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ight sometimes of tlie one given to
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CANNON'S SWAN
SONG OFTEN SUNG
Uncle Joe Facetiously Referred
to It on Eve of Retirement.
HIS LAST DAYS IN POLITICS
Fight In 1910, When Veteran Speaker
of the House Triumphed Over Hit
Foes Thirty-eiflht Yean In Con
gress, It Wat Reported Ha Might
Run Again.
lu the closing days of the Sixty-second
congress newspapers were every
day printing stories about defeated
members singing their swan songs on
the Boor of the house. Joseph U. Can
non, enjoying the distinction of louder
sen-Ice lu the bouse than any other
man lu the history of the Dnited States,
made several speeches lu rapid succes
sion, and each one was described In
the public prints as bis swan song.
The night that be attended the fare
well reception to Representative Me
Kluley of Illinois, also a "dead duck,"
Uncle Joe was down on the program
for a speech.
"Every time I make a speech," be
declared, "the newspapers say I am
singing my swan song. Just to escape
that this time and to show that I'm a
young buck with lots of years to live,
I will now do a song and dance."
Whereupon he sang a coon song and
did a dance that would have made a
chorus girl turn green with envy.
One of Famous Four.
Although more than 13.000 men have
served In the lower branch of congress
since the bouse of representatives as
sembled for the first time in 1789, only
four of them served thirty years or
more and Cannon, who served thirty
eight, was at seventy-seven the young
est old man in public life. Elected
to the Forty-tblrd congress, he was
elected to every congress thereafter
until his defeat in 1912 by Frank T.
O'llair. with the exception of the Fifty-second
congress. Four times he
was speaker of the bouse of represen
tatives. Since bis return to private life at
Danville. 111., it has been reported at
various time-; that be would run again
this year. Be wus noncommital when
asked about it
Official Washington's Farewell.
The former speaker's leavetaking
of Washington was made memorable.
On Feb; 15 last he was tendered a
farewell dinner which was attended
by President Taft members of the
Taft cabinet and many prominent men
regardless of political affiliations.
When the guests assembled they
found at each place a souvenir pro
gram with a poetical tribute unsigned,
but written by Representative Moore.
It read:
The storms may come, the winds may
blow,
The saplings and the pines may fall
But. tempered to the sun and snow.
The sturdy oak survives them all.
And so In legislative hall.
Where men and measures come and go.
On Fame's enduring record calls.
The honor rests with Uncle Joe.
Inseparably associated with Uncle
Joe, perhaps the quaintest figure In na
tional politics, was the ever present
Cannon cigar, and on the reverse side
of the program beneath the curling
smoke of a pictured cigar ran this
couplet:
Vou may break, you may shatter, the
rules If you will.
But the Cannon aroma will hang to them
still.
His Memorable Battle of 1910.
It was in the middle of March. 1910,
that Speaker Cannon's star began to
set At tlie end of three days and
three nights of bitter parliamentary
battle be and bis faithful band were
overruled on a critical point of order,
and Uncle Joe was deprived of the
chairmanship of the all powerful rules
committee of the house.
Counseling complete surrender, the
senate leaders called upon Uncle Joe
to resign as speaker. In Indignation
he waved them from his room. He
bad not yet begun to fight. And when
the "elder statesmen" had retired to
their end of the copltol Uncle Joe
climbed back into bis chair and burled
defiance at the victors.
'1 will not entertain a motion." he
declared, while the bouse listened
with breathless susfiense, "to declare
vacant the speakership of the bouse."
It was a gage of battle, and the
sieaker seemed to have calculated well
that the Insurgents had gone as far as
they dared. The motion was made
and lost, and the speaker sat secure
again upon his throne, but with his
scepter nicked.
For three days and three nights he
had been at high tension In the center
of the crisis, the man upou whom and
against whom all was being waged
rhen came the moment of defeat and
the challenge that stemmed defeat and
tvought out victory again, wltb Uncle
loe triumphant
From that time on his political pres
tige suffered impairment. Inn even so.
his defeat for re-election In lillli was
a national surprise.
A carload of Gurney Refrigerators
arrived last week for Yelvertons' Big
Furniture Store and are now on dis
play. This is without doubt the lar
gest display of Refrigerators ti er
shown in Palafka.
Modern Structures.
"Whtit's the matter with this eleva
tor?" asked the nervous man. "You
keep trying to run It through the roof."
"You'll have to excuse me." replied
the operator. "I'm not used to one of
these little twenty story buildings."
Washington Star.
Gloating Over the Victim.
"Your teeth are in pretty bad condi
tion." "They must be." sighed the patient
"You look so happy." Judge.
He is half done who has made
good beginning. Old Saying.
JUVENILE HIGH FINANCE.
Give Him Half a Chance and This Chap
Will Own the World. .
A pupil. lu one of the well known
boys' schools, being short ef pocket
money, conceived a means of replen
ishing bis funds by the following plan:
He wrote to a Jewelry bouse In New
York, where be hod an established
credit asking that a sliver cigarette
case selling at $25 be sent to him on
approvul. Upon Its receipt be arranged
a lottery among his chums at the
school and offered for sale 100 chances
at 25 cents each. He sold all the
chances for a total of $25.
The hoy who held the successful
number that won the sliver case hap
pened to be one who did not use cig
arettes, and therefore the manager of
the affair offered to buy the case for
$5. The winner accepted the offer, as
he thereby made a profit of $4.75 cash
instead of having an article of no use
to him, whereas the promoter of the
deal had $20 left.
The promoter now returned the cig
arette ease to the jeweler and asked
that It be credited to his account. This
being a frequent occurrence, nothing
was thought of the return of the ar
ticle. By this scheme the pockets of the
young promoter were replenished by
$20, the other boys bad enjoyed their
little game of chance and were per
fectly satisfied with the operation, and
the business house was likewise satis
fied. Yet some people who have heard
of the transaction are asking. "Is the
young financier open to any criticism
for his methods?" New York Sun.
SINGULAR DREAMS.
"Poetic" Effusion That Drew Tears of
Pathos From the Sleeper,
Lord Roberts records a remarkable
dream. In October, 1853, bis father, to
whom he was acting ns aid-de-camp at
Peshawar, India, had issued invitations
for a dance. Two days before it was
to take plnce he was silent and de
spondent during breakfast and eventu
ally told his son that he had bad an
unpleasant dream, which had visited
him several times before and bad al
ways been followed by the death of
a near relation. As the day wore on
his depression grew, and he wanted to
put off the dance. Ills son dissuaded
him, but that night the dream return
ed, and the dance was then postponed.
"The next morning the post brought
news of the sudden death of the half
sister at Lahore with whom I had
stayed on my way to Peshawar."
Many people have dreamed poetry
In their sleep.' The London Chronicle
tells of one man who awoke from a
dream with the tears streaming down
his face at the pathos of the following
lines:
- Walker with three eyes,
Walker with two, 1
Something to think of,
Something to do.
But the limit of absurdity In this
curious art was achieved by the wom
an who composed a whole epic In her
sleep. On awaking she found that she
could remember only the concluding
couplet:
Admiral Klnkums and hla seven daugh
ters
Hung in a bark suspended o'er the waters.
Pepys on May Dew.
In Pepys' time May dew that Is.
dew gathered from the grass on a May
morning, and especially on the morn
ing of May day was highly prized for
bleaching linen and Improving the
complexion. Pepys wrote in 1067: "My
wife away down with Jane and W.
Hewer to Woolwich In order to lie
there tonight and so to gather May dew
tomorrow morning, which Mrs. Turner
hath taught her is the only thing In
the world to wash her face with, and 1
am contented with It." Two years later
he made this entry in his diary:
"Troubled, about 3 in the morning,
with my wife's calling her maid up
and, rising herself, to go with her
coach abroad to gather May dew, which
she did, and I troubled for It for fear
of any hurt going abroad so betimes
happening to her, but I to sleep again.
She came home about 6."
What Ailed Him.
"They tell me you've lost your hired
man."
"Yep. best farm hand I ever had."
"Sho! What wuz the matter?"
"Xothln'. John's a German, you
know, and these here Germans hev
what they call the wanderlust. It's
somethin' thet keeps 'em niovlrr" from
one place to t'other and don't let 'em
stay long anywheres."
"That's queer, ain't it? How long
had John been with you?"
"Only eleven years." Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
What Changed Him.
Mistress (finding visitor In the kitch
en) Who Is this, Mary? Mary (con
fused! My brother, m'm. Mistress
(suspiciously) You're not much alike.
Mary (stammering apologetically) We
were. m'm. but he's just had his beard
shaved off, and that makes him look
different" Philadelphia Ledger.
A beautiful line of floor coverings
of all kinds are now on display at
reivertons Dig furniture store.
Rags, Crex, Matting, Wool-Fibre,
Taps, Velvets and Wilton Art Squares
in a large variety of patterns. Also
a large shipment of Linoleums has
just arrived.
The Secret.
Blobbs There is only one thing a
woman loves better than to be told a
secret. Slobbs What is that? Blobbs
To find It out for herself. Philadel
phia Record.
AN OLD MAID IN
LINCOLN'S EYES
4 ll 1 1 1 S IIS I
Remarkable Letter Emancipator
Wrote To Be Said.
WOOING THRUST UPON KIM
Placed In an Embarrassing Position as
Result of Rash Agreement, He
Later Penned Grotesque Account of
the Lady and Unexpected Outcome of
the Strang Romance.
Major William II. Lambert civil war
veteran, who died in Philadelphia Juue
1, 11)12. owned the finest Abraham Lin
coln and William M. Thackeray collec
tions lu existence. Owing to his death
they have come Into the public market
and will be sold at auction.
Perbups the Item of greatest general
Interest In part one is the five page
quarto letter written by Lincoln to
Mrs. Orvllle H. Browning, telling how
he made love to Mary S. Owens, after
ward Mary S. Vineyard, asked Ber to
marry him and was rejected. The let
ter, which Is worn at the folds, is
dated Springfield, April 1, 1S38. Lin
coln first met Miss Owens in 1833 at
the bouse of Mrs. Bennet Able, ber sis
ter. The letter reads in part:
"It was then, lu the autumn of 1836.
that a married lady of my acquain
tance (Mrs. Able) and wbo was a great
friend of mine being about to pay a
visit to ber father and other relatives
residing In Kentucky proposed to me
that on ber return she would bring a
sister of hers wltb ber on condition
that I would engage to become ber
brotber-ln-law with all convenient dis
patch. 1 bad seen the said sister some
tbree years before, tbougbt ber intelli
gent and agreeable and saw no good
objection to plodding. through life band
In bund with ber.
"A Trifle Too Willing."
"Time passed on. The lady took ber
journey and lu due time returned, sis
ter in company, sure enough. Tbis
stomached me a little, for It appeared
to me that her coming so rendily show-,
ed that she was a trifle too willing, but
on reflection It occurred to me that she
might have been prevailed on by ber
married sister to come without any
thing conceruing me having been men
tioned to ber.
"Iu a few days we bad an Interview,
and. although I had not seen ber be
fore, she did not look as my Imagina
tion bad pictured ber. I knew she was
oversized, but now she appeared a fair
match for Falstaff. I knew she was
called an 'old maid,' and I felt no
doubt of tbe truth of at least half of
the appellation. A kind of notion ran
in my head that nothing could have
commenced at the size of Infancy and
reached ber present bulk in less tban
thirty-five or forty years, and, in abort.
I was not at all pleased wltb ber.
"But what could 1 do? I had told
her sister that I would take ber for
better or for worse, and I made a
point of honor and conscience in all
things to stick to my word.
"At once I determined to consider
her my wife, and.' this done, all my
powers of discovery were put to work
in search of perfections In ber which
might be fairly set off against ber de
fects. 1 tried to Imagine ber hand
some, which, but for ber unfortunate
corpulency, was actually true.
Unexpected Developments.
"After all my sufferings upon this
deeply interesting subject here 1 am.
wholly, unexpectedly, completely out
of the 'scrape,' and I now want to
know If you can guess how I got out
of it out clear In every sense of tbe
term no violation of word, honor or
conscience. I don't believe you can
guess, and so I may as well tell you
at once. As tbe lawyer says, it was
dune in tbe manner following, to wit:
After 1 hud delayed tbe matter as
long as 1 tbougbt I could in honor do
1 concluded 1 might as well bring It
to n consummation without further de
luy. mid so 1 uiustered my resolution
and made the proposal to her direct:
but shocking to relate, she answer
ed 'No.'
"At first 1 supposed she did it
through an affectation of modesty,
which 1 thought but 111 became ber
under the peculiar clrcumstauces of
her case, but on my renewal of the
charge 1 found she repelled It with
greater firmness than before. I tried
It ngain with the same success, or.
rather, with the same want of success.
I finally was forced to give It up. at
which I very unexpectedly found my
self mortified almost beyond endur
ance. "And to cup the whole I then for the
first time began to suspect that I was
really a little In love with her. But
let It go. I'll try and outlive it Oth
ers have been made fools of by the
girls, but this can never with truth be
said of me. I most emphatically In
this instance made a fool of myself.
1 hare now come to the conclusion
never again to think of marrying, and
for this reason I can never be satisfied
with any one who would be blockhead
enough to have me."
Lincoln was twenty-seven years old
when bis marriage proposal to Miss
Owens was rejected.
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