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famous-we should say become more famous, for the fame of our Mark has long since spread beyond the confines of the State of Arizona. The fact is that for years Arizona's delegate in Congress was one of the best known public men in Washington. But since last week he has become known to at least one million, possibly two mil lion more citizens of this glorious United States. In the last issue of the Saturday Evening Post in Who's Who-and Why" appeared page ar ticle devoted to the first Senator from the last state to be admitted to the Union. Accompanying the write-up was picture of Hon. Marcus A. Smith, Senator from Arizona and read as follows:
 The Meditations of Marcus
 One morning the original Marcus Aurelius, having had good breakfast, lighted Flor de Catacumba cigar and walked out on the terraces of the imperial palace to do a little meditat- ing. Marc, as is well known, was full of meditations when he wasn't full of choice Falernian; and, though he was Roman, did his classiest some of the hammer throwers round the place that he had an education, and with the end in view of putting his thoughts into book and making it a best seller which was no cinch, when you come to figure on it, for the Greeks might buy it and the Ro- mans would have to or it would be the galleys for theirs.
 The emperor was feeling very it. Things were coming his way. His campaign for renon1ination was going along smoothly and there were no dis quieting rumors that the T. R. of the period had it in mind to be a candi- date against him. Naturally his med itations took on pleasant turn, and instead of refecting on death as was his wont in many instances, he quail fed for membership in the s. P. o. R. Optfmist and Marching Club. As he stood on the terrace and listened to the haunting melodies that came floating out on the soft Italian air from the atrium, where the Royal Hungarian Orchestra was playing, he meditated as follows: This is pret- ty soft, Marc, old scout, they are coming in carriages for you, The ways of the gods are full of provi- dence''
 . Commentators differ about the first part of that meditation, holding, in some instances, thac the text is cor rupt; but the last part of it stuck, be- ing vouched for by that wellknown disseminator of the classics, H. Ate mus, and appearing in all editions of the Meditations put out by him. The ways of the gods are full of provi- dence." And, strangely enough, not. so long ago another Marcus Aurelius, walking out of the club at Tucson, Arizona, looked off toward the Old Mission and meditated along similar lines. There in the brilliance of a Tucson night, Marcus Aurelius Smith, removing broad brimmed hat, took twist at his handsome mustachios and murmured: ''The ways of the gods are full of providence"
 Which,. dear brethren, is the charm ing fact, so far as Marcus Aurelius Smith is concerned-not, of course, that the gods had anything to do with the particular circumstance that evok- ed the murmurous thanksgiving from Marcus Aurelius Smith, but that in a broad, general sense the term may be used as applying to the free and un- trammeled voters of Arizona, the same being a new star in the flag an imperial commonwealth, a little stranger in the glorious galaxy of states-and Marcus Aurelius Smith having been chosen as United States Senator therefrom.
 United States Senatori Think that over for a moment in view of the years and years when Marcus Aurelius was merely a delegate in the House of Representatives from Arizona, a territory-a delegate-an imitation legislator, who could talk until he was black in the face and introduce bills; but who, when it came to the real ex- cusef or being in the House-the vot- ing, had to sit silent as the roll was called A voice without vote-a pipe without tobacco-a thirst without a drink-a cause without result-an automobile without gasoline!
 The Essence of Arizona
 And now at one iump Marcus Aure- Illus has landed in the Senate, where he can vote without let or hindrance; has achieved the upper house without stopping to be a Representative; has leaned from nueter to nectar. from