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Show Remembered Old Habit. K. Gassaway Davis, once a I'nited States senator and later candidate for vice president on the Parker ticket was a brakeman before he became r millionaire and is said on one historic occasion, while sleeping soundly in the senate chamber, to have dreamed that te was -till guiding an unruly freight car through the mountain:, of West Virginia. The dream was inspired by a nearby colleague. Senator Allen G. Thurman, who blew two mighty blasts on his nose. Davis thinking he had heard the freight whistle, seized his clesk as if it were a brr.V.e and nearly twisted the thing from its moorings before bo CErr.e to. . |