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Show "THE SMOOT FACE. " A gentlemsn, not unknown to Senator Smoot s-u for a long time In the committee com-mittee room at Washington watching the proceedings As one after another of the apostles gave evident e or failed to give evidence, as the case might be, as one after another an-other of the Senators turned away sue. rlngly and disgustedly from the exhibition ex-hibition of alleged representatives of Almighty God a- ting like truant s. I I boys evading the switch of a master, this gentleman noted the face of the apostle Senator At the dose of one protracted session during which witnesses had forgotten or defied or falsified or shocked, this gentleman said; Bather than to wear the expression on my face that was on the face of Senator Smooi during that session 1 would he a crossing-sweeper, catching the mud from every w heel that passes, and be dependent upon the kindness of the public for my daily crust of bread, the rags 1 wore and the hovel in which I slept. I ean think of no deurrail.it ion of nn r po 1 i ( no. ta-tlon ta-tlon so little in the esteem of mankind but would seem like wealth and worldly world-ly exaltation compared with the place he seemed to occupy, as Indicated b his countenance of mingled anguish and chagrin " |