South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-20

tend to sit there quietly and let those
fellows gesture into my jaw"
Speaker Clark was remarking one
day that there is just as much of a
knack in trimming ones name as in
trimming a hedge. The case of the
shift in the speakers own name is
we'll known-how he used to be
known as James b. Clark. which
would doubtless have caused him to
be buried under a thick blanket of
obscurity. And how he changed TO
Beauchamp and finally to plain
Champ Clark. Along this same line
the speaker tells of the case of plain
John Brown, whom he used TO know
out in Missouri. He was a wise man.
was John Brown. and he knew that
he was cursed by too usual a name.
And so what do you suppose John
Brown did, Why, he began signing
his name John y. Brown, thereby
changing il from an extreme
ly ordinary name to a name that
would cause one to stop and turn
around to look at il the second time
Charles Lee Cooke, an attache of
the office of the third assistant secre-
tary Of state. devotes himself chiefly
to keeping tab on the social proce-
dures of that office. He has to know
what diplomats are out of the city.
where invitations will reach them,
the dates for sending birthday let
I ters of congratulations to foreign
rulers, and a score of other things of
( a similar nature. If one were giving
I a party and was uncertain about the
proper title of a supreme court JUS
tice, or a foreign ambassador, the
70 &c nr1n
day Cooke decided. just out of cur
iosity. to keep track of the telephone
calls from hostesses in Washington
inquiring about the proper use of
/ titles The calls on that day, selected
at random ran up to 104.
Steven b. Ayres. who is in the
midst of trying TO get back his old
place in congress from the BOnX IN
W district, Notwithstanding Mr.. Boss
Murphys wishes TO the contrary. is an
/ optimistic soul. stevens cheerful out
/ look crops out even in his cable ad-
I dress which is "Cheerup."
/ Rep. Buchanan Of Illinois was a
/ structural iron worker at the time OF
/ his election TO congress one day a
/ big steel structure on which he was
working fell over. killing about so OF
his fellow labOrers. But Buchanan
I himself and one companion were left
on top of narrow steel pier near
+ " loo feet high. Their one chance
% getting down seemed to be a piece
of rope cable about % feet long. BY
/ unraveling this and tying the pieces
I together they formed a rope that
would almost reach the ground
but IL was a slender rope and there
1 was grave question about il support
ing their weight. Buchanan's com
panion. being the lighter of the two
went down first. When Buchanan
got within a foot or two OF the end
/ the rope broke right in his hands.
Talk about luck" says he. sup
pose the weak prsce had been at the
other end"
Secy. Bryan has never lost a CEN
OF money at poker. Neither did hs
win any money at poker The fac
is he never played a game Of card:
in his life. not even casino. He dOesn'
know one card from another.
I Copyright, 1914. by Fred G. Kelly
SPRINGFIELD. Ill. July 90. -
Jealous because his wife left him
few months after they were married
Charles Jeries, a young farmer o.
Living. IS miles southeast of Spring
field, last night shot and killed hi
wife. Nola. aged IS probably fatally
wounded his mother-in-law. Mrs
Frank Gardner. and then turned tn
gun upon himself infiicting morta