Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-07
II. P. MILLER, ENCYCLOPEDIA
Don Cameron Did Service to the state
Whom He Made Him a Page.
Charles r. Warwick Dis
liked Country Life
BY GEORGE NOX' MCCAIN


~ did for the Senate Of Pennsylvania was
when he appointed Herman =. Miller to be a
page in that body. That was away back in
1876.
The boy was barely old enough to qualify
| for the position.
| During the succeeding decade Herman p.
| Miller rose through all the gradatiOns of
service on Capitol Hill. Today he holds the
, responsible position of librarian of the Sen
ate. He has held it for twenty eight years,
succeeding the late Captain John G. De
| laney.
For years before Captain Delaney retired
in 1891 Herman Miller had been his assist
ant He stepped into the place fully equipped
for the work. He was the youngest man
ever appointed to the position.
| | think that | have solved the secret of
| his long and honorable service: it is his per-
| feet self placement He is never in the
| limelight In that respect he is distinctly
| different from some other Harrisburg Off
! cials. Senator's may come and senators may
90, but Herman Miller remains, for his serv-
ices essential to the perfect organiza-
tion of the upper body.
He knows every senator who has served
during the last forty years. He possesses
! kodak memory to names and faces.
| He has an encyclopedia knowledge of
! legislation
He has legal legislative and reference
! information Mt his finger ends During Il
session if n senator requires data of a bio
| graphical nature concerning some one who
| has been dead for quarter of n century,
| the name and the information required are
| handed on slip Of paper to a Senate page.
| In ten minutes he is back from the libra
! rian's Office with the documents.
| He is editor Of Smull's Hand Book and
| the custodian of all reports, bills and docu-
ments of the Senate
Modest, retiring and the possessor Of un-
! failing courtesy, he is the one indispensable
| official to the State Senate.
| DR. GEORGE EARLE RAIGUEL, of this
- city, physician, lecturer and instructor
| in current events to various gatherings OF in
| teIcctuas. is back from Siberia and other
| remote sections of the distant East Trans
| pacific West would perhaps be the better de-
| scription.
He has been away for over five months,
| having sailed from San Francisco in April.
| His wife, who was Miss Mary Matlack, of
| Lcwsburg, accompanied him.
| One of his pleasant experiences, he tells
| me, was his meeting with my friend the Rev.
! Charles W. Rain, chaplain to the American
| forces over there. Chaplain Rain is n
| graduate of Ursinus College and the Lu
thcran Theological Seminary. He resigned
Il pastorate in New Rochelle, n. y, to
! enter the army.
I judge from his remarks on the subject
| that Doctor Raigucl is not enchanted with
Siberia, either as II tourist land or a safety
first proposition. Under existing conditions,
wifi two three races trying to get at each
others throats and the brutal Bolsheviki
adding to the general horror, "The Land of
the Great Steppes" is good place
to get away from.
Anyhowe Doctor Raiguel declares he is
mighty glad to get back to home cooking,
taxicabs and theatres.
MOST city dwellers, professional people
NI particularly, have a yearning for the
country. There is fascination about it to
the city born. Four out of every six profess
Sona men dream of the day when they can
abandon the treadmil and get out among
the fields and woods,> where the skyline is
natures handiwork and not a serrated bor
der of housetops and skyscrapers.
The late Charles +. Warwick, former
Mayor of Philadelphia, was the one con-
spcuous exception to this rule that recall
lie had horror of the country Several
years before his system gave way to the
attacks of disease, and while he was yet
working on his History of the French Rev
olution, his physician advised him to go to
the country for rest.
1.-The suggestion is abhorrcnt" he said in
a talk / had with him about that time 81
detest the isolation and, above all, the silence
of the country. To sit and listen to the
crickets, frogs and night insects gives me
the blues. i want to be in the city where
| can hear the noises of the city, the clang
of the trolley and see the fire engines 20
BY"
And the brilliant and clever Warwick had
his wish. His last days were spent in the
city within hearing of the sounds he loved
well.
Tx X-SENATOR HAMPTON W. RICE, of
~ Bucks county, is occasional visitor of
the city. / saw him on Chestnut street the
other day. He is unchanged in face and
manner from twenty years ago, when his
principal occupation was heaping up trouble
| with scoop shovel for one Matthew Stanley
| Quay and his organization.
"Hamp" Rice was the personiication of
| the independent spirit of Bucks county.
| When the hand of the QUAY machine rested
| too heavily upon them its people would swing
| over to the Democracy just to teach the bosses
| a lesson. For years it was debatable
! ground.
| Harmon Yerkes, ex-state senator and ex-
Nudge, who is still practicng law in Doyes-
| town, and the late George Ross were two
| fine types of Democracy who preceded Rice
as Bucks countys representatives in the
| Senate.
Henry d. Meyer was his immediate prcde-
cessor. He is n bank president now. be-
lieve. He was a regular old school Repub-
lican. Then the pendulum of the popular
will began swinging the opposite direction.
The Independents, who had no love for the
| old regime. elected Rice to succeed Moyer.
At the end of his term the pendulum swung
still further, and Webster Grim, Democrat,
was sent to the Senate. He barely scraped
through with something over 200 majority in
the county. if recall correctly.
But Hampton w. Rice still has the fever
in his blood. He was fighter twenty years
ago and he is fighter today.