Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-19

| tluudn CSES on COrUuIVy IoaNs oA'
beard is always three. times as long - II
cow-licks evidently bestowed when the
animal was feeling mad. He isn't as pool
as he looks, but. in spite of his proverbia
honesty, is worth, they say, $150, ,000 HI
keeps no clerk here, but does all Of his OWL
work, even to directing seeds; but I sup
pose he finds that easier that digging pos
holes or blowing up a new clearing.
Farmer-senators From the North.
The Northern Senators are mostly small
farmers, and the Southern mostly large
planters Mr.. Morrill, spends all the time
he can on his little Vermont farm of 81
acres, and never enjoys himself so well al
when he Is there. But he is almost alwayi
present in his Senatorial seat, and look
younger and more vigorous to-day at 81
than Mr.. Edmunds did when he resigned at
years
Senator Casey, of North Dakota, wal
sent here as Q farmer by the farmers he
is one Of the biggest farmers in the land,
having the control of over 300, 900 acres and
owning good deal Of 1t himself Irriga-
tion is his continual text, and he expects to
make his State a garden by bringing to the
surface the vast lake which underlies it.
The question of fencing his immense domain
recalls Senator Farwell, of Illinois, whose
| Texas fences, it is said. encompassed 3, 900,
900 acres of land and were enough, If strung
| out, to reach from Galveston to Chicago.
George, Of Mississippi, is probably the
most extensive planter in the Senate, own
| ing some thousands of acres. Just now he
is disgusted with the markets and is hold
| ing his cotton for rise In appearance he
| is undistinguished- medium-sized, brown
faced, tangle-haired man, specialized, and
with faded-out stubbly beard, and clothes
| that are reported to have been cut ont with
q fretsaw. He is one of the three or four
best lawyers in the Senate. He is said to
have forsworn carriages and swallow-tail
coats, and he has no respect for liveried
coachmen with bugs on their hats. Tho
plain, swsrthy man scarcely looks histori-
in jeff Davis regiment in the Mexican
War.
Jerry Simpson Isn't Candidate.
Jerry Simpson IL a. lively on his feet and
with bis tongue In the House as If he were
pulling stumps with an unbroksn yoke Of
steers. He owns 1000 acres, and when he
the stock. For % 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 his feet pretty wide apart
when contemplating the future of parties
He refuses to run again; he thinks he can do
more good and have more fun 'tmanufsctur-
ing public sentiment on the terrestrial
stump.
Glover, another Of tho five astonished men
who found themselves elected to Congress
from the Same State, has ranch Of 1000
acres and wastes good deal Of valuable
time In chasing graded cattle around it. He
=, - &aA
Baker has been renominated and says he
will be reelected. Otis 10 q shy, timid,
suspicious man, who feels very much away
from home, and Is not at all certain which
way the volatile feline is going to Jump
Funston, of that same tempest-tossed and
grasshopper-riven State, seems to be lone
some. I asked one of the Alliance men
why it was. "Well, "he said, "he's farmer,
and works at his trade, and he talks In q
loud and continual voice In favor of farmers
and then he votes against everything that
farmers want done, and so We call him
Farmer Funston"
Many Farmers by Brevet.
New York has three alleged farmers in
the House-Ketcham, Curtis and Greenleaf
They do not use the hoe or perspire much
themselves; they are professionals rather
than amateurs. They love farming even
well enough to put their money into it.
They do not rely on it for support; 1t relies
farm fronting Lake Ontario near Rochester,
on which he has built more than half mile
of solid breakwater, and he and Mrs Green
leaf make a summer home In thee rambling,
roomy, antique house that broods there and
spreads its maternal wines upon the lawn.
He not only grows crops but fine stock,
among which are 40 choice cows and 80
horses-the latter Kentuckian crossed with
some of the Arabian steeds that Grant
owned. Greenleaf 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
tall, gaunt man, a little handsomef than,
Holman; but not much Iasked him if he
had any income from his farm.
= 'Income?" he repeated in surprise, Ger
tainly; all income. Pure air, new butter,
alderney cream, fresh vegetables, prime
health, good appetite. sound sleep, agree
able company. All there is on this green
earth worth having" and I shriveled un-
der his disappearing eye. He took Presi-
dent Harrison up to Rochester last week
and very likely engaged him for hot
weather visitor.
The Cloud-CompelIing Dyrenforth. a's
They had a very lively discussion In the
House the other day over $40, 600 appro-
priation to enable Dyrenforth to expert
ment further to produce rain by exploding
dynamite in the air. There was good deal
OF fun over it, and Lewis, farmer of Mis-
sissippi won considerable eclat by the able
manner in which he championed and ex-
planned the project. The House agreed to
the appropriation, to its great credit,
think, because that action showed pro-
gressive spirit and q willingness to pursue
scientific research. ..,1- .r~
But 1t is only fair to add that the scien-
ti6c men of Washington. beginning with
heads of bureaus and continuing straight
through the lines of experts in dynamics
and meteorology, are almost unanimous
against the feasibility ofDyrenforth's plan.
Some of them boldly call him charlatan;
not one in 20 believe in his scheme for ca
joling rain-water or in his alleged successes.
One of them has figured out that moderate
rain, tenmiles square and one inch deep, would
weigh more than million of tons, and he
asks what sort of an explosion it would take
to move that weight? Shall we know any
more about it. next year? or will the next
century listen to this same discussion in
definitely prolonged, and continue to guess
whether occurrences are results or coinci-
dences? W. A. CRoFFUT.'
He Wouldn't Rsnounoe Old Ireland.
New York Sun.I