Show + ALL StfOKING ON SENATOR I Friind of Statesman Conspire tot to-t i Make Him the Victim of His I sal Prejudices r r i1 Senator Elmer J Burkett has mil denty discovered that his 4t cigar bill tb f1 Is I rrowtng to enormous proportions Iv I and he Is In search of an explanation 4Y t If the seiKitor does not know why S b ho Is buying more cigars today than d he did a month ago some of hit y friends do and they arc enjoying not I1 i only the situation but also the clRirs rcs t Ott t Recently a friend of the ictnto s i dropped Into his office for a norm I s talk He had been there but a fUll js nrr moment when he pulled out a box of I jM r cigarettes The senator eyed the els I arettes suspiciously Irf Hnve a cigar please be said Oh I prefer a cigarette his friend li answered r t1 This Is a very excellent cigar remarked t e I re-marked the senator and I really wish r you would try it r The cigar wns accepted The next time the friend wont to Ourkrtts nl ti flea ho was gain compelled to abnn e don his cigarette In favor of one n the senatorial cigars Suddenly I dawned on him that the statesman i from the plains of Nebraska dlsllkti cigarettes Intensely and almost to tin point of disliking those who tim v them He told the story around tin 1 capitol and now Senator Hurliott K I J being confronted almost hourly b > I f A Borne fl lend who begins the converse tlon by offering him a cigarette t I dont iimolce them the senatni always says Pleaso smoke a clgn wllb mo I1 I Formerly till senator found It possible t2 pos-sible to keep n box of cigars In blf olllce and load up his pockets before going to the capitol each day Now the outgo Is so large that he has a bo > t In both places Hut he has not learned j yet why ho Is getting rid of more ° cigars than formerly Washington Times t t 1 f I t4k 4k D w tI |