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Show BIGGER MEN AT WASHINGTON M New M. C. Found Them Much Abler tM Than Those at Home. fl The membor of a stato legislature . fl had boen Introduced to a member of JF H Congress nt tho capital. H "I supposo tho life In Washington is H much moro Interesting Ulan that of H our stato capitals," ho vsiMured for a H starter. 1 H "Oh, yes," the Congressman readily am admitted. jH "But it costs a good deal more? H "Rather more, ye." "The salary Is much larger, though? MU "Oh, yes, considerably." "You meet very different peopW, "Decidedly." "Men of national reputation are H numerous?" H "Everywhere about the place.' H "Much bigger men than we have with us?" "Oh, yes, or they wouldn't got H hero." H "Men of wider icopo on all quee- H tlons?" H "Yes, they have to be." The state solon was silent tor a moment "After all," he said, with somo show H of pride, "do you think they nro much abler men than thoso who havo not yet reached beyond the limit of their 1 state?" The Congressman wasn't silent a 1 second. M "Well, I should sny they wero," he H said emphatically, according to the New York Times. "By Jove, I was a member of my stnte legislature for M five terms and thero wasn't a man " M thore I couldn't beat at poker. But ' here well, I've got to send my salary homo to my wife, or I couldn't keep a M blamed cent of It." H |