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Show FROM MAIL CAR TO CONGRESS Three short years ago Carl C. Van Dyke sorted mail in a railway post oflice car. Today he is in Washington, certified cer-tified as the new member in the house from the Fourth Minnesota district, to succeed Frederick C. Stevens, Republican, Re-publican, who for nearly a score of years had been returned again and again from this district until beaten by the young Democrat who came almost directly from the mail car to make his campaign. Van Dyke is not yet thirty-five ? ars of age. Big of frame and mus-calar. mus-calar. with a countenance in which a "fighting" chin and jaw and clear brown eyes are the predominating feature, he looks the part of a man who has "fought his way up," as he has done. Van Dyke claims to be a Scan-linavian, Scan-linavian, his mother having been a native of Norway. He himself was born in Alexandria. Minn., of which town he is still a resident. He served through the Spanish-American war j with the Fifteenth Minnesota regiment, and after its close became a railway mail clerk. He interested himself In obtaining better working conditions for the mail clerks and later became president ot their national organization , He is the only Democrat in the new Minnesota delegation. I |