Show se ser r Ii t PEOPLE OF THE WORLD I h hI I k I r a Speaker gavel Is quite a as II curiosity The head le Is of at rosewood s a c 4 from flagship and the handle w ot of native natle osage grown frown In folk Polk county rl ri Is Ia It Is decorated by an eagles beak I i if a scroll Inscribed D J X f IL 1 Unum On the upper ferrules are arejA arest i jA st Bova and a garland on the tower lower plc piC I It tr tl A t a 1 i g o a L lures turu of the Untied UnIted Stales ships Tows and Des Dee Moines tolne The IOWA arms and Mr tr monogram are on the side aide of the head Th The JU Its lies He Louis de bishop ot of the toman Catholic diocese of at Vermont who ho died recently left Ifft an estate ulato amounting to exa 1 The I bishop was 1 on once a rich man but It was his avowed wish to die a poor one It Itis Is supposed that his mori money y hu has been put In man many ot of the line fine buildings ot of the diocese Charles C Crockett ot of lad hid who died recently had been a con eone on the Indianapolis OlIs of at hp he Panhandle for more than 0 con consecutive on onI I futie care cau and which he ran was named Crocketts Accommodation Accommodation dation It stilt retains the name although al although though fir Ir Crockett at the time ot of his death had been retired several years earl Champ Clark ot of Missouri paste In his hll scrapbook ra b ok every story atory a quota quotation lion as 01 Its chief point and for tor years IUS ho he has haa made a study ot of the effect which the Dible hu has had upon J On taU law and custom lit He hu has prepared a aI ae I e I lecture In Which all this Information I Is InterestinglY Dorty Dorsey W Shackleford who pas hll taken tak taken I en seat eat In ID congress ts a rich richman richman man lie Jle made his hll money In the large zinc and lead tead mines ot of Camden county to of at the tho best beat ot of which he Is prat the owner John Martin who has been much and often ten honored with In Kansas Kania f rJ considerIng that he Is a Democrat has now retired tram from the clerkship ot of the state supreme court his term having expired JUdge Martin is II the only Dem Democrat who ever eer held the ot of United States s senator from Kansas James P It teed d who died recently In Pittsburg was 01 at one time the champion cham pion checker player ot of the world Ire began playing checkers when he WU was wasu wasT u II II T j it il renal eara oM old and In 1687 1587 toto to toto I f fHe to meet some ot of the tho English s He defeated Darker Barker the tee 1659 and the tho United States In et ethlan arranged year a match was wall him and Jam James s Wyllie ot of We JOGI world For champion of the tho Scotchman tailed failed to pW P son Ion the needs friends thereupon clam worlds for tor hl r rI t I 6 |