The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1898-12-20

The invitations, however, are SO numer-
Gus that the popular senator will have
to enlarge his limit.
The handsome. curly locks of Senator
McLaurin of South Carolina have disap-
peared. Instead of Hyperion ringlets
clustering on his head there blooms q
covering Of pompadourian hair, which
gives the senator a croppy look. All
this is due to the fact that while Mr..
McLaurin was i'll the ruthless barber
piled his shears.
McLaurin, by the way. is one of the
most athletic men in the senate. He is
young, we'll built and active. When he
was a student at the University of Vir-
ginia. he was the leader in athletic
sports and was an especially good boxer.
1t was related the other day that at one
time young McLaurin was found by
some students thrashing a big bully un.
til the mar cried aloud for mercy.
What's the matter, Mac::" asked his
friends.
Nothing, replied the future sena-
tor, except that this fellow was abus.
ing IA little lame boy out here, and l
thought l would teach him a lesson"
Some men like to trace their ancestry
back to kings. Senator Clark of Wyo.
ming is proud that his father was a
blacksmith.
II was reared in a home Of toll"
said the senator IN a speech a day Or
two ago. II was reared in a family
where the father day by day. year in
and year out for nearly half a century
wiped the sweat off his brow over the
glowing forge and provided food and
clothing and shelter for the family and
an ordinary education for the boys and
girls by the never ceasing ring Of the
blacksmith's hammer"
To many visitors at the capito. Sena-
tor Davis Of Minnesota is pointed out
as being the double Of the late Ben
Butler. and there is no doubt that the
likeness is very striking. There are,
however, many marked resemblances
among the public men i'll Washington.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Yeomans has features very much like
the late George NJ. Pullman; Lawrence
Gardner was frequently taken for Gro
yer Cleveland, and Colonel Nick Smith,
Greeley's son-in-law, very much resem.
bles Senator Walthall. The latest prom.
inent instance is Colonel Howard Saxby
Of Cincinnati, who doubles John Add.
son Porter. secretary to the president.
The resemblance is really marvellous.
AS Colonel Saxby stepped off his private
car at the Pennsylvania depot the other
day be was approached by a newspaper
reporter, who asked him if the presi-
dents relations with Foraker had
changed since the elimination of the
Hanna episode.
II am sure / don't know anything
about either the president or Senator
Foraker, said Colonel Saxby.
Are you not Mr.. Porter:'
almost, but not quite" said the
Ohio valley magnate. Il wish l were
as good a man
Representative Sperry Of Connecticut
is probably the last survivor Of the gen
tlemen who were closely associated in
the construction Of the famous Monitor
that fought with the Merrimac in
Hampton Roads. The three builders Of
the Yankee cheese box" were John
Ericsson, a Swede, known the world
over as the inventor; Cornelius S.
Bushnell Of New Haven, and John A.
Griswold Of Troy. n. Y, the last two
being interested with Mr.. Ericsson az
part owners. Mr.. Bushnell and Mr..
Sperry were close friends, and the lat.
ter went on Mr.. Bushnell's bond for
5000, 900. 1t should be borne in mind
what is not generally known by stu
dents of American history-that the
Monitor was owned by private parties
and not by the government when she
fought the historic battle.
The three gentlemen named were an.
thOrized by the government to build the
Monitor, and if she was able to do what
was promised the government had
agreed to purchase her. There was a