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 <ur live* aublim*
And, departing, leave behind ua
Footprint* on the aamia of tine,
which Is beautiful, no doubt, but much
more poetical than practicable.
However that may !>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* <?t*tirri;l l urui.
Corn, fiom the <a n which it
can he e-nrerted into silage, I* per
haps entlthd to fcand nt the head of
ail forage plants for this purpose. The
solid stems, flat leaf and proiier ratio
between its liquid and solid constitu
ents seem to favor it for this work.
The plant however. Is comparatively
poor In protein.
Of the legumes > 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.
Men's Overcoats 81 75
Waterproof Mackintoshes.. 1 15
18-year-old Boys' Suits f >r 1 00
Little Iloys' Suits for 1 75
Men's Sunday Shoes from
85c. to #4.50 per pair.#
Men's Prolan 11.25 shoe for !)0c
Women's everyday shoes for 82c
Women's Sunday Shoes
from 82c to S t per pair.
O'.jc Home spun for 5%c
Dress I'laids for 5%c
Calico 4%c
Nice Dress Cassimere 10c j>er yd.
Nats, Caps, Trunks, Valises, Etc.,
AKE ALSO SELLING YEKY CHEAP.
5 ...NEW GOODS... i
x &
X Just received at our store a large stock of new goods ?
X for the fall and winter trade. Big stock of ?
x Dry Goods, Dress Goods and Trimmings, *
* NOTIONS AND HATS. 4
X M
X Shoes to fit and suit everybody. Dress Shoes a
X specialty. ?
1 Clothing lor Men, Boys and Children %
^ It will please you in quality and price ^
X The ladies are invited to examine our new millinery. ?
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2 . BENSON, N. C. 5
C A28?3m B
NEW STOCK.
This is to call your attention to our new stock of Hardware
recently opened up in cur new.double story brick building.
WE HAVE
stoves. Hollow ware, carpenters' Tools,
BUILDING MATERIAL,
i Farm Implements Tinware, Crockery, Wagon and Buggy
Material, Buggies, Harness, Mill Belting, and a full line of
General Hardware. A full line of both
WAGON AND BUGGY HARNESS.
Several kinds of buggies with prices down cheap. A solid
car of stoves on band. Every one fully guaranteed. By get
ting them in car lots we can sell very cheap.
September 1st we shall open
A General Wood and Blacksmith Shop
FOR HORSE AND MULE SHOEING,
Repairing Carts, Wagons, &c. Carts and wagons made to
order. We are fully prepared to do any business in
our line with you and ask your patronage.
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