Show GOSSIP FROM THE senator darks retirement from upper house new experiment by agricultural department washington senator dark of montana has an bounced that he will not seek a reelection and he will remove from the united states senate a rather esque and more or less interesting personality on ad 0 next march it ib understood that senator claris has not met with the success in washington that he anticipated would be hia on account of bis almost untold millions he has cut no egure worthy of mention in national legislation and does not find his surroundings congenial he is too rich to be in sympathy with the majority of his party the democrats in the senate and politically of course he cannot affiliate with the republicans the senator has been faithful in attendance on ata duties but no one has recognized in him any marked ability as a legislator and in reports of big debates and controversies in the senate he has usually found a place in the paragraph that says senator clark among others spoke he has not impressed himself upon the senate neither has he met with the social success that he may have imagined awaited him when he came to washington with an income estimated at a month certain sections of washington society anticipated the coming of this western croesus with delight for they imagined that the lavishness and extravagance that had characterized other rich senators from the wild and woolly west would be repeated and tar eclipsed by the display senator dark would make society was disappointed because mr clark has done no great entertaining and he has been noted for bla parsimony rather than his extravagance WAS NOT A GREAT SPENDER if washington society uld not take to mr charli the latter made no great effort to get into it ie found few congenial spirits and among the spenders he be came known as mr tightwad he did no attempt princely entertainments like those given by mr thomas walsh of colorado but his life in washington has been that of an ordinary senator one who does not live at the rate of more than double hia salary mr clark attracts attention on the streets or aher ever he Is by his striking appearance he is a man scarcely up to the average height and of very sparse form his head however is rather large and is cov ered with a wonderful suit of wavy bro hair his face la concealed by a full beard of sunset whiskers it is his hair however that people stare at and which the ladles in the gallery admire when the senator Is at his desk it Is of very fine texture and is worn long and in fluffy waves which exhibit the best attention of a scientific hair dresser his slender form Is usually clad in a tightly buttoned prince albert coat and gray trousers he walks a great deal but really not to save cab fare or car fare but as necessary exercise PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT S DOUBLE every president has his double cleveland had one and mr mckinley had several while the number of people who resemble president roosevelt Is quite large there are two or three men in washington whose likeness to the president Is so strong that people turn around on the streets to look after them there Is one however whose resemblance to mr roosevelt la so startling as to cause him a great deal of annoyance this gentleman Is theodore G stoner who conducts one of the most fashionable bars in washington and who is therefore constantly being reminded by visitors and guests of his likeness to the man in the white house he ie about the same build as the president and there are only a few pounds difference in their weights stoner in commenting on his likeness to the president said the other day the first time I 1 particularly noticed the resemblance was in cannally cas nally looking at the photographs on pennsylvania avenue I 1 had had some photographs taken and distributed them among my friends I 1 was at first flattered and then surprised to see so many of my pictures in the windows I 1 finally discovered however that the photograph at which I 1 was looking was one of the president which he had happened to have taken in exactly the same pose used in the photograph 0 myself so marvelous was the resemblance that I 1 had been deceived in ing the pictures were my own I 1 purchased one and took it home with me as a joke my family praised the picture immensely regarding it as a good likeness of ayelt dreamed that the photograph they were looking at was one of the president of the united states I 1 naturally felt flattered at the resemblance and for awhile took pains to make it as marked as possible by dressing my hair in the same characteristic way and wearing the same style of clothes as those used by the president TO RAISE CAMELS IN UNITED STATES if Is now proposed to attempt the introduction of the camel into the rocky mountain states plans are being considered by the experts of the bureau of animal industry of the department of agriculture to encourage the raising of the camel in this country particularly in the great southwest and the territories of new mexico and arizona the experts believe that by scientific breeding the camel can become the most useful and profitable animal in the united states they ex hect to establish a new industry in the production of camel s hair which Is now imported into the united states annually to the value of about 32 there have been former experiments with the camel the first having been made after the war with mexico when jefferson davis then secretary of war secured an appropriation tor the transportation of two herds of camels into what was then known as the great american desert soon afterwards another herd was secured in arabia and they were received in 1858 an army officer and a company of men were sent to make a topographical of the then unexplored region between the rio grande and the pecos the command was equipped with 24 camels and the latter proved their thorough adaptability to the conditions in the arid west several hundred miles were covered by the expedition over a wild rough desert country which knocked out men mules and horses but the camels stood it without injury EVS ON THE SKATING BINES the roller skate craze seized hold of washington this winter and all grades of society were bitten by it the diplomatic corps took to it with great avidity A very large hall was turned into a roller rink and three dally stances have been held there for weeks depre from all the embassies and the legations can be found there particularly on two nights of the week when the price of admission Is placed high enough to keep out the hoi and make the attendance more exclusive about a month ago one of the leading secretaries of the chinese embassy visited the rink at a morning session he Is a short rather fat mongolian with aa ever smiling visage he took a seat with the staid lookers on and tor a long time resisted the importunities of young attaches of other legations to put on a pair ol 01 skates and have a try at the american sport at last however he yielded the secretary babbled like a run down top and his legs refused to support him when he tried to stand perfectly upright but he was game and gave the thing a dozen trials his flowing green silk garments were of the color of a mop rag when he finally had the skates removed from his feet the other legation people had lots of fun with him but the secretary got even ha began taking private lessons and the next when the party again visited the rink mr secretary put on the skates and was led out as before by the instructors his diplomatic friends were prepared for a repetition of his previous performance and their faces were wreathed in smiles but a look of astonishment came over their countenances when their chinese friend began to do all sorts of fancy stunts and to exhibit the gracefulness of an experienced roller skater the joke Is on us they admitted when the secretary gracefully rolled up to where they were standing after having gone through all the fancy tricks the instructor had taught him 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