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ILLISON SENATE'S "UNCROWNED KING" 3OWAN'S GREAT POWER DUE TO HIS LONGEVITY OF SERVICE. qow in Forty-Third Year of Service in Congress-Only Morril Served Longer. Other Interesting Facts Shown by the Congress Rolls. Washington, Dec. 31.-Jos. Ohl in Atlanta Constitution says up to within the past two years it has been the fashion to refer to Sena tor Aldrich, of Rhode Island, as the general manager of the United States senate. Those who wrote of the inside affairs on capitol hill were given to accrediting to the senator from Rhode Island the su -preme control of legislation in the senate, and this, they figured out, made him more powerful than pres idents. In a sense all this was true, but Senator Aldrich's prestige has been considerably damaged since the coming of Theodore Roosevelt to the presidency and his assertion of power. With Roosevelt came a number of younger men as senators, who, being fresh from contact with the republican masses, inclined to Roosevelt rather than the erstwhile general manager, and the strength of the latter has been somewhat on the wane. There is another of the older group of senators, however, whose hold on the young members has been marked. "'he uncrowned king of the senate" he was called in a recent speech by Senator Bever idge, and although making no pre tense at kingly power, William B. 'Alison undoubtedly exerts more in guence in the senate today than any other one man. IT'S LONG SERVICE THAT COUNTS. This fact speaks eloquently of the wisdom of a state keeping its faithful senators and representa tives at Washington, for the power exerted by .Senator Allison is due more to his long service than to any other fact: Senator Allison first became a member of congress on December 2, 1863. He served ten years in the house, and has just entered upon his thirty-third year as a member of the senate. His record for lon-' gevity of service in congress was' exceeded by just one man, the late Senator Morrill, of Vermont, who had almost completed his forty third year of continuous service in the house and senate when he died. The only other men in the history of the government who served for thirty years continuously were *John Sherman, John P.? Jones, of Nevada; Francis M. Cockrell, of Missouri; and Thomas H. Benton, of the same state, who served from 1821 to 1851. Senator Stewart of Nevada, who was looked upon as the senate patriarch because of his Christmas season whiskers, served twenty-eight years; Senator M\'or gan has served the same length of time; Senator Teller has served *twenty-five years; the late Senator tHoar had completed a -service of twenty-four years; Senators Hale, Frye and Aldrich have served twen ty-four years each. THE FATHER OF THE HOUSE. While General Harry Bingham is the father of the house because of the greatest continuous service, two rnembers of the present body who have seen longer actual service. These are General ,Ketcham, of New York, and Speaker Cannon. If General Ketcham had been a *member from the beginning of his first term to the present time-and he could have been had he so de sired it-he would have a record of forty years. Uncle Joe Cannon has had thirty years of service, with one break. Father Harry, who even with his bald head still looks youth ful in contrast with some of the youngsters like Grosvenor, has served continuously for twenty eight years. The two Georgians whom the records show to have served more than twenty years are Alexander H. Stephens, who became vice presi (lent of the confederacy and who was on the rolls of congress for twenty-three years, and James H. Blount, wvho was the representative ~of the Macon district for an even twenty years. Both Expensive.. Maggie-"Just think of the mon ev some folks spends on medicine a'n' things to make 'em well." Mickev-"Anl' just think of the money s'ome folks spends on sup pers an' things to make 'em sick." -Worpan's Home Companion for January. No Slang in the Old South. James T. Bacon, in Charleston News and Courier. Now we turn our old-times ka leidoscope again, and its combina tions fall into a figure that looks very much like the word slang. Forty-five or fifty years ago in the south there was nothing like slang -absolutely nothing-and we are exceedingly proud to say so. If there was, one cannot remember it. The nearest we can come to any such recollection is this: We re member hearing an accomplished lady sing "Schubert's Serenade" at an evening party. That pure and elevated style of music was just be ginning to dawn upon our people. We remember leaning against the piano, as a very small boy, and gaz ing at and listening to the lady with unbounded delight. At the end of the song a young man said: "Yes, that is very fine, but rather 'high falutin.' " At this everybody near the piano started and stared, while the singer, with the peculiar grace and softness of southern women, said: "High-fluting, did you say? I do not quite understand you." The young man tried to explain the: meaning of his slang w6rd, 'high falutin," but nobody relished it, and nobody laughed. They all thought it awfully coarse to use such a word. In these days, however, slang is i actually a distinctive language, all pervading, expressive, convenient, funny and atrociously vulgar-al most as vulgar as the chewing gum habit. The slang of the present day is almost endless in its variety and coarseness. And, strange to say, the most amusing, and perhaps most shocking, slang nowadays is that used among young men and young women of the best and highest clas ses. During the past early spring we were walking on the streets of a very large and very gay city, not! two hundred miles out of South Carolina, with a youthful-yellow haired niece by our side. The young girl had paid a visit in this city two months before and had made many friends. We had arrived in the city the night before, and like country people, were out shopping quite early. As we passed through an extremely fashionable and aristo cratic street, mostly of private resi dences, we heard a sharp, sudden noise, as of a window sash being thrown up. .And so it was. An exquisitely beautiful and slen der girl, white as a lily, in an ex quisite blue embroidered wrapper, stood in the upper window on the opposite side and cried out to the yellow-haired girl at our side: "Hello! hello ! Glad to see you back. You seem to be getting a pretty con-! siderable pull on this old town. The truth is, the boys all treated you so nicely when you were here before that I am afraid you consider your self the only tin can on the dump, but I wish you to understand that I am a gooG many on the dump my self." "A good many on the dump !" Then followed a considerable and very loving chat in this peculiar style. And as we passed on the slender girl in the blue wrapper cried out again: "You must be sure' to stay to Mrs. -s swagger ger man. She's going to give the swag gerest sort of a german on Thurs day night." Then, going further and ap proaching the court house, we met a good-looking, graceful young fel low, who, when he saw the yellow haired girl, ran forward with hand extended, and in reply to the girl's query as to how he was, said: "Oh, I am not many. I am trotting be hind. I am still on the beach, but not many." Then the girl said: "Oh, yes you are ;you are the shin ingest pebble." Then the boy said: "But why did yon send back my ring? I tell yo I was rattled and tatooed and doubled up when that ring came back." Then the girl re plied: "I did not like to keep the ring simply because it was such a handsome one, but if you wish me to wear it while I am here I am more than willing, for it is a much handsomer ring than any I ever had." Thereupon he drew off his little finger an extremely handsome diamond soltaire and slipped it on one of her fingers; stepping back one step, he nodded, and, smiling at her, said: "Now we are all hunk v." At this our old eyes popped out >f our head for sheer astonishment, and rolled about on the pavement like marbles. "Now we are all hunkyv!" As we ursued our war. we said: "What upon earth did the young man mean hen he said to you, "We are all hunky ?" She replied: "Oh, it means that we are all right with a othr; -ood friends and all that sort of thing. Now, we walk on further and, coming up street, there heaves in sight a yellow-hair ed city girl, flanked on either side by a handsome boy. They are con ing up the street in high feather. They appear to be supremely "hun kv." As the yellow-haired city girl saw the vellow-haired country girl., she cried., "Hello! hello! hello! and ran forward. threw her arms around her kissed her and cried: "Oh, vou sweet, old rascal, you pull my leg, pull my leg." Then the boy on the right, who knew the country girl, said with great animation: "Oh. I know what you have come back here for. You have come to get a still tighter cinch on us poor sufferings boys." "Cinch !" Then the city girl pointing to the voting fellow on the left. who was a stran ger and had not yet leen introduc ed, said in a loud whisper to the country girl: "He's a daisy; he's a jeems Dandy. It will pay you to pull his leg a little.". At this our old eyes again dropped out and rolled on the pavement. Then the newly introduced boy bowed very gallantly and said: "Oh, Miss! s pull on me became very tight the moment I beheld her love-. ly eyes." Then the city girl tapped him on the shoulder and said: "Come off; that sounds bum." At this the other young man put up both hands before his face and said: "Oh, give us a rest-give us a rest; it's all bum, very bum!" At: this point a third handsome young fellow passed, smiling and lifting his hat very politely; and as he went on the country girl craned her neck after him. Then the city girl, pull ing her by the sleeve said: "Oh, i don't wast. your time looking at him. You needn't pull his leg, for he is a perfect Joe Mary." Then they all laughed immoderately and agreed to have a swagger time at Mrs. -'s german. As soon as the city girl got out of hearing, we said to the girl at our side: "Merciful heaven, child, what did that girl mean by telling you first to pull her own leg and then to pull the young man's leg? You' certainly wouldn't do such a thing as that under any possible circum stances, would yQu ?" Then the country girl almost died with laugh ter at our virtuous greenness and said: "Oh, that only means that you must taffy the boys a little so that they will take you out to dances and give you ice cream and flowers, etc. You know, when a boy's off at col lege nowadays, and wants a little money, he says that he pulls the old man's leg for a little dab. She did not mean that I must actually pull the young man's leg of flesh." We said: "Thank God for that much." Then we continued: "But what did she mean when she said that the young man who passed us without stopping was a 'Joe Mary ?' " The answer was, "Well he's a good boy enough-only most too good. He is sorter pious and doesn't dance the german, nor go to the theatre, nor scorch it on the wheel, nor treat to ice cream; consequently he's a Joe Mary." We could not help laughing heartily at this, and said to her: "Well, of the two classes, the 'Jeems Dandys'. and the 'Joe Marys', I would advise you to take a 'Joe Mary' if you ever get a chance, for he would be the more apt of the two to keep bread in your mouth." This universal and apparently unavoidable slang, pervades all classes of society, flaunts itself hor ribly and conspicuously in the news papers, and is even beginning to creep into the sacred pulpit. It is all very funny, and really very ex p~ressive. but it is extremely un genteel and dangerously subversive of the puiritv of our nolef language. English undefiled is quite, strong enough without it. CZAR MADE COCKTAIL. Yankee Doctor Taught Him the Trick and He Was Apt Pupil. Washington Post. "The present Czar of Russia learned the art of making an Amer ican cocktail from an American; physician," said a man in an uptown saloon, where he was sipping the >ld-fashioned tipple. "I have that. from the physician himself." "Not only that, but I sipped a :ock tail made from that same for ua, out of a andsomely carved cup which bore an incription froir the donor, who at the time wa Czarevitch, and which had contain ed the stirrup cup drunk at the lasi meeting between the Russian doc tor. "The doctor was a few years agc practicing in a city in Western NewN York. He was once an attache oJ the Russian court and had som( appointment, I have forgotten whal later on. *"One evening when he had beer called to see the Czarevitch the tall ran to American drinks. The neu doctor carried his own stock o: American liquors. lie spoke of th( American cocktail. which. at tha time, was the most called for mixe( drink at the bar. "The Czarevitch was amused a the name. He thought it was joke. The Yankee doctor assure( him of the contrary. "The Czarevitch said he woul( like to try the drink. The doctoi brought in his ingredients and pre pared a cocktail in the presence ol the Czarevitch, who was intenth interested. When he had tasted 11 he went into ecstasies and called foi more. "After he had sampled severa cocktails he proposed to make th( mixture himself, and learned witt much more ease than he has learnec some other things since. "When the American doctor wa4 leaving St. Petersburg the Czare. vitch had ascended the throne. Th< physician asked leave to pay hi! respects and was accorded an audi ence. "The Emperor reminded him tha he was an expert in mixing tho American tipple, and thereupot they repaired to a private roon where the Czar of all the Russia: produced some American whiske, and the ingredients necessary t< work out a cocktail. The Czar mix ed drinks for the two like a regula: barkeep and enjoyed it. "The Czar assured the docto: that it wvas the greatest bracer h< ever took. But then, you know, roy alty lays on its praise and compli ments with a trowel. However, thi doctor was probahly the only A mercan who ever had the ruler o Russia mix and give him a cock tail." AHap And God's ( Whi Words are ina thanks and heal and heroic effor ever ready and friends and felic property from C of December 24 spond to our cal ing. Words car that dwells with have sustained Love, Esteem ai and enter the N towards any hi choicest blessini stant aim, to de: was manifested ONKIL No, Not One. "Governor Hevward acted wisely and well in promptly firing Magis trate Ulmer, of Barnwell county, for his slack procedure in the mat ter of taking charge of the two prisoners who were lynched in that county only a few days ago." Spartanburg Herald. I fas there been any occasion. contemporary, on which your Gov erni)r did not act wiselv and well? Governor Heyward has command ed the uniform respect and admira tion of all outsiders who have look e( in on South Carolina affairs. Charlotte Observer. A Chance to Display Them Nell-Miss Schalp tells me she is going to learn to play the harp. Belle-What nonsense! She has not any talent for music. Nelf-Oh, she knows that; but she has lovely arms.-Philadelphia Ledger. Did vou ever think how much trouble was caused in this world by blabbing? 14th Car, Mal Choice Tear EXPECTED And we will make som Flour until Ist January, some red hot prices-on scriotions. We have p goods, and are prepare Come right along and S will be convinced. Pe~c sell the goods at the pr does it make to you wh Eas you get the goods. MOSE] py Ne hoicesi Bles te and Bi dequate to expr tfelt appreciatior ts that were mad rue fire-fighters E w-citizens who h4 estruct ion by firE 1905. Not a m I--all were ready, not express our i n our hearts tow; ome loss, but we d Affection of ou ew Year without a ~man creature, s upon all. It sh erve the Love an towards us in the Yours with ~ET T OPERA HOUSE. Earhardt, Stewart & Wells, Ngrs. The Victoria Hindoo Troupe Of Bombay and Calculta, India Will begin a three nights engagement On Thursday Night, Jan. 4, when they will present THE MYSTERIES OF INDIA A dumbfounding exhibition of spirit force that borders on the supernatural and startles all beholders. Finest illus trated songs sung at evezxy performance. Singing, dancing and music and weird scenes of jugglery. Popu'ar prices. Reserved seats on sale at Gilder & Weeke.) On first night ladies will be admitted free if accompanied by gentleman with one paid ticket, or two ladies admitted on one paid ticket. ing 1,400 Bbls. iessee Flour TUESDAY, e Christmas prices on 1906. We will make goods of most all de lenty new, nice nobby d to do the right thing. ive us a look and you pie say Moseleys can't ices. What difference at people say as long -EY BROS. v Year sings IAIi ack. ess our sincere i for the manful e by our noble, s well as by our lped to save our on the morning an failed to re willing and wait sincere gratitude. rdsyoualL. We feel rich in the r fellow-citizens. n angry thought nd pray God's all be our con d Affection that hour of need. obligation, N E R .