The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-17
PERSONAL STORIES
BY FREDERIC j. HAsklN.

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Taken back to England, tried for
piracy and acquitted. be was made
knight and appointed Lieutenant Gov
eruor of Jamaica, where he spent his
declining years IN peace. From
Jamaica his descendants camc to
Georgia. from Georgia 10 Tennessee,
and at Athens. Tcun., in 1924, John
Tyler Morgan was born.
When he was 9 years cid he re-
moved with his parents to Talladega
county, Ala, where the Cherokee Iu.
dians still held sway. Young Nor
gan played with Indian boys and
learned the Cherokee tongue. as he
has learned everything which has
come within his range of observation.
He works like Morgan is say,
ing in Washington which has pushed
aside thc old SMILES about bees and
years old and physically feeble, he
keeps two secretaries busy all the time.
His wonderful ability TO grasp sub
iect in short time was illustrated
few years ago. when he was employed
10 make an argument in a ease involv-
ing a patent for moving machine
The client was desperate, and he
employed Senator Morgan on a
friends advice, giving the Senator
only six hours in which TO prepare,
Mr. Morqan s argument astounded the
court, and almost paralyzed his client,
so comprehensive and accurate was his
knowledge Of the details of mechanics
as applied to that particular moving
machine,
He has queer mental collection Of
all kinds of history and information,
which he displays from time TO time
TO the wonderment Of his friends.
Thomas Clarke of Alabama had an
engagement TO go to church with the
Senator one day last winter, As they
was ringing The aged Senator
stopped on the sidewalk and began to
tell his companion the history of
church bells. when they were first used,
the stories of the most famous
chimes, and so on. When he had done.
church services had been over for q
half hour. but Mr., Clarke did not
complain. Mr.. Morgan has been
member Of the Senate for thirty years,
and If he shall live until the expira-
tlon of his term in 1913 he Will be
50 years old at the time of his retire
ment. With all of his wonderful per
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he likes TO talk of the deeds Of his
buccanecr ancestor, who was the
scourge of the high seas.
Woman s laughter has frightened the
dim interior Of the old Trappist monas-
tery at Gethsemaui, Ky. but few times
since the little colony OF French monks
came up The Mississippi and ONO riv-
ers in canoes nearly n hundred years
ago. and made for themselves new
home in the heart of the bluegrass That
the last of the three visits made by 4
woman TO that mystic shrine was the
result of q romance In which love and
politics were mingled, is even more re-
markablc, for the rigorous ascetism of
the silent Trappists admits no thoughts
of the pleasures and delights of love.
nor of the worldlincss Of the game called
politics. In the dawn of the Christian
era St, Benedict amplified the saying
Of Jesus concerning rendering unto
Caesar that which is Caesars. and COM
manded the monks 10 receive their
guests as Christ received them. and give
them place according 10 their rank.
From this came the rule of courtesy
that the wife of the Governor of Ken.
lucky might he received in the most
sacred cloistcrs of the monastery at
Gcthsemani.
In the summer of 1890 party of
young people visited Gethscmani. and
were shown about the grounds. At one
point the monk who was guiding them
stopped the young ladies. Miss Fuqun
laughingly protested that she wanted 10
go on. The monk replied: ''If Mr..
Beckbam will become Governor Of Ken
lucky, and YOU will marry him, then j
~ I'll that nt
the monastery Mr., Beckham's S home
was but fourteen miles away and he
was well known 10 the monks, but the
guide little suspected that the young
people would make good the conditions
be had suggested, Two years later
j. c. w. Beckham was Governor Of the
commonwealth of Kentucky, and Miss
Fuqua had become the BRIDE of the
Youngest Governor In the Union. The
monks AT old Gethsemanl then kept
their promise, and The boy Governor and
his bride were royalty entertained Mrs.
Beckham was shown through all parts
of the monastery.
George AIDES father is country
banker IN the Hoosier State. He was not
inclined to look with favor upon his
son, who was destined TO make Indiana
famous. The humorlst S brother, Will,
took TO business and is a partner in the
paternal banking house. After George
had gone into newspaper work his father
still disepproved, and when the young
man came home for a vacation there
were numerous paternal hints that
business career was more remunerative
and more dignifed- Brother William
was frequently held up as an example
Of what Young man should do in life.
In the meantime, the GABLES in
Slang had begun, and before long the
whole world knew George Adc. Brother
Will made a trip TO Indianapolis about
the time the Fable Of the Two Mandolin
Players and the Willing Performer made
IT'S oyercaplta)lzed appearance. One Of
tine indianapolis papers recorded that
event in Brother Will life after This
fashion: .'Will Ade, brother of George
Ade, was In town Yesterday" George
sent a marked copy of the paper to his
father, without comment
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