The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1886-07-22
ALL ABOUT SENATORS.
NEN\T0Rs WITH PLENTY OF HAIR AND
SENATOR'S WITH VERY BALD HEADS.


senators Young nnd Senators Old-Scnators
WHO nrc Muscular md Senators Who Are
frnil-Srnatorinl Birthdays.
Ucttcr to thu Philadelphia Times)
WASIiINGToN, July 1G.-Whito locks
and boards among United States Scna.
tors are not always Indicative of age.
Take, for instance, Senator Edmunds
His beard is gray-almost to whitcncss
and not in the Senate Chamber is there
another head moro bald than his, yet the
the years that he can chronicle arc but
tifty-cight. Voorhees,, of the same age.
has not bald spot on his head and his
head and his heavy, brown hair is but
lightly tinged with gray--a fine specimen
Of physical manhood is this "tall syca-
more of the Wabash" Coke and Alli-
son, each numbering Gfty-sevcn years,
are two other extremes. In tho absence
Of hair and color of beard the former
bears striking resemblance to Ed
mnnds. The latter has n heavy growth
Of hair over his entire head, as has also
the other Senator from Iowa, Wilson, of
equal age, but whose hair is gray and
stands straight up like stubblc in grain
field. Butler, at 80, from his thin gray
hair and white moustachc looks nearly
as old as COngcr Mt GS. Nine persons
out Of ten would say that Blackburn. at
a, presents as old an nppcarancc as
George, at SO. Cockrcll, whose years
number half century, plus one, looks
to be ten years older than Logan, while
i'll fact he is nine years younger, the
hair and beard of the former being a
light gray, the hair and moustachc of
the latter being comparatively as black
rs the plumagc of the raven.
Only tifty-thrcc years of this worlds
life has McP cPhcrson seen, yet from his
whitening locks, followed checks and
lccble gait he would quickly be taken to
be eight or ten years older than Beck,
who Is eleven years his senior, but who,
i'll appearance, ut least, is as muscular rs
an OK. On Bccl's head, which is COW
cred with Il liinky coat of brown hair,
not bare spot rs large us dime can
| be seen.
MlLLONAIRE SENATOR.
Within one seat of Mcpherson sits the
millionaire Senator Payne, who has
! rounded out exactly thrcc-qunrtcrs of n
century and who is therefore twenty-five
| years older than this New Jersey Scna-
tor; but the average visitor would be
more apt to think there arc two years
difference III their ages than twenty two.
If the shoulders Of Morrill,, the Oldest
! Senator III the Chamber, were less bent
, n" wUuld appear younger than the ''iish-
. n CIV
! "d years are SiXty-cight and therefore
eight years less than those of the Yer
mont Senator. Jones, of Arkansas. is
| but furty-siX and consequently in the
| prime of life, hut his beard is quite
/ gray, while the hair on his head, which
IS fast turning gray, is us thin rs wheat
: ilcId visited by drought. Evarts, ut
SiNty-ciGht, although his hnir is darkly
! gray, shows not sign OF badness, while
Miller, the other New York Senator,
NOR" shan twenty years his Junior, shows
Il deal Of top head through, his fine silkcn
hair. Sherman, at siXty-thrcc, although
somewhat lacking by nature in vitality,
IS Wcll-prcSerVCd man, not bald spot
being visible through his iron-gray hair.
| Mnhonc, at fifty nine appears older than
| Dawes at SiNty-nlnr, Vest at fifty-tivo as
old rs pugh ut siXty-tivc. Sawyer is
siNty-ninc, yet few persons would take
him to be ten years older than lIoar,
who will be sixty next August
EFT O%E SENATOR UNDEE FORTY.
An cXamiuation of ages shows that in
the thirtic5 there is but one, Senator
kcnna, whose age is 3S and who is there
lore the youngest member of the upper
branch OF Congress. In the fortics there
arc fourteen Senators, Riddlcbcrgcr, the
second youngest Senator, being Al;
SHbin and Spooncr, 43; Aldrich, A :;
Berry, 10; Gray and Jones, of Arkansas,
IG; Hl0ckblun, Gormnn, Miller and
Mitchell, of Pennsylvania, At; Plumb
IS; MUndcrSom, 10. The liftics claim
nearly onc-half Of the Senators, the num-
hcr being thlrty-S"vcn and every year
between fifty and sixty being repre-.
@cntcd. OF the age Of 80 there are five,
Bowen, Butler, Dolph, Hale and
Mitchell, of Oregon; of 81, Blair, Cock
rcll, Eustis and Scwcll; of 81, Call, Har-
rl8on, Ingalls, and Jones, Of Florida; Of
! J3, Cameron, Gibson and Mcpherson;
of 81, Fair and Frye; Of 50, Vest and
Whitehall. OF the age Of 5G there are
six Senators Chase, CuIlum, Jones, of
Nevada; Palmer, Teller and Vancc--this
age claiming a greater number than any
| pIIlti' Lie fCcOltlSl ages Oh AlllSOH
Coke and Wilson, Of Iowa, are 81 years
each; Of Camden, Edmunds, Platt and
Voorhees,, 80; Of George, IIawlcy, Hoar
and Mahonc, 50. The sixties boast of
twcnty-thrcc Senators, Logan, McNlil-
lam and Ransom being GO; Maxoy, Van
Wyck and Whitthornc, 81; Coluuitt,
Stanford and Morgan, 90, the latter's
birthday being juno 20; Sherman, G3;
Beck and Wilson, of Maryland, Ga;
Brown, Hearst and Pugh, G5; Pike, 6G;
Congcr, Evmts, Hampton, Harris and
Salisbury, G8; Dawes and Sawyer, 60.
In the seventies there are but two Sena-
tors, Payne beng IS and Moni'. 76.
Between the youngest Senator, Kcnna,
and oldest, Morrill,, there are, therefore,
tmrty-ci8ht years, Morrill, being exactly
twice the age Of Kcnna.
SENATORIAL BIRTHDAYS.
The month Of October has given birth
to the greatest number of Senators
eleven having been born therein. Marcl
and April have iOinCd hands with 10