Gathered In and About the Halls of Congress. Original Campaigning Methods of Sen ator Cockrell?How the Gentle Art of Getting Votes Is Pursued In Mis souri?A Crescent Shaped Finger Is Sometimes a Good Thing?Surgery In the Civil War?Remarkable Mem ory of a Statesman. (('??[? right, luOl, l?j Champ Clark.] Longfellow says: Livet of treat men all m We can make e, as these sto ries are read by many embryo states men. an occasional glimpse at the acts, accidents, achievements and qualities by which the successful ones have climbed high may aid those who are contemplating the ascent of the diffi cult ladder of fame. If the top Hoteliers In politics could be Induced to give the minutiae of their careers, the ambitious youngsters would lie much benefited and greatly surprised, but this is precisely what most of them will not do. Nor are they usually accompanied by Boswells to set them before the world as they real ly are. At St. Ilelcua Napoleon re fused to perudt history to be read to him on the ground that it was mostly lies. As biography Is only a branch of history, I guess the wonderful warrior would have placed It in the same cate gory, and surely nobody could have blamed him for such a caper if he ever read any of the biographies of himself. General Frauds Marlon Cockrell la one of the most successful of all our public men. Anecdotes alwut him are scarce as liens' teeth. In my judgment his success is due nearly entirely to one thing?that is, he has religiously obeyed the Scriptural injunction, "Whatsoever thy hand tiudcth to do, do with thy might." He was a careful and painstaking country lawyer. He wua a careful, valorous fighting volunteer soldier. He Is a patient aud Indefatigable worker In the senate. Senator Chandler, an Intense Republican, not long sluce ad vised the Democrats to nominate Cock rell for president on any old platform, a tribute from a political op[>oneut well worth treasuring up. Cockrell's Campaigns. One reason of Cockrell's wondrous bold on t he a (Tedious of Missourlans Is bis method of campaigning. There are now only about half a dozeu coun ties In Missouri without railroads, hut when he first came to the senate nearly half the counties In the stale were des titute of those necessary adjuncts of modern civilization. Naturally, the average campaign ora tor prefers speaking in the cities and large towns, where railroads render traveling easy and good hotels abound. Not so with General CockrelL lie re membered that most of the cities and j big towns In Missouri were Ilepublic an and most of the outlying, sparsely settled counties Democratic. Every county has at least one member of the legislature, and Coekrell prefers votes In the legislature to glory and fire works in the cities. So he, and fre quently he alone, would stump those counties off the railroads, lie travel- , ed lu buggies when he could and in spring wagons or even jolt wagons when he bad to. It reminded him of i army life, don't you know. The con sequence was the other aspirants for a senatorial toga got tbelr names and speeches and pictures In the metro politan papers and Coekrell got the rotes In the legislature. An Arithmetical Speaker. Coekrell is "an arithmetical orator." If I may be permitted to coin a phrase, and I don't see why I can't Other speakers may soar at will lu the blue empyrean and feed the audience on gimcracks of eloquence, but be sticks close to figures. He revels in the mul tiplication table. Others may pour ver bal vitriol on Republicans, but Cock- ' rell. though a stanch partisan, con founds them by pages of figures. For example, he will say: "Fellow citizens. In such and such a year the total ex- i penses of the government were three hundred milllou, five hundred and forty-seven thousand, three hundred aod fifty-eight dollars and thirteen cents. Two years later tbey amounted to five hundred and sixteen million, one hundred and sixty-nine thousand, four hundred and seventy-one dollars and ninety-seven cents, showing an In crease of two huudred and fifteen mil lions, six hundred aud twenty-two thousand, one hundred aod thirteen .dollars and eighty six cents." And so on for two or three hours, glvlug col umn after column of figures without a note or scrap of paper before him. No body ever caught him tripping on the exact amount, and nobody ever heard him leave off the odd cents. As no body can dispute bis figures and as the most ingenious campaign orator or most sensitive political opponent can not construe addition and subtraction Into abuse, Cockrell's arithmetical ora tory offends nobody aud Instructs many. Vest Is the best man In Mis souri to send Into strong Democratic counties to arouse enthusiasm among the faithful, but be makes Bepubllcans so mad that they nearly have the apo plexy. Coekrell Is the boss band to speak In F.epnblican counties, where > nit feats of arithmetical oratory charm all who hear him ami operate at toothing tlrnp on the disgruntled Each strung In hit own way. they aup pleiaeut -nob other t ? an extraordinary degree. wild together, side by tide, have grown gray In the tenale and held their teati a long. li ng time. Senator "sskrell Direct* a Surgeon. One day I went over to the aenate clou..room uud fohr.d Senator Cockrel) quh-tly lunching off a big red apple. I anted hint liovv many timet he wan wounded during the civil war. "That's hard to tell." lie ri piled. "Iiocauae nt one d' lililtiou of the word wonuil la unl vert-ally uceepted. At Corinth my whls kert were cut off by a bullet and my throut grazed, but no blood was drawn Alan a apeut aboil raked my thigh juat above the knee, and. while it did uot break the akin, a large black spot came there and was very tore for a time. At franklin 1 received two bullet woiiuda iu toy right arm, and the amall bone of my left leg waa broken by a mltilc bull. The Drat time I lost any blood waa at Kcneaaw Mountain. I waa holding a dinpatch In Ixitb hands, reading It, when a shell exploded neut me. A piece of It hit me In both bauds, barking two or three lingers on the left and knocking off two or three nnds ami breaking the next to the little tin ger on the right at the second Joint." With that he held up his right baud! and showed me the broken linger III the shape of a creseeut. "When I went to the field hospital to have my hands dressed. I ashed Surgeon Dysart if the broken finger would la- stiff, lie re plied that It undoubtedly would. 1 said, 'Doetor. If I live through the war. 1 will have a great deal of writing to do the rest of my life, so 1 want you to set that linger Just In the shape it would naturally he in when I bold a pen in my rigid hand.' He laughed heartily ami made fun of my proposi tion. but I persisted, and be set It In the crescent shape you see it In. It doesn't bother me In writing, but would have been a nuisance If be bud set it straight." I couldn't help thinking bow different bis career might have been had I>i- Dysart set it straight, for then he might not have written those hundreds of thousands of letters which have done so much to prolong his ten ure in the senate. A crescent shaped linger is a good thing to have in the family?souiet lines. Cockrell'3 Merr.ory. Hut his endless letter writing is not the only aid to Ins senatorial longevity. Ills innt-\< ions memory for names and faces bus hcl|M-d lo keep him in his curule chair When he made his losing race for governor in 1871. being defeated by only one-sixth of one vote In the state convention the closest shave on rec ord bis present brilliant and cloqueDt colleague. Ceorge (iraliaiu Vest, was one of his competitors, and thereby bungs a tale. Wlien the war closed, so the story runs. Cockrell took home with him the roster of his brigade, with the post- | ollice address of every unit) carefully noted ou that Important and valuable document. When in their stumping tour they approached any particular town. Cockrell would use that roster to refresh his memory as to the names of all his soldiers who had their habi tat there or thereabout. 80 when he met them, though ten years had Inter vened. he would slap them familiarly | on the back and address them cordially as Hill or Joe or Tom. as the case might be, never missing the mark. Of course the uieu were delighted that the gener al remembered them and were vocifer ous supporters of their old commander. So there Is method in memory as well as In madness. Cockrell's memory performances dis gusted Vest exceedingly. One day somebody asked him bow he was get ting on running for governor, and be replied: "Not any too well. It seems to me that Cockrell's brigade must have composed at least one-half the entire Confederate army and most of the other half." Of course there are tricks In all trades, even In the exalted one of elec tioneerlug for the governorship of a great state or for a seat In the senate of the United States: but. after allow ing much for exaggeration by both friends and enemies as to Cockrell's prodigious memory, there is enough residuum of truth to show that he Is a remarkable man In that respect. W. B. Steele, nicknamed "Busk," for many years county clerk of Lafayette county. Mo., told me that from 1864, when, a beardless boy, he was In the %atne hospital with General Cockrell. till 1880 they never met. In the mean time Steele had grown a full beard. Cockrell visited Lafayette county In his campaigning that year, saw Steele a half block away on the streets of Lex ington and not only recognized blm In stantly, but addressed blm by bis so briquet of "Buck." It goes without saying that "Buck" was till bis dying day a thick and thin, "whole hog' friend to the general?yea. "Buck' and all bis kith aDd kin ? Strict Construction of a Statute. The late lion. Marriott Broslus of Pennsylvania once said: "When old Judge Bon Wade was a circuit Judge In Ohio, there was a taw 1 on the statute books of that state pro blblting tbe testimony of u uegro to be heard in court. Wade was an Intense abolitionist. One day In tbe trial of a rase a man black as Kroluis was offer ed as a witness I lie law vers got Ipto 1 wrangle nlmnl It When tiny were through. Judge V -nf. d livorod htm j self thus "The statute wt.teh provides' that a negro shall not testify In court Is a disgrace to the state, ami I will construe It strictly. Counsel have pro duced ao evidence to show that this man Is a negro: therefore. Mr. Clerk. Bwcar tbe witnc ssi' Perhaps," added Mr. Broslus. with a chuckle, "Judge Wade was color blind." Cnaar Cla*k. ; C - NCERNING SILAGE. It Dii? nn Important Flr'tl of larfal* * 11 ikb on (lit* lover is probably the most valuable plant both for bay and A SILAGE FED COW. silage. Its heavy yield, richness in protein und soil renovating qualities will command the attention of all pro gressive agriculturists. Clover, with, the iKisslble exception of alfalfa, can probably be grown and placed in the silo at a lower cost than any other for age crop. Vetch is another valuable legume. It will thrive in a greater variety of soils than clover and can lie sown as a catch crop either in the spring or fall. It Is very palatable to stock ami about equal with clover In nutritive principles and adaptability for silage. Alfalfa is also a good silage crop. This plant under favorable conditions will yield a crop representing perhaps a greater value per acre than any other forage crop ferown. With the silo this crop can be made of inestimable value to the dairying and stock growing in dustry in semlarid section* l'ield peas make a good silage crop. They are rich In protein, but stock do not relish them quite so well as clover anil alfalfa. Syme unsatisfactory re sults have followed attempts to ensilo peas and vetch when grown with grain. While the grain will materially aid in holding the vetch and pea up. thus facilitating the harvesting of the crop, too large a proportion of grain is undesirable when the crop is to be en slloed. The hollow stems of the grain carry more or less air into the silo, which is thought to accelerate fer mentation and consequent deteriora tion of the silage. The best forage plants for silage are generally those with solid stems and which carry over 20 per cent of solid matter In their physical structure. Very succulent plants, such as cab bage. rape and immature corn, clover, alfalfa or vetch, when carrying much less thuu 20 per cent of solid matter, are unsuited for silage. Recorded results of a large number of experiments with silage warrants the conclusion that plants are In the best condition for silage when they are fairly well matured. Corn is seemingly In the best condition for the silo when the kernels are nicely glazed, Just after the roasting ear stage. The problem of sweet and sour silage continually comes up, and much the orizing has been indulged in. That some silage is exceedingly sour Is a well known fact, but the cause of this condition is not well known. Results obtained from experiments seem to in dicate that there are at least two con ditions which favor the development of organic acids in silage?1. e., imma turity of the plants and extreme com pactness of the silage. A good ex ample of the former is shown in Imma ture corn silage. Corn silage which though extremely acid was exceptionally well preserved, possessed an agreeable odor, and cows ate It with avidity. There were no ap preciable harmful results from feeding this exceedingly sour silage. The period of feeding, however, was brief, only ex tending over two weeks. The first cut represents a dry Short born cow which from Jan. 1 to May 1 SUUKP FEU ON" SILAGE. was fed dsill.v. without era in, 40 pounds of clover silage and what mixed clover hay she would eat up clean. This cow not only retained her excellent coudl tion on the above ration, but made a sati fac ory gain In live weight. T " second cut represents Cotswold ewes which were taken off from rape at: I clover pasture Dec. 1. 1900. and put >,i i lover > .1 go. mixed hay and a light rr.th n of grain. This was fed until March 15. 1'>'! 1. v. beti they were photo graphed. The Illustrations are Intro duced simply to show that silage has an important field of usefulness on the general farm.?J. lVithycombe. Oregon .Station Coiiseuiietires, A woman t! i ; per nut on the I rocdslde. and the const t;"rn<-es were a buggy ruined, a ycuug horse spoiled, a child crippled for life. i A man lit n match in a ham. and the consequences were the barn was burn ed, the stock roasted, the grain a total loss.?l-'artu Journal. Apples are likely to be Cne pr perty this fall. ANGORA GOATS. Mohair Profitable Erea at Low Price* -Amoug the Weeds. It 1* true that there is but little de maud for mohair Just now. My mo hair was sold at 26 cents per pound, much lower than ever before, but the Angora gout Industry Is still a good business, even If we should not get over 20 cents per pound for mohair and 6 cents per pound for Angora mut ton, and where we want weeds and brush killed the Angora goat is a great help. A few years ago the Colorado river washed a wjy a great deal of my Held fence und covered the bottom laud with cockloburs nU along the river. It looked like a forest of cockleburs. To save the crop I had to build a new fence, joining the river on the upper side of the Held, so the goats could not keep down the weeds alo: g the river inside of the Held, but they kept all the cockleburs eaten up clean as far as they could go. I.ast winter I hired help to beat down the ripe cockleburs from the dead bushes inside the Held and built a new fence of eight wires parallel with the river and opened the whole bottom to the goats this spring after shearing. At that time the coc kleburs and elder bushes bad entirely covered the entire bottom for the dis tance of nearly a mile, and it looked like the goats would get lost In there, but after about two months I had the great pleasure to see that the bottom was a* clean from cockleburs and elder as pecan gatherers may wish for. Rut there is one weed that my goats do not like. It is the wild sage, and of the wild cnstor beans along the river they do not eat much. I think that sheep will eat wild sage, but do not know if they eat the wild castor bean. I hired help to keep down the castor beun, which the goats will do If there are not too many of them. I think it would be a good plan to keep a few sheep among the goats to keep down wild sage also, concludes II. T.'I'uchs In Texas Farm and Ranch. HAIRY VETCH. A ForNKf i'lnnt Now In (lie Forf icronntl Fur Fall Sowing. Hairy vetch is so much in the agri cultural foreground just now that the accompanying sketch may not come amiss to those who have not seen the plant. It Is a perennial or biennial from western Asia and has given such HAIRY VETCH, fine promise In various parts of tbe United Sttaes as to elicit much ap proval. The seed is generally sown la drills, with some kind of grain to bold it upright. It is recommended to sow In fall?Au gust to middle of September?for winter and spring forage. If sown with rye and successfully grown, it will give excel lent feed at a time when there is usual ly a shortage. Wheat and vetch also furnish good green fodder In spring. Mornlns Glories For Sheep Forage. Morning glories, the annual purple flowered kind, will yield 40 tons of green feed per acre, are drought proof and highly nutritious, equal to tbe best clover, and can be cut, cured and thrashed. I sow them all over my farm. Sheep annihilate them. They never go to water when they can get them. They can be sown in young cul tivated corn and the whole cut up and shocked. They will cut five to seven tons of dry feed per acre.?J. C. Nor 1 ton, Kansas. Varied Crops and Irrigation. Growing a variety of crops lengthens out the irrigating season and enables the farmer to make better use of his continuous flow, but even this does not even up the difference between maxi mum supply and maximum use. The greatest necessity is storage until tbe water is needed. , Drlef Mention. Have you a bulletin board with whatever you have for sale posted up? That's a good way to find buyers. A big cotton crop means a scarcity of feed crops, poor cattle and horses, a heavy outlay for bacon and other things that ought to be made at home, short rations of butter and milk and I many additional things and, worst of all. a low price for cotton, says Farm and Ranch. Georgia Is said to have planted 2,000, 000 fruit trees tbe past spring. There can be no mistake In planting plenty of fall potatoes. Turnips, beets, beans, butter beans. Irish potatoes anil cabbage are some of the best paying crops for the fnll gar I den. The weeds, briers and pushes cut from fence corners and out of the way places had better be burned. It Is not an uncommon sight in tbe country round St. I.ouls to see melon patches, etc.. In sink holes and places that are usually wasted by the average farmer. HURRAH! For Kenly Bargain House. S. KLAWANSKY Has returned from Baltimore and New York with a large stock of Clothing, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Capes, Dry Goods, Notions AM) A COMPLETE LINE OF GENTS FURNISHINGS, ALSO A NICE LINE OF A UP^TO'DATE FURNITURE, A Coine to him for your bargains. He will wave you 25 per cent, in the dollar. Carefully look over the following prices and decide for yourself. Men's $4.50 Suit for $ 2 25 Men's $10 Suit for G 50 Men's $18 Suit for 12 50 Men's Pants from 72c. to .*4 50 per pair. 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