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Show I SENATOR STEPHENSON, WHO DEFIES AGE i V ' A , Senator Isaac Stephenson of Wisconsin, Wis-consin, the oldest member of either branch of congress, is standing the scorching hot weather of the national capital better than any of his colleagues. col-leagues. In Wisconsin Mr. Stephenson Stephen-son Is known as "Uncle Ike," but among his senate associates he is familiarly hailed as "Dr. Ike." Although Mr. Stephenson makes no preventions to a knowledge of medicine medi-cine as laid down in the books, and frequently admits that he ia not abreast of the modern medical science, sci-ence, he has had a practical experience experi-ence which he thinks fits him to give advice to the ailing. As far back as the early fifties, Mr. Stephenson was healing the sick. He was then in charge of various lumber camps in the Lake Superior region of northern Wisconsin. "For fifteen years," said Mr. Stephenson, "we were without a doctor, doc-tor, lawyer, or preacher. We did not need a doctor, for I looked after the sick, and as for a lawyer we got along pretty well, because we fought out with our fists the troubles that arose among us. We had some pretty rough and hard men in the canxps, and maybe we did suffer for want of a preacher. In the logging season we had hundreds of men, and my principal Job w,as to keep our crews in good shape. The saw and the axe make trouble trou-ble In the woods, not only for trees, but for men, and I have been called on to bind and sew hundreds of wounds." .Mr. Stephenson says that a long life and a simple life go hand in hand. "As a young man, I traveled across the snow twenty odd miles a day," he snld. "I swung a five-pound axe from dawn till dark. I slept in a blanket In the snow, ate crackers and pork and drank snow water, and was as healthy as a bear." |