The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-08
ERSONAL STORIES
By FREDERIC J. HASKIN

/ Legislators. Colonel Colvar, who is
| eghty-eAght, Is the oldest.
When Judge Wright came TO Wash
ington rs 2 member of Congress he
brought letters from his father TO Sena-
tor Sam uonston OF Texas. and 10
Thomas r. Benton of Missouri, who had
lust retired from the Senate These two
men introdr ced Mr.. Wright into rho
wavs of Washington, and he now talks
OF them rs familiarly as if they had
quit thc corridors of the Capitol but
Yesterday. .'udge Wright connection
with public lGe covers greater period
of time, perh APPS, than that OF any other
living Ameri can. His memory is photo
graphic. and he is as vigorous as a man
Of sixty. keeps up with the things of
today without forgetting what has pass
ed and altogether he is a most in
tercstinG iigIrc in Washington life.
Col. John Goode, formerly Of Nor
folk. W., but now lawyer in
Washington, one Of Judge Wright s
surviving colleagues of the Confederate
Congress, served several terms in the
United States Congress after the era
Of reconstruction. He has recently
published n book of rccollcctions.
which recount many interesting stories
of politics and war. with which be was
personally connected. He likes 10 tell
a story connected with the centennial
celebration of the surrender of Lord
Cornwalhs 10 Gen. Washington. held
ut Yorktown on October 70, 1881. Col
Goodc was the member of Congress
from that district, and in charge of
the ceremonies. A British naval
officer left his ship at New York and
came 10 Yorktown. incognto. to see
the Americans celebrate the victory
which lost the thirteen colonies 10 the
English crown. yorktown had changed
but little III The century since Gen
. 'Ilara handed Cornwallis s sword TO
Gen. Lincoln. and il was not Il pre-
possessing place. AT the banquet
The identity of the naval officer was re-
ycalcd. and he was called upon to
respond TO the toast "To Mcrric
England In his speech he de.
clared that he was glad he came. be.
cause for the first time he understood
what had puzzled him from boyhood-
why CORVALLIS surrendered. AFTER
seeing Yorktown he said, al realize
that there is but one thing that could
he done TO II. and that is TO surrender
and leave ii. -
was making war on hawks and owls,
which farmer dcvoutlv believes to
be his worst enemies, Dr. A. *. Fisher.
assistant ornithologist in the United
Sta tcs Department of Agriculture. was
catml = and quietly collecting evidence
in favor of his fcathorcd clients.
Every day for long while he visited
the tower of the Smithsonian institu-
tion in Washington, where n colony
of barn owls had taken refuge, and
under their cyrie he gathered the
queer little balls of fur and bones that
the owls cough up after each meal.
Some queer process of assimilation
makes the bones of dcvoured animals
or BIRDS gather IN bunch in each
owl 3 stomach. and around these bones
the fur collects, until n neat. fuzzy
ball, an inch or so in diameter, filed
with broken bones. is the result Of the
digestion Then the owl rcgureitatcs
this ball, and only the meat Is left
IN h1s digestive apparatus. From these
balls DIR. Fisher collected his cyi