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


James Storey Wright of spalding 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
he has been captain of the ringers at
Spalding parish church and has raised
the treble for these fifty years Ho has
rung the bells In various parts of the
eastern counties.
Lord Kingsburgh, lord Justice clerk of
Scotland. has attained high rank AMONG
public benefactors from the circum stance
OF his having initiated more than forty
years ago. when young and little known
man at the Scotch bar, the agitation for
tne nalfpenny postcard system in the
United Kingdom.
the late DR.. James Gale. the famous
blind medical electrician, Is said onca to
have taken a fee OF ESQ 900 f$25o oO0l. the
largest ever paid for medical electrical
attendance.
Hon. Percival Maitland r.aurenco 80
preme Justice Of Cape Colony, South
Africa, who is now in this country. is
said to bear striking resemblance ~
King Edward. He is a famous i,1rist
ana has been the supreme justice Of Cape
Colony for Twenty-Five years.
Professor Edward w. Morley :, we.
Hartford has received cableRram IRON,
LORD Hayleigh. president OF the ROYAL
society OF London, announcing that he
mas been awarded the Davy medal for
his distinguished services to science. The
Dayy medal was founded 100 years ago
IN honor OF Sir Humphry Davy.
Governor Maroon- ~ r,,h.
sented to DR.. Carlos Finley. chief of tba
department of health and sanitation ~
Havana. the Mary Kingsley medal n
recognition of his discovery Of the mos
quito theory of yellow fever. This medal
Is awarded by the Liverpool School for
tne Stuoy OF tropical Diseases In MEM
traveller. 'Ssln =
Inc influence of Saint -Gaudens will ~
crease rather than diminish. for his a -
was UNIQUE, fnimitable and will ba ,,sr-
petqally inspiring. Ten years ago il wa,
said mere; Perhaps no living artist has
30 nlsn reputation as Saint-Gaudens.
ana SO strong an artistic influence viii
SO little of his work familiar to tbe ger-
erai public Since then his public ana
private portraits and monuments have
reacned wider public, and his position
became so high that at the Pan-America,,
exposition at Buffalo the Judges cnnld
meet artistic expectation only by causins
a separate and special medal to be struck
in his honor -'SN
n. ~ Judy, the artist connected with
the chronological department of the Brook
iyn museum, has completed a WORK on
which ne has been engaged for the last
tnree years 1t is painting of a nan
oramic view OF the Indian country of
ARIZONA on strip of canvass 1870 feet
iong and feet high, and has. been PLACED
in the Indian room of the museum
Or. Asher Ginsberg, the Jewish ESSAY.
list, Is about 40 visit America Three vol
umes of his essays, published under the
tltie AL the Parting of the Ways have
Deen translated from the Hebrew into
iearly an 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 Rms
sian by birth and 81 years old
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One of the finest Libraries in New York
IS tnat OF Henry M. Flagler of the Stand
ard OIL company. Its value is estimated
at more than S1,0O0.0O0 1t is not only very
large, but comprises a miscellaneous coi.
literature. ''S''
AS 70 FRANCIS Jospen, the man. it has
peen aiWays the same. Blessed with the
most beautiful and gracious lady in ali
royal Europe as his ccrsort. he early sur
fered estrangement from her which. al
tnough an effect rather than cause.
brought him the consciousness that as
husband. in the eyes of his empress
and queen, he was ainenable to the same
rules which governed the hearth of the
numDlsst OF MS married subjects. He
saw their only son grow up reflec-
ton Of his own weaknesses. unredeemed
by his own worldly honesty and mental
end physical stref 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 dAIencon.
lost her life in the horrible Charity
bazaar fire OF Paris. And then. at Geneva,
oi ali-the death Of his sanity consort
by the knife Of an assassin.