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THE BLIND SENATOR
Marvellous Career of Thomas P,
Gore of Oklahoma.
How He Won His Flight Against Pow.
erty and Adversely, and Achieved
His Early Ambitions In Spite
of Obstacles.

Oklahoma City, Okla.-No man in
public life today has had a more re-
markable career than Senator Thomas
Pryor Gore Of Oklahoma, whose
charges of attempted bribery in con-
nection with the sale Of Indian lands
stirred the country and brought about
investigation by a congressional COM
mittee. Marvellous almost beyond be-
lief were the struggles of this blind
man-blind from early youth-to
reach the great goal of his ambition
a seat in the senate Of the United
States.
Senator Gore was born on.a farm in
Mississippi in 1870, later being taken
to the village of Walthall. when the
one of his eyes was jabbed out by a
playmate. But he still had mi good
eye left and his grief was forgotten
when some friends told him n day
that he mad been appointed a page Is
the Mississippi legislature. This career
was, however, ended three years after
the first accident by a fate go cruel
and unusual that 1t would have crushed
the spirit of rinety-nine boys out of
any hundred in the land. While ex-
p~erimenting with a toy cross-bow, he
himself shot out his remaining eye.
He was now totally blind, and had
to give up his pageship. For the next
five years his chief diversion was to
hear his sister and mother read to
him. Then a normal school was opened
at his home town, and he entered. his
lessons being read to him at home and
by his schoolmates.
A debating society was organized in
this school and the blind boy joined
and displayed a wonderful aptitude
for debate. One day a companion
found an old volume of the Congress
sional Record. Going to an old stable
the companion would read to him the
speeches of the lawmakers at Wash
ington and then there entered Cores
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LIGHTNING A SMALL DANGER
But An Array Of Statistics VIII
Not Cure Folks Of Their
Fear Of Ii.

Why are SO many people, brave I'm.
der all other circumstances, so death.
" afraid of thunder and lightning?
It is not because lightning is &c
dangerous, for it isn't half as dan.
gerous as going out of the house on
an icy morning, walking down the eel
lar stairs or a hundred other things
We DO every day without a thought OF
personal harm.
More people are killed each year by
falling building material, more die
from fright, than are killed by light
ming. The census bureau shows only
1853 persons killed by lightning in this
entire country during the year 1906
and only 80 of these people were
killed in the cities.
Heat and the sun killed 1853 during
the same year., 203 died from cold and
freezing and 1895 were drowned.
But you will find it quite a waste
of time during a thunderstorm to try
to ease the fears of a person who Is
afraid, by telling him or her that the
chances Of being killed by lightning
are less than two in 1,000,0 900; they
will remain just as frightened for al
this mortuary knowledge.
And after the storm has passed an6
nerves are steadied, the woman who
was so frightened a few minutes be
fore will start getting supper on the
gas stove, smiling through her tears
that the danger has all passed, anf
only laughing If you venture to remark
that twice as many people are killed
by gas stoves as by lightning.-Coun
try Life in America.
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Whx He Mas Sorry

To impress on young children just
what should and what should not be
done and why, is among the most try
ing problems Of parents, IS evidenced
by the recent experience of a West
Philadelphia mother. Last Sunday
she asked her small son, aged s, TO
carry a chair for her from the dining
room to the parlor. He started off
willingly, but In the hall he tripped
and fell. Amid the crash could be
heard the boy giving vent to utter
ances that would have done credit to
a pirate of ancient days. The mother
was taken by surprise and was greatly
shocked. She gave the boy a long
and serious talk on the subject of pro-
family. This apparently did not make
the right impression, for when she
concluded the boy added to her dis
com1ture by exclaiming. ri am sorry
I swore, mamma, but 1 forgot it was
Sunday"
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Wasted Sarcasm,

The Philadelphia milk dealers who
recently raised the price of their
product to nine cents a quart and then
lowered 1t again to eight appear to
have been the subjects of a great deal
of unjust censure. They announced
at the time of the raise that milk
could not be sold at eight cents with
out loss. Finding that the consumers
would not pay the new price, however,
they are continuing to sell at the old,
thereby qualifying as genuine philan-
thropfsts. Every purchaser Of milk
at eight cents a quart will doubtless
hereafter feel that he is an object of
charity.
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All tho Difference.

The professor was delivering an elo-
quent address ON cruelty to animals,
and, to illustrate how a little judicious
forethought would eliminate to a great
extent the sufferings that even small
insects are subject to. said:
"As l was coming through the hall
tonight l saw a bald-headed gentleman
very harshly treat a little innocent
house-1y which had alighted on his
head.
NOW, If there was any justification
for such bad temper, l would be quite
justified in indulging in It at the pres
emit moment, for a fly has just alighted
on the back of my head. l can't see
it, but I a feel 1t.
Possibly some of you car see it
now; it is on the top Of my head. Now
it is coming down my brow; now it is
coming on to my G-r-r-eat pyramids
of Egypt, it's a-wasp!"
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breast the ambition to be a United
States senator-an ambition that
left 1t, even in the darkest days that
followed.
In 1891 his fame as a speaker had
spread locally and he received many
invitations to address farmers ~picnics.
The last day of 1895 he left MISSISSIPPI
pi for Texas under a solemn VOW
never to return to 1t unless as a Uni
ted States senator.
That year in Texas was a hard one.
Gore threw himself into politics with
passionate energy. Again and again
the family was reduced to the verge
of physical suffering. Yet year after
year they kept up the fight for exist
ence without complaint. Nor did the
blind lawyer once despair Of reaching
the senate, writes James Creelman IN
Pearson's Magazine.
When Mr.. Bryan was nominated at
Kansas City in 1900 Gore found his
way to the crowd that surrounded the
convention. He managed to live in
Kansas City for six days at a total
cost of $3.50. No M who heard his
voice ringing out over that scene of
national enthusiasm was permitted to
know, or even suspect, his poverty.
Then he obtained an engagement in
South Dakota to speak during the
state and presidential campaigns. In
this way he picked up $1,000 and with
1t went back to Texas and married.
The Gore's-including his father and
brother-decided upon going to Okla
homa. In April, 1902, Gore managed to
go as a delegate to the territorial con
vention that was to choose a delegate
to congress from Oklahoma, and was
given a seat In the territorial senate.
other terrible struggle to keep alive.
One day in June he had only eight
cents left. He held a war council
with his wife to consider what they
should do with the eight cents. It was
decided that the money should be
spent on postage in an effort to secure
speaking engagements. The political
fight had to be kept up at any cost.
The fight for a seat in the United
States senate was now pressed sys-
tematically. Gore spent the year 1903
in widening his acquaintance, attend.
ing picnics, barbecues and county
fairs, occurring for anything from SIS to
s25, shaking hands with the crowds
and smiling his way into their hearts.
His friends wanted him to abandon
his ambition for a time and run for
congress. 1T is the senate or moth.
Ing" he replied.
Gore won his fight in the primary
election and was elected to the United
States senate by the legislature, draw
ing the short term. In 1908 he was re-
elected.
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Little. b,,t Oh. NV!

Senator Smoot of Utah tellsfa story
on the late E. H. Hartman, which
sounds somewhat familiar. He says
that when the Salt Lake cutoff was
completed Mr.. Hartman took a large
party of big railroad men out to 1t.
They had their pictures. taken at
the right spot scenically. Mr.. Harri-
man stood at one end Of the group.
When the pictures were printed and
The photographer brought them around
the railroad men examined them.
Why" shouted N of the guests.
where's Mr.. Hartmann?
do you mean that little chap that
stood at the end?" asked the photog-
rapher. why, l cut him Off"
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which was found enveloped in the
tentacles of a young octopus. When
brought to the surface it's body was
swollen like a balloon. DR.. ]. E. NAL
ney, the ships surgeon, who exam
ined it, said he believed the fish was
choked by the hold of the octopus.
The section Of cable Upon which all
this strange life was found had been
down 10 years at a depth of a mile
and a half. The specimens which
have been preserved are to be handed
over to the Smithsonian institution
for scientific study.-Seattle Post-In-
telligencer.
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plvinlno Rod 200 Years Old.

Winslow w. Fifield of Medford,
Mass, owns a metallic divining rod
brought from England more than two
hundred years ago by n of his an
cestors. The rod, says Mr.. Fffeld, has
been used successfully all over New
England and in the western mining
districts. 1t is attached to w~halebone
handles - inches long and weighs two
ounces. The handles have inscriptions
on them which are almost obliterated
by age.
The person who brought the rod to
America was Isaac Greenleaf. who set
tied in Massachusetts. The rod became
famous as a finder Of water. After
marking the place of many springs the
rod was used in California, Colorado
and North Carolina for locating by men
In quest Of gold mines and other met
ais. One po'son who used it with par
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Pipe Gives Cadet Typhoid.

Midshipman Smith, who was strick-
en- with typhoid fever on the Indiana
at Plymouth, England, contracted the
disease, 1t is said, from smoking a
briar used nearly a year ago by his
roommate at Annapolis who had a bad
case of typhoid. This theory is taken
as proof that concentrated nicotine
cannot destroy a typhoid germ. The
medical department of the navy will
examine into the theory with the re-
suit that midshipmen of the future
may confne themselves to their own
pipes.
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Vegetable Compound has done for me
during this trying period. Complete
restoration to health means so much
to me that for the sake Of other suffer-
ing women ! am willing to make my
trouble public so you may publish
this letter. "-MRs. CHAs. BARCLAY,
RID, G~raniteYille, vt.
No other medicine for woman's Ills
has received such widespread and IN
qualified endorsement. No other med
icine we know Of has such a record
of cures of female Ills as has Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. -
For more than 80 years it has been
curing female complaints such as
Inflammation, liberation, local weak
nesses, fbroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, indigestion
and nervous prostration, and it is
unequalled for carrying women safely
through the period Of change of life.
It costs but little to try Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and.
as Mrs. Barclaysays, it is worth noun
| fains of gold to suffering women
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A MosouIto proof steamer,

The jonathan Holt, the frst ocean
going mosquito proof steamer. has ar.
rived in the Mersey. says the London
Times. She is the first ship of special
design for tho Liverpool West African
trade. Professor Major Ronald Ross's
recommendations have been carried
out by the owners for mosquito proof.
ing all living quarters. Copper gauze
fittings are provided for all doors. win.
dows, side ports. skylights. ventila-
tors and passages to prevent the ma
laria bearing mosquito entering.
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A Strong Preacher.

The minister's eight-year-old daugh'
ter was returning with her parents
from church, where the district super
intendent had that morning occupied
the pulpit.
ooh, father" asked the little girl,
her face alive with enthusiasm, don't
you think Brother c. is a very strong
preacher? l do"
Gratif1ed by this evidence of un.
usual intelligence on the part Of his
offspring, the minister eagerly In
quired into her reasons for her state.
ment.
"Oh," replied the little miss, artless.
ly, didn't you see how the dust rose
when he stamped his feet?"-Judge.
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The Counterfeit southerner.


OF course, there are many counter
feits. A most amusing imitation Is
one that often passes for the typical
southerner in New York. This satchel-
mouthed braggart infests the cafes
and demands attention by his abusing
the waiter for offending his delicate
sense of honor. Il hate a niger, suh,"
he loudly proclaims, which Is a sentt-
ment that one never hears from those
to the manner born. He haunts the
theaters and parades the streets. since
1t is poor fun to practise his gentility
in private.
He wears a wide black hat, mounts
the table and yells whenever the band
plays a southern melody. Such a pre-
tentious caricature would be harmless
enough, but for the ridicule he brings
upon the south. Unfortunately, popu-
lar authors seem to accept him at face
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a tune on it. just to keep his hand in
and his spirits up? / was pretty busy
Just then helping the clerk lock up
and sweep out for the night, but
didn't want to be a brute.
"tCome round at 8 o'clock I said,
and you can play all night II you
want to-
HE was Johnny on the spot. Poor
devil, / amt got over 1t yet, the way
he made that old fiddle talk. 1t used
some mighty plain language too.
ut cursed and 1t swore. it laughed
and 1t cried. When the man stopped
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U. S. army signal corps system. On
board were a score of huge TASKS
filled with alcohol. In them foated
strange shapes which it was hard to
believe we're once living creatures.
Balls of red hair which looked
like tousled human heads proved upon
dissection to be a strange kind of deep
water crab. Flesh colored round
masses were found clinging to the
cable by minute t%entacles. One crea-
ture was shaped like the diablo toy,
narrow in the middle with big con-
cave white disks at either end by
which it catches hold of any object.
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er. ut was a fiddle you heard Must
have sounded kind Of spooky saving
away in this old junk shop at IL
o'clock at night. Made me feel spooky
myself. Sentimental, too. amt got
over the sentiment yet. Ffddle's been
in pawn for pretty near a year. Last
night, just before closing time, the
chap that pawned 1t came shutting In.
"'Fiddle all right?" he asked.
ut was; want to redeem 1t? No, he
didn't; hadn't money enough for that.
but he was sick for a sight Of his old
pal. Wouldn't 1 let him e it-play
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playing l was that wrought up that I
was ON the point Of letting him take
the fiddle home, money or no money.
want to know why / didn't? So
he'd come again. Sure, he'd come.
and when he does l am morally GER
tain that I'll have an old pawn ticket
on my hands with neither fiddle nor
money to show for it."
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way down to the waist line. At a gala
performance in Paris given by the
Metropolitan Opera company OF New
York-the most successful perform
ance Paris ever saw, and one whereat
$40, 900 was gained for the Pluviose
victims-many of the beautiful Ameri-
cans in the $40 orchestra seats wore
these daring gowns, and now at New
port they are often to be seen.
Mrs. Oelrichs stared at one with as
founded eyes at a dinner, and her
neighbor said:
isn't that new gown of Mrs. Blanks
a dream? Old Mr.. Blank Is so de-
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Smoking In Ancient Days.

1t seems very probable that there
were. smokers in England long before
the Introduction of tobacco. according
to the London Chronicle. Pipes have
been discovered imbedded in the NOR.
ta- of churches built before Europe's
first acquaintance with tobacco, and It
seems only reasonable to suppose that
the people of that day smoked herbs OF
some sort either incidentally or for
Pleasure. Coltsfoot was inhaled for
asthma, though whether a pipe was
used in the process remains a matter
for conjecture.
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ODD FISH FROM THE DEPTHS
Strange Marine Forms Brought Up
VITA Deep Sea Gable Sunk
for Ten Years.

Strange monsters the like of which
have seldom been seen by man we're
dragged from a depth Of $500 feet by
xhe of the cable ship Burnside
when they repaired the Alaska cable
Off Mt. st. Elias last month.
The Burnside is moored at it's buoy
in Elliott bay after two months of re-
pairing and relaying the cables of the
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deep as that, and so on.

The mission was looking hopeless
when suddenly she darted from the
shop and seized a passing gentleman
by the hand.
evil o. please come into this shop
with me?' she asked innocently.
Certainly, my chickabiddy," he re-
piled, eff / can be Of any use. What
is it?"
The little girl replied not, but led
the wondering stranger to the counter.
There, miss!" she said, triumphant
ly. Mother wants some ribbon the
color of this gentleman's nose"
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AS IT APPEARED TO HER
Mrs. Oelrichs Evidently Didn't Think
Much of Mr.. Blanks Earning
Capacity.

Mrs. Herman Oelrichs, the best
dressed woman in Newport, criticized
very ~pertinently, at a recent dinner.
the new dinner gowns of Paquin and
Callot.
These clinging and flmy gowns are
chiefly remarkable for the V-shaped
back that they possess. The. VT Is
Incredible, but 1t Is true-opens all the
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PUT SPELL ON PAWNBRoKER
Impecunious vioIlnIst Stood Excellent
Chance Of Getting His lnstru-
ment Back,

"Hear any noise about my place
last night?" asked the pawnbroker.
First the man upstairs said NO."
but upon second thought he added:
Come to think Of it, l believe l did
hear some music that seemed to come
from down there somewhere" Z
"Sure you did," said the pawnbrok-
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Another strange marine creature is
shaped like an octopus but has at
least two dozen tentacles instead of
eight. Many octopuses were found
clinging to the cable, but they were
thought too common to preserve.
While sections of the cable pulled
up for inspection were found covered
several feet deep with strange plants
and animal life, seaweed, black in
stead Of green. sponges and e
urchins predominated.
Probably the strangest creature
found on the cable was a flesh colored
fish not more than four feet long,
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o nervousness
andother annoying
symptoms, and ]
can truly say that
LydiaE .Pinkham's
Vegetable Com
pound has proved
worth mountaing
of gold to me, as it
restored my health
and strength. I
never forget to tell
my friends what
JydiaE. Piukham'g
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Practical MatchInu.

What the little girl with the IL cents
in pennies wanted was some red rib
bon of a particular shade for her moth
er. She knew the shade, but she
couldn't explain 1t and all she could
say was, it wasn't that, no, o that;
1t was deeper than that, and not 30
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Company with Elsie
Janis. He writes:
"For a long time !
was troubled with
backache. con.
suited some of the
most prominent ply
sicfans with unsatis-
factory results. ]
was advised to try
noopyc Kiduav DiIIa
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Reason Enough.

Rusband---Your wife doesn't appear
to be in very good bumor.
His Friend-No she thinks I've In
vited you to dinner.-Jean Qui Rit.
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$ The Friend-Your new patent medi-
cine seems to have gained a great rep
utation for curing people. To what
do you attribute its great curative
powers?
The Boss-To extensive and judi
cious advertising.
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Points Of View.

Venus was rising from the sea.
what a vision!" cried the men on
the beach.
what a horrid bathing suit"
echoed the women, enviously.-Chi-
cago News.
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and felt benefited soon after begin
ming to take them. Continued use
cured me completely. l cheerfully
recommend them to any one suffering
with kidney trouble"
Remember the name-Doan's. For
sale by all dealers. 80 cents a box.
Eoster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
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value and exploit him in novels or
plays where a "southerner" is a nee
essary part of the stage machinery
Everybody's Magazine.
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Old Gentleman Ito waiter)-Can
you tell me If my wife is here?
Waiter-Yes, sir, eighth hat to the
left.-Fliegende Batter.
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Friendships begin with liking or
gratitude-roots that a be pulled up.
Mothers love begins deeper down.
George Eliot.
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A man knows but little If he tells
the missus all he knows.
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ticular success was a blind man, In
whose hands the rod is said to have
done marvels.
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Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
t~eething, softens the gums, reduces inhamma-
ton, allays pain, cures wind collie, Csc a bottle.
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voted. They say that everything he
makes goes on his wife's back"
Mrs. Oelrichs, her eye fixed on the
gowns terrible v, said with a smile:
well. he must be making very lit
tie, then"
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you retain your personal liberty.

you reta1n your personal lDerty.
Now to ministers.
The average congregation Is made
up of about 80 per cent. of free citi-
zens and much less than 10 per cent.
of members Of the Labor Trust.
The free citizen wants to hear words
defending the rights and independence
of the common man, free from the ar
bitrary dictates of any ~self-seeking
organization either of Capital or La
Dor.
The merchant, lawyer, school teach
er, doctor, clerk, farmer and work.
man rebels against any forcible stop
ping of trains, boats, street cars,
or factories, for the prosperity of the
community is entirely dependent on
steady continuance of these things.
Men don't like strikes, boycotts. in
jured workmen or burned cars and
factories.
A famous divine says: These men
may hate capitalists but their hate for
other laboring men burns like a flame.
eats like nitric acid, is malignant be.
yond all description"
Then we remember cases of acid
throwing, eyes gouged out, children
pursued. women stripped, homes de.
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SIDNEY JARVIS,
Singer and Actor, Values Doan's Kid.
ney Pills.

Mr.. Jarvis, who is n Of Americas
leading baritones, played the part Of
the "Old-Grad" In the Fair COED
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WORTH
BE- aats&sa2. :
OF GOLD
During Change Of Life,
saws Mrs. Chas. Barclay

Graniteville, VII was passing
through the Changeof Life andsufered
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His Pet.

Harker-Think I'll try to sell old
Stuffem some pet dogs
Barker-Useless job. All he thinks
about is eating.
Harker-Hasn't any four-legged
friends, Ell?
Barker-only one, and that's the din
ing room table.