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Show Remembered Old Habit. H. Gassaway Davis, once a United States senator and later candidate for vice president on the Parker ticket, was a brakeman before he became b millionaire and Is said on one historic occasion, while sleeping soundly in the senate chamber, to have dreamed that he was jtill guiding an unruly freight car through the mountains of West Virginia. The dream was inspired bf a nearby colleague, Senator Allen 0-Thurman, 0-Thurman, who blew two mighty blasts on his nose. Davis thinking he had heard the freight whistle, seized his desk as If it were a brake and nearly twisted the thing from its moorings before he came to. |