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democrat, and
dly beat him.
lie is thirty-eight years
old, but looks younger.
His profession is the
law. He is spare and
nervous in build and
has a keen. penetrat-
ing pair OF black eyes.
His hair is turning
gray early. He is a
hard student. a forci-
BILE. trenchant writer
and a good speaker.
He will come quickly
to the front in the
House. where, nova
days, young men are
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wears glasses and
dresses very nicely.
BE is q lawyer aud
knows a good deal
about railroads. he
has been a state sem
stor. John +. Lacey
IL one Of the best
lawyers the state has
sent here in a long
while. He is the
author OF a text book
on federal jurispru-
dence that ranks
high. he is tall and
thin. with a high
forehead, over which
the sallow skin is
tightly drawn. He
has brown chin
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comes from Milwau-
lee, il as gay as a boy.
and looks about half
as old as he is, which
is seventy-two. The
new men are Bar
wig, Brickner and
Myron McCord. Bar
wig is a German
democrat, born in
Hesse d arms Ia DIT
fifty-odd years ago.
He has been a farmer
and country mer-
chant. succeeding
splendidly all his
life. He beat ex-
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with red hair. 1t is
the first time in ten
wears the state has
elected any but a
tawny-haired m q n.
Townsend's fine, hand
some face is sur
rounded by a heavy
head of gray hair. He
is tall and large and a
fine appearing man.
He is an Ohio man.
who enlisted before
he was twenty years
old andservedthrough
the war. He practiced
law several years in.
Memphis. and in 1879
went to SIlverton. /,
Col. and engaged in
mining He has both
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5tuUyit "fta UOye. j. Q. TARSNEY.
In 1869 he graduated from Ann Arbor law
school and in 1872 he went to Kansas CITY.
Tarsney is capital talker and stumper He
canvassed the first Michigan district in 1868 for
Judge Chapman, now the Detroit member. md
he has been called to the state in nearly every
campaign since then.
BROTHER" TAYLOR,
Tennessee's most notable new man ia All
Taylor, who ran for governor against his brother
Bob. He ls a a short, fat, dubious man. but
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was a singing school
teacher. He is the
tallest man in the
House. standing 6
feet 2 inches in his
stockings,and weighs
205 pounds. His
voice conuuers space
with terrific volume
and force. while it is
really very musical.
In 1876 he was or
dained to the work
of tie ministry in
the Vrimitive Bap-
fist church, which
no ioInal ~ 1919
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NATHAN FRANK.

has sallow complexion and glittering eye.
w. NJ. Kinsey, who comes from Martin L.
Clardy's old district, is an Ohio man reared in
Iowa, where he was admitted to the bar. He
served in the army. He is neither tall nor stout
and has a heavy dark moustache.
r. II. Norton of the seventh district was born
in Missouri just forty years ago last month.
He was educated in the St. Louis university.
He is large, tall fellow who knows how to
dress well; He makes good speech and is a
4 L.
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is largely in Michigan
lumber, and he has a
big yard in Chicago.
He is a tall, big man,
plain spoken and eyi.
IDENTIFY homemade.
NJ. b. Wright Of the
fifteenth district is q
cool, reserved man.
who never says a word
too much. He is a
politician all through
and not only looks
somewhat like Matt
Quay but acts like
HIM. He 10 ably az.
sisted by his wife, who
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John Quinn, who
once had three saloons
running at one time, is
a digger" man than
Col. Merriman. whom
he succeeds. He has
"A bucketful of raw
brains and can talk
well on occasion. He
has been an assembly,
man and an alder
man. He is public
spirited and popular
in his district. He
will work like a beaver
this winter to get the
worlds fair for New
York and will prob
ably accomplish more
than if he were a
Daniel Webster. He
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schOol teacher and believer IN a hereafter
Therefore he has not relished the chatting he
has received this week from his fellow mem
bers on the stories about his duplex promise of
support to Messrs. Reed and Mckinley. lie
has ready tongue and will do his share of
speech making
John j. ONeill. who succeeds Gen. Pat Col
Inns. Is a square-shOuldered. snug and trim in
dlvldual who Is already quite at home on the
democratic side
+. L. Greenhalge takes the seat of young AL
len o. Lowell He is not rich. practices law
and Is the best dressed man in his row of seats
j. ii. Walker of Worcester looks like a we'll
bred Englshman. He wears a smooth face sur
rounded by snowy cheveaux de frise He is a
retired boot and shoe manufacturer and has a
large fortune. He has published through
HOughton, Miiflin Il Co. an interesting book
on Money. Trade and Banking"
Rodney Wallace. another Massachusetts men,
Der. Is a rich manufacturer and an authority on
the tariff.
One of the nozt intereqtino mon from tho
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BROTHER" TAYLOR.

his face is a good one.
He is said to be lazy,
but bright, and like
Tom Reed has q nasal
twang in his voice
that has been inher-
tied in his family for
a hundred years. H.
Clay Evans and Rice
Pierce are new Ten
nesseans in { b o
House, one republic
can the other a DEM
ocrat. Pierce once
sat in Congress.
Old Kaintuck has
retired some mighty
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fore him at East Sagi-
nav. Young Wheeler
served before the mast
and became master Of
a vessel. He has the
largest and b e 8 t
equipped wooden ship
building plant in the
United States. He is
O genial. warm-hearted
man, and a prominent
church supporter at
home. Sam Stephen
son is a brother of the
old Wisconsin men,
Der. He is rich as
pine logs can make
him, and as shire wd a
man as the woods can
show. He was born a
subject of Queen Vic
fOrlo in Nova Scotia
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II. Clarke. rich Mobile planter and Lew
Turpin OF Newbern. Turpin Is plucky young
man who began life for himself at fourteen by
manufacturing nitre for the confederate
government.
PELICAN REPRESENT ATIvEs.
Louisiana has sent two new men-H. Dudley
Coleman and CT. Boatner, one republican and
the other democrat. Coleman will be famous
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Washington L. Will
cox Yale law school
graduate and a sue
ccsstul lawyer. He
has served in both
branches OF the Nut
meg legislature and
was chairman of the
Judiciary committee
III both. Like Simonis
he has a farm. lie
u the only democrat
from the state and !
q low tariff man. II
is tall. 1.-the and looks
to be hardly thirty
i've. when II IL a fact
that he Is fOrtv-eight.
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smooth. patent lawyer.
He has q handsome
face AID Is a glib ra-
contour. He succeeds
Bob Vance. who has
come to Washington
for the New York sun.
Simonds drew up the
Connecticut OleOmar-
garine law. the first
in the country. He
belongs to the grange
and owns a big farm.
ilr. SimOnds served
three Years in the war
and is a popular Grand
Army man. He fills
the lectureship on pat
ent law at Tale college
and has written several
books on patent law.
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lost and made money in the mountains. He is
a good lawyer and fine story teller. He knew
President Garfield well in Ohio and would have
been appointed chief justice of New Mexico
but for Guiteau's insane act
CALIFORNIA; TWO.
California sends two new men in Judge De
Haven and Thomas ]. ClunIe. DE Haven is a
Missouri man and q "Forty- miner" He learned
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Matt. Brosius, the Lancaster member. il a
man forty-six years old. He graduated from
the Michigan university law school in 1861.
and after serving through the war began to
practice. His right arm was shattered at Ber-
mlda Hundred. He is Quaker and an orator.
Joseph 4. Scranton of the Scranton district
is a story-teller and judge of terrapin. He is
something like Matt QUAY in politics.
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~ NeNatNNN anu -
good lawyer. He is a
hard student and a
self-mdde man. Beck
with has William Wal
ter Phelps old dis
trict. He Is a practi-
cal politician and has
been sheriff. Gels
senhainer is a mil
lionaire lawyer, who
only returned last
week from a summer
abroad. He looks
Ike Prince Bismarck
nd Is a man of blood
and iron. He prac-
tees law in Gotham
and goes to Freehold
10 spend his summers.
He went through Co
Iumbia college, as did
his father before him,
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= " = . 1900 " a. y a.
made him very popu-
lar in his district.
where there are 10000
Scandinavian votes.
He read law in Ban
gor and graduated at
the Univ ersity of
Michigan. He settled
i'll Omaha. where he
was a chum of Henry
VI. Stanley when the
latter was a newspaper
reporter. Not getting
much practice Com
stock trudged up into
Minnesota, took a
shovel and went to
work on the Northern
Pacific road. When he
aap1a IN tho Pad piua-
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MfHON III Dtdte Ir6dBuftr NC
Fetridge, one of the most popular men in the
state. Brickner is another rich German from
Sheboygan Falls, and likewise democrat
Myron McCord is an up-country pine baron,
who began as a country editor, setting type out
of wheelbarrow 200 miles from railroad. He
used to have tax list in his little paper worth
$4,000 year before the. little town he lived in
could support q saloon. Before this, however
when a boy. he took. good hard practical les
sons in numbering at % month and he has in
creased operations until he is ono Of the rich
est lumbermen in Wisconsin.
IowA's FLRD0LrN0a
Five strange faces appear in the Iowa dele
cation. John II. Sweeny Of Usage is man Of
medium height and wsll-rounded figure. He
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of the North he settled down and hung out his
shingle. There he stayed in the little town of
Moorhead and made a fortune by laying out
towns along the Manitoba railroad. He has
sat In the state legislature for many years.
NEBRAsKA's NEW MEMBER
Nebraska's one new member, W. ]. Connell,
is tall, handsome man, with sandy hair and
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Stumpf. who came to this country early in the
eighteenth century and purchased large tracts
OF land in what is now called Hartford and Cecil
counties, Maryland, which the family have
since possessed. He was born August g. 1885,
at the family country seat. Darlington" in
Hartford county. After receiving a classical
education he studied law with his cousin. Hon.
Henry W. Archer. at Belair, Hartford county,
and was admitted to the bar in 1856. where he
has since continued the practice of his profess
sion. He was president of the state senate in
1880.
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said, will inherit several millions
The member from the Ogdensburg district,
Fred Lansing, has spent most of the week tell
ing stories back by the cloak ROOM He is a man
of medium height, good talker and dresser
and is making friends.
PENNsYLyANIA's HALF DOZEN.
There are six congressional novices from
Pennsylvania All are good politicians and
keen as new jack knives. Lewis F. Watson,
the eighth newcomer, sat in the Forthwith
and Forty-seventh Congresses. He is big.
handsome and rich old fellow He was the first
man to strike oil in Pennsylvania
Mutchler is another old member who reap
pears. He is a democrat from Easton He has
the eyes of sloe and morocco leather COM
plexion, but he is very sharp man or he
wouldn't be democratic Congressman from
Pennsylvania.
David b. Drummer of Reading. is a notable
Pennsylvania democrat. He is a carpenter by
trade-a big hearty, wise old man. He laid by
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Bay State and one
oftenest pointe d
out is John T. An
drew. jr., son of the
famous war govern
or. He is a good
dresser, worth a mil
lion, he is gong to
have a good time in
Congress and ne has
rented the PendIeton
house. ON 10th street
just above Scott
circle, where he pro-
poses to entertain as
well as the son of
his father knows how.
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chester III 1SJS-the
son Of John Rudolph
Tucker, who was a
Representative in Con-
gress from Virginia
from 1875 to 1887, and
the grandson of Henry
st. George Tucker,
who was president of
the court OF appeals
of Virginia and SUISSE
ouently professor of
law at the University
OF Virginia. st. George
1 NC ker graduated
from Washington and
Lee university, at Lex
ington. Va, in 1875,
and in 1876 graduated
in law from the same
institution. His dis
trict is the same his
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months of it as prisoner of war at Eimira, n
\. After the war he taught school, kept store,
farmed, and served IN the legislature. He is a
manly, able fellow. tall. handsome, and kindly
He is a Farmers alliance man.
MIssOURI's BIG SIX.
Missouri has six new Congressman. all strong
men. The city of st. Louis made a clean
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Interesting fellows in Polk Lafoon, Godfrey
Hunter, Judge Thomas and the irrepressible
Taulbee.
w. 7. Ellis, Laffoon's successor, is dressy,
brilliant lawyer. Isaac Goodnight is a tanners
son, who made money in Kansas City real
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by John R. Thomas, is a handsome LAWYER
With brown hair and heavy mustache He is a
steady solid man of brains He has spent much
OF ms time since March in Washington and is
peter informed on the routine duties of his
district that any other new member.
SIX NEW HOLSTERS.
There are six new Hoosiers. Elijah voor-
hees Brookshire of Charlottesville is a name
sake Of Senator Voorhees, who once renre-
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NEW FACES IN CONGRESS.
Hen Who Began Their Careers in the
National Legislature This Week.

Sketches of the One Hundred and Six
teen Representatives Who Have Made
Their First Appearance-Notabl
acters Among Them-Mcmbers Who
Have Served Before.
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UUuHU DC Ielts ".
He served in the army, is a good lawyer. and
owns mines. He Is progressive and enthusiasts
tic over the future OF his state. He is a great
proselyter of youth who want to 90 west and
grow up with the country. JAT
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been in the state legislature several times and
was register of the Benson land Office eight years
He is genial, faithful man. He is popular with
farmers and his farm of 500 acres on Lake
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One Way Out OF -Cleverton--''say,, old
man, I'm in fix. I've got TO go 10 bal TO-
night and these dress trousers are feariniiy
baggy. What would you dor
Dashaway = (thoughtfully) -"Brush yo1r
hair straight back, neglect your nails, oonp
dance and they'll think you are genius- -
Clonaier and F,1nssher.
..smiIe when you can" is Sam Jones latest
advice 10 the masses Even Sam Jones ought
TO know that no one can smile when be can't-~
Drokx's Na9dziak
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Gated more strenuously and persistently state
immigration and the internal Improvement of
the country.
FROM ALABAMA.
Alabama makes two changes, sending Richard
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is true to his friends and make promises slowly
and carefully.
Dat in the interior of the state there were
five changes and the five new men are
decidedly creditable to their constituencies.
Moses ID. StIvers. the successor of Bacon,
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Horse Flesh as Human Food.

From the Pail Mall Gazette
Many Berlin butchers have gone into bank
ruptcy in consequence Of the continued pro-
hibition of the importation Of cattle and pigA
Another consequence of this irksome prohibi-
ton is a scarcity OF fat stock throughout Ger-
many, and the consumption Of horse flesh u
increasing. In Berlin alone seventy horses q
day are slaughtered, the flesh beng eagerly
bought at moderate prices
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interesting men from the

He resembles his father in certain features and
Is a lawyer of decided acumen and force. Ifhe
were less rich he would earn the fame his
father enjoyed as an advocate.
CONNECTICUT.
Connecticut has sent over some shrewd work
ers. Simonds Of the first district j. n keen.
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They say he will be made chairman of the
committee ON patents "a Osborne of Pennsyl-
vanIa does not want the place.
Frederick Miles is an old member. His an
cestOr founded New Haven and the old gentle
man l. very proud of the fact He has big iron
MnrEs In EnInInhia cnnntr y V
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Jere Black, he was admitted to practice before
the Supreme Court of the United States. Gen.
Grant made him secretary of Wyoming in 1873.
tie was one of the counsel for the prosecution
OF Wintermute, who killed Gov. McCook at
lanktOn. Oak. This made him famous. He
lives in Seymour. Geo. w. Cooper is Hoosier
born and a graduate of the university at Bloom
lngtou. He is an active lawyer. G. A. .. Nc
Clellan is a very successful lawyer and railroad
man. He was one of the original directors of
the Fort Wayne and Jackson railroad and a
trustee Of the nickel plated road. He has
butt big Touring mills, carriage and wagon
works. and organized several banks. He takes
Capt. Whites seat.
THE BUCKEYE STATE QUINTET.
Four new Buckeye members were sworn in
Monday. II. L. Morey, who was in the Forty
seventh and who was unseated in the Forty
eighth Congress by his cousin, Gov-elect
Campbell reappears in the delegation to the
joy of all his many friends. He a soldly
built man. tall and handsome, with an open
strong face. When in Congress he got through
the first pension for women nurses in the war
and he put III general bill pensioninC the
nurses who were disabled. w. c. HAYNES. a
rich banker from Fremont, ex-President
Hayes home, takes Mr.. Romeis' seat lie is
tall, spare and wears an iron-gray beard.
James w. Owens has Beriah wilkins seat he
rs duplicate IN looks or Ben Buttorworth. He
dresses like clergyman. Theodore E. Burton
succeeds Martin Ambrose Foran in the Cleve-
land district. He is an Oberlin boy, thirty-six
years old, and educated for the pulpit He
turned to the law before becoming a clergy
man. NJ. L. Smyser is the startling looking
man who comes from the Akron district He
is a good lawyer, thirty-two years old. He
has a savage-looking mustache and piercing
black eyes.
MICHIGAN MEN,
There are four new Wolverines-C. E.
Belknap, who succeeds Ford; A. 7. Bliss, who
has Tim Tarsney's seat; F. w. Wheeler. who
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MARYLAND's NEW MEN.
Maryland has two new men--Herman Stump
of Belair and Harry Stockbridge, ons of the edi-
torial writer's Of the Baltimore Ane-icon
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lie was in the Connecticut legislature IN 1862.
lie Is a brother-ln-law OF Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
the poetess Of passion.
NEW MEN FROM NEW JERSEY.
The Jersey hedglinGs are Samuel ". Foy-
Ter, Charles u. Beckwith and Jacob A. Geissen-
hainer. Fowler is q Princeton graduate and d
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80 VI "IIJIII WtIt LuIntran ministers.
Air- Geissenhainers grandfather came from
Germany and settled in Pennsylvania dnrinc
the revolution. He built the first hot blast iron
furnace In this country at Pottsvilie i'm 1885. He
took out patent for the process but his heirs
formally donated it to the public.
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FIFTEEN FROM NEW YORK.

New York has fifteen new untried raw re-
cruits. Brooklyn sent an entirely new delega-
ton. Wallace. who succeeds Deacon White. is
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\ OuStess. Thomas
II. Carter. the Mon
tana member. WAS
elected a delegate
from his state when
IL was a territory
and again when II
was soon aftcrward
admitted a. a state.
He is a man Of me-
dunn height; well
built. active aud
quick in his mental
processe He
knows his state
from one corner TO
every other and is
very popular a:
home. as he is
hound IN ha hara
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but has no reason, he says, to find fault with
this country.
THE BADGER STATE.
There are three fresh Badger state men,
bers. Van Schaick, who was not in the Fiji
tieth Congress, sat in the Forty-ninth. He
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qucnt tslker a CcniSl comrsnion and tell
stories Glmos: as well as IrC. harto.
E2oM THE INV STATES.
The new state men are a bright. active body
OF westerners. The only old member reelected
Is Judge Clifford OF South Dakota. He is
New Yorker who has lived for twenty wears AZ
Canton. little prairie village in the south
eastern corner 81 the new state. His colleague.
Judge rickler. is an active. handsome man in
ms prime. as straight a an Indian aud quite ~
Keen. VI. c. Hanshrouch the North Dakota
member. IS young. good-look,ug man. with
a eronzed face and dark brown nastache. He
Is Wisconsin man also. and edited paper in
me Badger state before starting ono at Devils
Lake. lie hauled his presses and type over
land with oxen eighty miles heyond tbe rail.
road IN 49, and IN the interval has seen
nourlshing town grow up and has himsolf cot -
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ing various kinds OF il on and steel and Ia Soma.
what interested in gias making
Cultertson OF the Erie district, a millionaire
manufacturer, succeeds W. L. Scott His weaItb
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IINbSCI III tIIt UUIVEdIIUH.
s. G. Comstock is the largest and perhaps the
ablest man IN the delegation. He is a Maine
man. nearly fifty years old. He looks like a
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TAR HEEL MEN,

HENRY ST O. TUCKER trlct Is the same his
father represented with such distinction and to
the honor of his state.
TAR HEEL MEN.
North Carolina has the only negro Congress-
man in the House. He is II. p. Cheatbam a
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cessful member.
THE NEW COLORADO MEMBER.
Hosea Townsend is the new Colorado mem
Der. Unlike Tom Patterson, Belford and
Judge Symes, his predecessors, he is not gifted
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little IN ofoer 70 be admitted TO the bar. He
is compactly and stoutly built His face is
smooth shaver, broad and frank. He ID an elo-
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MR.. sToCKBRIDGE

is a surprise to himself as well as his friends.
He ran against Isdor Raynor, a strong and