| Show SILVER IN THE SENATE washington D C september 19 1893 the of the senate are slaying the Philli stines of gold and silver with their own jaw bones it would be severe to say that the weapons ot of many are the same as those used by samson of old but there is no doubt that they got their strength from the same so source not a few of them are famous according to the length of their whiskers and peffer and stewart have bave shown that they can work their jaws as many time ti times lines per in minute as they have hairs on their well bearded faces there has of late years been a change in senatorial there are now but few faces among our statesmen like those of webster clay and calhoun which were shaved every morning and upon which whiskers would have been deemed a disgrace there are many different styles of beards and hair in congress today as therease there ther eare are members and in most cases baldness of cheek and chin has been changed for baldness of crown half the public men of our time are bald president Clev elands hair is fast p passing as sing away adlai E Steven sons is thin at the crown and it would take twenty silver dollars to cover the bald spot on joe hawleys harleys Haw leys handsome white head joe blackburn is fast growing bald though his rosy checks shows thethis blood contains plenty of iron islam G harris of tennessee has enough white on top to make a cover for a boys new drum and I 1 note that senator butler of south carolina combs his hair to the front david B hill has a white streak of baldness run ning from his deep cut eyes to the back of his head above the ears there are whisks of black hair closely cut and these whisks run into short brown side whiskers hills face is a somber one his eyebrows are not strongly marked but his fierce eyes look out at you irom from under the snowy river river of baldness which flows above them to the back of his head AND HIS WHISKERS but whiskers and not hair now form the true sign of greatness take peffer of kansas you could put his little chickery nut head in a two quart bucket and if it laid on his back the nose would not stick up above the edges the beard however would flow out to a length oi of three feet and this beard of peffer gives a sort of dignity to his features peffer is tall and thin he is six feet in height and about ei eighteen bleen inches across the shoulders Is As he be stands up in the senate his bis beard reaches to his waist and he appears to be the t typical i cal product of the avs dyspeptic pe tic low lands ian X of the missouri sea seated tet in his hid chair his beard flows over his narrow chest and its bottom ends kiss the lowest buttons of his vest he fond fondness less it as he thinks and when he speaks he points his periods by running his hands up tip and down it does he dye it I 1 am told he does not but those whiskers have a tawny dead look which is often associated with the hair restorer and they are as wavy and curly as though they were kept in curl papers over night night they are by all odds the longest w whiskers askers in the senate and are only exceeded in length by the speeches of senator stewart ot of nevada who sits just behind THE SANTA CLAUS OF THE SENATE senator stewart is the santa claus of the senate he has often been called so and his whiskers have given him the title he is a big well formed portly old fellow with a head twice as big as that of senator peffer and this head is made larger by its face being covered with a luxuriant beard of straw colored silver the senator se ator in fact is silver throughout he me has made much of his great fortune in his silver mines and he owns a hundred times as many silver dollars as he has hairs on his long silver dilver beard and most of his speeches are made upon silver and when he speaks every strand of silver in his white beard quivers his long beard bobs up and down like that of a billy goat chewing its cud and he talks and talks and talks he is a man of ability a fine lawyer and a practical go ahead western business man LOOK LIKE LOUIS NAPOLEON there are three men in the united states senate who cut their whiskers after the style of louis napoleon they are all big men and they have the dash of the late emperor of the I 1 b rench one is a napoleon of finance another has been a napoleon in war and the third is still a napoleon in the senate the first is mcmillan of michigan who started life a poor boy and who is now a reat car factor he has great works in seat Ee troit he is worth a fortune and he lives here in fine style in a house which ost cost him 8 oooo his imperial beard is iron ron gray and with the thick thatched iton iron it on gray hair above it gives dignity to a handsome face mcmillan is one of the fine looking men of the senate he dresses well looks well and acts well he is very popular and has made a reputation for himself as a good busi ness senator everyone knows of the great brain of joe hawley he is one of the really leally great men of our times and through the strands of his iron gray imperial have come some of the best speeches that have been delivered in the senate this imperial is now white when it was black bilack it quivered with his commands as a general of the army it has been tinged in the smoke of battle and its owner should today consider it a badge of honor As lor for senator manderson his record has also been good in the field as well ag as in the senate chamber he is an able debater a man of great social Vali qualities and a good all around senator his is i beard is a brown in which the gray strands are just beginning to appear JOB BLACKBURN AND DAN VOORHEES A moustache gives the statesman rather a rakish look and some of the bold bad men of the chamber thus cover their upper lips joe blackburn of kentucky has a red mustache which quivers with fun bristles with rage or gently rests in placid self content over his mouth according to the condition of his mind blackburn is a very handsome man he is tall and straight and his mustache forms a striking feature of his rosy face it is just the color of good kentucky whiskey and though the senator seldom touches this product of his native state his sensitive nostrils can evidently tell old bourbon from old rye just back of joe blackburn today is S senator benator dan voorhees esthe the tall sycamore of the wabash A year or so ago he oe longed to the louis napoleons of the senate and he wore an imperial now his chin is smooth shaven and all that is left is his mustache senator voorhees s verges on the strawberry blonde it order of statesmen his mustache has a reddish hue and like his brown pompadour hair it flows out in curves and makes a bow over his big broad mouth you could draw voorhees face without using a straight line his chin has a roll ot of fat below it his cheeks swell out and his every feature partakes of that line of the evert beautiful the curve his mustache is the mustache of an esau it is heavy strong and lull full of character and you see another sign of this esau strength in the red bristles which stand out over voorhees blue eyes As to his head every individual hair there does seem to stand on end as though rejoicing in in its strength over that of the white bald pate on senator coke who sits just in front of him aggressive BEARDS there ii i great deal of character in whiskers you could tell that senator william B allison was a diplomat from the way he trims his beard it is rough in texture and reddish brown in hue but it is cut as smoothly as has been fashioned the character of its owner and it is the beard of a great man and a politic one it makes Alli sons head look much like that 0 gen grant though the features are pleasanter plea santer an and smoother take on the other hand the mustache of george vest it bristles out in a white heat under his little straight nose and as he carries it about the house it seems to say there is a chip on my shoulder and if you knock it off you are sure to have a fight vest always makes me think of the bad man from bitter creek his round long head is pasted on abright at right angles toa to a pair of wide stooping shoulders and his fierce c id blue eyes look out at you from under heavy brows his mustache does not belie him he is a fighter from Fighters ville and though he is not more than 5 ft 4 in height he is ready to tackle any six footer in the senate senator david B hill of yew york has an aggressive mustache it is more that of a man of determination however than one of pure fighting it is short black and well defined and it fairly bristles when grover Clev elands name is mentioned sitting in the press dress i gallery you cannat distinguish sen senator ator hills eyebrows without an opera glass but his fierce eyes look up at you and nis his whole figure makes you think of that of the sphinx JOHN SHERMANS SILVER BEARD senator shermans Sher mans beard is a characteristic one it is firm and wiry and it is now as white as the driven snow he cuts it frequently and its bristles are three times the thickness of tile the ion lone thin strands of silver which cover his 19 head senator sherman has a very fine lace face it looks very much like that of the general and the chins of the two men were formed on the same model another white beard is that of sena tor palmer of illinois it covered only his chin but it is rugged and white and it adds to the strength of his face every bristle in it represents strength of character and every line of the features feature S abo above ve e it shows common sense palmer has big head which is well thatched with a silver hair he wears a soft bat and nat not the warm hair destroying silk plug he has bright blue eyes above which are silvery bristles and his beard indi india cates cafes his character A LOOK AT SOME new MEN perkins of california is full bearded his whiskers of silky black and his mustache might have been made of shavings of oiled ebony senator mills is the only roan man in the chamber who wears a goatee he has a white and the little whisk of hair faster fasten mustache ed to his lower lip is of silver senator perkins of kansas who succeeds plumb looks as though he might have borrow borrowed eif his head from an indian chief his face is somber in feature it is smooth shaven as was that ot of daniel as webster and his complexion is is copper he has heavy brows and fierce eyes and he looks wise enough to be great coke cok of texas is another wise looking he has a long beard of yellowish white man inari and he puts a napkin over this whenever he eats henry cabot lodge has hair and curly whiskers his beard curly covers his square face and sitting in in the th king row he forms a striking figure among the young men of the senate LIKE LI HUNG CHANG S senator benator harris of tennessee looks like ike a chinese mandarin and his effect Is is produced by his mustache this stands out in two long thin white lines on each side of his nose and gives him a strikingly celestial appearance he has high cheek bones sharp blue eyes eves which look out through narrow lids and a parchment bald head if he ha had a long gown and a pigtail he could pose for li hung chang and dressed in chinese costume he could travel throughout peking without I 1 being discovered speaking of senators who look like other persons such effects are usually produced by the beards carey of wyoming byomin looks very much like gar field ang and he has blond whiskers of the same shape and style as those of thim the martyred marty red president senator cullom has a beard like that of abraham lincoln cornand col nand and the little mustache and peculiar eyes of senator davis of minnesota used to cause him to be taken for ben butler senator daniel of virginia is smooth shaven and his dark handsome face looks like that of the pictures ol of J john wilkes booth it is the same in the house general charles grosvenor of ohio has whiskers like president hayes and his little round head and curly hair of john R fellows make you think of P T barnum johnson of ohio looks not unlike stephen A douglas and bryan of kansas has the heavy jaw and the smooth unshaven face of sam randall gen cogswell ot of massachusetts is taken every day for president cleveland and bailey of texas looks like daniel webster THESE MEN SHAVE only the fewest men in public life are entirely smooth shaven bailey scrapes his dark countenance morn morning senator george frisbie every mornant int hoar lathers his is cheeks before he takes his breakfast and hoke smith and wilson S bissell are in the hands of the barbers daily senator hoars haars skin is is thin and very rosy he used to very look more like horace greeley than he does now it was when he wore whisk on his neck secretary carlisle has ers era no beard his face is dark daric sallow and angular william mckole mckaley McK governor of ohio hio has never had whiskers he resents being compared to napoleon bonaparte but he has the same smooth shaven classic face ex vice president morton scrapes his face every morning he wears an arc iron n gray wig which is so carefully made that it is supposed to from the scalp colquitt objects g grow ra w and Gor germans mans handsome t to 0 w whiskers h iskas face is striking enough without them ONE HUNDRED MUSTACHES there are loo mustaches in the house representatives representative es and about one third ot of of the senators have hair on their upper simpsons Simp sons mustache is of aos jerry aps iron eray with it h a preponderance of black ii A iron it gra ve he keeps it short and it fairly bristles bristles M MD D harter has a gray mustache the mustache of boutelle of maine is white and tom reeds little mustache is of the same color with here strand tim campbell and there a golden goiden of f new york has a mustache much he always alway wears swears like terry jerry simpsons Simp sons necktie and he looks like a white a eacher oneff one of the handsomest mustaches preacher or in ill the senate is that of granof gray of delaware and a beautiful silvery one belongs to the ros rosy ly face of butler of south caroling carolina the handsomest whiskers in the senate are those of mitchell of ore are of a glossy chestnut they grown eon brown on and as you look at them and the handsome face of the oregon senator wonder that he is the father you do not beautiful mattie mitchell whose of the handsome face was the sensation of the capitals and who is now mar european the old worlds noblest ot ol mhd to one dukes A WORD ABOUT LIPS the average mustache hides the lip of its owner and you do not thus get a fair of the most characteristic view of one features of a states mans face it will va vou u to know thattie that the biggest and od the brainiest brai niest men have thick lips now and then you meet one like george P F edmunds W whose hose lower lip is thin but a thick lip indicates character and the best men in public life have well developed under lips take cleveland the leaves of his mouth are half an inar inch thick and his jaw is of iron harrison had a thin lip but the lip of adlai stevenson is as b big as a babas thumb and that of dave faill hill were it not kept so tightly presse pressed d against his teeth would be of equal size the biggest lawyers in public life have strong jaws and thick lips take justice gray ot of the Sur surverne perne court his under kp hp is as tenderloin steak and it rosy as a piece of shines out in its cherry like beauty above a strong lull jaw you can see judge fields lip shining out through his heard beard of sable silver and brewer has a pair of oP smooth shaven lips as thick as those of julius caesar they make me think ot of the bust of caesar in the corcoran gallery and of a toothless old hag whom I 1 once say standing before it A beautiful girl was with lier ner and they were discussing the bust the toothless old hag looked at it and then said tee he tee he its a good mouth for kissing aint itt it if it were not irreverent I 1 might say the same of the mouth of |
