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Show NOTES ABOUT MEN. Sonator Mitchell of Oregon Is tho only man In all tho hlntory of the Scnato whose service has represented thrco distinct torms separated by periods of political retirement re-tirement When he wont to Washington flrut, In IS73, ho remained for six yeara. Then ho returned to prlvato llfu until 1SS3. when ho went back to WaohlnKton and continued in the Senate until 1S07. After another lapse of four years he was again elected, in 1901. a u Senator Beverldge of Indiana takes KTcat Interest In military affalrn, and whllo in tho Philippines spent much timo on tho firing line with Gen. Lawton. Ono day ho mado a remark of such military aptltudo that Lawton said: "Mr. Bcvor-idco, Bcvor-idco, you ought to bo a soldier, not a politician." poli-tician." "I should have been In tho army," replied tho Senator, "but I couldn't read aloud well enough." Ho then explained that ho was beaten in his examination for a cadctship at West Point by one-fifth of 1 per cent, his defective oral reading having hav-ing turned Uio scales by this fraction against him. - Tho late Henry W. Oliver, the Pittsburg capitalist, took great Intorcst In poor children and left numoroua bcquents in their behalf. Ono day ho tried to test an urchin's Intelligence. Pointing to a pllo of stones, ho asked how thoy wero made. The boy replied that "they growed. Just llko potatoes." Mr. Oliver shook his head. "No, my lad, you aro wrong." he Bald. "Stonos can't grow. If j-ou come back to theso stonos llvo years or ten yoars or twonty yoars from now Uiey would atlll bo tho samo size " "Of course," said the Httlo boy, sneering. "Thoy'vo been taken out o' tbo ground now, and. have stopped crowing' 3amo as potatoes would." " |