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HATUltDAY, 1 AltCIl 25, 18!JJ. SA17P LAKH CITVr UTAH Ti:mm'7)U Y -
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They Were Born in Ohio.
Stories and Gossip About Statesmen of the Buckoje State.
Sector Callrice and Hit I'lans Jor Sochi Entertaining-A loot oil hi Ohio
Home and the Quttr Story of Hit Mintage-Cat trice's Hrsl Press Ml
and llo-o He Got Il-Soml AW' Storitt of Giant and Sherman-Whal V.rant
Sold About the Generals 0 the libe-Cr-Secretary Charity otter's ton,
and Something About His Health and Sfeculollons-Maf. Mwiley's lirth
place 1 Ih Imances and His Ambitions.
tpttlal Cor rtipcnjfntt IA Zltttrtl Atu
By all odd the meat prominent United
States Senator In Washington at tills
lime U Senator Calvin Drlcc 'of Ohio,
lie lias Jumped like Minerva from the
head of Jove full fledged Into theorem
of national politics and Ills in me Is on
every one's tongue. lie is n man of
wonderful brain power and Ills nerves
arc Iron. Delias within the last decade
made enough to nvtragc n million n
jiar and lie believes In spending money
to accomplish his ends. Ills bouse ditr-
Ingthe last month has been the most
talked of of any residence In Washing
ton outside the White I louse and c cry
one expects that It will be the social
center of the Cleveland administration
next winter. It will, to a targe extent,
take the place that Secretiry Whitney's
home had during Cleveland's first term,
and Senator Drice and his wife arc well
fi'tcdfor niinaging It. They are both
possessed of decided personal migne
itsm, are generous to a fault and are
noted for their taste and refinement.
The contrast of benator Hrlce's con
dition today with that of ten) cars ago
Is striking. I visited Lima, Ohio, the
other day, where llrlce began life as a
voung Iaw)cr. It Is now it city of per
haps 30,000 people and It has lately had
a great boom through its oil and its
natural gas. Tor miles nround the ton n
on eery side great ghostly derricks
poko their heads Into the tky and n
smell like assafoetldi fills the air. 1 he
town Is now furnishing a large amount
of the oil of the United .Slates, and It
pipes Us gas and oil to a number of cities.
The oil Interests are practically owned
by the Standard Oil Company, but the
town hasa good local business and does
considerable manufacturing. Cal llricc,
as I was told, has an olhce In It, and he
comes to Unit now and then for a few
ilnjs. Ills headquarters Is however, in
New York, and his family spends most
of the time there and In Washington.
' MOW' CAL 11RICK GOT MARRIED.
I heard a number of good stories of
llrlce during my stay In Lima and I
found ev ery one spoke well ofhlni. He
began life In this vicinity os a poor boy.
the son ot a prcicher, and ho trotted
nround for some ears almost on his
uppers. Cury one says, however, that
he was honest and n hard worker, and
the cltiicns speak admiringly of h
wonderful conlidence In hlmscll and his
future. He never hesitated to borrow
money of his friends to carry out his
little schemes, and Irtiomo way or other
he always managed to meet his obliga
tions. One of the queerest instances of
this 1 have heard of was connected with
the story of Ills marriage. Cal llrlce
was in love and he had been engaged
forsomo time, when onediynt loledo
lie met a l.lmi friend of his who hid
just been married and had lift Llmi to
go east on his w rdding Journey. llrlce
had been away for a short time and hid
not known of the marriage. When he
saw his friend and heard tho story he
was delighted. "Married jeslcrdav,
were ou? ' Slid lie. "Wh), 1 congratu
late joul 1 wint to get married ni)self,
and II )ou will wait hero a day forme
I'll run down to Lima and get untried
and go with) ou."
"All right," said his friend, whose
name, by Ilis way, 1 think was Hold
ridge, "we'll wait, but jou must hurry."
'There's plenty of lime," said llrlce,
ns he looked at his watch. "1 hate
fifteen minutes to goto the lloody House
and get my grip and take the train. I
will get home by A o'clock this aftinioon.
We will get married this evening, come
to Toledo on the express and tomorrow
we can start cast logethir."
llrlce carried out tills program and the
twowenttoNcw Yorkvia Nlagira Palls
and then on to lloston. While they
were in New York and lloston they
undo n tour of the stores, and llnce was
so Inppy that ho bought silks and satins
and Jewelry everywhere. He soon ran
out of money, and then he borrowed of
1 loldrldge Hum time to time until I told
ridge one morning reached Into his
pocket to give him some more and
found that lie had none left. Doth of
the men were comparatively unnciiualn
ted at that lime in ISoston, but Hold,
ridge had n very fine watch, and he
pawned this until he rould get a remit
tance from home. When the two came
back from the pawnbroker's shop they
promised each other to siy nothing
about the situation to their wives, and
as they met tlicni their faces were as
happy as though their pockets were
stullcd. As lloldridge pulled oirhls
overcoat, however, his watch ihaln
which he had stuflcd In his vest pocket,
came loose and the chain fell down,
"Why, what's become of our witch,
my dear, ' said his w Ife.
' Oh'" said I loldrldge, as he reddened
a little, ' It got out of order and I had to
leav c it at the w alchmikcr's to be Used "
This was all that was said and n lew
t.a) slater the remittance which he had
tli graphed forairlvcd and the wedding
trip was hnlshcit without fuither limn
cial ttoublc llrlce mide a ten strike
shor ly after coming home and he paid
I loldrldge for the debts of his wedding
Journe
sen mor mtei.'s I ikst uhium suit.
Speaking of Cal llilce's wedding re
calls tiie story I heard concerning him
by one of his old schoolni ites nlncol
lege fraternity dinner here in Washing
ton the other night. When llrlce went
losehool hewasvery poor and lie bid
barely enough lo pay his tuition and
board. He could not Indulge in fine
clothes He was loo honest to go In
del t and without seeing some immedi
nte means of rrpivnient he was too
proud lo borrow. I Ic had, lion ev er. a
good deal of humor in his niture and he
was by no means averse lo a practical
Joke at the expense of his Iricnds
While he was in the senior year both
himself ind his room mate received an
Invititlon one diy to attend the wedding
of a friend. 1 he couple lo be martlet!
were very popular, and It was known
that the wedding wou'd be nhrgeand,
for the town, a fashion ible one. It was
talked about hi the social circles of the
college lor weeks beforehand, and
llrlce s room mate, who was well to do,
order d n new suit of clothes fur the
occasion llrlce looked ov er the clothes
with him and longed for n suit himself,
but as he looted at his slender pocket
book he gave up the Idea with a sigh,
and taking his nail brush scrubbed the
dirt out ol his old suit and prepared lo
wear it. Now, the clothes of his friend
were to be delivered tho evening of the
wedding. The hours of the afternoon
went slowly on and the suit did not
arrive. As It itpproichcd the time for
leaving Cal llrlce said that he would go
down and sec wh it was the matter and
would hurry up Ihe tdlor. Ills filcnd
said all right and sat n id waited. In the
course of half an hour n message came
saying that the clothes could hardly
nrrlve on time, and the boy, not to be
htr, put on his old suit and went to the
wedding. He had just gotten himself
Into n good place for watching the cere
mony when, to his surprise, Cal llrlce
entered, looking as lhoin.ll he bid
Jumped front a himlbox He was clad
Irom crown to heel in his friend's new
suit, and he was for that time at least the
best dressed ol his fellows. Hurlnglhls
dinner Senitor llrlce spoke with con
siderable feeling about his college da s
at Miami. He wasn fair student, and
he sav stint his school davs were the
hipplcst of his life. Ills father, )ou
know, was a poor prcicher, and he wis
of all the bos at college among the
poorest, but with all his overty he did
not lick independence An Instance of
this was in his actions In coming to the
school from timu time. There was In
those li)s no rill road to Oxford, where
the college is located, and Hie students
came by rail to I laniillou, Ohio, and
thence went twelve miles hysfigcUi
Oxford. The stage rates were h Kh ami
Cal llrlce felt Ihat he could not i d lo
piy Hum The result w is tint he
usually walked from Hamilton to osloid,
refusing the offers of his rlihti friends
to piy Ms fare. These Iricnds often
walked with him merely to keep him
company at such times, and time nr
numerous evidences of his ije.il popul
ar it) among his fellows.
ItVJOR M'KISLEV'fl IMRTIIII n
Major McKlnlr)'flluro issii In irirt
Ing some talk in Washington mil tin re
Is n genuine s)nipalhy for linn in n for
It Is well known that he Is n t i money
tinker or n money spender II. It gait
life like llrlce ns n poor bo) in I he liad
devoted himself more to in iking a re
putation thin lo making monev mil ihe
most of the properly lint he h id came,
lam told, Irom his wife, who was the
daughter of a well to do tnuspipcr
editor of Canton. McKlnlcy wis burn
at Ndcs, n little mining town in innthcrii
Ohio, and I saw here the oil ! the
little two story cottage In win li Ins boy
hood was spent It did noliost inure
than fi, son to build, and ni iri .fills
now used ns a grocery store 1 here is
n porJi over the front door arid McKin
Ic) uhcnlio makes slump -pudnini
Nilcs, usually comes out on tins porch
and addresses the people II s I itltcr
vv as one of Ihe more Import inn ruplo) e-a
of one of the rolling mills 'I tin town
and 1 cling McKlnlcy was pw n a lahl)
good education. He via-, known In
N ileitis "Young Hill McKlnky mid the
people there told mo that In m a stu
dious boy with enough inti-ile lo take
care of himself. He went into the ami)
when he was seventeen and when Ihe
war was over he went to Cinlun, which
was then a town of pcrhips i- w, and
began tho practice of liw. It was from
Canton that he came to C ngn is, uml
the best part of his prluii has been
spent in political lite-. He his never
spent much money in entertaining at
Washington, though thisimv hive been
due somewhat to the poor heilth f his
wife He usually lived at the I.bbilt
House and nlw a) s looked cie in and well
dressed. He had n fair prjetke before
he came to Congress, but In Ins never
saved much money losni ik of, and I
understand that hi j politic il c u er his
cost him more than his s it in He is n
very ambitious min and In still hopes
to hive a term In the White I Inn . He
Is cpiiet In his w.i)s when ell the stump
anil is a cowl conversation ihsl ns well
ns n good speaker. A friend of his who
his gone with him during m my of his
cimpalgns told me that M Klnley dis
likes to tilk politics when oil the slump,
and thai he is a mm of wide reading
and of much general knowledge He
said that McKlnlcy had no particular
rules as to the me of his ue, but tiiat
after he finishes a speech In aluavs goes
to his room and lakes oir e ry stitch of
his clothes and then rubs 1 Imself down
with a coarse tow el. lie then puts on
new underclothes to wear during the
rest of the day or evening.
M:w STOKII.SOr CHANT AM) SHERMAN.
Speaking ol Ohio, It Is aondcrful how
many prominent men come from that
stale. In Harrison's c.Urtt there were
four men who were born in Ohio.
rhese were Ktisk, I Iklns, Poster and
Noble President Harrison first saw
I light In the same state. Senator Allison
i "pent his bovhood in Ohio. Manderson
eame Irom Canton and Jones, the silver
millionaire, went tu school In Cleveland
benilor btcwatt of Nevadi came from
Ncwatk, Ohio Dan Vooiheca got his
first spanking not fir from Cincinnati
rind 1 urple of Indhna first squillcd In
Hamilton count). The two great geno
rals of the war. Grant ami Sherman,
were born in Ohio and the buckeve
woods arc full of good stories of them
Among others the following were told
me by Gen. W. II. Gibson, the famous
I Ohio orator, who Is now postmaster at
1 itlin Said Gen. (illison
"I knew both Grant and Shermin be
fore they became famous and 1 was ery
close lo them during the first part ol Ihei
war. Grant was tho groat general of
the war and .Sherman was great as n
pusher of men and n fightcr.liut Grant
was the Washlngtoi of our civil strife.
Sherman was full of good Ideas They
called him craiy wncn he proposed
loo,euo men to lie mirehed right down
into Tennessee and on through the
south, but tint idea was a correct one,
and hid It been billowed the north
would hive conquered the south more
jiilekly and with a less toss of men.
She. mm was very superior nsa leader
uf nil army where Ihe lines were map
ped out, and as fur Grant, he could
carry the whole country from the moun
tains to Ihe sea In hiscjc. Hekne-w
every put of our lighting grounds and
ol Its people from tl c Pacific slope lo
the capes ol Virginia, and hu pliycd the
game uf war vvltlin full knowledge of
the position and the possibilities of
every man on the chess board,
GRANT ON Till! (II M K VLS OS TIIK
IIIDLL.
"Fpcaklng of mlhtiry genius," Gen.
Gibsun went on, "during the culler
put of thewnrwc liy lor a long time
inactive and Gen Gnnt used lo come
to onr headquarters and wo had many
tilks together. Grant has been accus
ed ol getting drunk dining Hie hrst pirt
of the civil war. This wis not true
Ho look a glass now and then, ns most
of us did, but I hive never seen him
under Ihe Inlluenct- of liquor. He was
a fine tilkcr and full of Ideas His tilk
showed that be hid been n great reader
nod he was especially well posted on
the lllble. As an luslauc e of this I re
member a chit wo had on a book entitl
ed Taitlsin WarfuCi' which Glllam, an
olhccr of the southern nrin), hut pub
lUlied. I referred to it and asked Grant
whether be bad seen It Yes, he replied.
I have read it. Glllam was alw,ivs a
greit fool and his book Is pure bildcr
dish. Talk! about partisn wntfaicl
There Is no partisan warfare going on In
this world todiy The only mm In
this war who Is carrying on his fighting
in this way is Gcu John Morgan, ihe
Kentucky raider. If )ou want an ex
ample of p itllsan warfaru )ou can sec It
In Mm. The di)sof such fighting are
gone by. Tint was the vvarfuc of the
past. 'I he bible is full of il, and one of
Ihe greatest partisan warriors of the
world was KfngDnld He fought nil
of his campaigns along such lines and
he was n good fighter. Hut tho greit
military leader of that time was Joshua.
He would have been great In any
Scneratlun anil In any u ir. lie saw nil
ilngs and he manipulated his Iroops
with military genius.
uoss i r Aiiour I'x.skcretarv rosTkR.
"I x Secretary Poster Uvea not very
rir front Tiffin,'' said I
"Yes," replied Gen. Gibson "Charley
I osier was raised at l'ostorla, n few
miles from Tiffin, ami he has n large
amount of property there. His father
came hero when tho country was young
and Charley was born inn log cabin
anil be got bis business education In his
fither'a store Die sitnc store Is still in
existence today and I ostcr Ins an
Intciesl In it He has other interests
throughout this put of Ohio and his
private propetly is such that ho can't
afford to lake a public olficc I happen
to know; that he was very reluctant to
accept tho secretiryshlpol the treasury
and he is glad to get out of It. 1 he
treasury Ins so nflected his heilth lint I
fcirhewill never bo Ihe mm he was
before he entered II. 1 hit government
machine is too big for any one man It
has killed nenly every stitesmin who
his tried to cope with it. It mide 1 air
child sick, II sucked the Juice out of
Manning's gl mt ph)slque, it killed I ol
gcr, and I osier was very close to the
edge of the grave when lie had to go on
to I .tl rope to get a test. Amf still
Secretary Foster was warned that It
would mill his heilth If he tried tu
mister It, and he had the best advice on
this subject that any secretary of the
Ircasurv his ever hid This came from
Judge N'iblack of Indiana, and I saw Ihe
letter which Niblack wrote tu Poster at
tho time he was otTcrcd ,lhe appoint
ment It was a very strong letter and
1 can of course only rememucr the sub
stance of it. Judge Niblack told Poster
lint he wanted him to accept the ort
lollu of the treasury, but only on the
condition that be would act like a man
of sense vv hen in olhce. M he treasury,'
siltl Nilihck, 'is too big n thing for any
one mind lo grasp in all Its tlct ills, and
If )ou attempt Hit will surely ruin jour
health '1 lie re ure, however. In the
department scores of men who have
been connected with it for) ears and
who understand perfectly Ihe different
parts in w liich they are cmplu) cd j ou
want to mike these men do the work
forjou, to accept their prophecies and
rely upon their estimates l.ct them
make out the pipers for their own
branches and Incorporate their Ideas
Into your report as)ours. I)evote)our
self almost entirely to great questions
and jou will end your career In the
d(vartmcnt with n record ns Hie gnat
est mid ablest of our secretaries,1 I
think I oste-r went Into the trcasur) with
the I lei of doing this," sld Gen Gib
sou, "but lie Is such a practical business
min that he could not let things pass
him without Investigation, and hud
work almost broke him dow u "
"Secretary I oster has Iirge Interests
wills Sen itor Cal llnce. h is lie not? '
No, I think not." replied Gen. Gibson
"He was with llrlce In Ihe Ohio Central
dcil and he hid n small amount ol stock
In the Nicklc Plate railroad, but must of
his interests are right here in Ohio and I
don't think he indulges to any extent In
speculation As for Cal llricc, lie Is n
born speculator and he has the greatest
neric of any speculator I know. He :
can lose a million dollars and not wink.
and from Ids ficc and talk you would
not know any difference. They would
be just the same though he had gained a
million Instead of lost it. llrlce Is a ,
very shrewd business man and he has
extraordinary ability,"
Prank G, Carpenter.
StMl HIS hOMl.
John Howard Payne, the author of
"flome, Sweet Home," once sived him
self and friend from Imprisonment by
the singing of his f imous song. This Is
the story, substantially as It wis related
by John Koss, the Indian chief, and
published recently In tho Indian Arrow,
printed at Tahlequth, I. T,
When the Cherokee Indians were '
liclng removed from Georgia to their
reservation west of Hie Mississippi river
l'ane spent n few weeks at the home of i
John Ross, a life long Irlend, head chief
of the tribe. Several prominent Chero
keeswerein prison and Ihat portion of '
Georgliwas scoured by armed squads
of mllilla One diyas l'.i)ne and Ross
were sitting brfotc the fire Inn hut the
door wii opened suddenly and eight
militia men entered. Uoss anil his pre
sumed accomplice, suspected of Influenc
ing tho Indians to cause trouble, were
summarily arrested and taken olT on
horscbick. Kiln was falling, The
Journey listed all night. Just alter mid
night, In order to keep awake, one of
Hie soldiers began singing "Home,
Sweet Home."
"Ah" said Pa)ne, sully. "I never
expected to hear that song under such
circumstances ns these "
"I guess not," his escort answered In
differentl), "but I wasn't singing that for
) ou "
"Do )ou know who wrote Ihat songf"
"No. Do nu?"
"Yes," Slid l'.i)ne, "I did."
' Ofcnursc )oudld," liughcdhls com
pinion with an oath. "1 bet )ou don't
even know Ihe words."
l'.i)tio slowly repeated Ihe words of
the song, reciting the whole of It. Then
he sing It. ihe surroundings naturally
heightened cHect. As the last words of
the melody died away the soldier said
kindly
"If ) ou didn't write It, you can sing It
as the mm that did write it "
"He really wrote the song," said the
Indian chief. "That Is John Howard
I'.i)nc,"
The soldier was skeptical, but hid. at
lent, liecn touched by Payne's singing
of the song.
'Whether you wrote It or not," he
said, "jou shall not go to prison if I can
help it."
And much to the surprise of both
Koss and P.i)no they were released ot
Milledgcville then the caplti! of the
stite next day after a brief examination.
Tho soldier wis subsequently treated
with especial respect and liberty.
"That song," the Indian chief de
clared, "subsequently saved both of us
from Insult and Imprisonment, or, per
haps, even worse treatment. 1 had
be ird Payne sing It before, but never
as he sung it that rainy night on our way
to prison at Mlllcdgeville."
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