The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-04

4AOd MO philosophical rhymes hung
back at him in numerous kilograms and
letters. The day President Roosevelt
announced his selection, one of the
Kansas delegation in the White House.
systematically limiting at the difficulties
which Will greet the new commissioner
when he takes up the task of pleas
ing a million pensioners and their
friends, wired to Ware the following
line: Face the wind, but close your
Jaw. This bit of advice was taken
from "lronquilis" humorous piece
IN which he describes the experience
OIL a "brass-eyed bird pup" who met
a Kansas zephyr" with open mouth,
ana who was thus turned upside down
and inside out"
Representative Calderhead simply
sent couplet taken from Wares Jingle
Dewey at Manila Bay, and said: And
Dewey feel discouraged? 1 do not think
we dew This was a delicate init
mauon that after all the contest for
TINS once OF Pension Commissioner
Kansas has come out on top. 1t may
also have conveyed an intimation that
the local controversy in the Sunf1ower
state as to which of her citizens
should be chosen had been happily set
tied.
Those who humorously suggest that
the new Commissioner of Pensions will
put his decisions in rhyme and temper
adverse rulings with poetical express
slons may not be so far from the
mark. When a couplet serves his
purpose Mr.. Ware does not hesitate to
use 1t, and he has before this enlivened
many musty leSal document with
the scientillation of his poetic humor.
Probably the only case on record
where the archives of a Supreme Court
contain case expressed in poetry is
IN the nineteenth Kansas +Supreme
Court reports. Mr.. Ware was engaged
IN case known as THE State VS..
Lewis and his poetical account is
embalmed in the official reports. The
ludicrous side of this case appealed to
'Ironquill;" because it was that of a
man charged with larceny and lodged
IN Jail, but who escaped from prison
to be rearrested. On his trial he was
cleared of the charge of larceny. but
was convicted of breaking Jail. This
part OF the case is thus stated by the
reported:
This defendant while at large
Was arrested on a charge
OF burglarious intent,
And direct to Jail he went.
But he somehow felt misused.
And through prison walls he oozed,
and in some unheard-of shape
He affected his escape
Mark you now: Again the law
on defendant placed its paw,
Like hand of iron mail
And resocked him into jaiI.
winch, said Jail while so coralled,
He by sockage-tenure held.
Ware ms n Lawyer,
Writing verses is to Mr.. Ware a rec
reatlon and a spastime. His serious
business in life has been the success
1uI practice of law Ia &c L. c
hlgh attainments and ability, and he
belongs to the firm of Gleed. Ware &,
Gleed, practicing of Topeka. He has
a nigh reputation in Kansas, which
has followed him to Washington.
where his ability has more than once
been displayed in the argument of i'm
portant cases before the Supreme
Court of the United States.
It was while in attendance unon the
latter court few weeks ago. repre-
senting Kansas in the celebrated irri-
cation case of Kansas VS. Colorado.
that he had the interview with Presi-
dent Roosevelt which resulted in his
accepting the appointment as Commits
sioner of Pensions. The point in con-
troVersy In this case is the right of one
safe to utilize the waters of an inter
state river to the detriment of another
commonwealth. Mr.. Ware has the
satisfaction of knowing that he has
won the first point in the case before
the Supreme Court. He has been en-
| gagged in many other suits of equal
Importance and President Roosevelt
was perfectly well acquainted with his
reputation as a lawyer when he picked
him out as the new Commissioner OF
| Pensions.
Mr.. Ware is a Yankee by birth, and
can trace his lineage back to the Puri-
tans of Massachusetts. He was born
at Hartford, Conn, on May "a, 1891,
and is a lineal descendant of Robert
Ware, one of the earliest settlers of
Massachusetts. He comes of a hardy,
long-lived race. as his parents and
his four grandparents all lived
to celebrate their golden we'd
dings. Physically Ware is we'll set up.
He is fully six feet tall and weighs in
the neighborhood of 225 pounds. He is
we'll proportioned, active and grace
full. His face is handsome. He wears
a heavy, iron gray moustache and his
fine head is crowned with a heavy
growth of iron gray hair. He would
| be a marked man among thousands.
He has a slight tendency to over
weight and to correct this he spends
considerable time every year in the
| open air at hard manual labor. He