El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-12-15
Friends Of Abe Martin

At the annual banquet of the Indiana
society at Chicago recently, Kin Hub
bard. the creator of ABE Martin" drew
caricatures and sketched the lives Of
some of Abe's intimate friends from
Brown county, Indiana. The Indianap-
oils News, in which Mr.. Hubbard's work
appears. reprinted the character
sketches given by Abes creator. Among
the most prominent friends of the old
Prof. Harner.
Prof Glen Harner is the organizer
and director of the Brown county sill
yer cornet hand, which plays on the
slightest provocation, and early in life
travelled with various circuses He talks
most entertainingly of having once
been poisoned on canned corn at Tip
ton, Ind, and of walking home from
Albuquerque. n. NJ. Mr.. Harner has
also shaken hands with Bryan twice
and during the last campaign he and
his band serenaded senator Albert J.
Beveridge at his hotel in Vevay, Ind.
On the latter occasion the senator APP
.peared on the balcony of the hotel and
dispersed the players with a neat
speech on Child Labor" of p words.
Niles Turner.
Uncle Niles Turner was 1913 years old
last November, and never reported
conductor He retains all his faculties
to wonderful degree and can read
the Delphi Journal without the aid
Of spectacles. His memory goes back
to the death of CORVALLIS. He can
easily recall the hazy September evening
year ago when Charles Dickens changed
cars at Union City for Sandusky, Ohio,
and he often refers to the days when
stiff hats were lined like collins, and
he could have bought the ground where
Indiana's capitol now stands for one
dollar and seventy cents. Mr.. Turner
says now that he has lived to see the
Republicans fighting among themselves
he is ready and willing to pass to the
great beyond.
Prof. Alex. Tansey.
Every now and then we meet a fellow
in some honorable walk in life that
was once admitted to the bar, and Prof
Alex Tansey, the subject of this sketch,
is one of the examples. Mr.. Tansey
attended the law school at Ann Arbor,
Mich, and was licensed to trim in 1906.
After waiting some weeks for business
to show up he accepted a position 70
teach school in Brown county. During
the evenings he reads a little medicine
and at vacation time he hangs paper.
He also has the exclusive rights for
Brown, Monroe and Bartholomew coun-
ties Tor the Peerless lightning hOO
''The Slaves of Catarrh," a powerful
melo-drama of American life, is from
the pen of Prof. Tansey.
Abe Martin.
Abe Martin was born at Roundhead,
Hardin county, Ohio, sometime between
the first and second Seminole war. He
got his early education in ap rinting
office and played a yellow clarinet in
a band on Johnson's island, Lake Erie,
during the rebellion. After leaving the
service he moved to Brown county, In
diana, where he has since lived with
his wife's folks. Mr.. Martin votes
the Democratic ticket for nothing and
doesn't owe any money or belong to
any lodges. He is a student of the
drama also and hasn't missed a film or
Uncle Toms Cabin in over three
years. He eats sardines between the
acts and says that politics is just one /
rotten cigar after another. He also |
says that it looks like the Union was
preserved so baseball players could go
south to practice. Mr.. Martins son re- |
Gently won a scholarship in a BARRIERS |
college.
Constable Plum.
Constable Newt Plum is one of the !