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OF THE FAMOUS SAGE OF OKOLONAIS REPLETE WITH INTERESTING ANECDOTES
CAREER I
STORY OF FALL AND RISEREADS LIKE FICTION TALEB-
orn the Son of Wealthy Plantation Owner He Loses
All as Result of Civil War and Through
Weakness of Generosity
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had me Colonel arid Lewis a Colonelonion enumerated his pledges
I am out of th race Lewisthe fatepursued Gordon going-
to tell my people to vote for you My
wife ta n Invalid and always willa question of love or politics and
Im going to SUMO by loveAnd tame to the House ot
Representatives while Gordon nursed hieWIle at hot She remained an
rInvali-
dr 1887 to 193 when her death cameThese yrs too marked tbe waning ofh colonels immense fortune andought the only poverty h ever
This bring us once more to Colonelordon aristocrat and bin milk wagon
elliuhfuh he began in the lit-
tle choking way that during my longinterview had become sd familiar to nwI dMnt know what to do I didntcom to want to live 1 was o vast
down over her death So I decided Idrun for the Slate senate Just to have
une way to forte I was eiected and-n the way down i met her pointingo a comely woman much his Junior m-
aim whn sat smiling at him from tbher skit of roomShall 1 tell him about it he falter
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Mrs Gordon UM second Merely
WayHis Second Wife
Yen yes J met her Our courtshi-ps short and she says the married memis I courted differently I toll herNow I cannot promise now to loveas weil as I did my 3rt wife but I
m a gentleman and I know how toa woman
And this te what she said to meJnt you
Colonel all the other widowers hiveSway promised to love me better than-e lint wife You seem frank about itnd I rn going to accept youJust teen Senator Gordon stroked his
gray beard rather nervously chucklingiie while and Mrs Gordon became busy
Arranging the papers upon her busands desk
If there to congeniality oreking the two I was unable toUscoyer It and we all agreedfiat their marriage was a
though it had occurred hi lifesvringtimeThe present Mrs Gordon L a women
considerable means She has herink account and the Senator a his
She says that the or is aptty 9 od bu9ine s m n2r evenough he toe insist u ot trw away
11 he possessesBefore his second hwwtver
Colonel Gordon had landed upon his
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flnaa Haly and he Hasant have le rulethrough his native toWn of Oketona on amilkWrites PootryWhon a Child
He hits written poetry since he wasa times of adversity ofplenty His themes are pastoral aRtsome of his best and MOSt symptitheticverses are indited t Ute negro Sen-ator Gordon told the Senate the otherday that he toyed the negro and toshow that the trlbutjo came from theheart he read them tRIll about his old
black mammyShe was lovely to me In her colored
bandannaWith which she turbaned her heedHer songs were far sweeter than flute
orAs she put me to ttteep in my bedHer soft crooning vefee I can never
forgotLike an a Rel in dreams she comes
to me yetThey say in Mississippi that no
darky who ever worked for Jim Gordon ae a sleeve ever ba stayed in Jailover night
Im Colonel Gordon until they getIn the Senator explained ThenIm Mane Jimmy Yes I always takethem out No Gordon nigger everwent to the penitentiary for some littlepetty offense
That Senate speech was an insightinto the heart of this man as I foundhim Unaffected paternal gentle andwith a modesty that Is almost pathetiche did not realize that he had done orsaid anything out of the ordinary Hespoke a one inspired his tall sway-Ing form bedecked in none of thehabiliments with which others arewont to lend Senatorial dignity astriking figure in the background offastfilling seats-
A few of the gems of good fellow-ship that fell from hte lips should fledrepetition here for this a characterstudy of a remarkable teen He saidNever Lets KateGet Into His Heart
I love everybody I am a happyman I never let hate get into myheart so ae to make me unhappy Iam tired of sectionalism God knows-I got enough of lighting I do notwant any more of it I do not want tohear a speech in the Senate or else-where that stirs up strife between theold soldiers or citizens
Nobody can take ay the gk rieof either side A man had as well
to wale the ramparts ofand from heavens diadem GodsHriht t star as to snatch the laurelfrom i he brow of the conqueror or the
that stood under tbe appletree of AppomaitlMc
This is the of forgetfulness andforgiveness that is in the bosom of Col
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INTERESTING POINTS-IN GORDONS CAREER
Worth more than rLTuUllon at theclone f the ivnr Colonel Gordonlout nil through Ken rawlty
Less then ten ycnr ergo heplowed on n farm and peddledmilk in the streets of Okolonnfrom which town he went to theSenate
Spent Inst dime for a mintJulep found n tencent piece ouivnlklncr to the street nnd n fewmoment Inter received 950 he hadloaned o n friend before be war
Xiarned nn invalid wife for nearlytwenty y nrs and because he didnot want to leave her refused aDemocratic Congressional nomina-tion wbivh would have resulted incertain victory at the polls
lotto of the Senator life IN thatmoney has never made any man
happy and that thememories are those concernlas themanner in which by spendingmoney on others people are madeto reap pure enjoyment
James J natorforthetlmefrom Mhwlsalppl with aglorious record behind him He foughtfrom Potomac to the Quit alwaysunder lire at the of hisregiment
This regiment he fl tc l out himselfand the story of its dears n da rimewould make a book m t lColonel Gt r i ii had o with hisown money his 1 men hfc wired toGeneral Walker Confederate secretaryof war that he wanted to cone to
General Walker potiWnt furnishtransportation so he pate no heed tothe request Gordon wrote again andthen At Ut he lelegmpbed
the tight to fight GeneralWalker wired him to o to Twomonths later Gordon turned up In
lie had paid his regiments wayWhat are YOU here naked
General WalkerMy r gtra nt Is here ready to fight
aW Gordon You wired me to zoAnd I thought Id come to
Richmond
m rtuUd Bald the general but hedidnt and Gordon and his regimentmoved ou to Fairfax and got into thefray where they stayed until ColonelGordon was sent to Europe to lit outthat scouting ship for the Confederacynear the close of the war
He fought nder Major Generals PricoVan Dora H Jackson andForest and originally und r GeneralStuart In the Virginia campaign
His experience ha round-ed out moot appropriately an eventfullife Through ail hU vWa ud
forgotten tl belief InMiUed inhit at of live by motherwhose name he sever mentions todaywithout It tbe tears His
terms in the Legislature of his own
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O many erf us will come the day when wei must dose the old desk for the last time
And sal there may yet remain many daysbehave us K-
Hxm are ire preparing to gperni
Are we providing for comfort and independ-ence or are fos etoi that the man who spendsall he earsis must some lay become a burden uponothers
Axe YOU building a fund for the days thatwill follow the final closing of the old desk
Take our advice to save a part of your earn-
ings as meaaiing more than a desire to secure newdepositors Theres a kindly human interest aswell as a business side to the proposition
We urge you to open a sayings account Wellsafeguard every doHar you can put to its creditWell pay you interest compounded every sixmonths And sometime we hope to know that oursuggestion has brought you monthsand years of happiness
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SHERMAN OVERLOOKED-IN SEAT DISTRIBUTIONSe-
nator Gordon Buys Box for Mr Sherman and ThenBreaks Precedent by Getting Box Reserved for
President Taft and Inviting HimI
State he as but Bteppt r ton eto the Units 3U a Senate yet seinehow the day va utttif De-cember VK when Governor Noelwithout intortji the venerable 3ordon of his rwns made the appotntmetftthat ulfilled the Cream of a lifetime
Many men have come to the UnitedStates Senate end ny achievedfame while others left andunremembered It Ii a just tribute toColonel Gordon to say that genuine re-gret will mark his parsing from thestage of Washingtons political lifeIlls gentle presence has been a benedic-tion and his going will bring to morethan one a feebrg of kmennes
He takes It phMosophlcaJly for heonly ensue to stay a few days TtM thedeadlock tasted and that he remainedkmfter than was hU first intent wasnut the means of prolonging a vacationin his declining years He te going tobreak another precedent before he goestoe Just one more ttttie anecdote andT hid road farewell to Colonel GordonAccording to the story Senator Gor-don inadvertently overlooked Vice Pres-ident Sherman wits he distributed 1Cseats to his ni etyo 3 associate Searton Ia t A diHway and
be Me guests at the opening of AGentleman From Mississippi tomorrowrow evening When one of the oldestmembers of the Senate called his atten-tion to the oversight the pletureaajte-Mtastoslpptan appeared at tbe box of-fice
I want the two boxes nearest thestage oa side of the thetw 1reckon 1 shaut make any more
for sale the other always being re-served the President
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Gordon amlab ThePresideitt shall have Ida box Mr Andthe Vie President le going to get theother But T want to buy them bothand have them as my guest alongwith al my Senators Pissidentvbox i never sokl hut it tr tdc no diffvience to the smiling old
If I cant pay for the Pi rjidentshex you IM me have then tickets anywar I know the President wouldrather ll ni from tr Tins onethan t n ti riiinar trriv
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Senator Gordon waited IMthe tickets for the two
Soon a telephOM a oasa e fiotal hfte Rouse said the PreaMcfTaT-veuJd by the PfeM tt stud
family Month evening sa a-
cer et the theater broke locat-Jng Senator Gordon
Dont you worry Sir ex-
plained the patriarchal Soutaernfer withjust a suspicion of a chuckle I tailedthat box to the President three noun
U sir that I Jnd e wil bringhim to my party whether stair boxmisuses ta regular or not
Tbetja ta a wealth of rfneed e concernbag the benevolent aUe fn ntruss Mis iralppi One Is that his chletdelight since reachingbeen tc telegraph redo BHfand Jim back home how hlitchi the Job rr Hishook f trunks
exhajsfMdHere are eomt of thmga he admH
ted about himself and also sow thmathat others hat to ten me
He smokes one cigar a day Once hestopped the habit for a year teeanaesome one had hinted that hip secondwife didnt like tobacco rmokc but bewouldnt ask her about it
He declares that be sever refused a-
social drink and that he never onetoo many
He graduated at State UnrversHyof Mississippi He admits that he wassuch a carefree eeitog student thathe didnt take first Gutthat those who did receive college hon-ors have received some otttr since
When he was appointed to the UnitedStates he rented on the cows onhis dairy farm bark homeHs an early riser in Washington or
elsewhere and likes to see the sun peepover eastern horizon
H ta a believer in predestination andhe knows that he will die a
One of his moat important acts be re-gards the securing while In the StateLegislature of convict labor to build theGulf and Skip Island railway
He has offered more than once towithdraw from politics if any man fromhis old home felled to speak a kindword tor Jim Gordon
And in farewell this being a tributof my own he r one of the gust loaMo tnRaging quaint and beloved charartTs rvrr lit sit In the halls pf ffirfrf ant twi11 t r a time ofi-rw w hi again
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Last week AS AN EXPERIMENT Lucios New York of-
fice loaned us the services of two of their expert repairmen andrernodelers So great and unexpected has been fortheir services that this department has now become a permanentfeature of the Lucios store These men are masters of their art
of many years experience Under their skillful work-manship
Artistic Creations Are Made From Old
and Discarded Jewelry-Not only is their work the best obtainable in the city but
the are just half what youd be charged elsewhere forworkmanship of inferior quality Dont miss this remarkablecutrate opporttinity
We quote below three early spring specials for three days only
Half Price Only for RemodelingDiscarded Jewelry
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A cluster of extra quality Lucios Dia-monds with a variety of center stonesto choose from Neversold before for loss than SO CO CHFor this sale r
ThreeRowGentlemens
Containing nine brilliant stoneshandsomely mounted the newestthing of the day for theman of refined tastesSpecial
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Imported French Gray Sterling Sil-ver Pendants In many new and original designs strikingly artistic
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Present Municipal CourtMagistrate Recommended-
to President by Citizens
The FmMent if aertoorty
citteettt af the Daastrfct that M i
Jricip4l Court Ju4jeG o 5e C Ankuube arroinc d to the RoMefr Court beech
Ytttenftay Smttora SfeuDOos andOvens of North Bep-retwrtatlve of ingrate Slatchtted on President and artd the
rf tiki awotatmettt of Xuhorn
Th favor which the Presidentis to regard Attkuta as akinUvtt bf may the of
or successorTb lr ftU nr5rm take with theAttorney Genera before deriding
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WARNS PRESIDENTTO QUIT CANNON
JLectnrer Is Closel
CHICAGO it b 7 Tht theMiddle Is greatly oppwe t
pabncanl waiting to pass jodgmettt on Pragtiedt when he hashart time to deweWA Administrationfurther and titan the entire UnitedStates Including New York and Olcage will be drj territory within tenyears ate statements made by formerGov Edward W Herb of Kajssas whois m tbe dty o address the SundayEvening Club evening
It cannot he said that President Wattto popular ta the West aa yet said
2t yearI completed hs second term as chief
in the Sunflower State theW States are moiety waiting tosee what hta Administration will devel-op Roosevelt ta popular but I have otheard any serious talk of turningcut of tile White House
DEBATERS ARE CHOSEW A Maloney of Massachusetts and
Girard M Cohen of Georgia will rep-resent the senior debating society of theGeorgetown Law School in the ond
term debate in Gaston wall next monthThe topic for clisruwtion has h
of pl ln1tataked Jvory GXin
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OFFICIAL GREETINGFOR COL ROOSEVELTNEW YORK Kb
representing u city uffli H
with the nab ai ewnnni nselected fcy Mayor Gayno rweteone to Cotocr u v lThe mayors plan wit i
edict on the question of ershould the return of Colon
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you please The leadingof the Bijou a etiatcever astoabhed all her frien i o
Broadway the other day byto their admiring sine a svelt an l
levy form in place of the plump uto say tat owtlmea with whichgaily sailed away to new triumphs anIforeign snores last January Aftergood deal of diplomatic crossexamination from interested fat sthe secret was cautiously whispereda few dear friends with thethat everybody knows it now It T
net exercise nor fasting nor sea irVnor about her new venture
about this wonders wchange in the charming Margar1
no none of these nothing but a iiiipie mixture which an goodare familiar with and can supply atmall cost twwit Onehalf ounce Mimole onehalf ounce Fluid ExtraCascara Aromatic and three andhall ounces Peppermint Water Gi vfolks need a teaspoonful after neatand at explained the r wslender Margaret It a wonder-ful It takes off the fat quickly 3much as a pound a day and keepsoff You can eat what you like jIn that respect it is unlike anythrf
itame wrinkles I think it i about a-essential a toilet article for the womanwho i fat and wants to gt thirstas powder In order to get ty-
h st results however u yiiouldthe Marmola in the iriinaland mix it in with tin rtler wsiefiTits TIT pet liime
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Fine Furniture at Factory CostYou can buy the Finest Furniture in the World here in this
sale at wholesale prices You get the profits Liberal creditand every possible courtesy and accommodation
Beautiful Present Free to Every Purchaser This Week
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