Show I PLUMB NEVER TIRED KANSAS STATESMAN A MARVEL OF OF- OF ENDURANCE CE II Told by Senator Vest Well Illus Illus- i rate His Nights Night's Physical Powers Nights Powers Nights Night's Enjoyment Never Interfered with D Days Day's ys y's Duty Senator rA rf Kansas was a physical ca giant letiS and ceaseless worker worker as well veIl as tireless says a v riter I LOS Angeles TImes Times One of or his assistants was as large arge as as he was and d as good a ax at worker but on once e ein in in three or or four months be he be would give way to to ail ari inordinate thirst for beer which incapacitated him for work Rork four or five days or sometimes a I whole week On one of these occasions occasions occasions occa occa- when Senator Senat r Plumb Plumb- particularly particular particular- I Ily ly need needed d him the Senator introduced a resolution in in the Senate forbidding the sale of any kind of liquor to em em- em m. m of Senators or of the Senate and he delivered an impassioned speech in n favor of the resolution The pr preceding ceding evening Sen Senator tor Plumb had been dallying a bit with wine wIn but that part of the story was best told by Senator Vest of Missouri who said il I think that my y friend Plumb has greater powers powers of bf endurance endurance endurance endur endur- ance than any man I have ever kno known n nand and he d demonstrates that fact in his everyday life For example last night Plumb and Mahone and Hatton and John Chamberlin and a few other friends spent considerable time eating and drink and smoking and finally we entered upon a little game gam of draw Before I realized it the clocks in Chamberlin's were striking 5 o'clock and the game was brought t to a close I went home and left orders to be becal cal called ed at 11 o'clock because it was was calendar aay day in the Senate and I wanted to be there at the opening of the session at noon to look after a particular bill that I had on the cal cal- I was awakened had my bath and breakfast breakfast and nd reached the Senate Senate Senate Sen Sen- ate just in time for my duty I met Plumb at the at-the the door doo 1 and he told me that he had been at at 11 work all morning morning morn morn- ing on his correspondence but that he was not tired With the calendar before me I leaned my head on my hands bands watching watching watching watch watch- ing and waiting for my turn and I fell fast asleep ep I slept for fully an hour and might have slept longer but for an awful dream I dreamed matl hat Eat I I was sitting at my desk desk- unable to get up and the capitol building was on fire I could see the flames all around me ine me The marble stones were burning the Goddess of Liberty on the the dome dome although of bronze was all an aflame The capitol was was surrounded surrounded surrounded sur sur- rounded b by fire engines many of them themI I having come from Baltimore and Philadelphia Phil Phil- adelphia I 1 heard the beard the captains of the firemen shouting sho t ng their heir orders and I tried to call for help but I could not Finally as the flames crept closer andall and andell ell all 11 around me all of the noises of the engines and the firemen and the flames w were re condensed into one awful roar This continued continue un until n it seemed to me like Illie one tremendous human voice Moreover that great big voice began to sound familiar to me It seemed to me as though out of its awful roaring I might e expect lect that voice to frame the words Vest I 1 raise you or Vest I call you ou This awful voice finally awakened me and mira bile there stood Plumb as fresh tiesh as a daisy delivering a temperance temperance temper temper- ance Ince speech |