Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-08-09

Illinois, stout, broad-shouldered
man, whose locks are fast turning
gray. He Is fine debater.
/ 1t is worth mentioning in this con-
tnection that the pictures of Richmond
/ p. Hobson which one sees in news
papers and magazines were taken not
later than fifteen years ago. Since
then, alas: he has lost most OF the
hair on the top of his head. and has
been thereby deprived of some OF the
pulchritude which caused the women
| TO be so anxious to confer osculatory
marks of their admiration upon him.
The hero of the Merrimac Is now
forty-three years of age. But il may
be said of him that he is one OF the
Oldest Americans, inasmuch as he Is
tenth in direct descent from Elder
Brewster of the Mayfiower
The late Gen. Harry Bingham OF
Philadelphia, who was for many
years the father of the house mean
ing thereby the member Of longest
continuous service--was also called
1.-THE fashion plate" of that body. His
mantle seems to have fallen upon
Thomas G. Patten of New York. But
Joseph W. Fordney of Michigan sports
the biggest diamond sparkler of
huge size. which he wears in the mid
| die of the bosom of his shirt
The oldest nickname is bestowed
upon John L. Burnett Of Alabama
who, being short and plump. dark of
icomplexion. heavy,set, and with broad
shoulders, is called the Jack of
Clubs"
The member with the most whisk-
ers is Edward W. Saunders of Vir-
ginia They are dark brown in color
and parted in the middle.
Alfalfa Bill" Murray, Father of
the Oklahoma Constitution ran
away from home when he was twelve
years old, chopped wood, worked in a
brick-yard, punched cattle, taught
school, reported for a newspaper, and
practised law. He Is now by profess
sion a farmer We read on:
Charles ID. Carter of the same state
boasts that he is a,seyen-sixteenths
Chickasaw and Cherokee Indian. be-
ing direct descendant of Nathan
Carter, who, when small boy, was
captured by the Indians at the Wyo-F
ming Valley massacre, in Pennsylva-
MIA, during Revolutionary times. He
himself was born in the Ehoctaw
nation
Still another member from Okla
homa, James S. Davenport, has been
married twice, both of his wives be-
ing Cherokee Indian women of full
blood. Before he came to congress he
was speaker of the lower house of leg
islature of the Cherokee Nation.
BY no means lacking in romantic
interest is the career of Represent
tive Caleb Powers, of Kentucky, who,
according to his own account, served
eight years and three months In jail
after the shooting of Governor VIII
liam Goebel by an unknown assassin"
Difenderfer. of Pennsylvania, was q
practising dentist for fourteen years.
But his noteworthy achievement was
the building and operating of the first
wooden mills in the Chinese empire, at
Tientsin.
Carey, of Wisconsin, was left an or
Erhan at thirteen years of age. Five
younger brothers and sisters were put
into an orphan asylum to be taken
care OF. But this enterprising youth,
starting in as a messenger-boy, rose
to be a telegraph operator by the time
he was nineteen, and taking the child
zen out of the asylum, provided them
with a home.
Richard w. Austin, OF Tennessee,
occupied the humble position. of an as
sistant doorkeeper of the house of re-
representatives. during the lifetime Of
the forty-seyenth congress.
The only member who calls himself
O capitalist mot exactly a popular
kind of designation from a politicall
Viewpoints merely a delegate tol
congress from the territory of Hawaii. |
His name is Kalanianaole, and he |
halls from Honolulu. To most people, !
however, he is better known as Prince
Cupid. A cousin OF King Kalakaua
and of Queen Liliuokalani, he was Gre
ated a royal prince by reclamation
in 1884. His wife is daughter OF a |
chief of the island of Mani.
Nearly fifty years have elapsed
since the close of the Civil War, and
so it is not surprising that only a |
small handful of veterans of that con-
flict should be found in the house of
representatives fOL tOudy. III sIucSc 4
Kirkpatrick, of Iowa, and Sherwood,
of Ohio, fought on the Union side, the |
latter taking part in no fewer than
forty-two battles and coming out as |
brigadier On the Confederate side
were Taylor and Richardson, both of
Alabama, and Stedman, of North Car
DINA, who was wounded three times. |
Taylor was only fifteen years old |
when he enlisted.
The only Union Civil War veterans
in the senate are Works, of Califor- |
mia; Nelson, of Minnesota, and War
rem, of Wyoming. The last-named re-
ceived a medal for gallantry on the
field of battle. Nelson was taken
prisoner.
Bankhead and Johnston, both of Ala
hama; Racon, of Georgia; Thornton,
OF Louisiana, and Webb, of Tennessee, Z
were the senators who fought for the |
lost cause. Bankhead was wounded
three times, and Johnston four times. Z
Senator Ashurst, of Arizona, was a
hodcarrier and cowboy. Perkins, of