Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-01
Men and Things

James Storey Wright of SpaIding claims
to be the oldest bellringer in England
having been sixty-six years at the ropes
at Spalding parish church. He was born
on February 2, 1927, and began ringing at
IA years of age. For over thirty years
ne has been captain of the ringers at
Spalding parish church and has raised
the treble for these fifty years. He has
rung the bells In various parts of the
eastern counties.
Lord K1ngsburgh, lord justice clerk of
Scotland, has attained high rank among
public benefactors from the circumstance
of his having initiated more than forty
years ago. when young and little known
man at the Scotch bar. the agitation for
the halfpenny postcard system In the
United Kingdom.
The late DR.. James Gale. the famous
piind medical electrician, is said once to
nave taken a fee of ESQ 900 ($25o. .000). the
largest ever paid for medical electrical
attendance.
Hon. Percival Maitland Laurence. SUI
preme justice of Cape Colony South
AFRICA, who is now in this country. Is
said to bear a striking resemblance to
King Edward. He is a. Famous i,,r,st
and has been the supreme justice of Cane
colony for twenty-five years
Professor Edward w Morley of West
Hartford has received a cableRram from
noro Rayleigh, president of the Royal
soo.y oI bonoon, announcing that he
mas been awarded the Davy medal for
his distinguished services to science The
Davy medal was founded 100 years ago
IN honor OF Sir Humphry Davy.
So
Governor Magoon OF Cuba has pre-
sented to DR.. Carlos Finley, chief OF the
Iepartinen. OF health and sanitation of
recognition Of his discovery of the mos
quito theory of yellow fever. This medal
is awarded by the Liverpool School for
the study of Tropical Diseases In mann
ory OF Miss Mary Kingsley. the African
traveller ASiA
Inc influence of Saints -Gaudens will in.
crease rather than diminish fo. HE ~. "a
was unique, inimitable and will ha nov
petuaily inspiring. Ten years ago II was
SAID mere: Perhaps no living artist has
SO hlgn a reputation as Saint -Gaudens
ana SO strong an artistic influence. with
SO little or his work familiar to the gem
eral Pubic. Since then his public and
piiVa.e portraits and monuments have
reached wider public, and his position
became so high that at the Pan-American
exposition at Buffalo the Judges cnnid
meet artistic expectation only bv causins,
a separate and special medal to be str,,ci,
in his honor 1oA
II. y. Judy, the artist, connected with
the chronological department of tbe Rrooi,
lyn museum, has completed yyor,, a.,
which he has been engaged for the ,a st
tnree years. 1t is a painting of n nan
oramic view of the Indian countrv NJ
Arizona on strip of canvas 100 feet
long and feet high, and has. been placed
IN the indian room of the museum.
DR.. Asher Ginsberg. the Jewish essou
list. is about 40 visit America. Three vol.
umes OF his essays, published under the
tite AT the Parting of the Ways" have
peen translated from the Hebrew info
nearly all modern languages. He Is com
ing here to study the condition Of the
Jews IN this country and large receptions
IN ms honor will be held. He is a Rus
sian by birth and 81 years old.
81
One of the finest libraries in New .yor,,
is that, of Henry NJ. Flagler of the stand-
ara OIL company. Its value is estimated
at more than H,OO0.0O0. 1t is not only very
large, but comprises a miscellaneous col.
,ecuon. showing every phase of English
AS TO Francis Jospen, the man. il has
been always the same Blessed with the
most beautiful and gracious lady in ali
royal Europe as his ccrsort, he early suf-
fered estrangement from her, which. all
though an effect rather than a cause
brought him the consciousness that as
husband. in the eyes of his empress
and queen, he was amenable to tn. same
rules which governed the hearth of the
humblest of his married subjects. He
saw their only son grow up a reflec-
ton or his own weaknesses. unredeemed
by his own worldly honesty and mental
and physical stret 9Th; he saw this son
die tragic. mysterious death HIS
beloved brother, Maximillian, found an
urpitied grave in Mexico. One of his
wife's sisters, the queen of the Two
Sicilies, lost her throne, in vanity and
strife; another. the Duchess d'Alencon.
lost her life in the horrible Charity
bazaar fire of Paris. And then. at Geneva
September 10. 1899. came the hardest blow
o. all-the death of his sanity consort
BY the knife of an assassin.