The age-herald., 1902-01-03
Senator Pugh's Famous Story Abcst
 Avoiding Poorhouse and Jail.

and most valuable books ever compiled or written in this country
 Ever since Mir Peffer retired from the Senate he has been engaged in compiling for publication lfi book form the leading speeches of the debates in Congress on great national issues on past down to and including the deoate in the Senate and House on the bill to repeal the Sherman law for the purchase of silver bullion and for its coinage, by which the nearly five hundred millions of silver now stored in the Treasury was accumulated. Mir. Pefrer has asked Congress to purchase the book with the purpose of having 1t distributed free to the people as public docum ent. and 1t is believed that Congress will do so this session. MT. Peffer's mat ter is taken from the Congressional Re- cord and the great speeches for and against great issues are given by him verbatum.
 Senator Hoar declared on the floor of the Senate that the Congressional Re- cord is the greatest authority on the history of great governm ental issues print ed in the world, and that MT. Peffers book, which he had examined is the great est book ever produced in this country. And nobody can entertain any more doubt of Senator Hoar's sincerity in this view than can any intelligent man have regarding the Senator's transcendant ability to form 9 just estimate of such a publication. With Senator Hoar's opin- ion of MT. Peffer's book Former Senator Pugh, who has had opportunity to look into the matter, cordially agrees Senator Hoar will urge Congress to comply with MT. Peffer's petition by buying and cir culating the book.
 Now we have it For at least two moons the signs of the times have portended something marvellous, the precise nature of which could not be so much as guess ed, but it is out now. Shaw has six toes on each foot Shall wonders never cease? you demand. No never-that is, hardly while Roosevelt is President. Not content with his long catalogue-a copy given free to each subscriher-of unusual, not to say incomprehensible, acts of unconven- tialism. the present President has called to his cabinet as Secretary of the Treas ury an Iowa provincial who has twelve toes. This toe-fold fact has been allow ed to become known, and it Is believed the finance committee of the Senate will be so shocked that 1t will hold up MT. Shaw's nomination and may finally report it adversely-"adverse" it. as they say in the Alabama Legislature
 Shaw! the whole thing Is toe-bad
 
 In view of all the gossip about the President and his charming family, a great national sensation will be caused by a paragraph that appears in one of the principal newspapers of Washington. In giving the particulars of the return of Mrs. Roosevelt and her children to the White House after their voyage on the Dolphin to Newport News. that news paper makes the astounding statement that
 "The President welcomed the family back and was glad to find them in good health"
 Fancy a devoted husband and father. and man of such powerful emotion and sentiment, such as Theodore Roosevelt is universally known to be, giving well come to his own wife and children and being glad to know they were not sick!
 O siclzening rot, thy abode is Washing ton!
 Washington is the only city of much consequence in this country where so- ciety women still adhere to the old-time custom of keeping "open hours to their friends on New Years Day. The names of those receiving this New Years fill several columns in the local newspapers, and innumerable colds and heads" ara the result There is an old English drink ing song, still popular in the mother country, the refrain of which is: "oh, think, oh. think, oh, think of
 Your head in the morning..
 Doubtless thousands of Washingtonians are thinking of their heads on account of that pleasing new years custom which has disappeared from all other large cities.
 Col. Fred M. Jackson of Birmingham has been spending a day or two in Washington on his way home from New York.
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