The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-13

I interest from its clearness. This is the
style of speechmaking that he has car
/ ried on through long and hard-fought
campaigns in his native state, where
/ he has had to contend against the
ablest and maturest minds. There
was no room for oratorical fiourishes;
| men and arguments nad to be over
come to satisfy his hard-headed con-
stituents.
! Ex-Governor RusselTs residence is in
the beautiful and historic part of the
| University City of Cambridge at the
corner of Brattle and Claiming streets.
| The grounds are large, with wide
stretching lawns shaded by spreading
elms. The house is OF the Queen Anne
style and has a stable to correspond.
Mr.. Russell. has lived here since his
marriage ii years ago. 1t is a home of
! taste and refinement, full of attractive
objects and delightful hospitality is
dispensed there. out of the hall hand
some i'm it's quartered oak finishings
and made CHEEKY on this chilly spring
evenings by bright open fire, one may
step into the library. This is Mr.. Rus
sells den, full of books. pictures and
relics of college life 1t bears every
appearance of being a working room:
and the busy lawyer and statesman
burns good deal of midnight oil there
at work over his briefs and speeches.
Across the hall Is the dainty drawing
room, where the mistress of the house
presides with charming grace. Near
this is the dining room, with most in
teresting fire place adorned with tiles
painted by Mr.. Russell's mother. with
pictures representing old houses in
which her family have lived during for
mer generations.
Governor Russell was born near by
in the Hosford mansion at Brattle and
Sharks streets, where his mother, Mrs
Elizabeth Ballister Russell, still lives
at the age of nearly so. In his birth
chamber a friend not long ago wrote
with diamond on one of the win
dow panes his name and the date of
his birth.
Mr.. Russell comes naturally by his
political instincts and love of public
affairs. His father. Charles Theodore
Russell, one of the most eminent law
yers of his time, held many public Of
fees. He was mayor of Cambridge
and a member of the Massachusetts,
senate.
One step further back and we find
that Charles Russell, the grandfather
of the present ex-governor, was also a
member of the state senate from the
Princeton district and one of the gov
ernor's councillors so years ago. He
was locally known as Squire" Russell.
These ancestors were all democrats
and were strong pillars I'm the Congre-
gational church, to which their worthy
descendant still adheres. Mr.. Russelps
ancestors in this country date back to
1910.
On his mothers side is an equally
strong lineage. The name of Ballister
is a corruption of the old French name
lie Ballistier, belonging to a Huegenot
family which sought refuge in this
country and settled in Marblehead,
Mass.
William r. Russelrs early education
was received in the public schools of
Cambridge, where he was prepared for
college. At 16 he entered Harvard,
where he made a good. though not re-
markable record as a student and took
a leading part in athletics. Graduating
in 1877, he entered the Boston univer-
sity law school with three ambitions
TO graduate at the head of his class, to
win the William Beach Lawrence prize
for the best essay and to deliver the
class Grafton at commencement All
three he attained with the first sum
ma cum laude" ever given by this
school In 1880 he was admitted to the
Suffolk county bar ana began practice