Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-12
Men and Things

Silhouetted distinctly against Eng
lands political and literary horizons IN
the last week stood the figure of John
Morley. the great Indian secretary and
author, who reached his three score
and tenth milestone of life on Christ
mas eve.
If the roll of British great men We're
viewed from tha proper perspective
Morley perhaps would prove to be the
only double first" we have. Time,
indeed, perhaps history, will prove he
is the only double first since Burke,
having raised himself to the front RANK
both in literature and craftsmanship.
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Joseph Quincy Cannon is self
made man of prairie design and WASH
ington finish, He is a Quaker by BIRTH
a farmer by nature, a lawyer by pro-
fession, a capitalist by chance, and a
statesman by an average majority OF
80, 900. He is one of the finest agri-
cultural products of the Illinois prairie
and by thoughtful contact with the
world has learned to be old fashioned
in an up to date manner for which he
is now universally admirably the
common people for his quiet elegance,
and by the financially swollen class for
his boisterous simplicity.
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QnG Oh tHG Wedllll6cl men III LiC
state of Wyoming, besides being it's
governor, is Bryant Butler Brooks. As
a young man he knocked about work
ing as a farm hand and cowpuncher
and putting in a winter as a trapper
and hunter in Wyoming. In the spring
of that year he brought the furs TO
Chicago. Then he went back 20
wyoming and settled on government
land under the homestead act. Now
8 h. Ifx,ne nf
where he has 10000 sheep, thousands of
horned cattle and several hundred
horses.
Gossip has it that Fighting Bob"
Evans occupies his spare time at sea
embroidering table linen. etc.
s.
General Cyrus B. Comstock. corps of
engineers, u. S. A., has given to the
National Academy of Science, of which
he is a member. the sum of $4,000 the
income from which is to be devoted to
the advancement of knowledge in mag
netism, electricity and radiant energy.
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Charles Curtis. junior senator from
Kansas, is one of the most modest I'M
assuming members of the upper house. A
self-made man, having been newsboy,
bootblack and Jockey, he made himself
proficient in law by studying after
hours.
Ambassador Tower has arranged for a
deputation from the Arion society of
Brooklyn to sing before Emperor Will
liam when the members of the society
visit Germany and Austria next spring.
The deputation will consist of $50 voices.
Most of the cartoonists picture Speaker
Cannon as swinging his gavel with his
right hand, when as matter of fact
the speaker is left-handed and does not
swing his gavel with his right hand once
in a thousand times.
Senator Moses Z. 'Clapp of Minnesota,
the junior senator from that state, bears
a remarkable likeness to former Senator
John A. Logan. His coal-black hair
eyes, mustache and massive figure make
him striking figure on the floor of the
senate.
Soldier. author. diplomat, poet. media
tor. musician. orator. philologist. sci
enlist, patron of the arts, phlanthropist
statesman, king, Oscar II was altogether
a most remarkable man. He would have
been such beyond all doubt had his
Frenchman grandfather never have
attracted the favorable notice of the
childless King Charles XIII of Sweden
and Norway. AS 1t was, fate made him
one in a line of illustrious kings orig'-
mated in the peasantry of the inheritors
of ancient Gaul. and he fitted himself
into his destiny as no other king of
modern times has done it.
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Hon. Frank Pierce, the Utah lawyer
lately appointed first assistant secretary
of the interior, was born in Vermont and
is a graduate of an eastern college. He
includes former President Pierce in his
family tree, but to no other than his per-
sonal resources and attainments is he
Indebted for his preferment. He Is
scholar. not politician.