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FOUR “James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, the Man and Senator as he Really is” As Pictured in New York World Alleync Ireland in the New York World of last Sunday write* very in terestingly of Senator James Hamil ton Lewis, of Illinois, the man and senator as he really is. Inasmuch as Mr. Lewis is one of the most distin guished, us well as the most pictures que, figures in the United States sen ate, and in American public life, the article by Mr. Ireland will be of much interest In Augusta. However, there is additional reason why the article is of peculiar Interest In Augusta and it is because Senator Lewis spent his boyhood here and right now his father is living in Augusta on Harper street near the Wilhenford hospital. Mr. Ireland suys that Mr. Lewis studied law after going to the then territory of Washington, leaving the Inference that he did not study It until after he left Georgia. As a matter of fact young I-ewls studied In the law office of a prominent Augusta attor ney and afterwards went to Savan nah where he went Into the law of fices of prominent attorneys of that elty. It was while In Savannah that he heard the "call of the wild" and left for the great Northwest country because It offered greater opportuni ties Mr. Ireland’s article, which The Herald reproducea In full, follows: (By Alleyns Ireland.) "It Is not a high type of Intelligence which mistakes civility for servility.” Thus, Senator James Hamilton Lew is of Illinois, bored and perhaps made a little indignant by what appears to him In his less cheerful moments to V>c a persistent habit on the part of undlscernlng persons to sum up his extremely useful and varied career In n few parrot-llko comments upon his dress and his appearance. "My beard," said the senator, "if you will pardon my referenee to an Inti mate personal matter, has been de scribed ns a remarkable work of na ture, aa a hirsute forest bristling with sparks of fire, and as an ambrosial chest protector. I have been cnlled the Aurora Borealis of Illinois, the I*l nk Whiskered Prodigy, the Man Who Made Whiskers a rollttfnl As set, tho Dink-Fringed Political Kx pert. Many a horns has been built, many a family thrives upon the stendy nnd apparently rising market value of Jests about my clothe* end my man ners. Some Superficial Peculiarities. "Now, my dear fellow," concluded the senator. "I am glad to contribute to the prosperity of the country by having tny superficial peculiarities furnish material for the struggling ef forts of the budding geniuses of Jour nalism; but I hnve done my share, ami it Is time that our experitnenlal lit erary citizens should turn I heir atten tion to the gentleman who, so the neivspnpers tell us, has dlseovered a Method of breeding bine pigs, or to the Inventor of the noiseless hammer. "Pray forgive me If I show some slight signs of Impatience, but tho fact Is that there are moments when it is borne in upon me with some force that Jests about a gentleman's whisk ers and waistcoats ..fall considerably short of blograpliHial completeness, ami dll little credit fd the discernment of certain writers, and. show less re spect for sensible readers." The senator. 1 venture to think, does himself les than Justice I r nr tny oivn part. 1 may say that all I Imd read about tho senator had served to fix ill my mini! the idea that so far from his having achieved fume through the possession of pink his engaging personality and his un questioned abilities which had gone far to redeem pink whiskers from the un merited dlsesteem Into which they have fallen since the American wom an’s decadent taste compelled the male Inhabitants of this great Republic to banish from their chins the patent In signia of manhood. Whiskered Men Past end Present. Who will have the hardihood to east aside the shield of anonymity nnd to go on record under his own name as n deerler of whiskers? How will such a man or woman. If such there he, ex plain away tho whiskered splendor of Plato. Socrates, Theocritus, Demos thenes, Buskin. Dnrwln. Rrownlng. Tennyson, Lowell. Longfellow, Greeley, Marcus Aurelius. Brahma, Garibaldi, Lord Kelvin, Simon Newcome, Dick ens, Tol»|py. Itndln. Alfred Russel ■Wallace, Sir Oliver Lodge, ],ord Sal isbury. Oeorse llernnid Klmw. Oounod, Nnlnt-Saent, I'<l*llo, Joachim ami the |>re*ent minority loader of the hnuae of representatives? If foolish prejudice or a profound Ignorance of what whiskered men have done for the pro tree*, culture and en tertainment of the world haa Indeed mr.de the poaaeaainn of whiskers it' handicap In life’* struggle on thla von tlnent. It la to the greater credit of the eenntor that there la not on* un is hlakered man In a hundred thouaand of hi* conteirporarle* who haa a rec ord of honorable achievement which can compare with that of Jamea Ham ilton Lewi*. Another point la to h* noted. The senators nama la often abbreviated, inelegantly but affeetlonately, to plain ■'Jim Ham," and 1 have even heard-an entirely friendly and cirmpllmentary reference to him wherein he waa dla- Kuleed aa Jim the Whlak. Here the record of hlatory should reconcile the senator to the world-old custom of assigning to prominent persons nick names baaed upon their personal pe culiarities. In the company of Wil liam Rufus. Richard of the Lion Heart, IVpin the Short. Robert Curthoae, the I.lttla Corporal. Sorklesa Simpson of Kansas, and the late John Flake, who w«a know n aa the F ndlatrlhutcd' Mid dle, Senator James Hamilton may rest content thnt even behind so rode an Idiom as Fink Fringed Jim there lies neither malice nor contempt, hut rather a spirit of familiar appro bation. Tha Manner of a Gentleman. Rut leat there should lie a few dull and uninformed souls who believe that providence haa set an Impassable barrier between whiskers snd wisdom end who know nothin* of the sena tor'# Interesting and distinguished ca reer, I herewith lay hare my own Im pression of the senator, and r *cord. all too briefly, somethin* of hla adven ture* and aehlexementa. Nature has dune well by James H imllton Lewis. He has breadth of n Ind. a quirk tnlelll*enee, unusual alfta of observation and memory, and the** qualities are made effective by a more than ordinary measure of en ergy and vitality Envy alone could *l\# birth to any unfavorable descrip tion of the senator's appearance. A »h*ht but well proportioned frame is • urmounted by a bead which bears the unmistakable atims of Intellectual Power A hl*h and broad forehead, prominent and overhan*ln* brow* clear blue eye* set well apart, and an habitual expression of alertness com bine to create an Impression of a char acter at once genial and forceful. The senator's manners have perhaps attracted more attention than his (to be quite truthful reddish gray beard. It Is a manner seldom met with In this country, but one which would pass un remarked In the higher ranks of Eu ropean society. The voice Is carefully modulated, the speech Is chosen with a nice regard to the courteous phrase, the conversation Is Infused with a pleasant urbanity relieved by a habit of suave gesture. It is the manner of a gentleman as that phrase Is inter preted in every capital from Vienna to London. As In regard to his manners, so in regard to ids clothes the senator’s late ban followed the European model. Clothe* which would pass without re mark on a May morning in St, James's street attract a good deal of attention In a country of which It has been said that all its men dress as if they went to the same tailor. Washington was inexcusably astonished last sum mer when Henator Lewis appeared at the capitol in a cream-colored suit, white shoes, white socks, a white waistcoat, a lavender silk shirt, a white silk tie, a black silk eyeglass cord, a lavender tinted handkerchief and white silk gloves. Early Triumphs in the Far West. I pass now to the senator’s career. Born in 1867 at Danville, Va., James Hamilton Lewis found himself—after a course at two colleges, one In Geor gia, one In Virginia as a youth of 21 out In Heat tie looking for work. It was not part of his character to loaf around until he could find a Job that suited him; he took what he could get. Ills first employment was as a timekeeper at tho docks, hut after a short while he became a longshore man and Joined the union His spare time he devoted to the study of law; and It was one year after his arrival on the coast that he was admitted to the bar and In one year more that he was elected during the last days of Washington's territorial existence as a member of Its first state senate. In 189# Lewis was elected Congress man-at-large ns a Democrat, being the only Democrat who has ever been elected to congress from the State of Washington from that day to this. The outbreak of the Spanish war found Congressman Lewis a lieutenant-col onel of the First Washington Regi ment and he served on the staff of Gen. Brooke in Cuba and later on that 'of Gen. Grant In Porto Rico. It la Interesting to recall that It wns upon Congressman Lewis’ resolution demanding the recognition of Cuban Independence that tho Spanish war broke out, following the blowing up of the Maine. The first sign that Lewis was mak ing his presence felt at Washington Was Ids appointment in 1899 ns a member of tho Anglo-American Joint High Commission to settle a pending boundary dispute with England; hut the following year lie received a high er compliment. At the Democratic convention held at Kuiibhs City In 1900 Ids name was presented by all the Pacific coast states except California ns candidate for the Vice-Presidency. After some hnllotlng ho threw Ids votes to Adlat Stevenson of Illinois. Importent Success at Law. In the full of 1902 he moved to Chi cago and opened a law office there, and three years later he was made corporation counsel of the city. It was during Ids Incumbency of this of fice that the great fight took place to have declared Invalid all the Chicago street-car franchises and to secure their municipal ownership. Against all the talent that the money of the corporations could secure, tho conten tions of James Hamilton Lewis pre vailed, nnd Chicago recovered control of Its street ear lines, and under the new arrangements the city gets 65 per cent, of tho net receipts nnd retains the powers of regulation and super vision. This wns followed by an at tack upon the gus companies and the electric light nnd water corporations, and here again Lewis scored a victory, with the result that Chicago controls and regulates completely nnd owns partially Its light and water services. Tho senator in discussing these mat ters never falls to pay a tribute to Gov. Dunne, who was mayor of Chi cago during that exciting period nnd Inaugurated these reforms and whose policies the senator ns chief law offi cer of tho city established In the courts and aided in enrrvtng out. The next fight In which James Ham •non Lewis engaged was one for the recovery of back taxes from large cor porations nnd millionaire estates end the success .which had attended his Richness > In a Breakfast Dish —sweet, appetizing and easily digested—ls mip plied abundantly in the substantial nourishment of whole wheat and barley. Grape-Nuts FOOD made from the rich, nutritious parts of these grains, come to you in the form of crisp, nutty granules, full of health-building properties. Grape-Nuts long baked—is thoroughly dox trim zed and digests usually in about an hour. Heady to eat from the packages with cream 'mid sugar—delicious! “There’s a Reason’’ for Crape-Nuts sold bv Grocers everywhere. MICHII FINE FOB WEAK KIDNEYS Mixed With Juniper Is Old Folks’ Recipe for Clogged Kidneys and Backache. Most folks forget that the kidneys, like the bowels, get sluggish and clog ged and need a flushing occasionally, else we have backache and dull misery in the kidney region, severe head aches, rheumatic twinges, torpid liver acid stoina'-h, sleeplessness and all sorts of bladder disorders, dizzy spells, spots before the eyes, frequent desire to urinate. To avoid above troubles you simply must keen your kidneys active and clean, and the moment you feel any of the above symptoms, get a good sized bottle of Stuart's Buchu and Juniper Compound from any good drug store, take a tahlespoonlul in a glass of water after meals. Stop eating sweets or sugar. In a few days and your kidneys will then act fine and natural. Stuart’s Buchu and Juniper Is harmless to flush clogged kidneys and stimulate them to nor mal activity. It also neutralizes the acids in tiie urine so It no longer hurts to pass water, thus ending blad der disorders Everybody should take Stuart's Bu chu and Juniper now and then to keep their kidneys clean. Be sure you get Stuart’s Buchu and Juniper. previous labors crowned his latest ef forts. The city treasury was enrich ed by the sum of three million dollars and a valuable precedent was estab lished. In view of such a record of notable achievement it is not to he wondered at that Lewis should have received 280,000 votes as unanimous Democratic nominee for the senate in the prima ries of 1912, or that the year 1913 should have found him a, Washington lepreHcnting Illinois for the long term. One month after his arrival in Washington Senator Lewis was elect ed Democratic whip of the senate, and within six months he was elected as sistant floor leader by unanimous vote of the Democratic caucus. The sena tor’s more recent record is familiar to everybody. A n;an who has so much good work to his credit and who may look for ward to many years of usefulness need worry himself very little about the good-natured Jests of a humor-starved community, nor need he take too se riously the advice which Henator Tom Corwin of Ohio once gave to a young man: "If you expect to ho respected for your wisdom, never make another humorous speech or entertain with bright remarks another gathering, lie a solemn ass.” DR. BYRD TO PREACH AT ST. JOHN’S ON SUNDAY Dr. C. W. Byrd, a former pastor of the St. John's Methodist Church, will lie In the city Sunday for the purpose of preaching the commencement ser mon of the J’aine College. Tho sermon for the college will he preached in the afternoon. Dr. Byrd will also preach at St. John's nnd n great congregation wiil greet him. 'Hr. Byrd yas one of the most popular nnd acceptable pastors the church has had. During Dr. Byrd's pastorate, the magnificent par sonage and tho commodious Sunday School rooms were built, giving to St. John’s one of tho best equipped church plants In the state. Dr. Byrd will prohahly he accom panied by his wife, and they will be entertained in the charming home of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus H. Brown. DEBATE ON WAR’ TONIGHT AT THE COURT HOUSE At the court house, half past eight o'clock tonight a debate of special Interest will toko place. The at tendance will not be confined to mem bers of the debating society, as nnv person w.io thinks a live Intellectual combat worth hearing Is cordially Invited. The suhleet for this debate will he: "Resolved, that so far the blessings of the war have outweighed Its curses." HER HOME COMPANION. "The new neighbor across the way sent over to borrow my Home Compan ion thla afternoon." "Where has she ever seen me?" "I don't think she has evey seen you. Why?" 'lf she nas never Seen me why does she want to borrow me?" THE AUGUSTA AUGUSTA, GA. The Following Quotations Explain Why THE WISE DRY GOODS- CO. Is the place to do your shopping if you want the best merchandise for the least money. 15c 40 inch white lawns at 7 l / 2 c 20c 45-in. Indian Head, at 15c 25c white Voiles 10c Regular 25c fancy white goods, in checks and stripes, sheer and fine at 10c 5c to 7 l-2c Laces at 2^c 25c Shadow Laces at 10c 50c Silk Boot Hose, some slight imperfections in sone of them caused from the ma chinery, yours on this ac count at .19c Ladies* regular 50c Gloves, in black, white and colors, at 19c THE WISE DRV GOODS CO. Children's 15c fancy Socks at 10c Children’s 25c fancy Socks at 15c Regular 25c Windsor Ties, at 19c 15c floral bordered Scrims at 10c Ladies’ SI.OO Umbrellas, at 75c 35c Colored Ratines at... 19c 15c Turkish Towels at ...10c Large size heavy Turkish Towels, worth 25c at 19c Men's 25c Silk Socks at.. 15c FRIDAY, MAY 29.