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Show I A SELF-NAMED MAN. ' I I (Harper's Weekly.) Tho next speaker's full name Is James eauchamp Clark. "When he ' went out Into tho world, ho discovered that Clark was the sixth most common name In America, and that James was nearly as prevalent as John or tho measles. James B. also was curiously, curious-ly, numerous, and Jnmes B. Clark far from unusual. In tho j'oung man's town was a man of that name who used to get his letters and throw them away. This was very annoying So the future statesman dropped James and became Beauchamp Clark. Beau-champ Beau-champ is a well-known name out West. Thoy pronounce it Beecham, like that of the Englishman who makes pills. Now, one of the Incoming speaker's hobbies Is accurato expression, and It Irritated him to be called Beecham -when he should havo been called B03-hom, B03-hom, with the accent on the shorn. j Painstaking Investigation finally con- vlnced him that only a Frenchman . could say I, properly, anyway, so ho ; made up his mind to drop one of the sj-llables, and aftor due consideration he picked Beau as the one to go. Since then ho has been plain Champ Clark, and Is so designated almost invariably We hear of Representative Unde'r-wood. Unde'r-wood. Congressman Payne, et al, but nover of Representative or Congressman Congress-man Clark. It Is always Champ Clark as if hyphenated with accent on tho ' Clark. |