The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-02-26

Nournlpic pains that strike him in
| the navy punctually at a. M. daily
are responsible for the fact that
Senator Money of mississippi IL the
earliest riser i'm his branch OF the
| National Legislature and that ms
| secretary IL the most enterprlsins
stenographer about Capitol Hlil
| Every morning by breakfast time the
Senator's correspondence Is out OF
the way and his secretary has prac'
tically all the rest of the day 10
himself. Tho hardest work he has
To do is to keep office" during the
remaining governmental hours
What is particularly remarkable
as well as agonizng about Senator
Moneys peculiar style of neuralgia
is the fact that it has been visiting
him regularly at the same hour
every day for Ia years. All sorts
of prescriptions have been tried In
vain TO ward off the attacks, ana aiI
sorts OF drugs, and rubs, and schocks
have been resorted To for relief
from the pain while IL lasts In spite
of ali the remedies and treatments
Mr.. Neuralgia bobs up serenely every
morning at five, remains for llttle
less than two hours, and then de-
parts as suddenly as he arrives.
Finding that close attention ITO
work caused him to forget the pain
the Senator got into the habit OF
plunging into his correspondence as
soon as the neuralgia was felt. His
secretary soon adapted his hours to
those of the chief, and, as result,
the Mississppian's letters are always
In the local postofice almost half a
day ahead of those sent home by
the other senators.
This Is what elected me to con-
gress," remarked Representative
Richard w. Austin of Tennessee,
when he gets into confidential
mood and is tempted to tell some
new-found friend a chapter of his
life. AS he speaks he reaches for
his leather wallet and extracts from
II clipping from a Washington
newspaper bearing date year or
so past. II have one of these clip
pings framed On the wall at my
office here" continues Austin, "and
another at home"
But the piece doesn't seem to be
about at aP observes the per-
son who Is let on the ground floor
of the Austin life history.
That's the beauty of IT," replies
the Tennesseean, with enthusiasm,
There isn't line about me in the
whole piece. You wnl notice, how
ever, that II is about my predecessor
Nathan Hale, the martyred school
master 1t simply takes a few grabs
out of the biography, that Mr.. Hale
wrote himself for the congressional
Directory, and holds II up TO ridicult
"Well, when l suddenly became
possessed of the notion that l would
like TO come to Congress, L did moi
lind myself very well equipped.
did not pretend To be an orator
do not now--and so was not like
y to beat Hale out of the nomina'
tion by entering into a joint debate
or doing any spell-binding stunts
Then one day l got hold of thii
piece about Hale, l thought 1t wai
one OF the funniest things / mac
ever read. Possibly IL IL had beer
written about me 1t would not have
looked so humorous. Just what Py'
been looking for exclaimed to my
self and took II with me to the mex
Republican meeting that attended
When my turn came to get Up an,
spout simply took out this news
paper clipping and read II. Thel
sat down. The audience yelle,
itself hoarse. I had made the sh
biggest kind Of a hit / used tina
clipping until the nominations wer
made. with such good effect that