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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
