New Statesmen Are Extremely Modest
WASHINGTON.—Some of the auto
biographies of new members in
the congressional directory issued re
cently are refreshing.
Senator Wesley L. Jones of Wash
ington, who, with Senator Burton of
Ohio, was promoted from the house,
pays a warm tribute to his wife, an
unusual contribution to an official pub
lication.
The sketch of Mr. Jones says he
“was married to MInda Nelson at On
field, 111., in the fall of 1SS6, and what
ever success he has attained is duo
to her earnest, faithful help and cheer
ful self-denial.”
Mr. Jones also unfolds an unusual
professional experience—“has never
acted as attorney for any railroad, tel
egraph, or express company, or for
any public service corporation.”
The house of representatives of the
Sixty-first congress embraces in its
membership the champion legislator
in American history, for Edward
Thomas Taylor, representative-at
large from Colorado, says of his 12
years’ service in the senate of his
state:
“Has the reputation of having been
the author of more important 'laws
and constitutional amendments than
any person that ever sat in any legis
lature of any state of the union dur
ing the history of the government—
over 40 general statutes and five sep
arate constitutional amendments that
were adopted by a vote of the people.”
While serving as postmaster at Ca
ruthersville, Representative Crow of
Missouri relates that “several times
he called the attention of congress to
the manner of weighing mails; con
gress finally revised the method,
whereby it is estimated that a saving
of $10,000,000 a year was affected.”
An interesting figure in the house
is Delegate Cameron of Arizona. Re
publican. He defeated veteran Mark
Smith last fall, whereupon the story
went the rounds that this result was a
part of a scheme to secure statehood
—allaying the Republican opposition
by the idea that two Republican sena
tors would be chosen by the new
state. But Mr. Cameron has a better
claim to fame than any based on poli
tics. He located and built the “Bright
Angel” trail into the Grand canyon
of Colorado and still maintains it.
The baby of the house is Palitte
Elvins of Missouri, who was sworn in
on the day on which he completed his
thirty-first year.
Secretary Dickinson of the war de
partment makes no reference to his
politics in the sketch of himself. The
one political fact stated in Secretary
MacVeagh's biography is that be was
a Democratic candidate for the United
States senate in the ’90’s.
Cabinet Surely Is “Possum Cabinet” Now
IT'S the “possum cabinet now,” with
out doubt.
The wit who invented that phrase,
after President Taft's exploits in the
south made the southern tree-ciimber
a sort of national emblem, has re
ceived the backing of Webster on top
of that of newspaper paragrapliers.
A Washington man who has time
on his hands looked in the dictionary the
other day, and his eye fell upon the
word “philander.” The meaning given
was "a South American opossum.”
Thus has fate worked to give to the
secretary of state his final credentials
for the office.
Other searchers since have ex
amined Webster, with the following
results, 4s regards cabinet members:
Franldin (MacVeagh)—“A substan
tial householder.” Such the secretary
of the treasury certainly is.
Jacob (Dickinson)—“A supplanter.”
He supplanted Luke Wright.
George (Von L. Meyer)—“A land
holder; husbandman.” • This designa
tion of the new secretary of the navy
applies also to George W. Wicker
sham, the new attorney general.
James (Wilson)—Same as Jacob.
Mr. Wilson, however, has supplanted
none but himself for the last 12 years.
Frank (Hitchcock)—"Free.” No ref
erence to government franking privi
leges.
Richard (Ballinger)—“Strong like a
ruler; powerful”—as befits a secretary
of the interior.
Charles (Nagel)—“Manly; noble
spirited.” None has yet denied pos
session of that quality by the secre
tary of commerce and labor.
Still other searchers hunted up the
Christian names of the president and
ex-president, and found that William
means "protector” and Theodore "the
gift of God.”
Episcopal Cathedral’s Open Air Altar
A BIG bronze sun dial, topping an
open air altar of white marble, is
one of the relics and landmarks that
are accumulating in the majestic
grove of old oaks where soon will rise
the.great Episcopal cathedral of St.
Peter and St. Paul. Already this sol
emn, wind-swept spot, dear to Prot
estants because of its deep religious
associations, is becoming one of the
show places of the national capital.
From the site chosen for the cathe
dral one's view overreaches all the
domes, towers and spires of Wash
ington city. Around the site a num
ber of buildings and memorials have
been built. First, there is the Peace
Cross. The raising and consecration
of this cross was the first service in
the cathedral close. The principal ad
dress was delivered by President Mc
Kinley. A chapel has been construct
ed in the grounds and this is called
the Little Sanctuary. It was a gift
Teddy Only Presid
IT IS very unromantic, but true, that
the Washington business man who
has acquired the finest autograph
book in the last 50 years is tfie pro
prietor of a “corn doctor's" establish
ment. He showed his register of auto
graphs to a congressional visitor who
had dropped in to have his corns
pared and treated.
The establishment started a short
time before the death of Lincoln and
among the early signatures in the
book was an unquestionably authentic
one of the emancipator, who, accord
ing to the proprietor of the place, was
quite a regular attendant in the efTort
to have his corns suppressed.
He once told the chiropodist—who
from Mrs. Percy R. Pyne, and in it
have been gathered memorials of the
Church of England, the Church in the
Wilderness and the Church of Mount
Zion. The remains of Henry Y. Sat
terlee, first bishop of Washington,
rest under the floor of this chapel.
This altar and sun dial is called a
“landmark,” and was given by Mrs.
Julia James to commemorate the free
dom of the cathedral lands from debt
and the consequent hallowing of the
close. The altar is also somewhat of
a genealogical monument of the donor,
in the several panels around the sides
of the marble piece being inscribed a
large number of names, with the dates
of birth, marriage and death, and the
names of to whom married and the
names of children begotten.
There is no telling when the cathe
dral will be built, but the building
fund is growing, and the foundation
stone of the cathedral was laid with
an imposing and monster ceremony
September 29, 1907. On that occasion
addresses were delivered by President
Roosevelt and the bishop of London.
There were present 60 bishops, 200
members of the general convention
of the Episcopal church and about 25,
000 laymen. The foundation stone was
brought from Bethlehem.
ent Without Corns
in those days didn't have a Latin
name, but was called a corn special
ist—that "his corns made him almost
as much trouble as congress,” a sen
timent which ex-President Roosevelt
might have echoed, but he never did
because he didn’t have any corns, and
was, in fact, declared to be the only
president since Lincoln who hasn’t
been a patron of this establishment.
Anyhow, the register contains the
autographs of Johnson, Grant, Hayes,
Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison ai*l Mc
Kinley. Garfield wasn't president long
enough to develop corns, though the
expert opines that at the rate he was
kicking people out during the short
time he served as president, he would
soon have required attention.
The book contains the autographs
of thousands of cabinet ministers,
senators, members of congress and
other famous national characters.
Casual inspection of it would almost
enforce the generalization that corns
and public service are seemingly in
separable.
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Her Answer.
An Atchison girl had a proposal of
marriage Sunday night and asked a
week to think it over. She went to all
of her married sisters. One, who used
to be a belle, had three children, did all
her own work and hadn’t been to the
theater or out riding since she was
married. Another, whose husband was
a promising young man at the time
she was married, was supporting
him. A third didn't dare say
her life was her own when her hus
band was around, and a fourth was di
vorced. After visiting them and hear
ing their woes, the heroine of this lit
tle tale went home, got pen, ink and
paper and wrote an answer to the
young man. You may think it was re
fusing him, but it wasn't She said
she could be ready in a month.—Atch
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Couldn’t Convince the Judge.
“I have heard of the soul kiss and
kisses of other kinds, but I never heard
of a man biting his wife as an evidence
of his affection for her,” remarked Jus
tice O’Neill of Baltimore, Md., when
George Phoebus, aged 27, of East Bal
timore street, endeavored 1o explain
the biting of his wife, for which of
fense she had him arrested. Mrs. I
Phoebus said her husband deliberate- ]
ly bit her on the cheek, and, though
the pain was excruciating, he said that
it was a “love bite.” The justice fined
him five dollars and gave him ten days
in jail.
Harris’ Great Good Humor.
“No man ever maintained his life at
a higher level of perpetual good
humor,” writes James W. Lee cf Joel
Chandler Harris in the Century. “The
day before he died, when he was al
ready beginning to pass into the dark
valley of death, one of his sons came
into the room and inquired: ‘How are
you this morning, father?’
“ ‘Well,’ responded Mr. Harris, ‘I am
about the extent of a tenth of a gnat’s
eyebrow better,’ ”
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Little Barbara’s Complaint.
Four-year-old Barbara went to church
with her two sisters and came home
crying.
“What is the matter, dear?” inquired
her mother.
“He preached a whole s-sermon—
about—M-Mary and Martha,” sobbed
Barbara, “and—never said—a—word
about me.”—Lippincott’s.
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Doesn’t Entertain.
“Did you say he was a lecturer and
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NOT A HERMIT OF ROMANCE.
Man’s Reasons for Living in Solitude,
Though Excellent, Somewhat Sur
prised Young Lady.
The beautiful young lady stood at \
the mouth of the cave in the moun- j
tain and addressed the ragged and I
long-haired hermit.
“So you are a real, live hermit! I
have never seen a real hermit before,
although I have read all about you
many times. I suppose you had a very
sad love affair in your youth and the
loss of your beautiful sweetheart
drove you to this wilderness to live
alone. Was she so very beautiful?
You have tomato cans filled with mon
ey hid in the ground, haven’t you?’’
“Not at all, not at all,” interrupted
the hermit. “I have no money buried ]
—it is all in four per cent, government
bonds. My first love affair was alto
gether too successful, and that’s the
real reason I'm here. You didn’t see
a square-built, red headed woman on
the trail looking for a husband, did
you? It’s about time I moved again,
anyhow, since so many people are
coming here. ’Tain't safe to stay.”—
Puck.
WHY, OF COURSE.
“Oh, Willie! You’re going to fall!” |
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style of skatin’—dat’s all.”
First Aid.
The fiance of a Louisville girl has
been spending the winter in Florida
in connection with his father's busi
ness interests in that quarter.
“Marie,” said the girl to a friend the
other day, “Walter has just sent me
the dearest little alligator from Flor
ida!”
“Dear me!" rejoined Marie, with af
fected enthusiasm. “And how shall
you keep him?”
“I’m not quite certain,” was the re
ply, “but I've put him in Florida water
till I can hear further from Walter.”
There Is more Catarrh In this section of the country
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lew years was supposed to be incurable. For u great
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