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Show Jeiry Not Vet Myth, Murat Halstoad. The liberal disposition of the American Ameri-can people appears in tho case of Jerry Sock less Simpson of Medicine Lodge, Kan. The sockless is au addition to his name. Jerry w as elected as a very poor man, so poor that he could not wear socks, had a prejudice against going go-ing barefooted, and. as he could not afford af-ford both socks anil .shoes, took the shoes and saved the socks. That is, there is something behind this story in the line of the cheapest and nastiest demagogy that is illustrative and we suppose it may be memorable. There is no telling how many centuries the body and naked legs and ankles of the sockless Jerry will be Haunted in history as typical typi-cal of tho overflow of foolishness in the far west in the summer of '110. Hut Jerry is not vet a myth. He is a very reafmau and has U(K) pairs of socks sent him by friends that could not bear the thought of a member of congress with cold feet. He wears socks now and Ids make up is that of a farmer. Ho has been prowling; around1 Wash inglon inspecting the conditions under w hich he is expected to serve his country. coun-try. Jerry is as conscious of fame as 1'elTer, but does not assume the intimate inti-mate knowledge of the hidden ways of divino providece that distinguishes tho successor t. ' Mr. Ingalls. Jerry will bear much study. Wo should not be surprised if Washington would be the ruin of Jerry Ho may develop a dress coat Plumb wears dre9sj;oats and a taste for champagne and terrapin- |