Show STORIES OF GREAT MEN Fun With Senator Harris Washington Post Tall Congressman Richardson has a stock story that he always al-ways tells before a company that includes the veteran Senator Isham Green Harris It Is well known that the senator never elves his age In the congressional directory di-rectory or to his friends and to the most of them the number of his years Is a mystery He was however 79 years old February 10 last which Is quite anotner story Mr Richardsons anecdote makes him out something more than a centenarian centen-arian and always calls Qut a laugh at the senators expense The congressman says when stumping in one of the rural districts of Tennessee he was accosted one day by a countryman country-man very aged Do you know Green heasked No I reckon not answered Mr Richardson Rich-ardson What dont you knOH Green In Wash 1 ington Well whbs Green Why hes one of the biggest men in the world Oh you mean Senator Harris interjected inter-jected Mr Richardson yes I know Green > iii I Ye were boys together continued I Mr Richardsons InquIrer Ye played j together Green was leaving school when I begun Well that must have been a mighty I long while ago put in Richardson decidedly de-cidedly Interested in the conversation Yes nearly a hundred years ago You see I am 95 and Green was older than I I am |