The Washington herald., 1911-02-12
MANY GREAT MEN
Observation-Disclosures
JudsOn C. Clements Reaches
Age of Sixty-tiye.
MUDD, OF MARYLAND, IS SO
Representative Has Had Distin-
guished Career, Being n Graduate
Existence Thirteen Years-Mem-
orabIe Events in History Recalled.

Born in Walker County, Ga, Judson c.
Clements, a member of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, to-day celebrates
his sixty-fifth birthday anniversary. Com
missioner Clements studied law at the
Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn
and when eighteen years of age entered
the Confederate army as first lieutenant,
remaining until the end of the war
He has been county school commission
er, member of the Georgia legislature,
State senator from the Forty-fourth
Georgia district, and member of Con-
gress from the Seventh Georgia district,
which he represented from 1881 to 1891. He
was appointed commissioner in March,
1S92. and resides at 2ll3 Bancroft place!
Aged Tifty-three To-day.
Representative Sydney Emanuel Mudd,
of Maryland. is fifty-three years old to-
day, and has represented the Fifth
Maryland district in Congress since the
Fifty-ffth session. Mr.. Mudd has not
been in good health of recent years. and
was not a candidate for reelection at
the last political contest He is a grad
uate of Georgetown University and of
St. Johns College Annapolis, Md, hav-
Ing also attendeu tfle law OtpdI IulSHI VI
the University of Virginia.
In 1880, at the age of twenty-five, he
was admitted to the bar and has practiced
since. Mr.. Mudd has occupied the fol-
lowing offices of public trust in turn:
Member of State mouse of delegates; cleo
tor on the Garfield and Arthur ticket In
1880; member of Fifty-firSt. Congress;
speaker of the State house of delegates OF
Maryland; district delegate to the national
Republican convention of 1886. and dele
gate-at-large to the same body in 1900;
chairman of the Maryland delegation in
both of these conventions, and Repre-
sentative in Congress since 1897. His home
is at La Plata, Md
To-day is Lincoln's birthday, which
item would have appeared at the top
of this article if the subject were not
published in another part more eXten-
sively.
How Time Does Fly.
Just think of it how tempus fugits!
Thirteen years ago to-day Roosevelt. at
the Lincoln Day banquet in New York,
urged an immediate increase of the
American navy. and yet there is Repre-
sentative Bartholdt, the everlasting dove
OF peace" who heavily signs every time
Congress appropriates Il hundred for
tunes for a single battle ship. iobson
replies that We must fight Japan. and
there you are, and what are we going to
do about it,
The Ananias Club was in existence long
before the advent OF the American
founder of this aggregation of elects. On
this day thirteen years ago Monsieur
Henry. of Paris, called Col Picquart a
liar" of course. in French. 1t happened
during the Zola trial, and Col Picquart
challenged Monsieur Henry to
mortal combat.
February u was evidently some day for
the irrepressible Col. Roosevelt, for ii is
exactly eight years ago to-day that he
appointed George B. COrtelyou first Secre-
tary OF Commerce. Much has happened
since: Roosevelt now resides at Blue
Point, formerly Oyster Fay, and Cortel-
you is a big banker in Wall street
Even though it is $J7 years to-day that
Henry VIII beheaded Lady Jane Grey,
his 'steenth wife, we have neither forgot
ten nor forgiven.
Great Mems Birthdays.
SO many great persons were born on
this day; for instance, Cotton Mather,
Peter Cooper. Abraham Lincoln, Charles
R. Darwin, Mrs. Nicholas LOngworth,
George Meredith, Alice Cary and others. !
Alice Roosevelt. now Mrs. Longworth, !
was born February Il. IS; no, it isn't
fair to tell a lady's age.
The world was startled nine years ago |
.o-day when the news was flashed every |
where that England and Japan had en- |
cred into an alliance. Russia took the |
lint and her agents provOcateurs' as |
diplomats would say, skedaddled out of !
and other Indian border |
states where they had been fomenting |
rouble among the natives against British |
.ule 1t has been claimed that Japan, by !
licking the Russian bear out of his boots,
.eally fought England's battle.