The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-27

lady out of 1t. She will not be need
ed to maintain the superlativc.
! Indeed, so cllock-full of you maj
interest" Will this newly chosen Fed
eral legislature be that the Hoo Zoo
/ artists will wax fat and opulent upor
it. even unto lolling back in Ilmousines
mashap, or paying for the wine wher
it is hubby.
Caleb Powers of GocbeI Fame.
The in-chief among the
newgreats of the House will probably
be Caleb Powers CRepl of the Eleventl
Kentucky District, whom members OF
his party hail as martyr to political
passion, but whom the Democrats back
in the blue grass still excoriate as q
reddyed accessory before the fact in
the assassination OF William Goebel.
Saturated with the spice OF human
interest is this young man. Ills father
"a kinsman of tnat Abigail Powers
who married Mipard Filimore-was a
kentucky mountaineer, who believed
that boys should attend school early
and often. So Calcb's shining, morning
face was turned schoolward when ho
was only five. and the little log cabin
where he sot his first glimpse OF the
three RS was two and u half miles
away. When only Fifteen lie entered
college and taught between terms to
pay his expenses. Then he was APP
pointed to West Point. but had to
leave in Ills second year because OF
falling eyesight, which necessitated
Two years of rest and treatment. But
by the time he was twenty-four he had
been both graduated at law school
and elected county superintendent of
schools. Three years later he married,
but within six months his bride died
suddenly spinal meningitis.
''foo Perfect to Last"
"If supreme happiness ever belonged
to earthly beings, it was ours. We
both agreed and feared, however, that
It was too perfect to last"
Such Is Mr.. Powers's tribute to his
lost bride. After her death he took
a postgraduate course In law, began
practice in 1898, and year later was
the Republican candidate for Secretary
OF state In the bitter campaign which
eliminated In GeobePs assassination
ana MS own arrest as accessory to the
crime. After languishing In jail eight
years, during - oh he was four times
tried, twice sentenced for life and once
condemned to death. Powers was final
~ pardoned by the present governor
after which he was on the lecture
platform. But even now, when his
nelghbors have sought to vindicate him
by sending him to Congress, his
troubles do not appear to be over, for
1t is rumored that his political oppon-
ent in the Kentucky delegation will
ask the House to deny him his seat
on the ground that his pardon has not
the effect of an acquittal in redeeming
him from the statussof felon.
An Austro-Hunsnrian Socialist.
The next most stared at lt...- in
the SlSty7second House will doubtless
DE victor l.. Berger, ,le first Social.
TO sit in the American Congress.
Like most of those among us who
do not like our system OF government
at all, he is an imported article
a naturalized citizen. who got his first
IMPRESSION of government while suffer-
lhs poverty IN an absolute monarchy.
lie was born In Austria Hungary nifty
Years ago, and while student WIS
brought to America by his Immigrant
PARENTS The family drifted to Milwau
kee where, after lie had worked al
various trades. he became a teacher
in the public schools.
When lie was thirty-two he hogan
printing daily paper the vorwaerts,
and started the Wahrheit and the So
cial Democratic Herald lie was a
delegate to the Populist convention OF
1898, and tried to organize q Debs
sentiment among the delegates before
the nomination went to Bryan and
Watson since its beginning he has
been member of the national execu-
tive board of the Socialist Democratic
party. and for some time he has been
American secretary OF ..e International
SOCIALIST bureau at BRUSSELS. all OF
which means that he is quite some
among the pumpkins of his stripe.
six years ago he ran both for mayor
OF milwaukee, and for Congress, and
n the same year he received ave votes
In the legislature for United States
senator. lie WAS married thirteen