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A writer in The New York American writes a whole column to prove that "phalanthrope should be supervised." It is his own private affair, and none of the public's business still, many modern critics want the State or the municipality to make everything, hath public and private. As a result of the growth of this view, we are starting the point in this country where we will have more government than anything else. The original idea was that these we were governed the better of us. That is a simple philosophy, but it is being discarded by the Progressive. A BAD MEMORY. The Journal editor admits that he does know anything about the investigation, and the general public is in the same state of ignorance, as no report ever has been made so far as can be learned here by the investigating board. It is the finding in the state of the fact that its members received many thousands of dollars to do the work. —Gadsden Journal. The Journal refers to the investigation of the Civil War in the last year. It is a clear case of ignorance, as no report ever has been made so far as can be learned here by the investigating board. —Gadsden Journal. In error in its statement that no report was ever made Daily reports were made by the press of the State and at the end of the investigation a formal report of the findings of the Investigating board was made. The Journal's memory is short. COMER'S EXTRAVAGANCE. The Huntsville Mercury-Banner all but loses patience with the arrogant, blusterous former Governor when that gentleman attempts to explain his reckless extravagance with the State’s money when he was Governor. Says The Mercury-Banner: Comer makes a bungling attempt to explain why there was no money in the treasury when he went out. Walter Seed says about fifteen days before Comer went out there was $11,785 in the treasury. That the warrants had not been paid for three months, and to keep Comer from going out with a treasury absolutely empty, he (as treasurer) sent out hurried calls to the tax collector of the different counties to send in what monies they had, and in this way collected about $100,000 three days before Comer went out. He did this to say Comer’s "face," so to speak, and Comer has been bragging about it ever since. The truth of the matter is, he turned the State ever to O'Neal a million dollars in debt. Mr. Comer’s stock answer to his critics is: "So it again." Do the people of Alabama want their taxes increased 13 percent against? A GENEVA PLUTOCRAT. One Slocomb farmer has killed one hundred and fourteen hogs this winter, which netted him nearly nine thousand pounds of meat. If you can beat this, let's hear from you. —Slocomb Observer. That farmer will be riding in an automobile yet. If he doesn't have to spend his profits to pay the high taxes that he must pay as a result of four years of Comerlain. "Go to church Sunday," will fill Montgomery churches with people. It may result in every Sunday's being go to church Sunday. Why should Charles Henderson be put in jail, when B. B. Comer, doing the same thing, went free? The free tolls Question pending in Congress is somewhat different from the question of exemption at our local toll bridge. If the Alabama voter reads all of the campaign literature, he receives he won’t have time to read his Bible. One of the best trials Ray Rushton has is the fact that he is not a demagogue. His announcement means the advent into Alabama politics of another statesman. The average Chicago newspaper is as big as a lap robe. It requires big papers to record the exciting events which happen in Chicago every day. What is the loss of a few paltry dollars in coupons compared with the thousands of dollars that will be saved in the future? “To be really great a man must be self-sacrificing. Jacksonville Record. After the manner of R. P. Hobson, who has not spent over thirty days in Washington since the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson as President, EDITOR HILSON ON HOBSON. Up till a few weeks ago, Mr. I. B. Hillson was a joint editor of The Enterprise Ledger, a newspaper which espoused the cause of Captain Hobson. Now Mr. Hillson is editor of The Enterprise Journal. A fear is a great age, Captain Hobson made a speech in Enterprise, and Mr. Hillson writes a four-column editorial analysis of the Hobson utterances and his comments are anything but favorable. He scores heavily on Mr. Hobson. He is a good writer, and can make the skin burn. Moreover, he is a prohibitionist, but he appears disgusted with the Hobson idea of prohibition, to-wit, the prohibition of the sale of liquor, but the full permission to individuals to make all the liquor they want for their individual use. In reviewing the Hobson speech, the editor of The Journal records that Mr. Hobson referred to the time when he spoke in Enterprise early last fall, charging 50 cents admission. In which speech he set forth that it was not to be expected that Mr. Underwood should be sitting in his seat, answering roll calls, inasmuch as he was busy in committee "framing the tariff, which when finished, would be one of the greatest pieces of constructive legislation in the history of our country," and that he "was proud to be a colleague of the great statesman, Oscar W. Underwood," and that "Mr. Underwood ought to be applauded not only by Alabama, but the entire nation, as a statesman," etc. Now that Underwood is Hobson’s opponent, he is an enemy of the people, and moreover, as Hobson says: “They call it the Underwood tariff bill. I tell you, that Mr. Underwood did not write a single line of that bill. Mr. Underwood took $7,000,000 off of the liquor interests and put it on the farmer,” thus contradicting himself by "making a misleading statement with reference to the tariff on wines.” In conclusion, if Hobson is a prohibitionist, then the Journal is not. Discussing the Hobson brand of prohibition, which would only interfere with the sale of liquor. The Journal goes on to say: "It means that every negro tenant, every negro turpentine hand, can make all the rum, utilize all the cane eklmmlngs, all the rotten peaches, all the corn whiskey they choose to manufacture, rig up a still with a coffee pot and cane reeds and let a saturnalia of pandemonium reign; passion and lust, murder and arson, rape and assassination stalk abroad and hell and its lips will reap a harvest such as has not been visible since the days of Beelzebub and his cohorts broke loose from the chains of Hades. Is that prohibition? Or rather is it not a figure of a brain disordered by greed for office, a fantasy of mind that is either ignorant of the logic of events or purposely playing to galleries of a fanatical cohort. If Mr. Underwood did not vote against such a measure we should certainly not have the respect for his statesmanship and ability that we now have. The work of destroying idols goes merrily on." . WHAT ABOUT COMER? A by-product of the agreement. Important in itself, is that it relieves the State of the heavy financial burden which it would have to carry in prosecuting those cases during the next five years. — Montgomery Advertiser. Another by product of the agreement. Important in itself, is that it relieves the railroads of the heavy financial burden of paying the pink and blue slips for passenger and freight charges that the railroads promised to redeem. The amount thus lost by the people is figured at $8,800,050. — Mobile Register. The Register is either hot informed, on this question or it lacks sincerity: If it is sincere, why does it not condemn Braxton Bragg Comer for committing the same offense which it now charges the high officials of Alabama have committed? For more than a year passengers in Alabama held coupons from the railroads, by virtue of an agreement with Governor Comer and the roads, while litigation was pending. Finally, a compromise between contesting roads and the Governor was effected whereby the people who held coupons didn’t get a cent in rebates. Mr. Comer says the “gang”—elegant term—who brought about the recent settlement of railroad litigation ought to be put in jail. If Mr. Comer will agree to go to jail with these gentlemen, no doubt the people will have more confidence in the sincerity of his criticism of the agreement just made. Will The Register discuss the Comer compromise of 1908 and compare it with the compromise of 1908 and point out the difference in the principle involved? Or will it dodge the issue? MR. BUSHTON’S CANDIDACY. The candidacy of Hon. Ray Rushton for the short term in the United States Senate, offers to the people of the State the opportunity of sending to that body a man who, in ability and character, measures up to the standard set by the illustrious line of men, contributed by Alabama to the greatest law-making body in the world. Mr. Rushton is worthy of the honor, not only because of character and ability, but because of his great possibilities for service. He is today in the prime of a vigorous manhood. He is a man whose capacity for labor is unlimited, and whose efficiency in the law and in statecraft is of the highest order. Mr. Rushton, in his life and in his profession, is a success without qualifications. He had the great good fortune to be born poor. Experience has proved that the best environment for the production of statesmen and leaders has been birth and boyhood in decent and honorable poverty. To meet his needs, and to finish the hard task he had set himself to, that of qualifying for the legal profession, Mr. Rushton taught school. With nothing except an education obtained largely by his own efforts, Mr. Rushton began in Montgomery the practice of law. There were no short cuts for success for him. He had the hard way, the way of labor and continuous labor. But it was labor which makes a man strong in brain and character. That he stands in the front ranks of the ablest lawyers in Alabama, no man would attempt to deny. That he understands the aspirations and the needs of the people among whom he was born and among whom his life was spent is equally certain. He is exactly the type of leader whom the people should select to safeguard their interests. The people of Alabama have a fine opportunity at hand and it is gratifying to believe that they will avail themselves of it. Rev. Sam W. Small will lecture on prohibition at Gadsden. He will speak under the auspices of the Anti-Saloon League. Of course, his mission is non-political. But is it hoped that his address will help Hobson, or Comer? DAVENPORT, IOWA, March 7—Mrs. Charles Mohr, forty-three years old, laughed herself to death at a joke told by her husband. The woman laughed six hours, death coming this morning. This lady went to more violent extremes to flatter a man than any woman we ever heard of. The Macon Telegraph speaks of a certain woman suffrage leader who has the "courage of her lunacy." "Old Comer is not popular with the machine politician," said the Macon Telegraph. "There never was a creator, a machine politician in Alabama than B. & Comer." A Mobile man reproached his fellow banqueters for offering him an oyster cocktail. "Boys, I don't drink intoxicants," he protested. UNDERWOOD AND THE SPITTOON NEGRO JANITORS, Washington, D. C., Feb. 8, 1914. Mr. C. E. Talt, Camden, Ala. My Dear Mr. Talt:—There are two negro janitors who are employed by the House of Representatives to clean up committee rooms, wash the spittoons, black shoes, move documents, and run errands. They are on the laborer's rolls of the House and their salary is about $1 a month. One of them was appointed in 1892 and the other in 1891 before I became chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. They are doing work that no white man that I know of in Alabama would want to do. Practically all of the janitors, the barbers, and the waiters in the restaurant in the city. House are negroes. There is a large negro population in Washington and the servants here are mostly negroes as they are in the South. As I stated above, these men were not appointed by me, but were appointed long before I became chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. Of course, I could have asked to have them discharged, but if I had, I would have had to appoint other negroes in their places as I know of no white man who would take this kind of job. I understand that these charges are being made by Captain Hobson’s friends and I wish to say that since the Democrats got control of the House of Representatives, in May, 1911, a negro by the name of Carl J. Splgener was appointed on the laborer's roll of the House at $1 a month at the request of Captain Hobson and is charged to the Sixth Alabama District. This man is doing the same class of work that the janitors of the Ways and Means Committee are doing. The clerks of my committee are all white Democrats. I have never had a negro clerk in my life or one in any way connected with us. With best wishes, I am Cordially yours, O. W. UNDERWOOD. Letters to Editor --— HOW ABOUT CAPTAIN? Editor The Advertiser: It is not a fact that Richmond Pearson Hobson, the Captain, has never cast a Democratic vote in a general election? Is it not a fact that he has never voted in any election, primary or general, except when he was a candidate? Is it not a fact that three or more of his best friends in Greensboro, Ala., the day before the last Presidential election, telephoned to him at Birmingham, Ala., only about eighty miles from Greensboro, his voting place, and begged and pleaded with him to come? Does this look like the record of a patriotic and people-loving Democrat? Or isn't it Hobson, the would-be shining light of the twentieth century that he loves best?! Has the Captain risen to that full measure of duty of citizenship that the people love so well? Let him answer these questions for us. ELAHFOAMLOSA STATEMENT FROM W. H. PARKER, Editor The Advertiser: Returning from Greensboro several days ago, I learned that the Hobson headquarters had caused a warrant to be sworn out against me for an alleged offense that had been not pressed by the assistant solicitor, after an examination, and upon the solicitation of the party against whom the offense was alleged to have been committed. This case was not prosecuted on the 6th day of February, 1913—over a year ago. I immediately hurried to the officers and made bond. I had published Captain Hobson as having received pay for services not rendered. In violation of a Federal statute, I had also shown that the Captain had never voted for prohibition or for the Democratic nominees in his life. Under these circumstances, the Hobson people determined to crush me at all hazards, being utterly unable to acquit Captain Hobson of the charges. Learning of the case, that was not prosecuted, they got a man named Howell to swear out a warrant for my arrest. This man Howell had nothing involved in the case, did not know me, and heard us ever seen me, to my knowledge. He was an officer of the Hobson Club and willing to do the job. Why was this done? Simply because I had exposed Hobson to the world as a man that was neglecting his sworn duties as a Congressman and accepting money that he did not earn. The Hobson forces were willing to drag my innocent loved ones into humiliation and shame, and the pity of it is that they found a man to do the job, in his zeal to aid the cause of the man that had thrown the cloak of prohibition over his neglect of the duties he faced his district as their representative in Congress. Dodging the truths I uttered, they struck at me. Consulting with my friends, I have waived preliminary hearing, and hope the grand jury will look into the case and settle it, after a thorough investigation. Captain Robson cannot dodge the responsibility for this bitter humiliation of my family. Although he is reckless in disclaiming responsibility for things that work against him or his candidacy, he cannot escape the fact that he told his hearers at Russellville that Parker would be in jail before the primary. This, coupled with the activity of Monnette, his secretary, and the complicity of Painter, his press agent, and the affidavit of his official supporter, Howell, is positive evidence that this attack upon me was made by his agents and in his interest, and with his knowledge and consent. Let us grant, for argument's sake, that I am as guilty as they claim me to be. How would that justify Hobson in his gross neglect of the duties which he was elected to perform, or for taking money in violation of a statute? Is it not a burning shame that a man, who should be willing to do a man's part, in his day and generation, has been reduced to such desperate straights that his co-workers have had to resort to these methods in order to divert the minds of the people from their idle neglect of duty, by concentrating scorn upon such a weak and insignificant person as I am? Oh, the meanness of the thing! This great hero, the mighty giant of prohibition, this spotless and great-souled knight, had to resort to the desperate endeavor to ruin the lives of the family of the man that dared to expose him in his neglect of duty, both as a citizen and as a Congressman. Hobsos cannot escape the consequences of his neglect of his sworn duties. Each day that he remains in Alabama, canvassing for votes, is an indictment against him, and his trial before a great people is approaching. I am willing to let the voters of my party and native State judge between my actions and those of Hobson. I am not afraid of the verdict of the fair-minded people of this great Commonwealth; and, man to man, I want to say to R. P. Hobson, that, while I fought him, I fought him above board and I. fought him fairly, I stood responsible for my statements, and, during the many times I was thrown into contact with him and his good and loyal wife, I treated them both with the courtesy I would have other men extend to my own loved ones. Although I consider him grossly unfit to represent Alabama in the Senate, I would have burned off my arm, before I would have struck him in the back, as he has attempted to strike me, and I would have jumped into a bottomless pit of shame before I would have humiliated and grieved his wife and family as he has sought to overwhelm mine. A thousand false charges again cannot change the fact that Hobson has abandoned his duty for two years, and has drawn money from the treasury of the United States in violation of a Federal statute. Respectfully, W. H. PARKER. THE SWEETEST WORDS. Philadelphia Record. "Are there any sweeter words in the English language," musingly inquired Professor Swiggs, "than I love you?" "Well," grimly remarked the pessimistic hearer, "I understand that some authorities regard 'There's that money I owe you' as about the apology of satisfactory sentences.' The Great Cavalry Ride of History The town of Randolph, Ala. Day B. D. C. The great, sad battle of Saves Flees has been fought. Many people with tears were watching the soldiers come and go, stepping to the strain of "Dixie." The best blood of English America had drenched the soil of the Old Dominion. The Confederacy had written new achievements upon the soil of Mars, but to no avail. The South, victorious in the early engagement at Seven Fines, had suffered heavy losses in the last part of the battle. The two great American armies had fallen back to Richmond, clear forespent; and now lay panting like gladiators through the early June days of 1862, watching, waiting, planning. —The Two Opposing Commas dona— McClellan, a child of American parents, was born in Spain; but in early youth was appointed a cadet to West Point, where he made a brilliant record. After graduation he did active and effective service in Mexico and upon the American frontier. No one reading the correspondence of General Scott, during the Mexican campaign, can help being impressed by the frequent honorable mention of three young soldiers. Captain Dee, First Lieutenant Beauregard and Second Lieutenant McClellan. In 1862, after the resignation of General Scott, he being retired because of age limit, the command of the Union army fell upon George W. McClellan. Robert B. Lee, the greatest American engineer, a former West Point superintendent, the brilliant and daring soldier of the Mexican war, and In the Indian wars, the beloved of General Scott, the devoted Virginian and patriot, upon June 8, 1862, was appointed by the Confederacy, Commander-in-Chief of the Southern army. Thus the heads of the two opposing armies were friends, tried and true. — Richmond's Importance. The Confederate capital had been moved from Alabama to Virginia, that State being considered the lock to the Southern Confederacy, with Richmond its key. McClellan, with a large army of 203,213 men, had already commenced his peninsula campaign, and was within seven miles of the Confederate capital, which General J. E. Johnston had already placed in a good position of defense. The people of Richmond desired their city should be defended to the last. Doubt had, entered the popular mind as to the subsequent actions of certain officials, and large boxes were placed before the doors of certain departments labeled “Lynchburg”; and Joseph Mayo, mayor of the city and a descendant of one of its founders, declared: “I will die before I surrender the city to any man who suggests it; if any citizen wants Richmond to surrender, then Richmond must elect another mayor.” Robert E. Lee, in his address before the citizenship, after being elected Commander-in-Chief, quieted internal disruptions, by sounding the longed-for tocsin, "Victory or Death.” General Lee, who had for some time been virtually Secretary of War, at once perceived that the siege of Richmond could not be raised without beating the Union army out of their formidably works; for the Federals were entrenched behind 520 field guns, and a long line of 100 siege guns. Lee knew that a counter movement of some kind must be made upon the enemy's flank and rear, which was not protected, and that those counter movements must be made in cooperation with a direct front attack from the city. If the raising of the siege was to be successful. Therefore Jackson was to strike the left flank of the Union forces. Reinforcements began to march into and about Richmond; at the same time. Time rumors began to float, no doubt for the sparrows to carry to McClellan, that the Southern Army was to invade Maryland by Harper's Ferry and strike straight for Washington. In command of Lee's cavalry troops, was J. E. B. Stuart, another graduate of West Point, a Mexican war veteran, a frontier defender, and the able right hand of “Marse Robert" when he quelled the John Brown Raid; rollicking, singing, capable, nervy Stuart, but a man upon whom Lee could depend. Stuart's right-hand man was John Pelham of Alabama, the boy artilleryist, a West Pointer also, who organized the all-powerful Stuart Horse Artillery, and who made the most famous artillery attacks of modern history. The Famous Cavalry Brigade of History— Prior to the Seven Days' Battle Before Richmond, the Confederate army was making exhaustive preparations; strengthening anew the fortifications around Richmond, which would warrant Lee in sparing as many men as possible from his center and right, to co-operate with Jackson upon the left flank movement; re-organizing the army, and removing camps to more healthful positions; demanding and securing better conditions and service in the ordnance and commissary departments. Frequent reconnoisances were made to ascertain the enemy's strength and position. It has always been a riddle why McClellan remained ignorant, or in other words inactive, all the time these things were going on. Inactivity meant, no doubt, that he was unaware of Lee’s activities. Often and often Confederate generals took nine and ten mile marches into the enemy's lines, and returned without the knowledge of the Federal army. The most important and most daring of all the reconnoissances was the dashing raid made by a part of General Stuart's Cavalry through and around McClellan's army, as far as the Pamunkey river and back. Major General W. W. Averill, U. S. A., said that in accomplishing this ride, "Stuart added a new feature to cavalry history." On the morning of June 12th, 1862, General Stuart, with a part of his command numbering 1,200 men, answered the call to "Boots and Saddle!" and formed ranks, four abreast, upon the Brooke Turnpike. The column soon began to move; its officers and men in high glee, calling out to the bewailing men in camp along the line of march. "Good-bye boys, we are going to help old Jack drive the Yankees into the Potomac." That night the troop's bivouac was at Ashland, and then for the first time the men learned their destination, and fully comprehended that the success of the expedition depended upon their silence and celerity. At dawn the troops silently broke camp and began the march to Hanover Court House where they first encountered the Union force, the 6th United States Cavalry. The enemy fled, hotly pursued, across country to Hawes Shop, where a Federal picket was surprised and captured before he realized the boys in gray were upon him. The main body of a Federal squadron was encountered at Old Church. Up the hill dashed the Virginia cavaliers, and made a victorious charge, routing the enemy and capturing men and ammunition. It was during this charge that Captain Latane was killed. His burial became the theme of one of the great war pictures of the world; a picture which holds a silent record of Northern troops inhumanity, and Southern women's strength of character and steadfast patriotism and Christianity. A splendid copy of "The Burial of Latane" is in possession of the First White House Association at Montgomery. By a strange coincidence, General Philip St George Cooke, U. S. A., in command of the Federal cavalry, was the father-in-law of General Stuart. The merry, warm-hearted Virginian sent him a polite greeting, but reports do not publish the reply of the father-in-law. Through New Kent county, Stuart's men dashed on, pausing only to blockade the York River Railroad at Tunstall's Station, and allowing time for W. H. F. Lee to ride out to the White House on the Pamunkey, his home, then Federal headquarters, to see and talk to his mother, Mary Custis Lee, and his wife and sisters. The line of march led straight to Sycamore Ford on the Chickahominy. A beautiful full moonlighted the path along which the gray host rode. At sunrise the second day the ford was reached. The stream, swollen by the rains, was beyond its banks. To cross, both men and horses would have to swim against the current. In two hours only seventy men had succeeded in crossing. Farther down the river at Forge Bridge, Stuart ordered the men to repair the demolished bridge. After three hours, it was in condition for the artillery to cross, and the men on foot. The horses, four lashed together, were forced to swim with the current from Sycamore Ford to Ford Bridge, where they could secure an easier landing. The yunset was rivaled by the burning of the temporary bridge by the Confederates. Across Charles City county, the tired horses and weary men rode, turning at last into the home stretch of the James River road to Richmond. For twenty-five miles along the road, the Confederates saw the enemy's fleet riding at anchor in the James River. For forty-eight hours, no man or beast had closed an eye; it was hard to keep awake, even though each moment one expected the enemy to strike a swift, sudden blow; and the moonlight could every bush, in the distance to be transformed into a sentinel, and every bending tree branch. Into a vidette "Who goes there!" suddenly startled the column, of Stuart's Cavalry. The challenger was again at home, General Stuart reported one Confederate killed, ten wounded, one gun abandoned, prisoners taken, fourteen teamsters, and horses and mules, much harness and many small arms. Results of This Raid. The Union army realized that the Confederate army was not bottled up in Virginia, but could strike the toll of Washington. Washington was not absolutely protected. The Confederate soldiers had gained confidence in themselves and in their isadora. The country rang with the praises for the men who had raided entirely around the great army of the opposing Commander-in-Chief, bringing prisoners and plunder from under his very nose. By these movements, Stuart had gained valuable information of the enemy's numbers, strength, and locations. This information satisfied General Lee as to McClellan's true position. So important was this ride considered—the first of its kind in history—that General Lee, in a special order, felt bound to express his appreciation, “and admiration for the courage and skill so conspicuously exhibited throughout by Brigadier General Stuart and the officers and men under his command.” In addition to the officers General Lee deemed it also just to specially name those privates whom their officers had particularly mentioned as deserving commendation. Stuart's Commands— The men who had achieved this great cavalry feat under General Stuart, belonged to the following commands: the Virginia Cavalry, under Colonel W. H. C. F. Lee; the 1st Virginia, led by Colonel Fits Lee; the Jeff Davis Legion, under Colonel Martin; and a section of Stuart’s Horse Artillery commanded by John Pelham of Alabama. Alabamians should never forget that at Second Manassas Jackson praised the “vigilant Pelham”; that at Fredericksburg he bore the brunt of the Federal attack when Lee said, “ It is glorious to see such courage in one so young; that at Chattanooga, he was Stuart's right arm; and that it was Alabama's son, at the head of Stuart's Horse Artillery, who led Stuart's brave and dauntless 1,100 around McClellan's army, and held Pleasanton's cavalry at bay, while Stuart made a safe crossing of the Patomac. At the day when a statue of this great artist shall stand in Alabama's hall of fame, the rotunda of our capital at Montgomery. We should honor Pelham as Tennessee honors Sam Davis, for Pelham too gave his life to save a man's honor, when he led the command of Rossiter at Kelly's Ford. Statesmen, Real and Near BY FRED C. KELLY.) WASHINGTON, D. C. ITS OSTMASTER GENERAL RAL BURLESON is rarely without an umbrella clutched in his hand. "The same may be said of Colonel George W. Goethals, the Panama Canal chief, whenever he is in this part of the country; but the most persistent umbrella carrier in Burleson. It takes a cloudless sky and an optical weather forecast to wheedle Burleson out into the open without his trusty umbrella right with him. The other day, as he was walking down the street, Burleson met Lindley M. Garrison, Secretary of War. Garrison playfully started to pass him by without even a nod and Burleson acted shocked. "Have I ever said anything against the War Department?" asked Burleson. "To tell your truth," chuckled Garrison, "I did not recognize you without your umbrella." Unde Jerry Donovan, member of Congress from Connecticut, looks like a fire-eater. But has a sense of humor. The other day a newspaper man caught him on his office phone, but mistook his voice for that of his secretary. “Has Donovan got any news?” asked the correspondent. “Of course not,” replied Donovan. “That old guy never has any news. He scarcely knows he’s alive.” “Huh, you’re a nice, candid sort of a secretary, anyway,” observed the newspaper man. “Why not?” asked Donovan. “What’s the use trying to make a bluff? Old Donovan doesn’t even know what month it is. Go and strike a live one.” Representative William Schley Howard, of Georgia, sprang a little simile the other day to express his idea of the difficulties of a certain undertaking. “That” says he, “would be just like climbing up a raised pole backward, carrying an armful of soles.” The full name of Representative "Hampy" Moore, of Pennsylvania, is parted modishly over on the left side, thus: J. Hampton Moore “What’s the J. for?” asked a friend the other day. "It’s for a sort of proloquial," replied "Hampy," right off the reel, and looking the inquirer boldly in the eye. Representative Joseph A. Goulden, of New York, is believed to be the only man in public life who was present when Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg oration. He was born only six miles from the battlefield and walked over to set his first look at Lincoln. He had elbowed his way up close to the stand and was within a rod or two of Lincoln when he spoke. “When I got back home after the exercises my mother asked me what I thought of the President’s speech," says Goulden. “It was seventeen and therefore a little blaze. But I admitted that it was a pretty fair speech. I told her as much of it as I could remember and she said: “That’s a speech that will live.” “And I guess she was right” Senator Tillman starts out each day by kicking himself. He kicks himself before he even rests out of bed. He does not do this, however, because he harbors any feeling of disgust or impatience toward himself. Kicking himself is No. 1 of a list of rules he follows out daily. He believes these rules are largely responsible for his partial restoration to health, and nothing could induce Tillman to begin a day without first kicking himself viciously fifteen times with each foot. He always has on hand typewritten lists of these exercises and rules of diet, and makes them or hands them out whenever he thinks they will be helpful. In at least one respect the Tillman rules of health are vastly superior to almost any other we ever saw. For example, No. 5 begins: "Take a cold bath and rub down briskly, unless you do not like cold water or have not the facilities to do it." You can see for yourself that there is some sense to a rule like that. That clause “unless you do not like cold water” gives one a reasonable amount of leeway and saves him from Joining the great army of cold bath liars. Representative Edmund Platt, of New York, is a Macauley to Poughkeepsie. That is, he is the author of a history of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. W.J., alias "Fingy," Connors, an outspoken citizen of Buffalo, N.Y., stood in the office of the Secretary of the Navy the other morning waiting for a Congressman to introduce him to Secretary Daniels. He got to looking at an immense globe that has been in the office for many years, showing all the countries of the great big world in which we live. Connors noticed that Alaska was labeled "Russian America," indicating that the globe had been made before Alaska was sold to the United States a long, long time ago. "See here!" burst out Connors, when he met the Secretary, "is this the most up-to-date blankety be dashed globe you’ve got? If you’re coaling stations aren’t marked any more accurately than Alaska, you’ll be in a double-asterisked, hyphenated, billy-be-divided - of a fix if we ever have a war with anybody! "And another thing, Danlela!" roared Connors, as he was about to stalk out, "why in the name of Jack Johnson don’t you name a decent ship after Buffalo?" (Copyright, 1914, by Fred C. Kelly. All rights reserved.) THOROUGHLY PREPARED. Chicago Record-Herald. "I hear your daughter has gone on the stage." "Yes, she has been engaged by Belasco." "Goodness! I should think you would hate to have her subjected to all the temptations of such a life." "Oh, no. She’s had a full course in sex hygiene and she has seen all the plays in which the dangers of vice are portrayed. If she goes wrong after all that, what safety is there for any body?" 