Show f TERSE UNS UN UNSON ON PERSONS George H. H Williams whom the Republicans Republicans Republicans Re Re- publicans of or Portland Ore have Just nominated for Mayor was a generation generation generation genera genera- tion ago a prominent figure in pu public lIc life He was a Judge In Iowa five fifty years ago before the Republican party came Into existence He was one of f the Presidential Electors whose votes made Pierce President of the United States in 1852 He was wa-s Chief Justice of Oregon in 1 1853 when Oregon was farther out of the world than are c the remotest mining camps in Alaska at atthe atthe atthe the pr present sent time and when that Terri Term Territory tory tOTY had a smaller population than can now be found fr nd in the Northern Terri Tern tory He assisted in framing the Constitution Constitution Constitution Con Con- of Oregon four forty-four years ago He was a United States Senator when President Roosevelt was a a. child chUd 7 years old The Rev Dr Mackenzie of San Francisco FranCisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco was once calling on a new V parishioner parIshioner parishioner par par- who had had a limb of a boy She had invited the doctor to dine Willie she said to her hopeful pass Dr Mackenzie a potato I Willie seized seized the potato between thumb and finger and b before fore his mother could utter a horrified remonstrance he had tossed it across the table and squarely into the good mans man's lap Judgment cried Willie One strike quoted the witted quick-witted clergyman Willie leave I the table stormed his mother Mad am said the minister do not Judge him harshly See how beautifully he he- put the sphere over the plate plat And from that time there wasn't a more earnest worker in all the big Sunday school than that same Willie Wlllie Sir Theodore Martin has written a a. a avery very interesting biographical sketch of Mr Gladstone in which he relates a a characteristic story In connection with the original home rule bill of 1886 1856 Gladstone sent the Queen a copy of the measure which he proposed to Introduce introduce Intro Intro- duce accompanied by an explanatory letter of fourt fourteen en folio tollo pages The Queen could not understand either elther the bill or the letter so she sent both doc doe documents documents to Sir Theodore Martin with a request that he would explain them Sir Theodore could make nothing of Mr Glad Gladstone's ones one's letter but he sent the Queen a precis of the bUAt bill bU At a Sunday school in North Wales a little girl named M M. l. l A. A Pritchard has during the year 1901 committed to memory and repeated 2996 2936 verses from Scripture She is only 12 years old and had previously learned by heart the whole Book nook of Proverbs Another member of a chapel In the same town an old raan over 80 O years of age named John l Taylor has repeated from memory mem mean memory ory the whole of the Book nook of Psalms It may not b be generally Tally known that Amzi Lorenzo Barber narber notwithstanding the made made in asphalt t in the thelast thelast thelast last nineteen years ears is one of f the expert expert ex ex- pert secular theologians of the age ase As professor of ot philosophy in Howard university ty he seemed as far from front manufacturing manufacturing man man- uCa streets to order as If he had been nourished on manna in the wilderness wilderness wilderness wilder wilder- ness of and did not know that Pitch lal lake e existed Ferdinand Schumacher who started the first factory for the manufacture of or cereal foods celebrated his eightieth birthday in Akron 0 O. last week |