South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-08-12
Statesmen Real
and Near.
By Fred c. Kelly

4 Il.
When Folk was governor of Missouri
he made a quiet little trip one day to
st. Joseph for the purpose OF confer
ring with a man whom we may call
Herman Ross. simply because / cannot
now recall what the mans name real
~ was AS Folks train was nearing
st. Joseph il was wrecked. He es-
capped unhurt, but the engine and cars
were all mussed up and he saw that
he could not depend on the train to
take him the rest OF the way to St.
Joseph. He trudged across a field to
the nearest farmhouse, hoping to hire
a team 70 take him into town And
what do you suppose? In the farm
house dwelt Herman Ross, the man
he was on his way TO see.
Walter Teagle, the young man who
used to be vice president of the Stand
ard Oil Co. is now the head of the
/ Imperial Oil Co, which is the Stand
ard OF England and Canada. This has
made it necessary for Teagle to live
for the last few months in England.
/ The salary he gets from the Imperial
/ Oil Co. enables him to live surround
ed by every reasonable comfort. and
he rented an English house about the
size OF four large summer hotels. One
! day he sent a postcard view of this
and a printed line showing that il was
/ his home to boyhood friend in
| America. This friend knew Teagle
when he was comparatively poor and
was disposed to make sport of him for
living in such spacious quarters. So
he postcarded back:
Il received your picture Of machin-
cry hall. Or was il the agricultural
building? 1t was the first / knew they
were having an exposition over there"
After Henry Ford first got rich out
of making automobiles he began TO
take a great interest in bird life-just
as the average millionaire. having
made his money, wants lot Of dairy
cattle about him and tries TO produce
more butter fat per gallon of milk
than his neighbors. FOrd'S interest in
birds led him TO get hold of book
I by John Burroughs, the naturalist.
and he liked il so we'll that he wrote
| Burroughs a letter in which he said
that he was taking the liberty of max
ing him a present OF an automobile.
'Tis said that when Burroughs got
that letter he uttered a great many
funny remarks You see, he had
been studying birds to the neglect of
automobiles. and did not even know
who Ford was.
Here's a man named Ford out in
Detroit, Mich, who says he's going
to make me a present OF an autGInO-
bile" said he. Il wonder who he is,
and what kind OF a joke he's up to.
Burroughs regarded the letter from
Ford as simply the work Of some &c
centric joker until one day he got a
notice that there was an automobile
for him at the freight house. Then he
decided that the joker was really some
crazy man. He couldn't believe that
a man Of sound mind would ship gift
auto to a total stranger.
Samuel c. Blythe, the temperance
writer, gets more mail than a United
States senator. Men and women in
every walk of life write and put all
manner of propositions up to him. The
request that he regards as most un-
usual however, was contained in
ffteen-page letter from woman in
the far west. She explained that she
had a woman friend who was married
TO a man with a cranky disposition.
! The man, however, was a great ad-
mirer of the writings OF Mr.. Blythe
and had quit drinking after reading
one of his temperance articles. one
OF his notions was that his children
should never go out of the house when
! the weather was the least bit damp
unless they had overshoes on. If their
mother forgot to put on their over
! shoes on a damp day father would
storm around and make himself dis
agreeable for hours at a time. He
/ had a really nasty temper. Now,
I what the letter writer had to propose
/ was this: If sam would just write a
| long article in the Saturday Evening
4 Post about the mastery of temper or
/ control Of self, the man would see it
and would then perhaps quit fussing
/ about the children's overshoes. That
would brighten the life Of his wife and
4 the purpose of the letter writer would
/ be fulfilled.
Rep. Thomas Sisson Of Mississippi
some slbilant sound TO that-if Sis
\ sons name had just been Samuel it
would indeed have been great sport
saving Samuel Sisson Of Mississippi
| What we started TO say, though, was
merely that when Sisson talks, and
/ he is a man disposed TO talk rather
\ frequently. he makes numerous ges-
lures 1t is not uncommon for man
/ to make gestures when he talks, but
/ Sisson gestures with his head. Do not
/ understand from this, however, that
/ because he gestures with his head ne
does not use his hands for gesturing
/ purposes. To the contrary he uses
/ his hands just as much as if he were
/ not gesturing with his head ut all.
His hands and head work together in
unison. And as Sisson shakes his head
his hair rises like porcupine quilts
\ One would think, TO look at him when
\ he's talking, that he'd have to go
to a hairdresser's before his hair
/ could ever be made Of further use TO
him But the moment ne finishes his
/ speech each hair quiets right down
and returns on it's own responsibility
TO its proper place.
Rep. Thomas l.. Reilly OF Connect
/ cut got his start in life wrapping up
\ silverware for a firm in Meriden.
( Reilly and Rep. Walsh Of New Jer-
sey are the two handiest poets Of the
house.
/ Copyright, 1914. by Fred c. Kelly.)
INTWENTY YEARS Ago