltlAI. LUT1IKKAN ClHIKCll OK OMAHA. HV. JOHN R Hl'MMON. who has Just been called to the pastorate of the Kotmtze Memorial Luth eran church of Omaha, Is a in live of Ohio, unci but 31 yens old. R Ho was graduated from the Wittenberg college, Springfield. O., in 1M7, llh the degree nf bachelor of arts, nnd went to New Yoik, wherr studying law In the he spent two years University of the City of New York. January 1, l!-!W, he returned to Springfield Mid nlered the Lutheran Theological seminal y lit that pluee and in May. 1HC1. was r. ran ted the degree of bachelor of divinity. The following year Wittenberg oolloie gave him the degree of master of arts. Four months: before bi Inn graduated from the Fciiilnary, Mr. llum mnn took charge of the lCnglish Lutheran church nt l'rl'.;nn, O., rfn a call from the congregation, mil held the charge for a year and a half, v hen ho resigned to go to Nevada, la., from which place he Is called to the church In Omaha. In both Urbnna and Nevada Hev. Mr. llummon met with more than t!ie ordinary -share of success a a pastor, and win popular both In and out of hN congregation. He gave up both chaiges because he was In Won Famous tlFTFF.N years ago n hy young I4 " I country girl was summoned from I her log cabin home to serve as jW23!t 11 wnness In a neighbor s law iT H uw ' suit. It whs her first glimpse of the world that lay leyond the hamlet wlura she was born. Tho sleepy town was m 're Imposing than the walled cities of her dreams, the little court house was a stalely hall of Justice and tho cabalistic signs or the shorthand reporter filled her eouI with wonder. Last week this girl won the most bril liant legal battle ever fought by a woman. Other women have assisted senior counsel In famous suits. But Miss Florence II. King, oidy woman patent lawyer In this country, fought her fight, singe, handed and alone, before Judge Kohlsaat In the United States circuit court of Chicago, and on her oral argument won n verdict against a $5,000,000 company and secured an Injunc tion so binding that no human lieing but Mrs. Myrtle M. Kogers can manufacture, sell or use the Kogers patents. In May, 19o0, tho inventor of the noted Rogers "receptacle" and "packing," known among railroad men us the '"Kogera goods," died, leaving his rights and patents to hi; wife, Mrs. Myrtle M. Kogers. The pack ing is cotton waste and steel wool, the lat ter made of steel turnings, cut spirally from steel rods, expresly manufactured for this purpose. Tho receptacle was a clever device for holding the packing against the axle in the journal box. The demand for packing Is enormous, for the United States railroads alone use H4 ,000,000 pounds an nually ut SO cents a iound, affording a royal revenue to the manufacturers. Mrs. Kogers was unfamiliar with business tactics und finally accepted the proposition of the newly organized Federal Supply company, which was Incorporated lor $3, Ooo.Oou, to transfer her patents on a lleen. e, the company contracting to pay l.er a mini mum royalty of 'i cents a pound for the packing, or 12,000 every quarte r. After enjoying the princely profits for sev eral years the company suddenly cancelled her license February 1, 19K1, and ulso at tacked Mrs. Kogers' title to the patents, defying hrr to assert her rights. Mrs. Kogers Immediately organized a company and began manufacturing her husband's up a host of business friends for her, and goods on a small scale. The Federal Supply company's act raised she quickly built up u thriving business. When It came to the notice of the Federal Supply company the price was cut to tho actual cost of production and her limited capital forbade competition at these ruin pus rates, lier orders were returned, one I I ... -t UF.V. W. FltANClS BK'.'OKU NKW PASTOK OF HH.I.SIDK (MNUHK GATIONAL Clll'KCII. OMAHA. each Instance otTeied an opportunity for broader and better work. Rev. W. Francis Merger, who has Just come to Omaha to be pastor of the Hill Fide Congregational rhun h, was born In lKiil of Scotch-Irish and Germanic parent age. He was find of books early In life, and enterxl college at the age of IS, work ing his way through, tlanlly graduating with high honors from the University of Pt nnsyh'rt.la. He has had the advantage of nine years of university and divinity training, lie began preaching In IWC, hl.1 first pastorale I oing in New York state, where he was sm cossf ul. (-'even years ago he enti rt I on evangelistic work under tha New Fiigland Kv.ingcllstte association of Boston, and In this vc i k has labored In almost every stale cast of the Missouri liver. Last year he was urged to como to Nebraska, and recently w was called to Hillside Congregational church. He Is a specialist in Cl.rhtology, having tho manuscript of a volume now ready for tha press, ami has been a frequent contributor to magazines and other publications of prose and poems. lie Is also engaged on a work of fiction, having it almost half completed. Ir. Itilger Ih the author of "Christians' Helper" and "Ristor Sou venir." Legal Victory road sending buck 0,(X0 pounds. The pur chasing agents said: "We are extremely sorry for you, Mrs. Kogers, but we cannot afford to pay you 20 cents fur what we cnit get for a shil ling." In vain she tried to get an injunction, but lawyers laughed ut her and absolutely refused to touch the case on the ground of priority of urt, us the most celebrated patent lawyers and patent experts Insisted that springy metal wire and steel shavings wei'e equivalent to the steel turnings em ployed In the Kogers patents. Almost crazed at the certainty of losing her entire fortune and enriching others through her husband's Ingenuity, she ap pealed to Miss King, who instantly realized that the suit pivoted on a question of equivalents. She made exhaustive experi ments with steel shavings which are cut with the grain of the metal und discovered that under tremendous pressure and fric tion, the shavings were ground to dust and were therefore valueless. Spiral wires scratched when placed perpendicularly in tho journal box nnd if laid horizontally, the cotton waste slipped out, leaving the colls of wire lying useless in the bottom of the Journal box, thus quickly proving their Inadequacy. Hut the steel turnings, cut transversely from the end of a rod, hold the cotton waste with a thousand teeth of steel, nor could It be torn or plucked out by hand or machinery. And the cut against tho grain gave the finest power of reslstunco, for it withBtunds pressuro and friction and produces the ideal conditions that havo made the Kogers famous. Miss King's filial argument lasted half a day, for, womanlike, she had the last word, and a most conclusive word it proved to be. Sho marshaled her arguments asj a general does tin army und her line of defense, built up In the many months of careful study, was impregnable, and sha won the biggest legal woman's victory yet chronicled in the United Stales, if not In tho world. Chicago Tribune. Where it Hegan He was a bum. Anybody who saw him leaning against the bars could have told oa much from his rags. The good citizen Btoppcd In front of the cell. "Why are you here?" he askisl. "Aw, I had a little jag on," replied the bum. "Too bud, too bad. Oh, that men might know tho danger In the first drink." " 'Twasn't th" first drink, pard. It was Utf last that caused all Ui' trouble," MUwat. kee Journal.