The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-27

at home are all like himself, the descend
ants of the original pioneers who entered
the land. He keeps no clerk here, but does
all of his own work. even to directing seeds
but / suppose be finds that easier than Dig
ging post holes or blowing up a new clear
ing Last week he celebrated his golden
wedding-fifty years with one wife.
NORTHERN FARMER SENATORS.
The northern senators are mostly small
farmers and the southern mostly large
planters Mr.. Morrill, spends oil the time
he can on his little Vermont farm Of sixty
five acres, and never enjoys himself 80 we'll
as when he is there. But he is almost al
ways present in his senatorial seat aud looks
younger and more vigorous to-day at 50
thanGMr Edmunds did when he resigned at
60. He has been 10 congress almost forty
years.
Senator Casey of North Dakota was sent
here as a farmer by the farmers. He is one
Of the biggest farmers in the land, having
the control of over 300 900 acres and owning
a good deal of it hims-lf. Irrigation is his
continual text and he expects to make his
state garden by bringing to the surface
the vast lake which underlies it. The CUES
! ton OF fencing his immense domain recalls
! Senator Farwell of Illinois, whose Texas
fences, it was said, enoompassed 5000 900
acres OF land, and we're enough, if strung
out, to reach from Galveston to Chicago.
THE SENATORS FROM DIxrE's LAND.
MIR. Vance is a senatorial farmer. Around
his country seat in the mountains OF North
Carolina, which be calls "Gombroon,n he
o Wns several thousand acres Of land, little
of 1t arabic, but most of it covered with
some OF the best timber in the United
States. He got it for song, and 1t has
grown very valuable on his hands. He
pines for his farm constantly when in Wash
ington, and he not only enjoys life there but
dispenses large hospitality.
George of Mississippi is probably the most
extensive planter in the Senate, owning
some thousands OF acres. Just now he is
disguised with the markets, and is holding
his cotton for rise. In appearance he is
| neutrality-suspicious. medIum-sized, brown
faced, tangle-haired man, specialized and
with faded out, stubby beard, and with
clothes that are reported to have been cut
out with fret saw. He Is one Of the three
! or four best lawyers in the Senate. He is
said to have foresworn carriages and swal-
low-tail coats, and he has no respect for
hveried coachmen with bugs on their hats.
The plain, swarthy man scarcely looks a
historical character, but he was a private
soldier Ia JEFF Davis regiment in the Next
can war.
Ten of the southern senators were major
generals in the confederate army and four of
them surrendered to Grant at Appomattox.
OF these Ransom is one Of the handsomest
men in the upper house-tall, straight, with a
sensitive, aQulline nose and a dark, moss
rose complexion, and he is fifteen years
older than he looks. He chafes somewhat
under cOnfnement and longs to get back to
his ,000-acre plantation, but he Is in for
eighteen years. He is a fervent admirer of
fius horse flesh and is busily improving the
breeds of southern racers and roadsters.
VIM, farmers alliance, of Georgia, tells
me: my opinion is that we shall all get
hack here again, unless some legislation Isl
had IN the farmers interest"
THOSE KANSAS MEN.
Jerry Simpson is as lively on his feet and
with his tongue in the House as if he were
pulling stumps with an unbroken yoke OF
steers. He owns 900 acres and when he is
at home it keeps him busy to take care of
the stock. For twenty-three years he was
q sailor, and though he IS not bow-legged
and does not hitch his trousers to any great
extent, he stands with feet pretty wide apart
when contemplating the future OF parties.
be wears socks, the contrary notion having
originated in a joke when he was stumping
his district with his opponent, Hallowell,
thoroughbred silk-stocking aristocrat, who
had his clothes built in Boston, The joke
carried Jerry in. But he now refuses to run
again. He thinks he can do more good aud
! have more fun manufacturing public senti-
ment" on the terrestrial stump.
Clover, another of the five asbonished
men who found themselves elected to con-
| gress from the same state. has a ranch Of
| LOGO acres and wastes 4 good deal OF valu>
nble time in chasing cattle around it He
is willing to take another two years here.
| Baker has been renominated and says he
will be reelected. Otis Is a shy, timid,
| suspicious man, who feels very much away
| from home, and II is not at all certain
| which way the volatile feline Is going to
| jump. John Davis continues to bite his iron
gray mustache off short, put 10 clip when
ever monopoly carelessly drops its guard,
| and keeps himself in training for the legisla-
tive ring. Funston of that same tempest
| tossed state seems to be lonesome l asked
one Of the alliance men why it was
"Well. be said, he's a farmer and works
at his trade, and he talks IN a loud and con-
tlnual voice in favor of farmers, and then
he votes against everything that farmers
Funston"
FARMERS BY BREvEr.
| New York has three alleged farmers in
the House-Ketcham, Curtis and Green
leaf. They do not use the hoe or perspire
much themselves; they are professionals
rather than amateurs. They love farming
even we'll enough to put their money into it.
They do not rely on 1t for support; 1t relies
on them. Col. Greenleaf has an extensi We
farm fronting Lake Ontario near Roches-
ter, on which he has built more than half a
mile of solid break water, and he and Mrs
Greenleaf make a summer home in the
rambling, roomy antique house that broods
there an6 spreads its maternal wings upon
the lawn. He not only grows crops, but
fine stock, among which are forty choice
COWS and thirty horses-the latter Ken
tuckian crossed with some Of the Arabian
steeds that Grant owned. Greeneaf can
make good speech, but he knows the value
of time, and when the universal mouth is
uncorked he is rather inclined to suffer and
be silent He is tell. gaunt man, a little
handsomer than Holman, but not much. |
asked him il he had any income from his
farm. "Incomef" he repeated in surprise
certainly All income. Pure air, new
butter, Attorney cream, fresh vegetables,
prime health, good appetite, sound sleep
agreeable company, all there is on this
green earth worth having" and shrfveled
under his disappearing eye. He took Presi-
dent Harrison to Rochester last week, and
very likely engaged him for q hot weather
visitor.
THE COMPROMISING DYRBNFoRrH.
They had a very lively discussion in the
House the other day over a $4,000 appro-
priation to enable Dyrenforth to experiment
further to produce rain by exploding dynA-
mite in the air. There was a good deal Of
fun over 1t and Lewis, a farmer OF Missis-
sippt, won considerable eclat by the able
manner in which he championed and ex-
Tllained The DrOiect TAe HOusa acraad r.