Show THEY WERE BORN IN OHIO by all odds the most prominent united states senator in washington at this time is senator calvin brice of ohio he has jumped like minerva from the head of jove full fledged into the arena of national politics and his name is is on every ones tongue he is a man of wonderful brain power and his nerves are iron he has within the last decade made enough to av average a million a year and he believes in in spending money to accomplish his ends his house during in g the he last month has heen been the most t talked aked of of any residence in washington outside the white house and every one expects that it will be the social center of the cleveland administration next winter it will to a large extent takle take the place that secretary whitneys Whit home had during Clev elands first term and senator brice and his wife are well fitted for managing it they are both possessed of decided personal magnetism are generous to a fault and are noted note d for their taste and refinement the contrast of senator brices arices condition today with that of ten years ago is striking I 1 visited lima ohio the other day where brice began life as a young clung lawyer it is now a city of per kap haps 00 oo pe people ople and it has lately had a great boom through its oil and its natural gas for miles around the town on every side great ghostly derricks poke their heads into the sky and a smell like fills the air the town is now furnishing a large amount of the oil of the united states and it pipes es its gas and oil to a number of cities age the oil interests are practically owned by the standard oil company but the town has a good local business and does considerable manufacturing cal brice as I 1 was told has an office in it and he comes to lima now and then for a tew few days his headquarters is however in new york and his family spends most of the time there and in washington HOW CAL BRICE GOT MARRIED I 1 heard a number of good stories of brice during my stay in lima and I 1 found every one spoke well ot of him he began life in this vicinity as a poor boy the son of a preacher and he trotted around for some years almost on his uppers tippers every one says however that he was honest hone st and a hard worker an and d the citizens speak admiringly of his wonderful confidence in himself and his future he never hesitated to borrow money of his friends to carry out his little schemes and in some way or other he always managed to meet his obligations one of the queerest instances of this I 1 have heard of was connected with the story of his marriage cal brice was in love and he had been engaged for sometime some time when one day at toledo he met a lima friend of his who had bad just been married and had left lima to go 0 east on his wedding journey brice sad 1 ad been away for a short time and had not known of the marriage when he saw his friend and heard the story he was delighted married yesterday were you said he why I 1 contratti late you ou I 1 want to get married myself and 14 if you will wait here a day for me ill III run down to lima and g get et married and go with you all right said his friend whose name by the way I 1 think was holdridge rid well wait but you ou must hurry IV theres aeres plenty of time said brice at as he looked at his watch 1 I have fifteen minutes to go to the boody house and get my grip and take the train I 1 will get home by 3 this afternoon we will get married this evening come to toledo on the express and tomorrow we can start east together brice carried out this program and the two went to new york via niagara falls and then on to boston while they were in new york and boston they made a tour of the stores and brice was so happy that he bought silks and satins gatins and jewelry everywhere he boon ran out of money and then he borrowed oi of holdridge from time to time until holdridge rid g e one morning reached into his pocket to give him some more and found that he had none left both of the men were comparatively unacquainted at that time in boston but holdridge had a very fine watch and he pawned this until h he could get a remittance from home when then the two came back from the pawnbrokers pawn brokers shop they promised each other to say nothing about the situation to their wives and as they met them their faces were as happy as though their pockets were stuffed ted As holdridge pulled off his overcoat however his watch chain which he had bad stunted in his vest pocket came loose and the chain fell down why become of your watch my dear said his wife ohl oh said holdridge as he reddened a little it got out of order and I 1 had to leave it at the watchmakers to be fixed this was all that was said and a tew few days later the remittance which he had telegraphed for arrived and the wedding trip was finished without further financial trouble brice made a ten strike shor ly after coming home and he paid holdridge for the debts of his wedding journey SENATOR BRICES FIRST DRESS SUIT speaking of cal brices arices wedding recalls the story I 1 heard concerning him by one of his old schoolmates at a college fraternity dinner here in washington the other night when brice went to school he was very poor and he had barely enough to pay his tuition and board he could not indulge in fine clothes he was too honest harlest to go in debt and without w seeing some immediate means of repayment he be was too proud to borrow he had however a good deal of humor in his nature and he was by no means averse to a practical joke at the expense of his friends while he was in the senior year both himself and his room mate received an invitation one day to attend the wedding of a friend the couple to be married were very popular and it was known that the wedding would be a large and for the town a fashionable one it was talked about in the social circles of the college for weeks beforehand and brices arices room mate who was well to do order d a new suit of clothes for the occasion brice looked over the clothes with him and longed for a suit himself but as he looked at his slender pocket book he gave up the idea with a sigh and taking his nail brush scrubbed the dirt out of his old suit and prepared to wear it now the clothes of his friend were to be delivered the evening of the wedding the hours of the afternoon went slowly on and the suit did not arrive As it approached the time for leaving cal brice said that he would go down and see what was the matter and would hurry up the tailor his fi friend said all right and sat and waited in the course of half an hour a message came saying that the clothes could hardly arrive arrive on time and the boy not to be late put on his old suit and went to the wedding he had just gotten himself into a good place for watching the ceremony when to his surprise cal brice entered looking as though he had jumped from a bandbox he was clad from crown to heel in in his friends new suit and he was for that time lime at least the best dressed of his fellows during this dinner senator brice spoke with considerable sid erable feeling about his college days at miami he was a fair student and he says that his school days were the ane happiest of his life his father you know was a poor preacher and he was of all the buys at college among the poorest but with all his bis poverty he did biot not lack independence an instance of this was in his actions in coming to the school from time time there was in those days no railroad to oxford where the college is located and the students came by rail to hamilton ohio and thence went twelve miles by stage to oxford the stage rates were high and cal F thrice rice felt that he be could not afford to pay day them result was that he usually walked from hamilton to oxford refusing the offers of his richer friends to pay his fare these friends often walked with him merely io to keep him company at such times and there are numerous evidences of his great popularity among his fellows MAJOR birthplace major McKinly ys Is failure is still attracting some talk in washington and there is a gehu genuine aine sympathy for him here for it is w well ell known that he is not a money maker or a money sp spender ender he began life like brice as a poor boy and he had devoted himself more mona to n making a re than to making money and the most of the property that he had came I 1 am told irom from his wife who was the daughter of a well todo to do newspaper editor of canton mckinley was born at niles a little mining town in northern northera ohio and I 1 saw here the other day the little two story cottage in which his boyhood 1 i was spent it did not cost more than 1500 to build and a part of it is now used as a grocery store there is is a porch over the front door and mckin 1 ley when he makes stump speeches at niles usually comes out on this porch and addresses the people his father father was one of the more important em employed emp loyes of one of the rolling mills of the town and young mckinley was given a fairly good education he was known in niles as young bill mckinley and the people there told me that he was a studious boy with enough muscle to take care of himself he went into the army when he was seventeen and when the war was over he went to canton which was then a town of perhaps and began the practice of law it was from canton that he came to congress and the best part of his prime has been spent in political lite he has never spent much money in entertaining at washington though this may have been due somewhat to the poor health 0 of f his wife he usually lived at the ebbitt house and always looked clean and well dressed he had a fair practice before he came to congress but he has never saved much money to speak of and I 1 understand that his political career has cost him more than his salary he is a very ambitious man and he still hor hopes to have a term in the white house he e t S e 1 Is quiet in his ways when off the st stump u m and is a good conversationalist as w well as a good speaker A friend of his who C V has gone with him during mandof many of his campaigns told me that mckinley dislikes to talk politics when off the stump and that he is a man of wide reading and of much general knowledge he said that mckinley had no particular rules as to the use of his voice but th that t after he finishes a speech he always goes to 40 his room and takes off every stitch of chis is clothes and then rubs himself down with a coarse towel he then puts on new mew underclothes to wear during the test rest of the day or evening NEW HEW STORIES OF GRANT AND SHERMAN speaking ot of ohio it is wonderful how many prominent men come from that state in harrisons cabinet there were four men who were born in ohio these were rusk elkins foster and noble president harrison first saw light in the same state senator allison spent his boyhood in ohio manderson came from canton and jones the silver millionaire went to school in in cleveland senator stewart of nevada came from newark ohio dan voorhees got his first spanking not far from cincinnati and turpie of indiana first squalled squal led in hamilton county the two great gene rals of the war grant and sherman were horn born in in ohio and the buckeye woods are full of good stories of them among others the following were told me by gen W H gibson the famous ohio orator who is now postmaster at tiffin said gen gibson 1 I knew both grant and Sher sherman be fore they became famous and I 1 was very close to them during the first part of the war grant was the great gener general of the war and sherman was great as a pusher of men and a fighter but grant was the washington of our civil strife sherman was fun full of good ideas they called him crazy when he proposed men to be marched right down into tennessee and on through the south but that idea was a correct one and had it been followed the north would have conquered the south more quickly quickly and with a less loss of men sherman herman was very superior as a leader of an army where the lines were mapped out and as for grant he could taffy carry the whole country from the mountains to the sea in his eye he knew every part of our fighting grounds and of its people from the pacific slope to the capes of virginia and he played the game of war with a full knowledge of tile the position and the possibilities of every man on the chess board GRANT ON THE GENERALS OF THE BIBLE speaking of military genius gen gibson went on during the earlier part of the war we e lay for a long time inactive and gen grant used to come to our headquarters and we had many talks together grant has been accused of getting drunk during the first part of the civil war this was not true he took a glass now and then as most of us did but I 1 have never seen him under the influence of liquor he was a fine find talker and full of ideas his talk showed that he had been a great reader and he was especially well posted on the bible As an instance ot of this I 1 remember a chat we had bad on a book entitled partisan warfare which gillam an officer of the southern army had published I 1 referred to it and asked grant L A ll 11 whether he had seen it yes he replied I 1 have read it gillam was always a great reat fool and his book is pure balderdash bash talk about war warfare farel there is no partisan warfare going on in this world today the only man in this war who is carrying on his fighting in this way is is gen john morgan the kentucky raider if you want an example am I 1 of partisan warfare you can see it in him im the days of such fighting are gone by that was the warfare of the past the bible is full of it and one of the greatest partisan warriors of the wor world was king david he fought all of his campaigns along such lines and he was a good fighter but the great military leader of that time was joshua he would have been great in any generation and in in any war he saw all things and he manipulated his troops with military genius GOSSIP ABOUT EX SECRETARY POSTER FOSTER ex secretary foster lives not very far from tiffin said 1 I yes replied gen gibson charley foster was raised at fostoria Fo stona a few miles from tiffin and he has a large amount of property there his father came here when the country was young and charley was born in a log cabin and he got his business education in his fathers store the same store is is still in in existence today and foster has an interest in it he has other interests throughout this part of ohio and his private property is such that he cant afford to take a public office I 1 happen to know that he was very reluctant to accept the of the treasury and he is glad to get out of it the treasury has so affected his health that I 1 fear he will never be the man he was before he entered it that government machine is too big for any one man it has killed nearly every statesman who has tried to cope with it it made fairchild sick it sucked the juice out of mannings giant physique it killed fol ger and foster was very close to the edge of the grave when he had to go off to europe to get a rest and still secretary foster was warned that it would ruin his hiis health if he tried to master it and he had the best advice on this subject that any secretary of the treasury has ever had this came from judge niblack of indiana and I 1 saw the letter letter which niblack wrote to foster at the time he was offered the appointment it was a very strong letter and I 1 can of course only remember remember the substance of it judge niblack told foster that he wanted him to accept the portfolio of the treasury but only on the condition that he would act like a man of sense when in office the treasury said niblack is too big a thing for any one mind to grasp in all its details and if you attempt it it will surely ruin your health there are however in the department score men who have been connected with it for years and who understand 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