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Show Senator Cockrell's Memory. Senator Cockrell of Missouri especially especial-ly prides himself upon never forgetting a name or face, and so marked is this trait that his friends say he can visit the house of any of his constituents after aft-er an unlimited absence and speak to each member of the family by name. But no man is infallible, and this Senator Sen-ator Cockrell discovered on accosting one of his constituents while at home recently, whose name he tried by every means possible to remember, but unsuccessfully. unsuc-cessfully. Finally he hit upon what he considered a solution of the difficulty, and under the guise of taking the constituent's con-stituent's name down for the purpose of sending him some documents he asked him to spell it. He was almost staggered when he received the reply, ' ' J-o-n-e-s. ' ' "Oh," said the senator, "I mean your first name." Then again came another stagger when the constituent replied, W-i-M-i-a-m. " The senator is not just at the present time bragging about his wonderful memory. Washington News. |