Omaha daily bee., 1919-02-24

New Englander.-T o m o brow,
| February %, marks the centennial
Of the birth Of James Russell Low
ell, one Of New England's famous
men. Lowell was born in Cam
bridge, Mass, a descendant of Per-
cival Lowell, of Bristol, Englanl,
who settled in Newbury, Mass, in
1859 and became the progenitor of
a distinguished family. Lowell
graduated from Harvard at the age
of 10, and for ten years after dab
bled indifferently in business. medi-
cine, the ministry and law. During
the Mexican war he began to write
the "Bigelow Papers" which mark
ed the turn of the tide of his for
tune and profession. In 1877 he
served as United States minister to
Madrid and in 1880 he became am
bassador to London. AS first editor
of the Atlantic Monthly, Lowell en-
listed the services of a distinguished
staff, including Hawthorne, Emer-
son, Longfellow, Whittier and Ag-
ASST. He died October ~, 1891, in
the house in which he was born.
fornian.-Anthony Caminetti,
United States commissioner of inn
first of the Italian stock on the Pa
cific coast to receive political recog-
milton from the federal administra-
ton. A lawyer by profession he
climbed the rounds of the political
ladder, from county prosecutor to
state legislator and congressman.
He is in his 65th year,
Antecedents may not count for
much in determining the root
strength of democracy in a German,
but if tested by the comman stan
dard Friedrich Ebert, the new presi-
dent of Germany, should rank as a
stalwart democrat. The son of a
harnessmaker of Heidelburg and a
journeyman of that trade, his be-
ginnings were humble and his edu-
cation did not take him within the
walls of the famous university of
his native city. He is a socialist of
the plodding kind, a conservative
who would not go to the radical ex-
IRENE of Liebknecht nor to the other
extreme of pan-Germans. As a
compromise between both extremes
Herr Ebert won the presidency. He
is As years of age. In manners he is
a peasant, resembling thousands of
Germans who keep small shops or
work in factories. He is short and
stout, dresses plainly and invariably
wears SLOUGH hat jammed well
down on his head. Frau Luise
Ebert, the new first lady" of the
republic is a typical mate of Ger
man worker, of medium height and
slender, As years of age.
One Of the group of pioneer as
sociates more incautious than the
rest, remarked as he shook hands
with Tom Edison on the occasion OF
his I'D birthday, Congratulations,
old man." "Old man? should say
not" replied Edison. Look" he
exclaimed as he extended his arm
and touched the palm with each
foot in succession, and then spun
himself on one foot like a top, while
the crowd cheered. Thus he showed
himself a wizard physically as in-the
inventive world. Only one who OBJ
serves physical laws and checks ex-
pansive tendencies at the belt could
do the Edison turn at three-score
and twelve. Edison" said one of
the greeters, "has laid the founda-
ton of many great industries. In
some cases he has put in the corner
stone and in several instances he has
put the key in the arch. 1t has been
estimated that there are $1,000,0OO,-
600 invested in the industries which
he has either created or for which
he has lead part of the foundation
and a 100000 employees are in
these industries.