OMAIIA ILLUSTRATED IJEE.
May 13, 1000.
How Congressman
Allen Got Worst of It
terest my boys as well. She had Riven mo
Champ Clark, Great
hor photograph and I had It with mo on the
trip, to let her see, If noccaaary, that
jikcu to havo her around. On ray way I
stopped over ono night In Chicago with a
brother I had there, and during tho night
ray room was ontcred by a burglar. He muat
Admirer of Tom Reed
navo been a very smooth one, for I novor
For one
Tom Ueed,
admiration
ider con-
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a huraorist. Ho has not bwn quite much iiot wrUt sngs In o "u attr 1 ! T.xT 1
,r evidence In thla direction ot late aa tlons, but songs celebrating northern state- " J r rrW ' a d' k'8 Mo hand,
formerly, porhapa, especially In tho nowa- aro rare. Memories of the south wilt bb , ioiiowb.
papers but atlll ho managca to hold his perpetuated as long as songs nro sung In tho Uenr slr: Whoever you may bo par
own fairly well, dowplto tho lapso of years. English tongue' by 'Maryland. My Maryland, 'lo" tho liberty I havo taken In coming un
Ttiiuii'h not irlven to playing tricks that
produco serious oinbarruaamont, Mr. Allun
la a practical Joker of tho subtlest Bort, and
naturally thoao who know him well aro de
lighted when they can turn tho tables on
him. 8torli thut show him coming till
aecoud beat aro rare, however, for I ke
m08t practical Jokers, ho - t
government official. lta!ore then
tl0 was Jaiuos 8. ClarKW Mr.
oditor of mo I ?t0 "! assistant
Clarkson waa aa auch official U
postmaster general, , ana polnlmont
Ln. bin duty to look after -d uo-
personal
fascinated
wit. and
pher and aspires neither to distinction as osueclnlly by tin- classic vlrllltv of hla
a loader nor famo as a wit. Ho la contented, speech. Champ Clark professes to be a
apparently, to remain ono of tho most judge of congressional oratory, and ho ha3
ontertalnlng and Interesting members of tho nld moro than onco that In his Judgment
lower branch of congress. When Clark flrat Tom Ueed Is tho best sh-rt apecchmaker
entered the house In tho Fifty-third con- in tho United States. At times Clark tries
to pattern his own stylo of oratory on that
ot PunaBlwV republican, no p.-
that such playful Bxocutloncr"
man " "tho Headsman, tu m
iT'tho "clnsToryTh- natura.ly
Partisan roPUbUcan ov J par.
nplauded bis yn-coa lt.
tl.au democrats do .
geeks I,',r" . Tupolo.
Not so -Lrlvato;; V
H aald lt waa all pari ma(lo
iored hla democratic co nrror Uonor
Section. To him. ho &wA ,ol.
Clarkson appeared Uko v lt
low. who waa do tag hjy ln ,
M Mr. Allen would ninisoii ,fc
r SUUemSa That would
oSSr. tb-n. aa now an
iXui winding up with tho expressed wish
length, w ina B acaualntanco of sd
tnai no "u . BO oxpodltlou8 an 'My Old Koutucky Homo,' 'Carry Mo Back Invited into your room. I havo taken with gresa he was a great deal ln evidence. Directory and that brief autobiography was
-.11 ninrUMim t0 01J Virginia,' and tho like. Uut who mo nothing but a photograph of my mother. Ho attracted attontlon by his originality 'ho flrat th'nB that really attracted atten-
und a flamboyant stylo of oratory that kept tlon to him ln Washington, for ln lt he
"Possibly tho hand ahook when It wrote tho older men In smllis or gaaplng with specified: "December 14, 1881, was raar-
tho note, but if It did I could not detect aatonlsbmont. Ho waa ono of those of rled to Miss Genevieve Donnett of Callaway
It in tho writing. Evidently, thoueb, It was whom lt was useless to rcako predictions county; has one living child, Bennert
genuine, for tho burglar had left nearly and ho thruet hlraeolf upon tho notlco of Clark." Thla la tho only Instance, so far
$1,000 worth ot stuff that he could have tho house on all torts of occasions until lt np '8 known, where a member of congress
taken with tho photograph. In any event began to bo a question whether he was to has sone thus Into his domestic affairs
"I had a queer experience onco with a i m,i not mention tho visit of tho burglar to bo taken at all seriously or not. Then he and the newspaper gossips all ovor . tho
a NeurasKa mercnant to a my brother, and ho had not disturbed any waa defeated for re-election and thla scorned country took It up and commented on It
with humor moro or less forced. Almost
man after an experience Uko this
have struck the objectionable sentence
woro any republicans In my diatrici. curn-u nuui n-u yur ugu. i uuu mm 10 uio wiuow aDoui mo uurgiar, or auuui poinunem or mat aeicat, tho dlscomflture oul uo came 10 rewrite nis autoDioi;-
ifh r wero I'm afraid my good domocratlc very intelligent and interesting woman in tho othor matter, either. I waa Just aa was so severe. The man who beat him raphy. Not so with Champ Clark. On
f i a ho holds tho Tupolo poatoffice would tho city, a widow, of an age aultablo for me, polite as ovor, but lt ended there. Incident- waa a mualc teacher who waa nominated bis election to the Fifty-fifth congress ho
friend wnon Vm buj,o h(J nlu, i(b j WIfl a Wdowor i i,ail nia(lu up my any j spoko to ner ono jay aoout my DOy8 in a tldal-wavo year with no expectation went still further: "Has had four chll-
1080 nis loo p lnlml f j jkoj j,or ns W0j when j eaw her aiul snu Bal(1 Bho nail ft b aomowhero In of oloctlon and who after ho cot throueh dren born to him; little Champ. Ann Ham-
is SaiO, evou l iiirnln as I hnd for thn two wrnks I had lived Mm witrlil hut ho hml run nwnv frnm homn pniiiirHu nnvnr man nhnva n.n.lln.rl,. UtOD. Honnptf nnrl HnnnvlpvB Ilia nn lniio
lu tho samo boarding bouso with her I would whon ho was sixteen and she bad not seen Grout Admirer or ltt-l. atl11 living." There was sentiment ns well
CONOUKSSMAN CHAM1' CLAHK OF MISSOUUI.
CONGRESSMAN JO HN M. ALLEN OF MISSISSIPPI.
of tho former speaker.
Ho Is ono of tho men who make a prac
tice of studying tho Bible purely for liter
ary purposes, and because ho knows thut
nothing Is moro effective with a popular
audlcnco than scripture qu-tntlons or lan
guage which carries the Biblical mark.
Clnrk Is old-fashioned in his democracy. Hu
has all the southern reverence for tho letter
of tho constitution, and his most eloquent
periods nro those ln which he denounces
what ho calls republican contempt for con
stitutional Ideas. When in tho heat of de
bate ho never spares language or hesitates
for an epithet. Ho spenka with a brutal
frankness that sometimes brings criticism,
as when, not long ago, In a debate In the
houao, ho acorcd tho memory of President
Hayes In auch unqualified terms that his
friends were Inclined to apologize for him. "
How He Ilvciime u I'llilc Student.
Champ Clark tells ln an Interesting way
how lt happened that bo camo to be such
a student of tho bible. His father was a
deeply religious man, but Champ, aa a boy,
would havo nothing to do with that sort
cf thing. Ono day, however, he happened
to run across Patrick Henry's oration In tho'
House of Burgesses, beginning, "It Is natural
for man to Indulge In the Illusions of hope."
One sentenco In tho speech especially struck
his youthful fancy: "The race Is not al
ways to the swift, nor tho battle to the
strong." He told his father how much he
llkod the speech and how much ho was Im
pressed with that sentence. His father took
him down by remarking: "King Solomon
wrote that sentence and If you will read
the bible you -will find a great mnny others
equally as good." So, Just from curiosity,
Champ began to read the bible and baa kept
It up over since.
When Clark drat came to congress ho
wrote his biography for the Congressional
. . Clarkaon. viia'imi, uuu mu iiku. uui wnu mu HuiuuiK uui
N Lhl c was eas'lor, for Henderson and over heard anyone sing 'Carry mo back lo Don't toll her.'
PiiirUBon wero from tho same state, ami an oiu vormoni, or inow xorK or rennsyi-
tatrSctlMt fourth a.lstanfs office vnnla,' or any other northern state?"
was compassed on that very day. Naturally
Mr. Allen complimented Mr. Clarion In be A Queer Experience
cpureo of their conversation, whereat . un V
lattor Binlled oxpanuivuij.
. v. unlrl nnrnnntlv:
aroao w uuuan. u ,,, iUri.ar Sni.i
"I'm mighty glad, Mr. fcxocuuo . .
. ,. ,1. i,j ,,nirht to have tho Wasliington btar man. "tor ttie past nr- other part of the house, my room probably to havo a sobering effect unon him. Ho
you oeuovo i .i.tmucratlc doctrine, teen years I havo boon making sovoial trips t,0nK tho first and tho photograph saving said that if ho wero to llvo a hundied vears any other
M b I wouldn't bo ao glad, though, If a year to Now York, and thla Incident oz- nil the others. Neither did I aay anything ho ehould nover recover from tho disap- voM
It Mnile CliirUnoii Smile.
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AUon had gono tho fourth asala tan 1 a jng nbout her whatovor, except that she In- woro tears In her oyea when she spoke and Fifty-fifth congress he waa a different sort Champ Clark Is exactly BO years of age.
little Investigation which Bhowed A,'n torostod mo, and as she seemed to bo a nice I folt a llttlo odd about tho oyee myself, but of a fellow. Ho had broadened and met- Ho waB uorn on March 7, 1850, and ho looks
. 4 i . n 4 i r. rtiiA uf nrn fill rfi II UU1 . . . . . ..
bo corroci v ... .r,.. woman, and I had two boya who needed a I kopt ray secrot. I'm telling It now because lowed and had Ideas on a Rood manv mih. younger man nia years. Ho has a smoothlr
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Buuu nuiuiiii b tinu, i iuuusui duo uiiBui, in- miu uiuu uuuui u fvur unv. jocia mai commanaca respect, Dotn from umiug who gooa numor. tie
is ono or mo most companionable men In
llrnn nnnllcants for tho Tupolo office,
thinking a moment Mr. Clarkson Bout a
tolegram. It waa addressed to an acquaint
anco of his thou living In Mississippi. ll"y
or 100 mllca from Tupelca northorn re
publican, who had gono south to mako a
fortuno, but, falling, had asked for holp
from thu administration, which had not
beon forthcoming. This tolegram road:
"Movo to Tupelo at onco. When you havo
lived thoro thirty daya wire mo."
Thoroupon the fourth assistant forgot all
about tho matter. Two days moro than a
month afterward ho waa reminded of it.
however, by a telegram dated Tupolo, which
road: "Have lived horo thirty days. What
uball I do now!"
Tho noxt mall carried a commission aa
postmaster for Tupolo to tho fourth assist
ant's friend and Private John M. Allen soon
camo to regret tho day that ho had ex
pressed hlmsolf so freoly to "tho headsman.
Though Mr, Allen has been a raembor of
the bouso for noarly sixteen years, flrbt
sorvlng in the Forty-ninth congress, ho is
not old, aa congrossmon go, being only
53. He was born In Mississippi and bis
education prior to tho civil war was confined
to the public schools. After the war, In
which he served as ft confederate, of course,
be studied at tho Cumberland university l.i
Tennessee and at the UnWorslty of Missis
sIddI. After his admittance to the bar he
practiced law, aarvlng as district attorney
for tour years before toeing elected to con
- uu, far as lie Is concerned, at least.
than aw bo republicans In hla district to
tWa day. tor his election to the present
conrrew w br an unanlmoua vote.
Lual to the South.
Personally, Mr. Allen Is a Jolly good tel.
low companionable alike with oolltlc.1
frimds and foei, and as loyal at heart to
"o outh aa aver he was. Being a man o
Uct, however, this loyalty never U allowed
toUaS'M to speak III of the north, though
he does occasionally Indulge In a Bly dlu
at certain northern peculiarities. JhuOn a
went talk with a resident of AdmlnJ
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MAHKET PLACE FOU OMAHA GAUDNEHS AND FHUIT BA1SEHS
Wellesley Magazine tells of a pompous
butler who ono day nnnounced aomo callers
aa follows: "Mr. Edwin Algernon Pembroke
Penny, Mrs. Edwin Algernon Pembroke.
Penny and Miss Maud Victoria Penny.""
Other nrrlvals wero announced at equal
length and with equal solemnity. Before the
next "at homo" tho master of tho house
suggested that so much repetition and
elaboration was unnecessary; that ho would
prefer to havo his guests announced moro
briefly. Tho magnificent being bowed grave
assent and said nothing. But his feollngs
had been wounded, and he was, unlike most
of his kind, as clever as ho was majestic.
As 'boforo, tho first to arrive wero Mr. and
Mrs. Penny and Mlsa Penny. Whon they had
ascended tho atalra they paused an Instant
at the drawing room door; the next, tho
butlor (lung It abruptly opon, and thoy hoard
thomselvea briskly announced to tholr dis
mayed hosts in tho comprehensive formuln,
"Threepence."
Dryest Spot on Earth
The reputation of bolng the dryest spot
on earth la claimed by Payta, In Poru, a
Place about 5 degrees south of the equator
on the coast that has risen forty feot In
hlstorlo times.
In February thero was a fall of rain of
more than twenty-four hours, the first for
eight years. Tho averago interval between
two showers Is seven years. Sea foga are
common.
Of about nine apeclea of plants noticed by
a recent visitor seven were annuala, and
their seeds muat havo remained dormant In
tho ground for eight years. In spite tf the
lack of rain the long-rooted Peruvian cot
ton Is grown In the drled-up river bed, fur
nishing crops that yield subsistence to the
natives.