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Show IS NAMED AFTER THE GOOD ANANIAS ROCHESTER, Ind., Jan. 5. Ananias -Baker, the newly-elected member of the Indiana Legislature, has received several sev-eral queries regarding his Christian name. While In Washington. D. C. not long ago he called on Senator Beveridge, and was introduced to several friends. Everybody snickered when his first name was given. "That Is an odd front name of yours," remarked one of the number. To which he replied: "My name Is Ananias, all right, but I am not named after the Ananias you are thinking of. The man who was struck dead for lying t?id not furnish me my name. I am named after the holy man. whq baptised bap-tised Paul. "I trust you have not only learned some Bible history, but some manners as well," he concluded. |