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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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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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

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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-

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