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Show EVOLUTION OF A SENATOR Writer In Harper's Weekly Indulges in Some Pleasantries at the Expense Ex-pense of Our Statesmen. Prior to election a future United States senator is meek and lowly. He is not averse to holding babies or four aces, as the environment may demand, while campaigning for votes. One may safely slap him on the back without with-out fear of rebuff. Before the last precinct is counted he seems to know his success, for the senatorial candidate candi-date stiffens, dons his black clothes and a fresh collar and begins to practice prac-tice a dignified stride for future use on Pennsylvania avenue. Babies and jackpots have lost their alluring possibilities; pos-sibilities; no longer does he tolerate familiarity; he is as patronizing as a rooster who scratches worms for the hens, and then . eats them before his invited guests arrive. Seated in a niche of the hall of congress con-gress the new senator feels as though he should peer through a microscope to make sure he is there; but confidential confi-dential letters, sent to the editor of the Jumpoff Breeze, tell how he Is preparing pre-paring a bill advocating the irrigation of Sagebrush Valley; also how he is worked to death by other senators asking favors of him. As a school for fiction writers the United States senate sen-ate has all other correspondence schools lashed to the mast. Many senators fail to receive just reward at the conclusion of their maiden voyage through the troubled congressional waters, probably because be-cause the law is so strictly enforced against murder. Harper's Weekly. |