Show ticks to rain washington over the flats of singapore and across the sands of the sahara up the valley of the ganges and over the peaks about bl by boat down the of doubt and by sleigh through the waist deep snows of alie siberian steppes al most anywhere in fact except the polar regions a faithful umbrella has traveled with its owner it us been mended and repaired of course but tt still has alie same stanch stick and the same heavy silk covering though it has been around the globe more than a score of times and has gone into nearly every country congressman ernest R ackermann nn of new jersey the roll call bellwether of the lower branch of congress Is the owner of the umbrella no matter where you see ur er man if he has his hat on you see the umbrella and when it Is not with him it Is in a specially built rack in his or his home with his hat always upon it so the one cannot be remembered without the other forty five years ago the umbrella came into mr possession by purchase mr ackerman who Is one of the cement millionaires of the bought tho umbrella at bond s in piccadilly london A close friend was with him at the time and bought one like it immediately after ward the friend bet mr ackerman he would have his umbrella lonar lie lost his two weeks afterward mr ackerman has carried his ever since and last ear it made its fiftieth trip abroad scores of trips to europe asia afrika and south america a differ ent place each year have added to the umbrella mileage the umbrella was still good and strong enough to make a visit with the ackermans this beir to italy and the adriatic the handle has been carved by the ackerman hand with notations as to where and when the umbrella has been when important world events have occurred under the ackerman eye there are little silver plates too noting the dates of special trips the umbrella has made the umbrella fad Is not the only one in which mr ackerman engages 1 Is a postage stamp collector one of alie most assiduous in the world of course one hears that king george of angland and king victor uel of italy are the greatest but mr ackerman will tell you this Is not so as they interest themselves in the stamps of their own realms only the bew jersey congressman makes his collections general recently mr ackerman has added to his collection at much expense a coro pete set of the ire revolutionary stamps these stamps are very rare stamp collecting has long been a fancy of famous men but ackerman has made his efforts a sort of cooperative venture which has led him into many associations lie thinks nothing when in london or rome of acquainting the palaces and their oc capants of his presence has been much swapping of stamps with king george and king ictor as a result only recently ackerman traded a rare british african stamp with king george in return for an other british empire stamp of which the king had duplicates ackerman has another hobby too one of relatives who died years ago left him a set of letters including ono by each of the presidents of the united states ackerman had the set handsomely bound and then decided to do a little collecting of letters himself ills cf forts hae been fruitful and his as sort ment of autographs and docu ments Is highly prized |