Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-21

kESSA As An AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER.
pictures that ever taken Of the int Senator
Beek of kentucky was made BY senator kenna.
IL represents Senator Beck sitting under a great
osk tree with his dog beside him and the picture
70 most hfe-hke- IL was the best photograph
mat was ever taken Of the great Kentuckian.
How EENSs LOST DEEE.
The most OF Senator keunG's pictures are in
Simultaneous ones and it was long a hope Of his
that he would be able to photograph deer on
the jump. At one time he had made all his ar
rangements for photograph OF this kiud.
There was deer in the bushes and its only way
o1t ~ss through a narrow gorge, where il would
have 10 jump stream kerna had the bows GO
INTO the bushes TO start up the deer and he had
hrs band on the bulb ready TO press il when the
deer should appear. A be heard il crashing
through the brush. however, the spiri; of the
nanter overrode that Of the photographer and
ne dropped the camera and picked up his gun
and n the deer sprang forth he killed il. In
-pea<ing Of this not long ago he said he re-
grested very much that he had lost tho pic
ture.
STORIES OF BEN BUTLER
IL isqueer how death treats public men. On
the SANE night that Senator Kenna died on
Capitol Hill IN Washington another statesman
passed away. His deathbed was located not a
stones throw from that Of the young Senator
and. Ike kennA, he had kept his life work going
on untl4 me lA-t- ne was. however. thirty wears
oider than Senator kenna and he was figure
IN the public eve almost before Senator Kenna
sas born Gen. Butler also began life Young
but for nearly halfa century was a national
character. Had ksnna lived thirty years longer
hov much more might he have accomplished
He was only eight years old when John sherman
came to Congress and be was still a boy when
Blame was in bis prime be was only twelve
years old when Ben Butler jumped into ma
uonsl prominence At the Charleston con-
vention. and when he started into the
confederate army private Butler
hal gone through his career at New Orleans
and bad become . major general Every day
Of Butlers life for more than half a century
vas packed full Of activity. His fingers were
on the keyboard to which are attached the
wires Of the grea. things OF our nation and he
secomplishsd every year more than many a
dozen other public men A close friend Of his
who was associated with him for years in busi-
Ness told me the other night that he made more
than ESQ 90 annually At his Law practice and his
income from his work often ran into the hun
dreds of thousands year His guberna-
torial campaigns cost him $l0o. 900 apiece. and
when be ran for President the candidate Of
tbs labor party he had TO mortgage the big gray
stone house which he sfterward sold to the gov
eminent to get the ready money he needed. /
knov a man who held Q mortgage Of $50 600 on
this property for SOME years, and am told that
bufisr spent every cent Of 10 and more in his
campaign
inES BurIKR's Law pxAcTlcE-
Speaking Of Ben Buffers Law practice, he had
many big eases before the supreme Court
which netted him fortunes, vet I happen to
know that he did q large amour. Of ..thank
you business. His heart was a. big as his
body. and while he charged millionaires tens
= Thousands for bis work the poor got it for