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great American hen and her product,
Ill with a view to securing greater pro-
lection for them
The m" he shouted ais a very
generous, good-natured fowl. and We
ought to he kind to her and protect her
1 am reminded OF limerick that went
the rounds In the days of Henry Ward
Beecher which illustrates the noble
generosity OF the hen, and which runs
something like this:
said a eonsresa tion preacher
To q hen You are a beautiful creature.
And the hen, Just for that.
Laid al egg in bis het,
Aud thus did the hen reward Beecher.
Mr.. Langley comes from the mountain
country u the 4-iue Grass state, and 1t
lie a favorite fiction in the House that
lis goat may be obtained almost any
time by talking about certain practices
Of his constituents. However, Mr.. Lang
ley keeps the goat In close retirement.
lie matches innuendo with frankness
Thus he handed some r.partee back TO
mis- colleague, Representative Robert y.
Thomas, jr,, who represents the third
kentucky. when Mr.. Thomas started on
a goat-getting expedition in the tariff
discussion.
Mr. Langley had expressed soul
,earning 10 have the tariff on wheat ad-
Nanced.
As a matter Of fact" holly retorted
Mr. Thomas, Tine gentleman knows
nothing about wheat. because they do
not raise any in his district. and but lit
tle corn. the most OF which is made into
utoonshine liquor.
Does not the gentleman like the fin
ished product?' asked Mr.. Langley
bIandly.
Il admire the products Mr. Thomas
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REP RORERT HGlTTINS
NV YORK;

arm by Hartman, railroad magnate, and
they walked over into a corner for a chat
while the men who were giving the din
ner and the seasoned reporters looked on
in surprise. Further than that, they do
say that the story kindel wrote for the
Express was almost as good as magazine
writer's make all cubs initial efforts ap-
pear Which is very good.
This is the story Of a lame lawsuit
brought by a lame plaintiff. who was
represented by a lame attorney. whose
star witness also was lame.
The scene is a Chicago courtroom, and
George z. German. who now represents
the third district of Illinois. Is young
attorney representing the city in suit
brought by the lame man, who says ne
has been permanently injured due to the
negligence of city employees Looking over
the prosecution, the young attorney notes
the harmony in lameness, ano al an OPP
nortune moment hurls this charge:
This is but prearranged scheme to
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other member of Congress. AS result,
whenever a favor is requested, Gudger
gets busy with a jump. arranging to
grant 1t In the quickest possible time.
But for all his efforts, there was one
request which came to him shortly after
Congress convened In the recent session
that hasn't been granted correctly yet.
Gudger thought he had granted it all
right-but he found out differently. And
he hasn't had the nerve to try it again.
Nominally the request was perfectly
simple. All the constituent wanted was
a few onion buttons to plant in his noun
tainside garden. But either his penman-
ship was woefully bad. or he was woe
fully careless. for in writing he neglect
Ell to close the top of the first letter "o''
In the word onion" The result was
that it looked like the word union"
Gudger puzzled over that request for
many days. Finally he decided to obey
instructions to the letter. and so. march
ing down town, ne bought several boxes
OF patent fastening union trouser but
tons. sealed them up, and llailed them.
Five uays later he got the following
letter fro.n his constituent:
Mister Gudger: Thank you for them
buttons. It's true they amt what l
asked for. and l don't just see how |
can eat EN-, put I'm glad to get 'em
just the same Now, If it amt too much
trouble. wish you'd go where you got
EN-, and see il you kin git me some
instructions as to how to plant EN-, so
l kin raise some pants to wear 'em on"
Because Of tine manner in which he
trims his whiskers. Representative With
erspoon Of Mississippi Is called Uncle
Sam by his colleagues.
Representative Howard Of Georgia
was once a page in the House OF Rep
rnconfat iyaa nf Gaorria
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When he arrived home he found that
the story had leaked out to such an ex-
tent that his father had heard 1t. A
woodshed interview between Gfttins.
junior. and Gittins. senior. followed.
AS Gittins. Junior. dried his tears he
IDENTIFY Brown had told his father. There
upon did the boy harbor a great grudge
against Brown. The thought tnat due
solely to Browns efforts was he alive
never occurred to him. So for ten years
he did not speak to his rescuer.
But at the end Of ten years, when Git
tins was in business for himself. he met
Brown and tried feebly to express his
gratitude.
Come over and see me- Gittins said.
I'D like to assist you II possible"
"AlI right" Brown replied, whipping
up his canal mules, II may drop around
some day.
That was twenty-four years ago. Thus
far Brown never hal" dropped around" But
in Gittins' mind there remains picture
of the back OF tall. kindly modest man
who swings a long blacksnake whip over
two mules. and an open door awaits him
up in the House Office building.
X
If there is one thing in which George
]. Kindel, representative from the first
district of Colorado, is interested 1t is
freight rates. He has made them his
leading study In the last twenty years.
and when he finally came to Congress it
was with the hope that he might land on
a committee where his information would
be Of value. In this he failed and his
resignation from two committees already
has followed So. in the light of Mr..
Kinders interest in the subject OF rates.
1t follows that his most striking expert
ence should be in connection with this
issue.
1t was during the lifetime OF the late
E. H. Hartman that the incident oc-
Cured Hartman had been invited to
Denver to attend a chamber of COM
merce dinner. Kindel, who was at outs
with the president Of the organization
over way-freight rates, OF course-was
not invited.
about the slight. but he did want to in
terview Hartman on rates. SO he deter
mined to attend the dinner. AS he sat in
his Office conjuring up plan OF break
ing in 1t suddenly occurred to him that
he might represent some newspaper in
later he obtained the assignment from
the city editor Of the Express. small
newspaper.
The doors opened for the. dinner, all
of the specially invited guests walked in
and then the members of the press fol-
George j. Kindel. little aged for 6. be-
ginner in the game. perhaps, and also a
lifetime manufacturer of mattresses and
bedding: but he pranced right in with the
rest of the reporters, doing his best to
act the part Of an experienced man. The
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Porch Furnishings.

A CAPITAL hanging seat can be made.
"A al small expense, from common
cot bed Take Off the head and legs and
place around the edge a nine-inch valance
OF turkey red cotton or DENIM. cotton
topped excelsior mattress SHOULD be COW
cred with the same material and fastened
at the ends with q row of ornamental
nails Have ii slung with ropes or chains
and hooks.
pillows is quite a decoration in out-of-
doors living; ii saves a great deal OF time
and trouble not 10 have TO carry every
thing indoors at night. IL should be OF
generous length and supplied with pro-
jecting lid, handles at either end and q
lock.
Cotton bandana handkerchiefs in red
blue yellow and orange make effective
cushion covers. They are washable, of
course and are quite as pretty as most
Of the Java prints, at half the cost. But
i'm halves they make gay borders for Q
red or blue denim table cover.
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The Discouraged Poet.

A LFRED MOVES. the British poet.
"A though usually very successful In
marketing his wares. suffered stump
on toward the end of his American
visit. and naturally became low spirited
in consequence.
Everything seems to be going wrong.
he sighed one evening at the Franklin
Inn, in Philadelphia. I'll have 10 change
my luck somehow or other.
He laughed grimly and resumed:
Il asked the maid at my lodgings TINS
morning what had become Of the paper
that I'd left lying on my desk.
oh sir said She, L thought IL was
waste paper. and | threw II in the
wastepaper basket
No said !, 1T wasn't waste paper.
/ hadn't written anything on 1T yet.
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"HE recent purchase by Joseph Letter
Of old Analostan Island and It's
probable use as gas-piant snow
what changes have been wrought III .he
historic surroundings of the capital Ihis
island comprises about seVenty-nVe acres
and lies in the Potomac just oeio"
GEORGETOWN and off the Virginia shore'
Here. where dusky braves sat around
their council fires in war PANT "nere
red-skinned maids listened TO the Wooius
of their Indian lovers, where the coioiiia
planter reared his mansion ana hVeo AZ
the midst of baronial acres, are likely to
he erected the modern piles denoting the
illuminating works of a great city.
II is pretty well established that prior
RI the settlement of whites in this sec
tion tribe of Indians called Analostians,
or Analostans lived on this isle. Just who
were the first exploring parties of Euro
means to leave the coast is not Well
known but history seems to show that
honor as belonging to the spanish, and
not. as commonly thought, 10 the Eng
llSh, nation.
If Is said that in 1925 u Spanish leader,
Pedro de QueXos, made settlement III
Virginia, which he called San Miguei,
and that this colony was planted on the
very spot where, long years later, Capt
John smith founded the village on James
town one thing is certain, that the place
now known as Occoquan was visited
early IN the sixteenth century by the
Spanish. who found there an Indian town
known as -AXacan. These explorers look
back with them the brother OF the chief,
and had him educated and baptized with
great ceremony. In 1910 a band of Jesuits
accompanied by this Indian, who had
taken the name OF Luis de Velasco.
LANDED at Axacan. In "A snort time Luis
answered to the call OF the wild and
returned to his tribe, the missionaries
were massacred kneehnS before tnelr
stone affairs, and none remained to tell
the sad story. by these priests this river
was named the Espirltu Santo.
Later on the Spanish authorities landed
at Axacan. LUIS he'd, but most or the
murderers were caught and hanged at
the yaroarm. 1t Is ON the spot OF this
early Tragedy that the present work
mousse OF Occoquan stands.
The first white man TO ascend the river
up as tar Anaioslan was Capt
ms VOYAGE TINS was in 1o2l, wneI
fleete On a piulance gained .Iie lisci
ana nos4saleu " opi.Ilaii, was sent lion
James Luwu up Lne FUtvAiidc 10 lfaue Wlti
the IuulaiIs lUr corn. + lctte, Win t~ enly
one ueii, iallutu Oh SIiote aluUis the Ala
l.s.e.ils, leayins MEN on uoaru. 4 ne
parIy on Doalu DtlhS allacheu py III.
luuIanS, repuiseu them wan Their cam
nun, uuI the men on the snore were al
kIlieu except itete.
lie remained d prisoner among the
AnaIoslans Tor years, learned tneiI
tunsue anu fau almost IorSotIen mis- own
Wneu ranSomed. he returned ~ England
with " uilQefIuI taieS oil MS Wdnuc. ing :,
pretend ing InaI ne nad visited Inc Svuli
seas ana seen all xmas OF fabulous
wealth.
Fleete later returned to visit the Ana
lostans. Hearing of several Indian towns
being above what we now call Great
Falls, he sent his brother and two friend
ly Indians to the ruler of the redskins
living in the upper reaches of the river
These emissaries were laden with such
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address. Aswell says, did he start a
speech under such a handicap nor feel so
absolutely certain that he was going to
bear out his aged friends statement to
the letter.
It is a terrible thing to start out to
mold public opinion, write and say the
most radical things even to the point OF
going beyond ones belief. just for the
purpose OF attracting notice ana tnen
failing to be noticed
Authority for that statement Is none
other than Representative T.. II. CaraWay
Of the first district of Arkansas, who
might have been a great editor II people
had paid any attention to him.
With the aforesaid determination OF
making the world sit UP and observe.
Caraway once start a newspaper IN
Lake City, Ark He called 1t the Re-
view and he reviewed almost anything
of local or national importance. with a
heart full of hope, a handful OF sub
scribers and a cigar box full OF type. :,
For six long, weary weeks he laDored
at editing. but none seemed to become
and heavy discussions. At last, under
pressure Of great remorse. he determined
that he would write an editorial attacking
something so strongly that the readers
he picked out the footing feature Of the
Boxer trouble and sailed In with q pen
dipped in acid.
He criticised the missionaries and va
riOus institutions with Tree DuL HTIn
hand. Then he double-leaded the edito-
rial, put it on the first page, sent his pa
per to the post office and awaited devel-
opments. Had he not moved before de-
yelopments arrived he might still be sit
ting in that sanctum. Not q ripple fol-
lowed.
Deeply disguised, Caraway locked up
shop and never got out another issue OF
the paper. Els
'aThe Review lived nine weeks" is the
way he tells the story. Il ran II six and
the sheriff ran it three"
II the man named Brown who saved
the life OF Robert H. Gittins, now repre-
sentative of the fortieth district Of New
York, will communicate with him he will
receive heartfelt thanks for the brave
deed.
But why thank him at this late day,
did some one ask? That makes the yarn.
At the time Brown saved Gittins from a
watery grave-for it was a case of near
drowning-the future congressman be-
came angry with his rescuer. Thus Git
tins explains.
The incident occurred W Gittins was
about ten years old. He was swimming
with several other boys when he sank.
Brown leaped into the canal and saved
him. Once on dry land. Gittins shook
himself and disappeared, fearing the
story Of his csc ,e would become public.
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parcel. Higher and higher the price went.
but 1t never scared too high for him. At
length he bid it in, paid the price. smiled.
tucked the box under his arm and left
for home.
He was a proud and happy little bidder
when he entered his house. Exhibiting
the purchase TO his wife. he told her how
several mere piker bidders had tried to
Guido him. She gasped, hastily explained
the rules of the game to him and begged
that he hurriedly ascertain whose card
was in the box.
Bryan looked only feetingly and the
next moment he was bounding down the
front steps Of his home. headed for the
scene Of social gayety. For within the
box was the card of the wife of his Bit
terest political opponent.
He arrived Just before the boxes were
opened. and thus he saved the day But
he was so nearly out of breath that he
VOWS il there had been crackers in the
lunch he would have expired the minute
he bit into one.
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1t Looks Like 1t.

A LDERMAN PRETZEL OF Chicago re-
"A Gently defeated an ordinance making
the slashed skirt criminal.
I'VE men," said Alderman Pretzel the
other day, have enough on our con-
sciences, so far as woman Is concerned,
without stepping up and telling her that
this or that article of dress constitutes
criminal oftsnse.
.'The fact is, re men, in all our deal
ings with woman, seem 10 take for our
precept and rule
ITO err is masculine; to forgive femi-
nine
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script he becomes nervous and his memo,
~ harks back TO the time he addressed
the Ladies Social and Literary Club up
In Port Clinton. Ohio
In those days Gordon was just young
attorney. and as the club was very eX-
elusive he wanted to make good when
called on to speak before it. So. when his
summons finally came he sat himself
down in the quiet of his law off1ce-said
office not being crowded with clients-and
wrote a speech that he readily admits
was a ..jim-dandy' He spoke about all
the great poets he had ever heard of.
threw In five or six quotations ne OBJ
tanned from a book that offered handy
references for public speakers. and wound
up with a flourish in which he paid a
fiowery tribute to the members OF the en-
lightened organization which had so hon.
ored him.
For a week before the meeting he
strolled along side streets and the creek
bank practicing his speech Finally. he
had memorized it so that he could deliver
it with his eyes shut or his hands in his
pockets without the least difficulty.
The great night came. A speaker spent
five minutes by the watch-and five hours
by Gordons mental Observation-Disclosures
ing him as the 'boy orator OF northern
Ohio" and then turned him loose to do
his best-or worst.
Gordon slowly arose, Strengthened his
necktie, pulled down his sleeves and said:
MY friends 1t gives me pleasure"
But il did not give him anything like
pleasure 1t gave him chills and fever
and two or three other things which fire.
uuently attack public speakers. To save
his life he could not remember a word Of
the address But he paused only a few
seconds Then he drew the manuscript
from his pocket and slowly read it. Fin
ished. he sat down, crumbled and. as he
thought, disgraced.
The meeting over Gordon looked for a
side entrance through which to escape
but he was halted b. the president OF
the organization.
.My dear Mr. Gordon" she said, "you
have paid US a high honor. You are the
only man who ever has prepared an ad-
dress for US in advanced"
And now when the flower seed season
approaches Gordon prepares a large
package and sends it to certain woman
back in Ohio who once said kind things
to him when he expected only criticism.
Representative ]. w. Bryan Of the first
district of Washington was SO busy as a
youth selling books and teaching school
in order to obtain money with which 10
pay for college education that he over
looked learning a very important thing
the rules of box suppers-" And in later
life he had to pay heavily for his igno-
rance.
AS almost every one knows. and as
every one should. at least when one bids
in woman's lunch basket or box at
box supper he should eat the contents
with her. Bryan did not know this, hence
this tale.
One night out in Washington. when he
was just getting started in politics, he
went to a box supper. The affair was
given as a benefit for a church and every
one bid very high on the boxes. When
almost all Of them had been sold and
Bryan still was without a purchase he
began to bid fast on a certain attractive
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R0MANCE,S OF ANAL OSTAN ISLAND

ship by different persons and of long law
suits until the place finally changed into
a public picnic ground. The mansion was
DESTROYED BY fire, weeds choked the gar
den the walks and terraces vanished and
over all crept the vines that soon oblit-
Grated all traces of human habftauon.
But even today there are queer stories
told by the river folks OF white hgures
fitting about in the deserted grounds, or
strange shapes wandering about the runs
in the moonlight.
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The First Essential.

John PURROY Mitchell, the young
J collector of the port whom President
Wilson has appointed for New York. was
congratulated at a recent dinner on his
remarkably early and complete success.
What. Mr.. Mitchell a broker asked.
lis your secret?"
Well" Mr.. Mitchell replied. while L
don't claim to be success authority.
I've often noticed that the man who
makes his mark in the world is usually
pretty careful I'm the first place about
picking out his target"
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One time when Representative J. B.
Aswell OF the eighth district OF Louisiana
was campaigning in southern Arkansas
he was called on to deliver an address
In a crossroads schoolhouse. There was
only one man in the entire community
who even was supposed to be able to in
troduce a speaker. He was al old, gray
haired fellow who appeared at the meet
ing coatless but wearing hat which
he did not remove even when he mounted
the stage to say his few brief words.
MY friends he said. Il am not a
public speaker. 1 never have claimed
that 1 was. So 1 won't stand here and
bore you, but I'll introduce a man who
certainly will"
Never since he made his first public
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OF figures always reminded me of a man.
who. after presenting an account to an
other fellow. asked:
isn't the account right?'
Yes. except in two particulars. The
figures on the debit side are not correct.
and the figures on the credit side are
all wrong"
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Meant Well, Anyway.

r e pre- sentative
Gudger of North
Carolina represents
that district of the
Old North state
which takes in the
Sapphire C o. IN
try" His constit-
uents are practi-
cally all mountain
GERS. and requests
from them for
favors are prob
ably fewer and
more far between
than those of any
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To the Point.
e p + e sentatlv

X e pr e sentative
John Wesley Lang
ley of kentucky
and a republican.
at that-was run
ming In fine form
during the tariff
debate on the
e" market basket .
schedule the other
month. Like other
republicans he was
heckiing the tariff
makers, and got
time to deliver a
eulogy of the
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Outside of That

S e n tor John
Sharp Williams of
Mississippi during
the tariff debates
r e c G ntly recalled
an incident of the
old discussions on
the Dingley bill,
twenty years ago.
AT the opening
Of the Fifty-hfth
Congress" said he,
"Dingle presented
a statement as to
the government S
finances. That set
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"Siphon' Sisson.

Thomas u pit 0 n
Sisson. member of
Congress from the
fourth district of
Alabama, is des-
tined to go down
I'm history as the
S | p h on b OF I ! e
statesman. Which
is an unfortunate
fate.
When the Cali
fornia ] a D anese
imbroglio was at
its height. Mr..
Sisson d g w cred
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A Hot One.

Garter Glass OF
l. y n C h burg, Va,
has his seat in the
lower house tied
down so hard and
fast that the folks
down in his dis
trict consider 1t
almost a sacrilege
even to talk about
running a 3 q ! INST
him. There was
once a time. how
ever. when the
votes didn't come
so easy. and In
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president Of the chamber Of commerce
saw him and said right out in meeting:
"You are not an invited guest. are you.
Mr.. Kindel?'
mo, SIR Kindel replied.
Then what are you doing here. ;.
Il am a representative of the press,
Kindel responded.
"Ah, Mr.. Kindel'' spoke up Mr.. Harm
man, Il am very glad to see YOU.
Then Kindel, reporter, was taken py the
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'H'mmm. said Glass. clearing his
throat. There isn't much between you
and a fool, Is there?"
The boy looked up quickly, and then
spat ruminatively.
Nope" he remarked. Just the
fence"
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Gil AHPdSSlOIcu dHIl-JdpdHcSe SpccGH oii
the floor Of the House.
If we must have war" he declared.
"or submit to this indignity. am for
war"
Later. in the tariff debate. Representa-
tive johnson Of Washington, reproving
him for this speech, called attention to
the fact that Mr.. Sisson had voted last
year against battleship program. and
then he referred to the southerner as
1.-The sizzling solon from Mississippi. Mr..
Sisson."
II that doesn't sound like II siphon
bottle, what does? The resemblance
caught the fancy of the cioakroom con-
gressional kidders, and they are ring
ing the changes on it whenever Mr..
Sisson happens along.
Congressman H. A. Metz Of Brooklyn
Is probably able to talk faster than any
one in the House and the official stenog-
raphers will have to keep busy to stay
on the job when he IL on his feet. His
speed Is said to be about $50 words per
minute.