The Washington herald., 1911-02-05

blamed poor management on the part OF
| somebody. he tore Pats commission into
| a hundred pieces and threw 1t into the
waste basket Pat was Inundated. He
didn't think Of his disgrace while in drink
| so he stayed drunk until he got pneu-
monia and died.
''Bill Bradley-William O'Connell Brad
ley. as It appears on the rolls Of the Sen
ate-was Pats friend. Pats family was
left poor. Bradley called a meeting Of
lawyers. Well Try Pats case he said.
and give the fees to the wife Bradley
tried ten times as many cases as any one
else. Then he called the lawyers to-
gether again to total the Results and to
get the cash in hand. That very after
noon Bill Bradley took 1000 to the home
Of the widow and asked her to accept
the money as a personal favor to the law
yers concerned.
Yes, sir: Bill Bradley. although a Re
publican, is a very kind man. He had
an only son. When the boy lay dying.
Bradley was at his bedside all the time,
day and night. A client, against advice,
with an important case went to Bradley's
house one morning. Bradley talked low
and sweet.
My son is dying he said. I can't
leave him. I can't think of business.
Please let me alone
THE man insisted. Bradley was his
regular lawyer. He wouldn't trust any
one else and so on and SO forth.
But my dying boy, Bradley moaned,
needs me. You have come at tho wrong
time. Go away. There are plenty Of good
lawyers in town.
claimed. standing there on tho porch Of
BIZ Bradley's house.
"'You scoundrel,' Bradley shouted. If
you say another word about money. here
in the shadow Of the grave. III pull q
paling from the fence chase you down
the road. and beat off your head"
Gen. KeifeF On BFavePy.
"Who is the bfavest man you have ever
mown?' I asked Joseph Warren Keifer.
Representative in Congress and once
Speaker Of the House.
From a private in the ranks to a major
general by brevet is Keffer's record IN
the rough. He was a soldier four years
and four months. took part in twenty
eight battles and was wounded four times
"Oh, 1 couldn't answer your question"
he replied. Brute indifference to dam
ger Is not courage. The brave man makes
no boast, but keeps his head and stands
to his work. whatever it may be. have
heard soldiers say they loved to enter
fight. In my opinion, they lied.
AT the siege Of Petersburg. in 1864.
Clifton X. Prentiss. lieutenant colonel of
the Sixth Maryland Infantry, leading a
storming party, was the first man over
the parapet Of the fort 1t was a splen-
didly brave act. AS PrentiSs leaped the
wan, q Confederate thrust musket
against his breast and fired. The wound
was horrible.
"A moment later the commander of the
fort was shot and. falling, lay on the
ground near Prentiss. Confederate and
Federal looked at each other and dis
covered that they were brothers. They
were put into the same hospital, were
cared for by the same surgeon and
nurses, and when they died were attend
ed by the same Union chaplain. who.
strange to relate, was the third brother
in the sad and remarkable event.
The S0ckless Socrates Of Kansas.
In the matter Of energy and vocabu-
larry, Victor Murdock, Of Wichita, is the
equal Of any insurgent in the country,
not excepting T. R himself.
did you start the story" I asked him,
that caused the late Jerry Simpson. the
chief orator Of Populism. to be called the
'Sockless Socrates of KansasT
Yes; Jerry was running for Congress