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Show SENATOR NORRIS' LITTLE MISTAKE i This is a tale nf how Senator Geo. W Morris of Nebraska was almost arrested. He had been a senator but little bver a mouth-, having graduated from the house of representatives, which pedigree explains his crime. The senator was standing on a corner in Washington, thinking of the day when he led the fight in the house to overthrow Cannonism, when a car hove into view. He took it. .When the car reached the Peace monument it turned to the right and landed the musing senator on the house side. He got off, strolled into the offics building, still in a trance, walked down the corridor to room 2M, opened the door of that room and mechanically hung up his hat. An exclamation followed from a stenographer who didn't look exactly familiar. Senator Norris glanced up n an annoyed way. and of a sudden began to realize that the furniture of the room had changed over night. I v. J I xNx- " v Then, and only then "did the statesman realize that, instead of riding to the senate office building and walking unchallenged into his magnificent mahogany mahog-any suite, he had returned to the old room he occupied as a representative and taken possession. |