The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-21
JEsTs TOLD BY NOTED MEN.
Neat Anecdotes of Public Men Rela-
ted by Their Friends.

United States are now stopping at Deer
park. They are young King, the son OF the
great Texas cattle owner, and the young
fellow who married Kings daughter. King
was originally steamboat captain on the
Mississippi river. He went out to Texas
and when he died few years ago he had
more CATTLE than any other man in the
world. His widow now manages his estate.
and understand that her cowboys branded
something like $4,000 calves
this spring. This would represent o herd
of something like three or four hundred
thousand cattle. and the King boys are
worth millions. When i saw them each
wore soft hat of dove color, and | was
toll that tn y came to Deer park in broad
hrimmed straws of the style common In
Texas. As soon as they saw that these
were not in fashion at Deer park, one of
them telegraphed an order to u halter in
New York. and the next day the stylish hats
which they now wear came G. q. ID.
This story was told me in company with
Uncle Jerry Rusk, and as 1 commented
upon his tall white plug, he said: 81 don't
wonder that the King boys wanted differ
ent style of hat if they were not in fashion.
Every part IF the country has its own head
gear, and | shall never forget an experience
of mine at Naatasket, near Boston. | was
governor Of WIsco sin at the time, and out
there we thought nothing was SO genteel as
a black silk tile. | came east to get a short
rest at the seaslore; and when I landed on
Nantasket Beach found that myself and
the coachman were wearing hig1 hats
These Bostonese are a curious sort of people,
you know. They want to look at your
genealogical tree and analYze your blood to
see that it is blue before they have much to
do with you. They are especially afraid of
anything that is not from New England or
that is at all out of the way, and wandered
around among them for three days before
any Of them spoke to me- | have never
been treated so before, and couldn't under
stand it and / at last said to myself that it
must be my hat. ! at once went to my
room and put on a little travelling cap that
made me look like the devil, but which was
not unlike some of the hats of the Bostonese.
| then went down and posed on the hotel
piazza, and had not been sitting there five
minu es before man came up and spoke to
me. He was one-legged man and he had
grand army button in the lapel of his
coat. He noticed my.buttOn and from that
asked me where | was from. l told him
that was from Wisconsin. Indeed" said
he. 81 know an elegant fellow in Wiscon-
sin. He is one of the brightest and briniest
men / know" You do, and who is he?"
said /. "His name is RusK," replied the
one-legged Bostonian. He is governor of
the state" Eyes" said coolly, as looked
the one-legged man in the eye. 81 know him
better thaI you do, and can tell you, you
are mistaken in your opinion of him. He
is whelp.n
"What'm said the man, and he jumped
from his seat and pranced around on his one
| leg as if he were going to get mad. He
turned to go awoy and l called him back
again and made him sit down. AS he took
| his chair ! said: "lu seems to me that have
met you before. Have you ever been in
Washington
Yes" was the reply.
"Have you ever been before the invalid's
pension committee Of the House!"
Eyes" he replied, "and were you there?'
| YES" said /, Il was the chairman Of
chat committed"
WHY" said the man, you're Old Rusk
himself" and with that we again shook.
| The man had not seen me for years, and my
hair and beard had grown white. Under
that little travelling cap he did not know
me, and | don't suppose he would have
recognized me under the tile got a new
hat day or SO later, and found things as
pleasant as I could wish.
L met Justice Bradley, of the supreme
court at Deer park He left Washington
at the close of the session not feeling at all
well, and came to the mountains expecting
to spend but few days. His health i'm
proved 80 rapidly that he brought up his
family and decided to remain for the sum-
| mer. There Is no more remarkable man in
the United States than Judge Bradley
About feet inches high, he has at n
years of age as springy walk and as good
| a digestion as any young lawyer of 80. He
comes originally from New York, and
when met him the other night asked him
as to the truth of the story about his boy
hood, and that he was asked when he
1l4 L
was going to be, and had demurey
replied that he had not yet decided whether
he would be President of the United
States or justice OF the supreme court. JUS
tice Bradley replied, mo, that was not the
correct story, but something really did
occur very much like it. l had been read
ing history of England and was much
interested in Charles l. When the above
question was asked me | replied that
wanted to be either judge or king, and
that on the whole l decided that would
rather be judge, as l found that the judges
| killed kings
Justice Bradley has one of the most re-
markable analytical minds of the country
| he is a noted Mathematician and one of the
curosities of his constitution is that he runs
to figures for rest. He likes to reckon UP
the hour that the sun will set on the odd
days Of the year 5000, for instance and he
has been even known to make almauacs
and calendars of various kinds for fun. He
is now amusing himself at Deer park in
this way, and the first night he arrived he
went out and stal1ed Off number of point,
from the north star, and he has since calcu
lated the altitude, the latitude and the
longitude of his present situation. He keeps
the mails hot with letters to the officers OF
the geological survey, and he has better
knowledge of where Deer park actually il
than any other man In the country
found him figuring away in the writing
room the other night, covering a shee
of foolscap with algebraic signs, and hi
is to me an Intellectual wonder. He il
one of the ablest jurists who ever sat upol
the bench. and you will fluid his opinions il
more than forty volumes of our supreme
court reports. He works about ten hours
day when he is in Washington on suprem
court work, and he does it all for pure loy
of the work. He could have retired hal
a dozen or more years ago, but he sticks t
, the bench as though he had reputation K
: make instead of having made one, and h
will probably die with law book in hi
hand. l asked him to-day as to whether h
!; thought the law offered as many advan
tages to young men to-day as it did when b
' entered upon its practice He replied, s.
, think 1t does, though the competition
! greater. Still there is more money TO b
made at the law now than ever before. Th
, fees are higher and the practice is changing