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Massachusetts, and astute politicians de.
clared that g. kid" like Murray could
never make 1t. But he won, and was the
only one of the eight belonging to his po-
litical faith.
At that time Murray's district was rep
resented in Congress by John A. Keliher,
a democrat, who had been elected to eight
years service in the national House of
Representatives. He was tried politi-
clan, fifteen years Murray's senior, and
when he heard that a youngster in his
twenties would try to fitch his party 8
nomination from him he went home and
slept as usual.
Last fall Boston awoke in astonish-
ment to read that the South Boston
prodigy had made good his boast and
lifted" the nom nation from Keliher.
After he had recovered from the shock
that veteran decided to run as an indie
pendent, thus starting three-corneFed
fight.
1t was a bitter struggle. and on the
morn following the balloting the Hub
got up early to see what had happened
in the ninth district.
That the boy candidate had beaten
Representative Keliher by over 1,6U
votes was rare morsel for old Boston
to digest with his breakfast beans and
crullers.
But Murray had quite a close shave in
the contest for the honor of being the
baby Of the House" Only nine days
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But he made up his mind that his first
born baby should have every opportunity
that energy and industry and planning
could give him.
''well. nearly broke his heart in 1898.
when l was only sixteen, by enlisting In
the United States Volunteer Signal Corps
for the war with Spain. / served as pri-
vate and corporal under Capt. Thomas
F. Clark, who returned from Cuba to
become candidate for the Boston board
THAT was while we were still in the
service. The captain said to me one
night. before meeting was called to
order. Murray. you've got to MAKE .
Very good, sir
well. it doesn't seem to bother you
We are still in the service. SIR
".And what would you tell them, if
you made a speech?
"'That 1 served. sir. under the finest
captain in the United States Army and
know he's the man they need for alder
man.
l.Wen, / made the speech--age seven
teen years and two months. I've been
making them ever since. And the end
is not yet"
The new "baby of the House" was not
for letting me lead him farther until
he might explain that, although that hope
full father Of his had been Welshman
by birth, he had been good Irishman
by blood, and that his mother, although
q native of South Boston, had been born
there Of Irish parents.
This precocious representative, himself,
was born in Boston the 7th Of September.
1881, twelve days before President Gar
field died from the assassin's bullet.
While he was lad his parents moved
over to Charlestown, his present home,
where he entered the grammar school.
But when he had finished here he went
across the river every day to attend the
Boston Latin School, where he entered
the cadets.
Here he was saying his conjug0tions
and shifting his little musket on the
day when news came flashing over the
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taken from his Constantinople palace and
put aboard q special train for Saloniki.
The following night he was spirited to his
new home and prison. the Villa Allatini.
That was April %. 1909. Since then only
rumor and the signing of checks for a
few millions remind the world that Abdul
Hamid is not dead. The utmost mystery
surrounds him.
The state of his health is, beyond
doubt precarious. yet he seems to possess
an undying vitality. Foreigners who used
to see him at the private parade of his
weekly selamlik in Constantinople felt
that his end was at hand. In those days
a Berlin specialist would come to Con-
stantinople, diagnose the old sultan's
case. wait around for some months, re-
turn to Berlin send in an enormous bill
and eventually die. But Abdul Hamid
lived on-still he lives. Daily he is Wis
tied by physician-a man with q verita-
BILE genius for mumness
The villa Allatini is named for its
original owners. wealthy Jewish family
whose tile and flour mills at Salonki
are famous. Since 1t became the home
OF the ex-sultan the name has been
changed to 'the Villa of the Army for
it is thanks to the Ottoman army that
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faint glimmer through the blinds: the
amount of provisions delivered at the
villa Is but a fraction OF the earlier sup
plies.
Some people pretend that Abdul Hamid
was removed from Saloniki az the time
OF the Albanian uprising in April. 1910.
Others who speak of the mans state Of
mind tell stories equally diverse; were
the gates flung wide open the prisoner
would not take the trouble to d apart. so
content is he; some say, SO scared Of the
outside world is he. But treadng fast on
such reports come complaints from the
FESTIVE ex-sutan. How much longer are
you going TO keep me shut up here?' he
whines. Then there IS rumor that the
Germans are consulting with the Young
Turks about transferring the prisoner
patient to an Austrian or German sana-
tor UNI, that his precious life may he pre-
served. The men who could speak au-
thoritatively maintain a discreet silence.
Copyright. 1911. in the CEited States by Curtis
Brown. All British rights reserved.)
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ABDUL HAMID.

ABDUL HAMID.
Once Ruler Of the Ottoman Empire
Now No One Knows Whether He Is
Alive and Prisoner or Dead.
place at that time More might be seen,
even felt, in the capitals of Europe-Ber-
In. Vienna, Paris. There the newspapers,
which for more than a generation had
been occupied with Abdul Hamid and his
empire. would rake UP and publish col
umnS from their files, and long editorials
or brief word Of dismissal, as within d.
rected
But in Saloniki. in the dead of night
and before any one was aware that the
end had come, Abdul Hamid would be
safe under ground. The Moslem burial
rites are short and informal. No elegance
no pomp. no publicity. pine box with
peaked lid carried all the way ON the
shoulders OF men-that Is the ordinary
Turkish funeral, and that would be quite
enough for such an eX-sultan. The old
ZINE custom of running away from the
grave, at the end, lest the devil catch him
,sno fingers or turns his back, would seem
eminently appropriate on this OCCASION
Not one Of the European capitals, how
ever. would offer the insult. which the
writer saw there in Saloniki A Turkish
theatrical troupe was giving presenta-
ion of THE Fall of Abdul Hamid." The
heater was crowded. Army officers in
numbers were there, for In the sea of red
ezes was large sprinkling Of olve-green
kalpaks. The kalpak is worn by officers
Of the new Turkish army, and is fez
Of curly wool with the top cross covered
in gold braid as one might mark OF the
0iices Of Q pie.
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peace was declared he went through the
University of Minnesota, studied law and
started in practice. He, too is married
and he is the father Of two little Ander-
sons.
Another Harvard prodigy comparable to
Murray is Robert ]. Buckley Of Cleve-
land, Ohio. He is year and one month
older than Murray and they were in Har-
ward at the same time, although Buckley
was q junior when Murray entered as a
freshman. And Buckley, at the age of
twenty-one. received his B. A. two years
before Murray. at twenty-five. received
Harvard Law School. Buckley finished his
legal education in Cleveland and then
went back to Harvard four years ago to
be made master of arts. Before COM
ing to this Congress he was never can
didate for anything except matrimony. in
which campaign he was winner. two
years ago.
The case of the fifth youngest Of the
new representatives. Thomas F. Konop
of Kewaunee. Wis. is all the more re-
markable in that he is self-made man
who had harder struggle getting to
Congress than any OF the others men,
toned. When sixteen he became q
schoolmaster. and while teaching until
course at the University Of Nebraska
Having thus had to work in order to en-
ter college. 1t is not surprising that he
had nearly reached his twenty-f1fth birth
day when graduated with an LII. B. He
had been in practice but a short time
when his neighbors elected him district
attorney Of his county and two re-elec-
tons followed right along in a row. Only
six years after earning his, law degree
he was nominated for Congress In a dis
trict opposed to him politically. and it
was an uphill fight, but he won by Just
five votes. He is now thirty-one and the
father Of four children.
CHANGING at the rungs by which
Claudius Ulysses Stone the sixth young
est of these new representatives,
climbed. we come for the third time
upon a Spanish war record, and are
brought further up to the realization
OF how the present generation, like that
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country that the Maine had been blown
UP in Havana harbor.
y
Murray was tow-headed, blue-eyed
STRIPPING of sixteen years, four months
and seventeen days on the day that our
war with Spain began. With Irish blood
in his veins and a knowledge Of infan-
try tactics in his brain, he was not-de
spite his youth-a lad calculated to re-
main behind when Mckinley called 70
volunteers.
After escaping both Spanish DULLES and
yellow fever at Santiago, he returned to
Boston to be honorably mustered out
and to return to the Latin School, a war
political record-a prodigy which that
institution welcomed with mouth agape
and eyes staring.
He was now commissioned lieutenant Of
cadets, the highest rank obtainable in the
junior year. and when senior became
colonel of his regiment, which never be:
fore had been commanded by q real SOL
der with war record. He was also
made manager of the schools base ball
team and vice president Of the Hubs
Interscholastic Base Ball Association
And when he was graduated in june
1904, he was eighteen. Then he went
right into Harvard.
Perhaps Harvard, so accustomed to
this precocious youth. just become a
junior. received the democratic nomina-
ton for the city council. But it was an
event that would have made any other
Of the great varsities sit up and take
notice. The spark OF political ambition
which William Murray the elder had i'm
planted In his sons breast had been
famed to a fame by Capt. Clark and
years. Young Murray was barely past
his majority when nominated, and Fa-
Their Murray was fittingly proud. though
doomed to disappointment, for the young
ster that autumn suffered his first politi-
cal defeat-his only one up to present
writing. But William Murray, ST., was
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Pike County Farming.

cENATOR BURNHAM, IN a recent ad-
- dress in Manchester, said OF agricul-
ture:
There are some Of our New Hamp-
shire farmers who complain Of the stoni-
ness Of the New Hampshire soil, but II
these good men would visit Pike county,
in the Pennsylvania wilds. they would
learn what stony and sterile soil really
is.
"A Pike county farmer was once talking
to q fisherman from Porter's lake.
I'm goin' to light out. he said. I'm
go'n' to New England or Canady."
Ground too rocky for farming. Ell!
said the fisherman.
Yes said the farmer. I'll be whang-
ed If I'm goin' to waste any more time
workin' ground SO hard and rocky that
you've got to plant wheat with a shot
gum"
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HneCdOte6 COncelhin0
Well-knOWn peODlp
The Financial Victory.

TAPT. HARDRESS LLOYD, the Dns.
~ lish polo player. was talking on ths
Lusitania about international marriages.
Really. you know" he said, 1T isn't
true that all the titled husbands OF Ameri-
can girls are scoundrels. I sometimes
think that you Americans, especially
those of you that hail from Chicago, are
too hard on our poor marquises and
earls.
"A Chicagoan, 1 understand, was being
shown through New York picture GAL
lery by his nephew. He paused before Q
striking portrait.
That, Uncle Cochon' the nephew ex-
planned, is a portrait of Napoleon Bona
parte-the man the Duke of Wellington
got the best Of
The uncle frowned and said angrily:
'Durn them foreign noblemen-how
much did he lend him?"
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In Case of Invasion.

A PROPOS Of the talk Of war between
America and Japan. Jerore S. Mo-
Wade said at a dinner in Duluth:
1T Is fdiotic to imagine such a thing
as war beween a little country like
Japan and a great big country like
America"
That's all right Mr.. McWade," said
lingo POLITE ian, but suppose a force Of
10000 Japs was suddenly to be landed In
San Francisco-what would We do then?'
What would We do?" cried the mill
honatre philanthropist. why, hang il,
man, the San Francisco police would just
arrest themr'
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The Lily Eaters.

xTHIS beautiful spring weather.. said
James Wilson. the Secretary OF
Agriculture, at a luncheon in Washington.
sends one. in thought at least, back to
the farm
Mr.. Wilson smiled.
"I heard of a farm the other day." he
said. Ito which a certain congressman
sent gift Of rare lily bulbs from the de-
partment. The farmers wife acknowl-
edged the gift thus:
"'Dear Sir: Thank you for the partic-
ularly fine onions, which were greatly en-
joyed with last evenings steak.
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MYSTERY of the Pris-
AvA oner of Saloniki Care
fully Preserved by the Young
Turks, and No One But His
Iailers Knows Whether He Is
Alive or Dead, Sane or Insane,
Well or an Invalid-Precau-
tons Relaxed Recently About
the villa of the Army" and
This, 1t Is Said, Points to
Some Definite Change in His
Condition-Once Ruler of the
Ottoman Empire, Now the
Butt of Low-Class Farees in
the Turkish Theaters.
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tary delegation waits on the man of
sins" to tell him the nations will. They
approach him respectfully. but without
the slightest awe: they might be business
men come to sign contract. The spokes-
man is Carasso Effendi, Jewish deputy
from Saloniki-(and here we are in the
Saloniki theater. with Abdul Ham:d not
five minutes away. How interesting! But
is he really dyingD When Carasso Eff
fendi. by short route, comes to the
point Of his remarks and says: This
country Is not yours any longer: it be-
longs to the nation" the audience for
the first time in the evening breaks into
applause. Then the curtain falls on the
fourth act.
Up to this point in the play there was
little to criticise, except that the ex-sul-
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the health OF the ex-sultan. My reply
was that every word or rumor about his
serious condition is false"
Not twenty-four hours later however
a Salonikf newspaper reasserted the de-
tails as to the dangerous illness of Abdul
Hamid and attributed the denials to the
hold of the facts.
x i
One may believe what he likes concern
ing the guest of Saloniki." Some people
think him already dead. or at least in
sane, In proof of which they cite various
Interpretations in the vicinity of the
villa have become less strict-formerly
boys were not allowed to fly kites in the
region, but recently an aviator was given
permission to fly in the field opposite the
villa: the mansion used to be brilliantly
lighted each night. while now only a few
candles or gas Jets burning low give
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going before 1t, seeks to reward mill
tary prowess with political honors.
When this modern Ulysses commenced
upon his warlike wanderings far afield
he was a youth still in his teens. He
left his home In Peoria as a corporal
Of infantry. and after serving four
months in Cuba and eight more months
on his native soil he was mustered out
to become a teacher in rural, village
and high school. then, finally. in small
college. When only twenty-three his
fellow-Peorians elected him county
superintendent Of schools, and he was
directly afterward reelected.
While teaching the teachers how to
teach he studied law, but while stiil
serving out his SUPPLEMENTARY was
nominated to Congress last fall, at tho
age Of thirty-one. Although there was
no Penelope to wait at home for this
Ulysses while he was of to the wars,
he wooed and won one when only
twenty-three.
Just nine days younger Is James r.
Byrnes. new member from the fashion.
able winter resort, Aiken, 8. c. After
finishing at the common schools he
studied stenography, became an official
court reporter. edited newspaper,
studied law. and when twenty-four be-
gan practice. After marrying at
twenty-seven. he became solicitor of the
second circuit of South Carolina. and
when he took his seat in the House wss
still thirty-one.
All Of these men are younger than
Luke Lea Of Tennessee. the new baby
of the Senate" All told there are an
even two dozen Of new representatives
still under forty. And this infusion Of
so much young blood into our national
body Of representatives is principally
due to the direct primary, although
this was no factor in the sudden climb
of Baby Murray"
Copyright. 1911, by John Elfreth watkIns.)
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Abdul Hamid was first put there and
that he is safely kept there. The estate
is hemmed in by brick wall fifteen feet
high. Formerly only a high grill fence
kept intruders from the bosky, pine
scented park, but the Young Turks could
not depend on mere iron bars and men
for the safe retention of their famous
guest" Moreover. the squads Of SEN
tinels. who night and day pace outside
the WALL are changed frequently, SO that
no corruption may have time to work a
slip in their loyalty to the "constitu-
tion.
The ample acreage of the pine forested
Enclosure looks across a beautiful bay to
classic Mount Olympus. Marvellous sun
sets frame this mountain and make a
picture snowclad in winter, rich purple in
the warmer months rivaling any Alpine
scene.
The writer's arrival in Saloniki on his
last visit was at a time when the local
papers were filled with reports of the ex-
sultan's serious illness-in fact of his APP
preaching death Awe possessed the peo-
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A Halter of DiffuSenesS.

THE REV. DR. j. H. JOWETT, In the
! course Of an interview with a New
York reporter. said OF oratory:
II am like one Of your American editors
In my adherence OF a certain tyne Of
oratory. This editor. you know, wrote of
a Fourth Of July grafton:
Like the Carolina swamps, II was
only knee deep. but It spread out ever ~
creation"
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find an unseemly performance directed
against him and played within the
shadow of his prison. His every wish,
If practicable. has been solicitously graft
fled. why. them" the writer happened
to ask the governor of Salonild province
a day or two after the experience at the
theater = why, then. is The Agha
Amuses Himself permitted:' Eyes. 1t is
disgraceful," he replied, but now there
is liberty. How can 1t be prevented?
THE old man is at deaths door. II
there no regard for the prophecies OF the
moment?'
"Ah.'' said the august governor, "You
are wrong. Abdul Hamid Is not Ill: not
in the least He Is better than for many
years. l have been asked from Constant.
nople to send explicit word in regard to
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The play was based on the remarkable
iO0rIdnlght Of "counter-revolution'' in April,
1909. nine months after the wrenching of
the constitution from Abdul Hamid On
the stage were pictured the events of
April Ii, when the garrison Of the capital,
corrupted by the sultan's gold revolts,
PUSHES to the square Of San Sophia and
shoots up the town in Joy. Then, on the
morning of April "a, the cringing old
sultan hears the terror-bringing pop-pop
from the rifles Of the Macedonian army
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The True Difference.

n G. RICHARDSON. the mayor of Rich.
A|s Ir5no. Va, was talking about q
politician whose policy was remarkably
obstructional and pighesded.
DASH" said Mayor Richardson, "is
one of those men who never learn the
true difference between perseverance and
obstinacy. Perseverance, you know, 10 q
strong will. and obstinacy ID . strons
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So this phenomenon of precocity sat in
the law school and the city council at
the same time for a two-year stretch,
but his proud father died the year of
his becoming full-nedged attorney. That
was in 1905. and there is much pathos
in the fact that this paternal pride was
denied the exultation of seeing the son
win a nomination to Congress within
four years and three months after finish
ing his education.
That is going some, you must agree
from schOolroom to congressional nomi-
nation in four years and one brief sum-
mer, But what young Murray did within
these four years makes the wonder of it
grow the bigger From the city council
he went to the legislature at twenty-six,
and after leaving the legislature he
jumped to the governors council when
twenty-eight.
The knees of only eight select men sit
at the council board OF the Governor of
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tan, held up to scorn and derision, was at
that moment supposed to be lying criti-
cally i'll. Common decency might have
prevented the caricaturing of any man
at such an hour
But the final act Of the evening, THE
Agha Amuses HIMSELF was a salacious
representation of imaginary scenes in the
harem Of Abdul Hamid since his fall!
The Young Turk government has been
so generous and respectful in it's treat
ment of the former calf of the Moham-
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HAT has become of
the ex-Sultan Alb
dull Hamid? Is he
still at Saloniki and
Is he still alive?
T h e g e questions
are asked con-
and from
time to time bits
Of news are al
lowed to leak out
which in d. c q t e
either that he still
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pOrary, Nrener, had been phenOme =
non at the same age, as had her Truman
Stafford, who. also at eleven. reduced
by onefourth the labor OF calculating
the time of moon-rise and moon-set
And among her many other prodigies
of the past were Edward Everett, who
while still in his teens, made his mark
as an eloquent divine. So it s not sur
prising that Harvard has contributed
to the present House of Represent
atives its new "baby" member-WN-
liam Francis Murray, who is only in
his twenties.
Indeed. so youthful in appearance is
Mr.. Murray, that upon the day Of his
swearing In, Chairman Sulzer of the COM
mittee on foreign affairs mistook him for
q page.
Here. Get me the last Canadian
yearbook" commanded the reincarna-
ton of Henry Clay. swapping his pre-
hensile fingers at the new member
from Boston.
sAn right. BILL" retorted Murray:
as the member from Massachusetts
The other day I asked Mr.. Murray the
usual question as to how he got headed
toward public life.
Il got into politics by accident a good
many years ago." he replied, and I have
than once 1 have had to design with
more or less skill to stay in.
you see my late father. whose name
bear was for many years a short
hand political writer for the Boston pa
pers. He landed in Boston as a friend
less immigrant from Cardiff, wales, in
% or go, when he was about twenty
years old.