The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-25

senator from Mississippi, who first distin- guished himself at Harvard. He was a member of the Harvard debating team which defeated Yale in 1890 and 1901, and in the latter year he was chosen class or ator, winning over R. E. Fitzpatrick of Boston by vote of 269 to 100. He was not the first colored man to win this dis tinction of class orator. He had been pre- ceded in the honor by c. G. Morgan of the class of 1890, and Robert H. Terrell, of the class of 1884, now federal judge in the District of Columbia. Directly after leaving Harvard Bruce went to Tuskegee to take charge of the academic depart ment and remained in that position until he was appointed in 1906 to the position of school inspector at Washington, D. C.. Bruce gets his name from an incident connected with the election of his father to the United States senate. When the colored man was to be formally installed the officers who were to escort him to the position where he was to be sworn in, held back and did not seem disposed to do the colored senator the ordinary cour- tesies of the occasion. Seeing this, Ros- COG Conkling, senator from New York, stepped forward and escorted Bruce to the position he w1s to occupy. This made Conkling a hero in the eyes of the colored people, and Senator Bruce named his son after him.
 One of the brightest corporation law yers in New York is Judge c. J. Moore, a native of Virginia. At the recent meet ing of the Virginia Bar Association he told some of his friends a little story of an experience he had had not long be- fore. 'I was going down the gang-plank of a steamer said he, land there was a strong crush from behind. Academia 1xr T e,4o he tra af dlr irt of a lady in front of me. I prepared to apol- gize. but before I could do so she OK ~ned Keep off my skirts. you brute
 Then she turned around and seeing
 -tranger, said in the mldest tone
 oh, I beg your pardon, l
 as my husband "
 the best story-telers in the
 ties senate is Thomas s. Martin
 ia. He never tells one except 70
 } a point and then usually only
 his intimate friends-for Sena tor
 s like the late Senator German,
 reserve to those who do not know
 bout the time ex-President C1eve-
 i've out his interview during the
 1903, saying that it was time for
 nocraey to return to sanity, Sen
 artin was asked what he thought
 remark. He replied, with
 which ran something like this:
 party of gentlemen were playing
 and among those in the game was
 man who had fine run of luck
 the fore part of the night He was
 hg everything. and never overlooked
 bportunity to remind the other play
 hat no gentleman would sit in
 game who did not have the money pocket to meet his losses. Late In light the lane turned as every lane
 and the old man began to lose. His of caution grew fewer and tess rent as his pile dwindled, and were no more toward the last of the Q. Then came the end and the reck- ug of the chips. He was asked to l in, and had to admit with evident ,arressment that he didn't have left. Why, didn't you tell us that gentleman would bet in a poker game did not have the money In his pock- to cash his losses?' Yes confessed old man, T did but it was d-d un- tunate remark"
 7omorrow-The Law and the Pie 1kers.