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Show A SKETCH OF SENATOR CARTER. A recent number of Leslie's Weekly contains a splendid portrait cf Senator Carter, accompanied by a brief sketch of his career. Of our only senator the writer .s?.vis: "There iii a legend to the effect that once a man takes his eea.t in the United Unit-ed States senate his point of view 1m-mecjlaiiely 1m-mecjlaiiely changes, hi? head begins to swell, and he is prone to assume what are inelegantly known as . 'aire.' If thla jVj the rule which is seriously to be questioned there are some notable exceptions, first among them being Senator Sen-ator Carter of Montana, who looks enough like the pictures of Uncle Sam to havo posed for theim. This eminent legislator has -net changed an iota In mannner, appearance or to.'a point of view, tinea he d'anned the toga five yeara ago, but, as one of his constituents, constit-uents, who journeyed from far Montana to eee his senaito-r, put it the ether day, 'is the sime old Carter,' old- being uued In an affectionate, rather than a descriptive sense, since the eenator is one of the y'oungeeit members of the upper house. Although a typical westerner, west-erner, Senaitor Carter cannot be retarded retard-ed a.s 'a sectional man, for, although loyal to Montana, Which he represented before ene became a -state, he remembers remem-bers with gratiituda the prairie state where he was educated and where the foundations cf his substantial fortune were laid by teaching school In winter an3 eel'iing books Ira summer an occupation, oc-cupation, by the way, that taught -Jm. that knowledge of humanity for which he ia noted. He has always a good word for Iowa, where h'is first eucce'33 in the law was tbUJned." ' Rev. ' Father Day, the" adminSsifcrator of the diocese cf Helena, has received An invitation to attend-the ceremony ' Bit wtiiioh MVt. Rev. Alexander Christie. -. ..... t Archbishop of Oregon, will be invested with the pallium, the ir.eign'ia of his high office. The Most Rev. Archbbihop Martine-lli, Apcstolic Delegate at Washington, Wash-ington, D. c, will effieiate at the ceremony, cere-mony, which will take place at Portland, Port-land, May 13. |